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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: no seriously, don't profile
http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2006/09/no-seriously-dont-profile.html
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: 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: unglorious problems in quantum information
http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2006/09/unglorious-problems-in-quantum.html
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
http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2011/08/pontiff-ication.html
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: Is it too much to ask that...?
http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2006/04/is-it-too-much-to-ask-that.html
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. Is it too much to ask that? Cous-cous be steamed 2-3 times instead of just dumping boiling water on it and fluffing it with a fork. I mean, really, people. If you want to eat delicious couscous it must be steamed at least 2-3 times. There really is no other way. . If you are chef who has published such a recipe I really hope you don't prepare it like that in your restaurant. . From an Algerian cooking blog. This year's Reith Lecturer is the em...
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scrofulous: Our Troops
http://scrofulous.blogspot.com/2006/07/our-troops.html
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging. I finally met one. On a recent flight from San Diego to Newark I sat next to a Marine around my age who had done one tour in Iraq towards the start of the war, and now was about to start a second one. Even though over a million. US troops have been to Iraq or Afghanistan in the last five years, this is the first time I've talked to one. And he responded with something like "well, duh.". You know, about the people there. Well, that they're not ...
