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@dulitz *Easy to fix*? Who knows what Congress' make up will be by then? Trying to turn crap into gold later on a "spec" basis is insane.
Silver into gold. I'm dumbfounded at meme that current bill is "crap." $200bn subsidy & profit limits.
- Daniel Dulitz
@dulitz Because they keep raising the rates, increasing co-payments, etc. I'm self-employed & have to pay a fortune for lousy policy.
But you're ignoring what the senate bill does to _specifically_ solve your problem. The individual mandate causes healthy people to pay premiums. The medical loss ratio requirement forces those premiums to be paid out for care. YOUR care. If not your care, then someone else's care, and even in an insurance monopoly there is no incentive for insurers to screw the self-employed in...
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- Daniel Dulitz
@dulitz Not to mention the sell-out on drug pricing. Remember Obama's promise about allowing us to buy drugs from other countries?
True, it's not a perfect bill. Drug imports would be easy to fix in 2010 or 2011 if we pass this now.
- Daniel Dulitz
@dulitz There are no effective controls on insurance company costs and pricing. Just look at so-called "nonprofit" plans' rate hikes now.
80-85% min medical loss ratio: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories...
- Daniel Dulitz
If they're spending premiums on care, not profits, what's the problem? Senate raises from ~65% to 80%.
- Daniel Dulitz
Christmas Tree
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A bit last minute but still pretty.
- Daniel Dulitz
from email
I think it was last year that I got an artificial tree. Didn't get the artificial tree out this year.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
@dulitz For the self-employed and unemployed it's shaping up to be a disaster. Scares the hell out of me. And I voted for Obama.
Poor get >$200bn subsidies. And Medicaid eligibility if income <133% of poverty line. How disaster?
- Daniel Dulitz
Reports say that persons buying individual health insurance will see massive premium hikes under health care legislation in current form.
Makes no sense. Because of individual mandate, many healthy ppl will pay in. 85% min payout.
- Daniel Dulitz
Deserted - http://anaulin.org/wordpre...
Could be an animated background for your favorite phone OS.
- Henner Zeller
Cool idea. Tumbleweed theme.
- Daniel Dulitz
Tumbleweed! Gosh, have been trying to remember the word for like a day now. Thank you, Daniel.
- ana
Plane overshoots Jamaica runway; more than 40 hurt - http://www.breitbart.com/article...
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"KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - An American Airlines flight carrying 154 people skidded across a Jamaican runway in heavy rain, bouncing across the tarmac and injuring more than 40 people before it stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea, officials and witnesses said. Panicked passengers screamed and baggage burst from overhead bins as Flight 331 from Miami careened down the runway in the capital, Kingston, on Tuesday night, one passenger said. The impact cracked open the fuselage, crushed the left landing gear and separated both engines from the Boeing 737-800, airline spokesman Tim Smith said."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Looks pretty bad. I wonder why it broke up?
- Paul Buchheit
It was one hell of a bumpy ride from the looks of it, Paul.
- Alex Scoble
That's one old 737. That's why.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
It has winglets, doesn't seem all that old to me. Planes just aren't designed to land like that one did.
- Alex Scoble
I heard on CNN that the passengers were clapping at the smooth landing before the accident. This runway has poor drainage, so the plane's brakes may have been ineffective. The bouncing and damage may have happened after it left the tarmac. I don't know whether the report I heard or this article (citing turbulence) is accurate. Wait for RISKS Digest.
- Bruce Lewis
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And the break pattern seems consistent with the nose, fuselang and tail being separate components
- Deepak Singh
Roberto: The 737-800 has only been around since 1997, so the plane couldn't be more than 12 years old.
- Gabe
So was this a Boing 737?
- Gabe
Yes. Its first flight was November 2001 http://aviation-safety.net/databas...
- Ken Sheppardson
See http://www.maxtrescott.com/max_tre... for an AFAICT purely speculative suggestion of what may have happened. Anyway the simplest explanation now is that it broke up because it ran off the runway. Why did it run off the runway? Good question.
- Daniel Dulitz
Running off the end of an 8700 foot runway takes more than one or two factors...
