pessimizer

1) If he's three or four orders of magnitude off, his point still stands. 2) Also, the data could be almost completely unstructured. You mine the data that you have to create structure. If you toss an…

I think the selective memory comes in when people claim that there weren't a huge number of people that thought and proclaimed loudly that the evidence was bunk at the time. It's the same type of hist…

Try Desafinado without Getz - Joao Gilberto is another master.

I really believe that it's a possibility. Who would have thought that Obama would bring back the Espionage Act? We used to imprison people for publicly supporting Communism and/or publicly denouncing …

I'm posting from one of their old ones right now, and I hope they do a better job this time. Bug city last time, and took a lot of work and a lot of time to pass (and a switch to Debian unstable) to m…

I do - I put somebody through rehab last year. Legalize them. I don't think a lot of people appreciate the gravity of the situation when you're trying to score heroin just to make it vaguely possible …

Not tomorrow, but what about 10 years from now?

This is idiotic. As always, you can narrow down who got you busted by figuring first out what authorities knew, then who could have known that information to tell the authorities. Then you can kill th…

Even when he hated it, he seemed to be able to figure out who it was.

Poor isn't a culture.

You're right. Brainfart.

Nokia was stagnating before Elop, not sinking.

>The profit margin is not high enough for it to be worth ordering extra stock and throwing it out. You wouldn't have to throw it out. Sell it on to other businesses.

There's a lot of money-laundering fast food franchises. I remember a KFC in Baltimore where the skeleton crew that manned it were barely familiar with the menu, and maintained a largely empty parking …

> "Free speech" as a right is intended to protect your ability to pronounce your original thoughts , which may be unpopular. You're begging the question.

OO isn't the only way to implement the Actor model.

1. Could that be because disposable income is going down? and 2. Mass paying down of debt may not be the best thing to generate demand during a demand crisis.

productivity != quality and utility

Nobody mentioned engineers. It was a statement about more savvy investors with insider knowledge screwing less savvy investors without insider knowledge. Your criticism is like accusing somebody calli…

Why waste time doing a study with an unpredictable result? If you don't know the answer ahead of time, you may not be able to find a soundbite worthy correlation even after fishing with every statisti…

I've seen a lot worse at the airport. Assuming that people are using bitcoin for reasons other than a favorable exchange rate, 7 points isn't going to be a deal killer, or even a deal slower.

"It is not clear how many of these people were less healthy to begin with and who, therefore, might spend more time sitting down as a result." Next in mass market health news: Eating at McDonalds make…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

I know a bunch of underemployed ones with no health insurance.

Could this be layered on top of the current Wikipedia through browser plugins? And how would discoverability work in the context of 10,000 current versions of a wiki page? It's hard enough when there'…

And you're sticking up for the fair-weather fans who aren't willing to take out a second mortgage on their homes. Also, "true fans are not necessarily the earliest at the gate" is not an example of No…

I don't think he/she is. There might be 20,000 people interested in tickets to the show at $55, but only 1000 will get one and 19,000 will be left out in the cold. If 100 of those tickets are purchase…