It is completely absurd that making a sarcastic comment can be a crime that means a decade in prison. Shouldn't there be some common sense included in the justice system? Here in Finland there have been lately some similar cases, and in all of them as far as I know there was some simple investigation about the real motives but no charges and no jail time.
I think that's usually the case in the US too. I've heard cases where people joke about some kind of president attack on their blog and getting a secret service visit shortly after. They tend to get a stern warning, as the investigators likely have better things to do and can understand the difference between a comment made in jest and a credible threat.
Unfortunately we do have a huge problem with prosecutorial abuse.
They make a valid point that it's probably not something you should joke about, especially because similar comments led to actual attacks. The part where insanity comes in is where many people are seemingly incapable of acknowledging the degree of wrongness, and think this warrants anything more than a police visit. Instead, they opt to effectively ruining his adult life, which he had barely started. For nothing. Society is not better off, we are not safer, we wasted a life because someone wanted to make a point.
investigation about the real motives but no charges and no jail time.
The US has shifted towards charging everything and anything remotely possible, maybe investigate, then plea down to something that only looks good because of the extreme first set of charges. Brilliant strategy from the p(er|ro)secutors that keeps cases from going to court and pads their stats with lots of 'wins.'
Maybe phones are not so sensitive to condensation. At least here in Finland phones seem to work fine, despite outside temperatures being similar or below to what is found in a fridge most of the year. People move phones in and out of buildings all the time with large temperature differences between. I don't think I have heard anyone breaking a phone because of condensation here.
There is more to life than optimizing everything based on cost. That walk from the more distant hotel is healthy for you, and you get to enjoy the scenery. Sometimes it's good to think of time as having monetary value because it gives you perspective, but also sometimes it's good to forget it and actually enjoy life.
Ironically, it can often turn out that the latter is, in fact, more optimal.
Sometimes stochasticity makes better decisions than we possibly can. Do not limit yourself to logic alone—it describes such a very small subset of human possibility.
This. I faced an interesting paradox a few years ago when I first learned about opportunity cost. I found myself explicitly analyzing every trivial decisions in terms of opportunity cost and eventually realized that constantly thinking about opportunity cost was costing me opportunities. In other words, the opportunity cost of caring about opportunity cost is most often not worth it.
Yes! This is most of what I take from the ideas of Zen: that trying too hard at something ruins the final result.
How I describe this to the gaming generation is through a common shared experience. Remember that one time you spent 3 hours trying to beat that one level in that one game, then finally got frustrated and gave up, only to return the next day and beat it on your first try in 3 minutes? Zen.
The paradox makes no sense logically, yet it exists.
Moral: don't get in your own way—stop thinking too much about why and how and just do!
I like the idea. But tried to give review "Immersive" to Skyrim and the app told me I can't give review like that because they don't have the word in database. What's with that?
Yeah, it's because I'm trying to use a whitelist rather than a blacklist for the words, and although nltk (python lib) has a pretty good corpus, it's still missing a whole bunch.
The plan is to manually ok those words that people add and I don't have, and hope that this doesn't constitute the majority of the words :)
Was not really disappointed :) I do think it's a good idea, and feel that the site would add real value. Maybe later show more reviews per game when you have more reviews?
Nick Bostrom wrote a paper about living in virtual reality in 2003. At least to me his writing was really interesting. http://www.simulation-argument.com/
I hope someone is taking care of him? Just wondering because many mental illnesses can be handled very well with proper medication and therapy. He is so talented he could do great things with the illness handled properly.