- Daniel Dulitz
Ok not so old then. I wonder what the crash investigation will turn up.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
On CNN a pilot said that this runway lacks grooves for drainage. Hydroplaning and the tailwind are two factors. We'll have to see what other factors were involved.
- Bruce Lewis
http://aviation-safety.net/photos... roadside bank looks brutal
- Thomas Page
I'm curious. Is there anyone out there - of any political persuasion - who feels that Congress' health care "reform" is not a train wreck?
I think the train is mostly win with a few cars of meh. In 2010, let's add the lost caboose of win.
- Daniel Dulitz
If anyone at Google is looking for something to open source, the core machine learning infrastructure (like Seti) would be very good for the world.
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I agree, SETI would be great. But whoa, it would be a huge amount of work to open-source it.
- Daniel Dulitz
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence?
- Gabe
Har har.... I assume there is ZERO chance of this ever happening.
- Jay
@Jay - I suspect Paul wouldn't ask if he thought there was zero chance. Last time I remember Paul asking for something from Google to be open sourced it was their JS compiler. That took a while, but http://code.google.com/closure...
- Nick Lothian
@Jay: Remember that Paul's referring to (relatively) generic infrastructure here, not search ranking code. But I think Daniel's right that it would be a *lot* of work, since most Google infrastructure is not "productized" and easy to wrap up in a bow for public release. Like any company with a lot of infrastructure, there are a lot of interdependencies that would be difficult to untangle. I think it would probably be better to simply publish papers on how it works, as with GFS, BigTable, etc.
- Joel Webber
Boy, that would be a bold move Paul. Agreed that it would help out many though!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
How about just dumping the source to the web without all the dependencies, even if it doesn't even compile? If it looks useful enough there's a good chance someone would adopt it.
- Jim Norris
I suspect you're right about that, Jim. But Google would probably catch more crap about a "throwing it over the wall and letting it stagnate" open-sourcing than it's worth. But maybe I'm just down on it because Google catches crap no matter what these days...
- Joel Webber
It's hard to open source distributed algorithms -- there's no obvious public standard to use, and the reasonable choices (TCP sockets? MPI?) are nothing like Google's internal infrastructure. I think a paper would be more useful than source code, the way MapReduce papers lead to Hadoop. Paul, have you looked at Vowpal Wabbit (http://hunch.net/~vw/)? It has experimental support for cluster parallelism, and I hear good things about it.
- ⓞnor
Well, it doesn't have to be an either/or issue.
- Jim Norris
If the code is too hard to separate from the infrastructure, then maybe a compute service like EC2 that provides an application interface specifically for solving problems with SETI could be good for both the world and good for the Google.
- Bill Strathearn
@Bill: Now *that* sounds like a good idea to me, especially if accompanied by a paper describing the algorithms in use.
- Joel Webber
Although technically really interesting and usefully, I do think that Google will not open source or even give inside information about such a key differentiating technology in the hands of their competitors. But I agree that it would be really great for the world.
- yusuf arslan
I saw mention of JS open sourcing, did you folks see CoffeeScript yet? great stuff from Jashkenas, http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-...
- Mark Essel
The value of "differentiating technology" is not in novel algorithms, but in the thousands of places where implementations of these algorithms have been fixed and customized and tuned to solve the problem at hand -- which wouldn't have to be described in a whitepaper.
- Tudor Bosman
@Tudor Bosman: I do not agree that the competitive advantage is the knowledge of fine tuning and implementing the algorithms. The concept/design of Google's machine learning infrastructure is very important. Don't get me wrong, I do think that Google SHOULD open source this. But I think they WILL not because of business considerations.
- yusuf arslan
Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco: #31 The 6s/7s Who Think They're 9s - http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/2009...
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"Just Missing******* is not right or wrong in any moral sense but it is impossibly awkward. The paradigmatic example is the guy who is handsome, clever, and well-built but, at the same time, 5 foot 7. Every grad school class or large corporate office has one of these dudes. He is secretly obsessed with his looks and all the cute girls platonically flirt with (but never date) him and even though he is vaguely cool and caddish he somehow doesn't seem to have any close friends and deep down you suspect he is miserable."
