Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
So, off the top of my head I can think of these female lead roles who are 'strong' and a whole lot more, including sometimes vulnerable, weak, contradictory and even capricious: Carrie from Homeland // Sookie from True
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by Amadou 13y ago
A bad lawyer is rarely bad in every single case. Going with the recommendations of friends is basically going with anecdotal evidence. Most bar associations operate a referral service that weeds out lawyers with bad histories. You pay the
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by Amadou 13y ago
Regarding the FBI and their "profilers"... isn't being able to read people very fast pretty much the very definition of the job? No. FBI profilers don't even interact with suspects - they examine crime scene details a
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by Amadou 13y ago
Depending on how dysfunctional things are, doing what you propose could blow-up in the guy's face. I think it is a fine thing to do, but make sure you've got job offers in hand before you do it.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is my opinion that much of modern LEO's abilities to solve crimes are based on maintaining a facade of authority built up by the common perception of their methods. Only slightly removed from your point - FBI profilers are complet
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by Amadou 13y ago
I remember when dis-intermediation was the big buzz-word. Nowadays it seems to be all about business schemes with intermediaries at the core who make the process less efficient than it has to be in order to extract profits for themselves.
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by Amadou 13y ago
The goal of a war is to win, and to win the opposing army must die. That kind of thinking is the problem. It may be the goal of the various groups in syria - but it is not the goal of the USA. The way the USA wins is to have Syria bec
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by Amadou 13y ago
I've never had to deal with RyanAir, but I have to give them credit for their criticism of all the bullshit with airport security - this what their website actually looked like for at least a day: http://www.owenkelly.net&#x
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by Amadou 13y ago
This defaulting to bank transfers is a relatively recent thing in their history; I've had a paypal account since before Ebay bought them and they've always used sneaky user interface tricks to push customers into using bank tran
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't just mean humanitarian aid, which I think is dwarfed by the costs of whatever attacks are being considered. I'm talking about direct support to the revolutionaries - combat hospitals and the like. We could do more than ju
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is like the US only has one option - shooting. If we had a medical-industrial complex we could be air-dropping medical supplies and instead of the marines we could send in the doctor corps. There is a ton of things we could do to suppo
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by Amadou 13y ago
It's been used many times to strand people of interest to the FBI/CIA in order to put pressure on them to become informants. I used to have a bookmark for a site that documented a bunch of really egregious abuses of the no-fly lis
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by Amadou 13y ago
I've been using the Certificate Patrol add-on for a couple of year and I've noticed that there are periods of time during which Google's certs change very frequently (at least as seen by my browser). The last week or two has
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by Amadou 13y ago
I read the abstract. I'm thinking this attack is mitigated by increasing Tor popularity. The more total Tor traffic, the less likely that deploying high-bandwidth ingress and egress nodes will grab the specific traffic the attacker i
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by Amadou 13y ago
That's NoScript helping you out in this case.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Cass Sunstein is among the most famous living constitutional law scholars. Obama himself graduated magna cum laude with a masters degree in law from Harvard and then lectured on constitutional law for 12 years at the University of Chicago
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't think peer review is necessary to confirm the relative levels of compensation as stated by the article. If you think those numbers are not accurate you are welcome to cite other sources for the wage levels. As for bringing up
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think you are missing the forest for the trees. The point is that costco's approach reduces the "spread" between management and employees, not that it eliminates it. From moringstar, Costco CEO's compensation was ~$18
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by Amadou 13y ago
The Aldis in Illinois roughly 20 years ago were bottom-barrel discount grocery stores. Poorly maintained and all the produce was very suspicious. I don't know which half of the Aldi empire owned those stores. Trader Joes is owned by
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by Amadou 13y ago
128GB cards are widely available. The spec is good for up to 2TB, so it is only a matter of time. Meanwhile carrying a couple of extra cards tucked into the case of the phone is basically no effort at all. https://www.sdcard.org
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by Amadou 13y ago
I see a pattern - it is the level of quirkiness. I think the more quirky a show the more likely it is to generate major fan loyalty. The show has to be good as a baseline. Veronica Mars fans are legion, there is even a slight overlap with
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by Amadou 13y ago
Or simply have more than 16GB of stuff that you want to have at hand.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I've had a couple of trainers -- the kind with degrees in sports-medicine, not the kind that were selling cell-phones in the mall last week -- say that Arnie was the single worst thing to happen to modern fitness. Their complaint was t
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by Amadou 13y ago
Second sentence of the first link: "The results show the time people spend on their derrieres is associated with an increased risk of mortality, regardless of their physical activity level." No weasel words. Yes you can find a st
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by Amadou 13y ago
There are so many obvious flaws in that statement, here's two: 1) The assumption that the person who owns the phone owns a computer, rather than borrows someone else's when they need it. Modern phones have hdmi outputs, and work w
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by Amadou 13y ago
Right, it isn't just that exercise is good for you but rather all the time spent not exercising is bad for you.
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by Amadou 13y ago
there is no evidence that suggests standing in front of a computer screen helps From the last of the three links I posted: "They found that standing up engages muscles and promotes the distribution of lipase, which prompts the body t
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by Amadou 13y ago
I once knew a guy who thought he could eat as much junk food as he wanted as long as he made up for it with "super-foods" (moringa MLM scam actually). Regular workouts don't decrease death risk if you're also a couch pot
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you've got a kid, especially a young one, 16GB isn't enough for pictures and video. Not even close. My niece has filled her 64GB iphone many times over with shots of her kid. I'm sure there are tons of other use cases t
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by Amadou 13y ago
Why I would buy a N4: Wireless charging, after getting a tablet with it the convenience is now mandatory. Why I would not buy a N4: No removable storage. I don't trust my data in the hands of a cloud provider, I want it on my phone w

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