GiraffeNecktie

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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
There's a great short story by Alice Munro called the Albanian Virgin which appeared in the New Yorker some years back.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
As the saying goes "No good deed goes unpunished."
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
For me, it's more of a "general rule" than a "golden rule".
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
People in the first world don't appreciate what a huge diverse place is Africa. Things are getting better in some places, worse in others but there is lots of reason for optimism overall. Unfortunately, the bad news tends to get all the att
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Makes me wonder if Google shouldn't require apps that access user information to provide an explanation of why the data is being accessed, how it is used, and how long it is kept. Then allow users to click through the notifications to get m
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Faced with a choice of 6 months or 30 years, the six months would be the pragmatic choice, but it is tantamount to extortion.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
No it isn't. The sworn duty of the prosecutor is not to get a conviction, it's to get the truth. Trying to force someone to confess to a crime they didn't commit by threatening to lock them away for most of their adult life, is only a very
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
$25 million is pretty cheap for a government system. In the late 90's the Canadian government spent about a billion dollars (probably ~900 million US$) building a database of gun owners. Last year they ditched the database for ideological r
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
For myself, in my late fifties, I'd say that it's too late to do all the things that I'm interested in, that I'd like to do, but that don't really hold my attention enough to get going in. Learning to program is one of those things. Always
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
I think you'd have to narrow it further than WWII. France was involved in colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria (the latter involved lots and lots of torture). England has participated in most of the US adventures and a few of their own (S
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Seriously? Do you actually believe that France, Germany, England and Japan have not tortured people, imprisoned people without charge, or (gasp) started senseless wars? ROTFL
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
I also got mine from Newark and it arrived even faster. They even phoned me to follow up which I thought was a bit over the top for a $40 item (although I think they were just checking to see whether I might be a potential volume purchaser)
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
You're setting a very, very, low bar for "doing their jobs". The reason we employ human beings at border points is so that they will, theoretically, use good judgement to allow the free flow of legitimate goods and travelers (i.e. not creat
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
He hasn't been part of Mcafee Associates for almost twenty years.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Now HN is carrying stories from World Nut Daily? Gimme a frickin break.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
HUM.com Putting it up for auction next month on Moniker.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Or just do like they do in Quebec where women never take their husband's last name. In fact, it's the law.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
"Diversity is valuable when it represents diversity of life experience and problem-solving methods, not when it represents some external characteristic like skin color or gender." First of all, gender is not exactly an "external characteris
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The Real College Crisis Isn't High Costs, It's Low Information(m.theatlantic.com)
1 points by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago|0 comments
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
You want to see intel and analysis? The submitted link has a 112 page FBI intelligence report (complete with an FBI customer satisfaction survey on page 6). What more do you want? Seems like the hysteria and fearmongering (treating OWS as t
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Sure, society must change, but government is a fundamental part of both the problem and the solution. The United States was a "democracy" for nearly 200 years before black people received equal treatment before the law. The change was spark
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
I totally disagree. The quote marks around the words "World's Ugliest Woman" indicate that this was an actual opinion that someone expressed but that it isn't necessarily a fact. That's really the point of the story, how she dealt with the
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Getting off the island in 2013(garfieldtech.com)
1 points by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago|0 comments
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Actually, all the text across the site needs a thorough edit (by a human). Here are just a few examples of what the tool likely passed but that would have been flagged by a competent human editor: "Nitpicker was written by Niels Lohmann dur
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
The article claims that hibernation files are vulnerable when using Truecrypt, but according to the release notes from version 7, July 19 2010: "As Windows XP and Windows 2003 do not provide any API for encryption of hibernation files, True
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
If it takes a discussion with people taking opposing viewpoints, let's get started. Now.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
If fixing the problem that caused their deaths is "political" I don't think the murdered would mind.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Not exactly exactly but yeah, the same idea.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
Perhaps a little misleading but it is a standard measure of productivity.
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by GiraffeNecktie 14y ago
A pretty good article overall but he seems to go off the rails when he starts talking about construction costs and assumes that a thorium reactor would cost the same as a uranium reactor. My understanding is that a thorium reactor should be

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