- Jim Norris
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This is funny, but does this describe (even in colorfully exaggerated form) the world anyone lives in? The stereotyped barstool dating scene always seems like a foreign country to me, possibly because I'm in a local evaporation pool of hypernerddom. I'm never sure just how mainstream the mainstream is -- nobody I know lives like that, but you see crowds of dudes and dolls spilling out of bars who are clearly unlike anyone I know.
- ⓞnor
from Android
Oy. That made my head hurt and yet there's a little bit of truth in it...and I'm saying this as an LA girl. I have too many female friends who have fled SD or LA for SF because, as they say, "Real women" are appreciated in SF. Apparently, San Diego women are all athletic blonds and Los Angeles women are all waifish brunettes and in San Francisco they have a fighting chance. One woman...
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- Admiral Anika
Also, I think that a lot of SF-based women are a little too eager to beat you over the head with their education. We get it. You're smart. But what's unattractive in ANYONE is someone who talks like a freshman philosophy major. Broaden your horizons. On the flip, too many women in LA tend to play dumb. Why? Because a lot of the dudes here *are* dumb. The smart ones tend to move to SF. LOL
- Admiral Anika
There was no appreciable difference in dating success for me when I was in LA vs. in SF. It sucked in both places.
- Spidra Webster
You know...it also saddens me when women who lived in SF move to LA and you watch them become airheads over time. It's like they lose all their interestingness. I wonder why that happens.
- Admiral Anika
ⓞnor, you could go out to the bars 'n' clubs and see how the other side lives.
- Andrew C
I propose sending ⓞnor on a fact-finding mission and holding a double-blind controlled study. For science!
- Jim Norris
Yes, I would like to read ⓞnor's lab notebooks.
- Daniel Dulitz
I feel like taking notes during the experiment would skew it too much. Perhaps the researchers could just get the security tapes from the bar?
- Andrew C
#fact The male to female ratio is so unfair (female advantage) there is an influx of big headed females with crappy attitudes for no other reason other than they get hit on. I repeatedly tell my gfs to get out of the Bay Area bubble for reality checks. Perhaps then, those crappy girls will learn to appreciate the Bay Arean single males. Frankly, I feel bad for them. :\
- Mona Nomura
Huh. I've heard that the ratio skews heavy towards males in Silicon Valley but the other way in SF itself.
- Andrew C
... I guess not. http://www.creativeclass.com/creativ...
- Andrew C
I was just in SF in Sept., and it was still 10 dudes to one female. Put it this way: if you are female in an establishment with alcohol and males, you will be hit on at least once. At least.
- Mona Nomura
@Mona, It sounds like you were in The Castro?
- j1m
Mona, I never had that experience, even when I was younger and svelte. :( Guys often say women have all the power...just wanna say that it never felt that way to me. Mona, I think you have this experience because you are a beautiful woman. (You have other great qualities as well, but beauty is what guys in bars focus on.)
- Spidra Webster
The Bay Area is the biggest ego boosting area to be in, if you are female and single because of the male to female imbalance - that's my rationale and I'm sticking to that!
- Mona Nomura
how do you post pictures to twitter from the web?
- Hein Roehrig
Use the friendfeed bookmarklet! :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
Daniel, that's what I did :-) Omar doesn't like the way the tweet shows up on twitter without a direct link to the picture. Maybe brizzly.com works better for this use case? I'll try it next time.
- Hein Roehrig
YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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My prediction: we'll see a lot more like Lingt in the future. Call it Web 5.0.
- Daniel Dulitz
你好
- Tracy
Will Na'vi be next?
- Amit Patel
chrismessina: SENATE DEMS REACH 60 VOTES FOR HEALTH REFORM http://bit.ly/75XXsX /via HuffPost - http://twitter.com/chrisme...
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a very watered down reform from what it once was though. Was it worth the effort?
- Ian May
60 votes for a toothless bill. No public option, no expansion of Medicare, no ban on lifetime coverage limits, Didn't they also remove the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions?
- Mark Trapp
No they didn't.
- Daniel Dulitz
from Android
@Daniel - really? Damn it. Did I just succumb to "retweet first, think later" myself?
- DeWitt Clinton
From http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009... : "And while insurance companies will be prevented from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions once the exchange is open..."
