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The heat produced by humans is trivial compared to the heat produced by sunlight hitting the earth. That's why sources of energy that don't trap sunlight are desirable.

> As for running your unsigned extension, there will be six versions of Firefox available (stable, unbranded stable, beta, unbranded beta, dev edition and nightly). Of these six, only two will force addon signing. All the others are a tweak away.

Okay, I want a branded Firefox. I don't want to run a dev edition or nightly. My choices are stable or beta. I probably don't even want beta, but it doesn't really matter. So, I don't really have a choice here.

I can see why signed extensions are a good thing, but removing the option from about:config is unnecessary.

The first step is to just stop feeling guilty about doing what you want with your own property, and then you don't need to bother with these huge rationalizations either way.

Would you support a law that made it illegal to run ad-blocking software? Why or why not?

If it's such a small number of people, is there a problem with substantially increasing the minimum wage?

I mean at the conceptual level. So many things are defined in terms of their opposite. If we have no knowledge, understanding, definition, experience of evil, we don't have a benchmark against which to compare our actions and make sure they are different. Hopefully once understood, it stays remembered but in the past.

The point is that what you consider evil, somebody else considers good, and vice versa. Furthermore, we define good in terms of evil and evil in terms of good. The existence of one necessitates the existence of the other, whether in the past, present, or future.

So like 9/11 was awesome then?

It's common enough to be both abuser and victim.

I'll take democracy over religion any day.

That's interesting, could you elaborate?

We both have a right to not be assaulted. I don't have a right to assault you, you don't have a right to assault me. However, if you assault me, you forgo your right to not be assaulted. I now have the right to assault you in self-defense.

At least, I think this is the logic. Not sure if self-defense counts as assault in a legal sense. A similar argument probably applies to police hitting people as well as forms of consensual violence.

I would describe what you're talking about as "black swans cannot exist". That is an even stronger statement, because it also implies that black swans do not currently exist.

Sure, ok, makes sense.

The statement is also true if he hasn't seen any games. It's just an anecdote about his experience, that's fine.

It does if one of them is in a safety deposit box.

Maybe Popeye eats cold leftovers.

Ok re: IQ. Re: means, I still can't parse what you wrote the first time and I'm a native speaker. <noun> will be <verb> with <noun> <noun>?

The problem is that mozzarella doesn't keep at sea.

You could probably cook pasta with it.

The better the quality of your education, the greater the influence of genetics on your IQ score. At least, that was my understanding of the WP article, which says poor environment means poor heritability.

You could reasonably do some for loop stuff using a C AST as your IR if you wanted. Not really sure why you would do this if coming from another language, but you could.

Per the intro to that article, presumably high intelligence also has a large environmental component, in that you need a good environment not to squash the heritability.

btw, I think you didn't finish editing:

> normally distributed with the mean of the offspring the mean of the parents

> normally distributed with the offspring mean the mean of the parents

Hmmm, the other grammar and spelling errors made me think that "to" was also just a mistake.

Nit pick, but plenty of things compile to C / C++.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6498850/programming-lang...

Do you have evidence to support that you do not 'troll'?

The following program segfaults:

  main() { a(); b(); }

You don't have a debugger. You don't have the source for a or b. Strategy? Sure printf works, but so does //.

By all means, if you think processed food tastes better, then that's what you should be eating, at least as far as good taste -> enjoyment -> good mental health -> good physical health is concerned. But, it's worth your time to do proper comparisons and not write off unfamiliar things.

Also processed stuff usually doesn't taste as good. The enjoyment you derive from eating contributes to your physical health.

Is your belief falsifiable? Wouldn't the experimenter just be rationalizing their intuitive decision about the meaning of their observations regardless?

By your own logic, you just made an intuitive decision about whether I have a point, and now you're just rationalizing it. Not much point in trying to have a rational conversation.