LeeHunter

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by LeeHunter 13y ago
I find it fascinating that when the subject of gun control arises, the opponents of gun control talk exclusively about gangbangers and muggers when the real problem with guns is unhinged and suicidal people with no previous criminal record
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Who would care? People who want to disrupt the US economy with minimal effort and resources. The terrorist 'incubators' around the world are certainly buzzing right now.
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Here's one that uses Selenium for recording the tour steps with Drupal used for managing the tour content (the site being 'toured' doesn't have to be running Drupal). http://walkthrough.it/
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
As the original article points out, these two kids achieved something that the worst of the World War Two bombing of London was not able to do, which is to shut down a major city for a day. Rightly or wrongly, terrorists will view this as a
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Godwin's Law FTW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Explosives have always had a fascination for some disturbed youths. The Columbine kids had planned to detonate a bomb in the cafeteria.
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
"all of their ads feature people with great skin," I'm sorry, but that's just uninformed bullshit http://www.adverbox.com/ads/dove/ No, they don't show people with severe skin issues but really, that's a little unreasonable for a company
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Surely you're not suggesting that this was (or should have been) some kind of scientific study? For all we know, they might have shot another 20 women who looked much better in the self-description than the stranger description. It's just a
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
I could certainly recommend myself. :) I've been an editor for more than 30 years. ca.linkedin.com/in/leeghunter/
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SimCity's Evil Twin(newyorker.com)
7 points by LeeHunter 14y ago|0 comments
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
And then the next sentence: "After that moment we basically stopped talking to artists for a year."
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
Glossing over the European "Christians" in Serbia & Croatia.
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The Coming Information Totalitarianism in China(seeingredinchina.com)
7 points by LeeHunter 14y ago|1 comments
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
I'm not sure why this article has you so upset with the NYT. It's not some morality play, it's about a paper published in Science magazine, one of many papers published every year that track changes to the environment. The fact that a diffe
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
I'm not sure why you're being voted down. I've also seen some criticism, especially with respect to older (+40) people causing serious injury to their vertebra with the loads from correctly performed lifting. Lifting weights is not for ever
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
I'm not aware of any significant amount of Facebook marketing (outside of Facebook itself) but quite a lot of good Google marketing. I would have said Google was far more experienced and capable in that area.
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
"I don't necessarily believe the claim that most AAVE speakers use the same grammatical structure" That doesn't mean much. Mainstream speakers of standard English also use a variety of grammatical structures. Some speakers of standard Engli
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
On the bright side, most enterprise software projects never actually get put into production.
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
All that's true, but it's actually one of the reasons I love the site. It's got a funky, homemade feel that I find quite charming. Part of the reason that I'm comfortable contributing my reading information to the site (~500 books so far)
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
But if the placebo effect is caused by human interaction, would this suggest that the best therapy is simply one-on-one counselling rather than a new chemical? In other words, we need to help people change their way of thinking more so than
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
"You make it sound like a drug that performs as good as a placebo is useless." But it is useless, is it not? The placebo effect is effective, cheap and safe. If the new drug has the same effectiveness, it's probably just another placebo, ju
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
"The U.S. health system is the most expensive in the world, but comparative analyses consistently show the United States underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance." http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publicat
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
300 million users and still no app for studying Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters? You'd think someone in Asia would have made a Skritter knock off for Android by now.
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
Is it April 1 already? "The first discovery of this sort was made in 1851 when the workers in one of the Massachusetts mines extracted a zinc silver-incrusted vase from a block of unmined coal which dated all the way back to the Cambrian er
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
CNN coverage of the trial is also getting some scrutiny in social media: http://www.change.org/petitions/cnn-apologize-on-air-for-sym...
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
That's just code, not a scenario. Government IT systems are currently subject to oversight, testing, comprehensive threat risk assessments etc. Those controls don't disappear just because the software is open source. Right now it's not poss
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
Anywhere. Just one.
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
Could you describe any plausible scenario in which one pull request could compromise the entire .gov IT infrastructure?
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
"The notion that everyone should be guaranteed equal health outcomes is a very seductive one, but once you start digging into the details it falls apart quite rapidly." Falls apart exactly how? Seems to work fine in just about every country
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by LeeHunter 14y ago
It runs on nuclear waste http://transatomicpower.com/products.php

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