- Daniel Dulitz
Oh, good. I misread Daniel's comment as a reply to the original post (that the bill will pass).
- DeWitt Clinton
Sorry, I'm replying to Mark who has two things wrong. Not only is there a ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, there is also a ban on lifetime coverage limits. See http://www.slate.com/id... which says that the original Reid bill (with public option) didn't have them but the post-compromise bill fixes that.
- Daniel Dulitz
Also, the medical loss ratio for insurers must be 80-85% (up from ~60% which is required today). So I'm just not getting the opposition to this bill. Put forward another bill in 2011 if you think there will be more progressive votes then.
- Daniel Dulitz
Babysteps. I realize progressives wanted a forced bill via reconciliation, but it seems like it wasn't going to happen because of politics and the mid-term elections. The danger of a half-assed bill is it might make it harder to pass a follow on bill that ads some kind of public option (Snowe's trigger atleast had the promise of making it a requirement) The bigger danger is no bill at...
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- Ray Cromwell
So it seems the pre-existing condition denial ban is in, which is nice (though the it doesn't kick in for adults until 2014). But I haven't been able to figure out what they're allowed to *charge* -- obviously the ben would be toothless if they could charge whatever they want. Anyone know the details on that?
- Joel Webber
Pre-existing ban could be very big deal since they just red line patients based on the most ridiculous ailments. That practice really is the core of the uninsured crisis. Folks who can't get coverage for ANY price. How they cost someone who previously was denied for astma? I dunno some of it was so baseless hard to say
- WarLord
Yup. My brother falls into that category. Diagnosed with epilepsy when he was off insurance (granted, he shouldn't have been without insurance, but he was in that dead zone between being covered by my parents' plan and having a job that provided it). He's been uncovered for 20-odd years now, because no company in its right mind would cover an epileptic. But somehow opponents of reform...
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- Joel Webber
The price is capped at 3X, but they did slip in a last minute pseudo-public option.. The Office of Personnel Management (Government HR agency), will manage 2 non-profit private insurance plans that the public can buy into. With the loss ratios capped at 85%, mandates bringing lots of younger customers in, and the exchange market, one can only hope this will put downward pressure on prices.
- Ray Cromwell
3x? Not cheap, but I guess that's better than nothing.
- Joel Webber
stockholm library. woa. - http://features.cgsociety.org/stories...
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This thing does for the eyes what the books do for the mind.
- Daniel Dulitz
(Note, this is a CG render: http://features.cgsociety.org/story_c.... The current Stockholm library looks like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.... The render was a submission to a competition to expand the library; the winner is at http://www.arkitekt.se/s32025, though even that design may not actually be built.)
- ⓞnor
Reminds me a bit of the Shiba Ryotaro memorial designed by Tadao Ando. (That one is much smaller than a public library; it's a 3 story space filled only with the books collected by Ryotaro.) I couldn't find any good pictures on a cursory googling besides CG recreations of it, though.
- Andrew C
Thanks for the context, nor and Andrew. Maybe someone will build this someday, and if so I'll visit. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
from Android
Enjoying my new nook.
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Also deriving a great deal of satisfaction from removing the air bubbles from under the protective film, probably because it's hard work.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Your hands-on review to counter Pogue's is pretty important to me, thanks.
- Daniel Dulitz
How does it feel to read PDFs of papers on it? Is the size and clarity good enough?
- Karthik Raman
Haven't done that yet, though I've downloaded epubs from the 19-th century from Google Books. (There are a few OCR errors, but this is otherwise very nice.)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Just tried reading a PDF of a paper. The text is much more pleasant to read than on the Macbook Air, but there are too many snafus associated with reformatting the PDF (in two column format) to fit the form factor of the nook, so I probably won't be doing this. I expect the Que would be better for that sort of thing.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I am waiting for Que since last year.
- ashish
Thanks a lot for the update!
- Karthik Raman
That's a shame. Some ebook reader should try to get some special formatting hooks into LaTeX. :)
- Ryan Moulton
In case of a large amount of Ebook , I worry about eyestrain.It's good to read about time gap, I think.
