Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
The chosen example photos seemed to have as their subject the male gaze, not the breasts themselves. Yes, so many people seem to have missed this key point. To quote from the opening sentence in the presentation - "Titstare is an ap
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A couple of things you could do. Get an mp3 error checker and see if it has anything to say about the particular files. You also might want to grab EncSpot Pro (free, for windows) to figure out exactly what codec you used. Chances are that
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by Amadou 13y ago
I watched the two presentations via the valleywag page others have cited. The problem I see with TechCrunch's apology is that they are mixing up terminology. I don't think either presentation was sexist and especially not misog
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by Amadou 13y ago
Anyone got a jpeg un-glitcher? I'm thinking of a tool to fix these sorts of minor corruptions in the jpeg bitstream. The tool would load up the corrupt image, let the user visually select where the glitch starts by clicking the first
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by Amadou 13y ago
> and they do put things on sale from time to time I think you are mistaken. From their FAQ: "Sale" is a four-letter word to us. We have low prices, every day. No coupons, no membership cards, no discounts. You won't fin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_address_verification#Pr...
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Services are forever tainted. And services are the most interesting part of the puzzle. I see it as a plus. But I've been against the very concept of such services in the first place. I think most centralization is unnecessary, tha
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by Amadou 13y ago
Trader Joes has a very loyal customer base, sometimes described as fanatical. Based on their continuing expansion ( http://www.traderjoes.com/stores/index.asp ) they appear to be very successful. They are owned by A
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Is there even a consumer play in this? Disrupt: Car Registration! Find the pain, and provide a way to kill it. The real value play here (for citizens) would be for government to simply eliminate the need for registration stickers complete
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by Amadou 13y ago
Here is a (IMHO) haunting and heart-breaking video by a couple of joss whedon adjacent people that is somewhat relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtORr6RsJ4
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by Amadou 13y ago
I really appreciate this article. Searls has put to words a concept that has long bothered me on an intuitive level. Namely that all of these bullshit marketing techniques create a cognitive load that is not in proportion to any value tha
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by Amadou 13y ago
Your proof-reading example doesn't fit this case. When you write something, the people who read it rarely also talk to you about it. In congress, most bills are "lobbied" for by the authors - they go around talking to other
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No, they didn't approve it. Jim Sensenbrenner, Author of the PATRIOT Act, has himself said that the presidents' interpretation are an abuse of the law. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun&#x2
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What's wrong with the notion that the creator just used evolution to create things? That is basically the modern catholic church's opinion on the matter. The problem you are having is that the word "creationism" is not
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Copyright is not just about copying it is centrally about controlling copies of creative works. A table of contents is not creative, it is a simple listing of facts. Just like a phonebook or sports scores. The question here is if a play
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Since there are two comments so far that have so completely misunderstood how this works, I guess I did a poor job of explaining it. Powerful people have the option to work their connections to end the TSA, but that is a lot more effort tha
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Politicians won't dare entertain the idea of defunding them. They might if they had to put up with the same crap the plebes do. But the TSA has figured out how to keep all the powerful people from having to undergo the same indignit
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> And thanks for continuing to fight this crap. Agreed. They only get away with it because most of us feel we can't afford to put enough of the rest of our lives on hold in order to fight it. So people like Corbett who are willing
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I could have sworn your point was that small-scale attacks aren't going to happen because they aren't as scary.
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Did that make any great change in public consciousness? Obviously not. It was Russia, not the US. If you aren't russian you are unlikely to have any idea how it went over. But more generally, "small" terrorist attacks happ
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This isn't going to happen because a bunch of people in line at an airport isn't a high-value target. Tell that to the 35 people who died in a bomb-blast at Russia's biggest airport. http://www.reuters.com/a
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Free Range Kids is a good resource for helping parents feel like good parents when they fight the urge to hover and over-protect. http://www.freerangekids.com/
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But if I had to take over a project from someone, to maintain it, I'd MUCH RATHER have it be done using those technologies than MySQL and Sinatra. Yikes! Except that isn't really an option in most cases. The two most realistic c
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NoScript is the 4th most popular add-on for firefox with 2 million users. ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ ) Conversion rate is a limited metric. It misses the entire concept of word-of-mouth. Conver
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Seems to me that Bella, and Twilight in general, are very anti-feminist. She's only strong when it is a plot-point to get herself into trouble where she can be rescued by a man. The movies struck me as the worst sort of teenage princ
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> show me a Libertarian, and I'll show you someone with a sheltered upbringing For what it is worth... When I read that, I had a flashback to the first man I ever met who identified himself to me as a libertarian. I was probably
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(1) Have freedom of the press so that the press can put out the information needed for an informed citizenry. At the time the bill of rights was written, the term "press" did not refer to any sort of news organization. It meant
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I think you would be well served by actually reading the New Yorker article that I linked to instead of making up your own scenarios that are completely unrelated.
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> "Legal tender for all debts, public and private". Yes, debts being the operative term here. You don't incur a debt until you receive the product. Airline tickets are paid for in advance so the customer never incurs a
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Exactly. People get so worked up about the technical distinctions, ones that are mostly drawn by the IRS for tax purposes, that they confuse the form for the function. It is no different than Booz Hamilton "contractors" working o

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