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Where are those guys who predicated that Apple Stores were such a stupid idea? We need to start keeping score.

The existence of government at all is dependent and predicated on fear. If we don't fear anarchy and foreign powers, we won't see a need for government.

While there is no doubt that she was talented, her studies were not predicated on that talent. Today most people foreclose on what they might become accomplished at because they say things like 'I can't draw a straight line' or 'whistle a note' or similar such.

Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful.

Besides its somewhat quirky UI, the main problem I have with feedly is that it seems predicated on the assumption that you will more or less read through all articles, one by one, in order, and finish them. That's not how I use reader at all.

This entire article is predicated by this leap of faith, which as far as I can see has little to no justification besides, "Of course it does!" > Meditation teaches us to resist the urge of that counterproductive follow through.

However, this is all predicated on the key being drawn from a uniform distribution. If the key is NOT drawn from a uniform distribution than there may be a potential speed-up available to the attacker.

The libertarian anti-tax/anti-government revolution was largely predicated on the idea that private capital would be so much smarter and more agile than state capital. What we're seeing is that this isn't the case.

It's not every day that a conservative Chief Justice writes an opinion predicated on a changing world diminishing the scope of earlier decisions.

The idea of synchronous learning, where you have five thousand teachers teaching the same Calculus I class every year, is predicated on a world where these technologies don't exist. As an aside, for this reason I think the collegiate model is going to completely change in the near future as people start realizing how absurd it is.

So even if the goal was a fairly noble one it looks as though the whole idea is predicated on one tiny little detail, which is that VBV is supposedly hack-proof, but in fact this is highly dependent on both your bank and the security of their implementation. Neither of those are as ironclad as they should be to remove all doubt.

I'm not rms, and I don't speak for him, but his opposition to non-free software is predicated upon the claim that it harms the user. As death is arguably a greater harm than any non-free software could inflict, I suspect he would say that it is not wrong to use non-free software to save a life if no free alternative is readily available.

The idea that proxy baptism for the dead has any effect is predicated on the belief that there is an afterlife and that the individual has the ability to accept or reject the ordinance.

All of this is huge, I repeat, because pretty much every foundational theory in classical economics is predicated on homogeneity and rationality. Every single one.

The whole thing seems predicated on deregulation of industries that I honestly think should be regulated. Airbnb acts, essentially, as a parent company for a hotel chain without any of the actual power or responsibility of the traditional holding company.

Line is predicated on the viewer having final say about whether something is right/wrong, thus subordinating the subject to the viewer. This is repulsive to the notion of liberty as protected by the American "4th Amendment" right of freedom from governmental inspection without an adjudicated warrant.

The nobility of man is partially predicated on our ability to carry on and build and dream without giving into fear, rational or otherwise. The only way out of this mess is to accept that sometimes losses will exist and to be able to overcome them when they happen--even if you've built in N layers of security some day somebody somewhere will cut through N+1 of them, and to pretend otherwise is folly.

And with that acceptance, the expectations of privacy and the notion of what "reasonable" searches are would be, in short order, redefined --- those rights being explicitly predicated on contemporary mores by the Constitution. When I look at it from this angle, it becomes apparent that while privacy is inconvenient to the USG, and something they feel they have to work around, it's not something they're intent on eliminating.

That freedom of action is generally predicated on the idea of competent individuals and businesses interacting voluntarily. When dealing with children that rationale goes out the window, because children are not competent to voluntarily participate in the economy. There is very little that is more in the province of the state to micromanage, even in a libertarian utopia, than interactions between businesses and people who are legally incompetent, like children. If your counter-argument is predicated on businesses freely exchanging with parents to convince them what products to feed their children, I fully agree that they should be free to do that, but that's distinct from advertising to children directly.

Almost the entire piece does nothing but cite facts, such as: the dropping of the nuclear bombs does not figure significantly in historical records of the Japanese leadership's discussion about surrender; the Japanese war council decided on August 8 not even to discuss the Hiroshima bombing; damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not out of scale with the earlier fire-bombings of other cities; Japanese leaders had expressed a willingness to sacrifice their cities if necessary; Japan's war strategy was predicated on the Soviets staying neutral; and so on. Are these wrong?