- Ami Iida
Ami, I've read plenty of e-books on computer screens and the eyestrain with e-ink is much less, as the display is not backlit.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Second what Ruchira said about eye strain. You can read an e-ink based device for hours
- Deepak Singh
I mostly want one to carry/read articles (PDF) but I haven't decided on one. I could go for the DX if the price drops a bit.
- Pedro Beltrao
I agree with Pedro -- if the DX weren't so expensive I would have one already. I have a 2-hour commute and a huge stack of literature to read, and the DX would make it very easy to put the two together.
- Bill Hooker
Pedro the kindle2 does native PDF now (or so I think)
- Deepak Singh
from iPhone
Will the Kindle2 display pdf files that contains graphs and illustration in "proper" manner? I had one but returned it because it could not display pdf files properly. I am waiting for Ebook reader that would do that. kindle Dx does that but I am waiting for Que and other ebook readers so that I can compare and buy the one that suits my need. Also, I would love to have functionality of having to print straight to ebook reader using wifi or even USB will work.
- ashish
within limits. One of my friends has his entire library on his Kindle. The new firmware is the same as the DX to the best of my knowledge.
- Deepak Singh
from IM
To be fair, I had Kindle2 before the firmware update for pdf was pushed. I am compelled to try it again but probably wait for reasons mentioned before.
- ashish
Not a bad idea. The scientific capable reader is still a bit away
- Deepak Singh
There is a website that will convert any pdf on the web to be viewed an an ebook on the Stanza iPhone app http://epub2go.com/
- Christian Burns
I am waiting for the ebook reader that syncs with Papers in with the same ease an ipods syncs with iTunes. Oh Apple, where is your ebook reader?
- Matt Leifer
and you haven't put in line ordinary book...
- A.T.
Google App Engine Blog: App Engine SDK 1.3.0 Released Including Support for Larger User Uploads - http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009...
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App Engine Blobstore API is launched! Hooray!
- Brett Slatkin
Supporting uploads from larger and larger users with each release.
- Daniel Dulitz
apparently the linux chrome is the windows chrome w/ wine ..
No...
- Daniel Dulitz
Indeed - No - it was picassa3 - confused things in ps output..
- Catalin Popescu
7 Reasons The 21st Century Is Making You Miserable http://www.cracked.com/article...
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"A photo turns up of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations. Bestiality, perhaps. How many people in your life you would trust with that photo? If you're like the rest of us, you probably have at most two. Even more depressing, studies show that about one out of four people have no one they can confide in. The average number of close friends we say we have is dropping fast, down dramatically in just the last 20 years. Why?" (According to them: Segmented society.)
- ⓞnor
Among mounds of silly, crass humor, cracked.com strikes a chord every once in a while.
- Tudor Bosman
"You don't wait for a girl to verbally tell you she likes you. It's the sparkle in her eyes, her posture, the way she grabs your head and shoves your face into her boobs. That's the crux of the problem. That human ability to absorb the moods of others through that kind of subconscious osmosis is crucial. Kids born without it are considered mentally handicapped. People who have lots of...
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- Paul Buchheit
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Very good!
- Paul Buchheit
from iPhone
I was wondering why I was miserable! Thanks, Paul, for pointing out to me the crux of the problem. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
wonderful
- Alexey Ivanov
hilarious -- loved the bar charts. must remember to start tracking and histogramming the insults that come my way...
- daisy
If Bay Area public transit were better, I would see more of my friends from outside the East Bay than I currently do.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I love that we're sharing this online. I feel closer to all the people who Liked this!
- Seth
Thanks RSD- too bad the key comes at the end:You want to break out of that black tar pit of self-hatred? Brush the black hair out of your eyes, step away from the computer and buy a nice gift for someone you loathe. Send a card to your worst enemy. Make dinner for your mom and dad. Or just do something simple, with an tangible result. Go clean the leaves out of the gutter. Grow a damn plant.
- Mark A Jensen
The Science Credibility Bubble - http://science.slashdot.org/story...
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Scientists have pretended for years that science isn't political, when Kuhn showed how political the big issues are. Just recently on FF there was someone dissing The Postmodern Condition too. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. And folks like Dawkins are urging them to roost more quickly. Strange world.
