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the US does have excessive sentencing in some cases but citing figures like 136 years isn't really evidence, as they represent a theoretical maximum sentence which isn't necessarily anywhere near what the suspect will actually receive.

on the subject: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-fixes-threat-fr...

why is everyone taking this thing so seriously? correct me if I'm wrong but it seems so vague as to not deserve the current hype, regardless of who Musk is

this is interesting research but describing it as "a neurochemical amplifier of entrepreneurial behavior" is both premature & absurdly reductive - the equivalent of people referring to oxytocin as "the love hormone". and I don't see a solid ADD/ADHD connection

yeah, "rape" was a typo. but the "ghetto" is a creation of demographic changes imposed decades ago by systematically racist housing policy, not pop music

thank you for mentioning this. "austrian economics", for all its flaws, has little to do w/ current austerity policies

"ghetto culture"? "the gangsta rape craze"? seriously?

do you have sources on "low dopamine responsivity", the ADD/ADHD connection, or the "nerd"/"creative" thing?

very much doubt that only 5% of poor children don't get enough to eat. citation?

here's something intended to serve roughly the same purpose for iOS/Mac: http://www.getbeamapp.com/

that's true, but I think (could be wrong) that Axelrod presented his results as "definitive" given that no-one had simulated a comparable timescale before. it was certainly presented as such in the textbook I was reading from.

according to Binmore (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/1/1/review1.html) Axelrod didn't actually run his simulations for long enough - when they're repeated w/ a longer time horizon, tit-for-tat proves not to be the ideal strategy.

this could channel money away from preventative care, which is far more cost-effective than funding later-stage individual treatments. $50 given for the purchase of malaria nets would save a lot more lives than a single operation.

because there is a great deal of sexism across the whole culture; it's hardly an issue caused or presented by a single person.

I agree but I myself cringed at the "true hacker" bit - it's not just "true hackers" (w/e that means) who cringe at Carnegie quotes so much as mature human beings in general.

I don't think I've ever read anything purporting to offer insight that was quite as banal as this.

"This was amazing to me, to realise that there are different ways things are done, and that the overlap of different methods and cultures can be so powerful."

seriously? I shudder to think that there might be grown adults who didn't already know this.