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scrofulous: terrorist profiling

http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2006/09/terrorist-profiling.html

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. People get all worked up about this idea, but think about the benefits:. People spend on average less time in line. Terrorists get caught more often. Of course some people will get unnecessarily searched, but that's happening already! And just think of the absurdity of the status quo, when airport screeners waste their time searching uneducated young men and aren't left with enough time to catch the older, more educated, threat. The solution i...

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scrofulous: Outside In

http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2007/10/outside-in.html

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. Turn a sphere inside-out (but not a circle). From the geometry center. If i write a comment here, will it inspire you to post more? 1:26 AM, February 15, 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Seattle, WA, United States. View my complete profile. Most of my friends no longer blog.

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scrofulous: no seriously, don't profile

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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. No seriously, don't profile. Sarcasm may have obscured the point of the last post. Profiling makes even less sense against organized terrorists than against criminals. Why? The young woman was Anne Murphy, a white, Catholic girl from Dublin. The explosives had been planted by her boyfriend, Nezar Hindawi, a terrorist with links to the Syrian government. For example, think of dying prematurely as an enormous waste of time (like reading blogs!

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scrofulous: I'm part of a movement!

http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2006/12/im-part-of-movement.html

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. I'm part of a movement! Who knew that even by neglecting my blog, I could be joining a 200-million strong online movement. The firm has said that 200 million people have already stopped writing their blogs. A lot of people have been in and out of this thing," Mr. Plummer said. Everyone thinks they have something to say, until they're put on stage and asked to say it.". From their recent Ford hagiography. To the editor,. In the New Yorker:.

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scrofulous: unglorious problems in quantum information

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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. Unglorious problems in quantum information. Along the lines of Scott's 10 annoying problems in quantum information. Now happily only 8), I have a handful related to universal gate families. Let V be an imprimitive gate in U(d. Meaning that it cannot be written as a product of two gates in U(d). We know that V and V. Together with U(d) x U(d) (i.e. all local gates), can exactly generate all of U(d. But if we don't have access to V. Solovay-Kita...

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scrofulous: vegetarianism and animal welfare

http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2009/09/vegetarianism-and-animal-welfare.html

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. Vegetarianism and animal welfare. Based on a conversation with Charlie Bennett. There are two reasonable assumptions that imply a surprising conclusion: vegetarianism increases human welfare at the expense of animal welfare. Living things are generally better off existing than not existing. The only exceptions involve constant pain of some kind, and are generally rare. But let's leave this to the side for now.). In this case, a higher rate of ...

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scrofulous: pontiff-ication

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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. Regular readers here will have noticed that I have far too many ideas to contain on only one blog. Fortunately I've been asked to help carry the Quantum Pontiff. S torch, along with co-bloggers Charlie Bennett and Steve Flammia. So you can read my quantum thoughts there. I'll keep this blog for non-quantum posts, so keep checking back here every 12-18 months for another paragraph or two. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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scrofulous: automatic 401k enrollment

http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2006/09/automatic-401k-enrollment.html

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. This post starts slow, but the interesting point is at the end.]. Recently a new bill made it easier for employers to automatically enroll their employees in 401k's mostly by shielding them from lawsuits if the investments don't perform well. According to marketplace. Explaining Safelite Auto Glass's decision to automatically sign up their employees to invest 2% of their pay (matched by the company), Brenda Downing says. Well one reason employ...

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scrofulous: why not assassinate Hitler?

http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-not-assassinate-hitler.html

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. Why not assassinate Hitler? From a reader of Krugman's blog about the recent death of Paul Samuelson made me rethink my attachment to utilitarianism. You know the train scenarios. Most people pull the lever in scenario 1, but refuse to kill the fat man in scenario 2. But the consequences of pulling the lever and killing the fat man are the same! So are we all just cowards? Nobody likes Hitler. What could possibly be bad about killing him?

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scrofulous: technically he should be the one to report this bug

http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2006/07/technically-he-should-be-one-to-report.html

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. Technically he should be the one to report this bug. A recent mozilla bug-tracker post opens with the line: This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years. I don't know if you still have access to the computer you and your ex-fiancé shared, but it sounds like Firefox was sharing a profile between the two Windows XP user accounts. How is that possible - were both users administrators or something? Seattl...