- Daniel Dulitz
People should be evaluating evidence, not authority. Scientists are political and venal and corrupt and fallible in all the other ways people are -- but reproducible data is how we can pursue knowledge regardless. The media never gets this, though -- it's always a battle of authority.
- ⓞnor
from Android
++ nor... There are a couple of scientists that I work with who are always signaling authority back and forth to each other. It took me the longest time to figure out what they were doing. Turns out, at least one of them does not produce that much data
- Clare Dibble
I think Kuhn showed convincingly that what counts as data depends on the theory/paradigm in use. So which one to use is not simply a matter of what fits the data best. Case in point: are ice cores data? Well you have to adjust them. Some are different than others. It's Ptolemy vs. Copernicus all over again.
- Daniel Dulitz
from Android
Unfortunately, the "authority" component is embedded in every aspect of science, whether in academia (What? You don't even have tenure?) or the private sector. Ironically, those with the greatest authority vis-a-vis such arenas tend also to be the ones doing the least actual research themselves.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
The so-called "climategate" didn't really do anything to damage the credibility of science - not in the sense that science is somehow less credible/trustworthy now. It has caused many in the general public to be less credible of science though, yes. There is a sustained attack on science from industries to avoid regulation and maintain profits despite the harm they do. There's an excellent book that demonstrates this called Doubt is Their Product.
- Tanath
One thing scientists learn is that authority is unreliable. Everything needs checking (hence peer review, verifying results, etc.). Many people cite the opinions of scientists as authoritative, but it's the science that matters. It's all about the evidence, and that's what science is about.
- Tanath
The most pressing issues don't afford the opportunity to wait for certainty before making recommendations, yet that is what the political process holds up as a standard. Risk-taking in politics is a rarity indeed, and becoming more so. Anti-science/anti-intellectual factions find their certainty in sources that can't be challenged by a rational argument. When people refuse to even begin...
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- Mark "DerBingle" J
The current state of academic publishing does have some quirks. Most journals want you to provide not just data, but also some sort of theory, and you are supposed to act pretty convinced of your theory. However, in the big picture, we gradually begin to see a picture emerge, and scientists have to be willing to change the theories based on new evidence. To quote Clare Dibble: "Most of what we believe is wrong, but only in the details"
- Robert Felty
Meh.
- j1m
"When people refuse to even begin to practice conservation, saying things like "I know that climate change and global warming aren't a threat because God would never allow that situation"... science has no part in the decision process" But Mark rather this is disrespect of God himself rather than any science that might explicate the problem. I am familiar with the response but I have...
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- Melanie Reed
Melanie: Wherever you agree that some ostensibly religion-motivated sentiment or deed is egregious, you're never willing to attribute it to religion. It's always "but that's not *real* Christianity." This is a very common dodge among apologists, and all too convenient.
- Christopher A Carr
Christopher, It's no dodge. Jesus made it quite clear scripturally that He would not "recognize" anyone who did not live as He taught them to. It actually comes down to a choice of celebrity with Him or celebrity with the world. The question of who you belong to really is quite basic with Him. Indulgence is the dissonance of real mercy. One of them leads to where few would admit going and the other the only path to where one would hope to go.
- Melanie Reed
Just because some text is ambiguous or vague, doesn't mean that the information it conveys (if any) is profound. I was unable to unpack your last two sentences. Does Jesus have something against clarity?
- Christopher A Carr
Well, I know what I have to say is hard but it must be carefully said as best I can. The disrespectful usage of mercy (http://mereed.wordpress.com/2008... ) today somewhat "jars" the mind like a note whose pitch is off. ( http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/article... ) It is used in that instance when indulgence is what is meant in reality. Jesus did not advocate nor...
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- Melanie Reed
I believe Zuni may be the best restaurant for kids in San Francisco.
Because of the great burgers ?
- Henner Zeller
It's loud! And oddly shaped.
- Daniel Dulitz
Is urban migration the solution to China’s problems? - http://mpettis.com/2009...
"It is almost certainly true that as migrants move from the rural areas to the cities, their average consumption is likely to rise, but the key here is their net impact, not their total impact. So if rural migrants move to the city and become engaged in expanding infrastructure or manufactured products – after all they need to earn an income before they can start consuming – they are not necessarily resolving the domestic imbalance. They may actually be exacerbating it."
