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So critical thinking leads to dementia?
Or do we notice more when people with high mental function lose it than those who never had good thinking skills in the first place?
So critical thinking leads to dementia?
Or do we notice more when people with high mental function lose it than those who never had good thinking skills in the first place?
After programming for 16 years, I finally realize I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm so glad these people are out there to point this out.
True, clueless politicians made last minutes changes like, "don't show them raw premium, sticker shock, make them do subsidy calculation first" a week before roll out. True, dimwitted bureaucrats gave out contracts with idiotic levels of fragmentation and blame-dodgeability. Obama raised expectations insanely by saying "as easy as buying books in Amazon..".
Of course, these are the reasons government-run health care will be so much better: politicians can control it and tell you how much better off you are.
Yeah, I noticed that after I posted it... here's more about the foundation trying to do it:
We don't have a two party system because the "system" or any laws dictate it. The reason we havee a two party system is because our culture as a whole thinks exactly as you just did.
I agree that we don't have a two-party system anymore, but I think it might be well beyond the culture.
I was pretty much convinced we have nothing but a ruling class when the government shutdown ended not just with the Republicans getting nothing, but instead capitulating the government to complete Democrat/Presidential control. The shutdown ended with the Republicans agreeing to put the debt-ceiling on autopilot only to be reviewed if Congress acts with enough majority in the Senate to overcome a Presidential veto. You'll notice the Republicans had no such majority in the Senate, and no such President in office.
Why would an "opposing party" give up their only remaining leverage (Congress's job is to manage spending) on terms that essentially renders their offices moot? Why would such a party give their "opponents" unlimited spending capability a year prior to the next major election? Why?
Because there is no opposing party.
You and Richard Alley are choosing to disregard historical non-anthropengenic-global-warming.
From Richard Alley
Whether temperatures have been warmer or colder in the past is largely irrelevant to the impacts of the ongoing warming.
and
Furthermore, the existence of warmer and colder times in the past does not remove our fingerprints from the current warming [...]
Which is a neat summary of your previous paragraphs, sans the political drivel.
You are decidedly only interested in the current effects of man-made global warming; whereas I am allowing that these measured man-made effects are easily eclipsed by nature given the historical record.
Got the master "development" branch from OpenSSL. No sign the OpenBSD guys have been doing anything there.
So all of these commits must be happening on Theo's system. Looks like its only a fork, for now.
As a deterministic construction, the 110 Rule is an interesting idea; seems to entertain a certain possibility of materialistic emergence.
Since animal-life seems to be quadratic instead of binary, there's still a bit of a gap between life today and an iterative genesis (DNA codons being made up of four elements (GACT) instead of just one or two). I don't know if that helps by making the field richer for interactions, I do know it makes modeling it much more difficult with this idea.
Maxwell's demon aside, I was curious if you know of some examples where demonstrations of the binary 110 rule may actually be found in cellular machinery.
I really find this hard to believe. I had an Atari 800XL: sure the metal shielding had some weight, but several pounds?
And once we moved to a warmer climate those they didn't last at all. Must have gone through four of 'em
I'm pretty sure you're just describing Maxwell's demon
Heck, that's all this NASA proposal is: Maxwell's demon with a theoretical location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
You will have many recoverable tape errors.