- Daniel Dulitz
Kate Weare Company and project agora at ODC last night was beautiful. Sorry, it's sold out tonight too. - http://www.odcdance.org/event_v...
agora was intellectual and sweet, with couples literally in orbital rotation. Gripping. Kate Weare was raw and brilliant and playful (when has it ever been otherwise?) -- in the hottest performance I've ever seen. Pure direction, connection, and fireballs of make-love-not-war intensity. I'm still boggled this morning. Weare's Leslie Kraus and Douglas Gillespie walked on water, with Adrian Clark and Weare creating a fascinating n-body problem.
- Daniel Dulitz
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The 7 foods experts won't eat - Healthy Living on Shine - http://shine.yahoo.com/channel...
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Okay, now I'm scared of the world.
- Kevin Fox
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It's hard to take a list like this seriously when it doesn't include offal. Come on, pig brains!
- Mark Trapp
Maybe they just included foods that normal people were likely to otherwise eat. ;-)
- Kevin Fox
I hope that Sidewiki someday evolves into a tool that points out scary-sounding claims that may not be all that. I think some of the concerns here are valid, and I wish we had a government that seriously investigated them. But other concerns are "bad thing X is higher." Okay, so what? How much higher, and how much does it matter? BTW I love offal, but I'd never eat it from commercial meatpackers.
- Daniel Dulitz
I've never tried offal. Maybe it's the name.
- Kevin Fox
There are several microwave popcorn manufacturers that don't use PFOA (or several of the other chemicals linked in the study), you just have to read the labels.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Scrapple. WTF, it's not listed?
- Neal Krummell
Dammit! I like a bunch of those things! Of course I mean those things on the list, not your crazy addendums.
- Cyrus Lendvay
I am going to die!
- Brian Johns
Too flexible, not strong enough.
I'm not flexible enough and not strong enough. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
Being too flexible but not strong enough means going too far without being able to healthily sustain the stretch.
- ana
while i love real time stuff, part of me feels the search engines have fallen way too in love with it. might do a post.
Commentators are obsessed with it; engines aren't. How often does it trigger?
- Daniel Dulitz
Do it. Real time search is only valuable in specific contexts. Otherwise it pollutes results.
- Laura Norvig
Biked to SFO, headed to LAS. Just discovered SFO's free bike parking in domestic garage level 4C. http://twitpic.com/su7hx
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How do you get in?
- Daniel Dulitz
Also, by the time you've climbed that ramp up to level 4, you deserve free parking.
- Daniel Dulitz
Official Gmail Blog: Offline Gmail graduates from Labs - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Louis Gray, Lawrence Oluyede, Paul Buchheit and 3 other people liked this
Congrats everyone! Nice to see this finally emerging from Labs!!
- Jenna Bilotta
So is this using HTML5 or Gears, or both?
- Kevin Fox
Gears for now.
- Daniel Dulitz
Hence nothing on Chrome for Mac yet... and for some time :(
- Jérôme Flipo
This is odd timing. I thought that Google had just announced the deprecation of Gears. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Bill Strathearn
Deprecation != "not using anymore." More like, "Will eventually not use anymore."
- Daniel Dulitz
Who knew psychic cleaning was so inexpensive?
Christian (Simply X), Stephen Mack, VAL D. Zone and 5 other people liked this
The strangest sign sharing I've ever seen. On El Camino in Mountain View.
- Daniel Dulitz
from email
No hassles with lost claim checks!
- Doug Beeferman
How dirty do psychics get, anyhow?
- Gabe
I had my aura cleaned for free once. Really. Someone I had just met said she would clean my aura for me and, next time I saw her, she told me it had been done. Frankly, it was just about worth what I paid for it. If you pay $1.95, that would be just about two dollars too expensive.
- Frank Jernigan
Wouldn't that be the same as a therapist? If they were priced like this, at least that would mean that it wouldn't take years.
- Ruchira S. Datta
There's something paradoxical about having to pay for a clean conscience!
- Doug Beeferman
That would be the Roman Catholic practice of selling indulgences that Martin Luther railed against.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Ah, that explains the low price: it's in 1517 dollars.
- Doug Beeferman
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