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by Perceval 16y ago
Andy Stitzer: You know what? I respect women! I love women! I respect them so much that I completely stay away from them! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405422/quotes
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Edited so you'll no longer miss the point.
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As an Argentinian, you should be well familiar that your country took in scores of actual fascists from Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy, giving them safe harbor from war crimes prosecutions. There remain entire towns in Argentina where
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Marilyn Manson used the voice on certain tracks on Antichrist Superstar . According to Wikipedia: The song "Man That You Fear" by Marilyn Manson ends with the MacInTalk voices repeating, "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your d
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Here's a good short piece on tea drinking from the Obsessives series by Chow.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zT5VZKHI0
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Ikea is also a corporation owned by a charity: http://www.economist.com/node/6919139?story_id=6919139
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The article intimates at the answer to why alcohol withdrawal can be more difficult and dangerous than hard drugs. Recall the part where they explain how cocaine and heroin and speed only work on one neurotransmitter principally, whereas al
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Doubtful that Objective C would be replaced. Still requires continual improvements and updates. The engineers might now work on MacRuby, which is rumored to be the up-and-coming second language on OS X real soon now.
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/b/ is going to have a field day with this. A long unbroken string of field days. For a long time.
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As far as I can tell, the folks on 4chan are concerned about ACTA, but aren't really riled up about any specific cases of patent trolling. There aren't a lot of lulz involved.
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Your scheme only works if the dentist can control for your genetics and veto your daily decisions to drink Coke, eat candy, and 'forget' to floss. But if your daily habits sabotage the efforts of a doctor who sees you only twice a year, th
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I just canceled my home internet precisely because I had no self-control when exposed to it constantly. I would get up, get online, waste hours, barely get any work done, then waste the rest of the day on it, especially when I had tedious
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This experiment, if I recall correctly, was done by Shii. Shii was (at one point) involved in 4chan, and along with moot and W.T. Snacks implemented the period of forced anonymity on /b/. He has his own website, where he talks about loweri
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Looks more like they're trying to visually compete with American Apparel's use of Helvetica. http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2010/10/gaplogo... http://www.eternitemedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01... EDIT—it looks l
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Here's the problem with Scott Adams' article: it doesn't lay out exactly what the problem is. He says that "the system," by which he means the Constitution, no longer functions because it was designed too long ago. His proposed course of a
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I think you have the causal arrows pointed the wrong way around. Historically, it is oligarchy and entrenched aristocracy that leads to an inequality in the distribution of wealth. Oligarchies are formed by force and perpetuated by social
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There seems to be a contradiction in your thinking. If 'opportunity' is seen as making something of yourself, being successful, getting richer, that seems to necessitate inequality of outcomes. If the range of socially acceptable outcomes
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Although he seems to be over-hyped (especially by himself), Nassim Taleb makes a pertinent point about this problem in The Black Swan . Certain things in like can accurately be described by a normal distribution curve (the Gaussian or Bell
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You can do this with Firefox currently. You can remove the search box from the UI using "View > Toolbars > Customize..." Any term you type into the URL bar that Firefox doesn't recognize as a URL will default to a google search. I
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Mozilla is moving toward this by working on silent background updates (just for Windows users at the moment: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180272/Mozilla_plans... ) and by eliminating startup dialogs of all kinds: https://wiki.m
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It's true. My old boss used to get interviewed by The Economist from time to time. Their editors really are a bunch of 25-year-olds.
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Fx4b6 does not include the new JaegerMonkey javascript engine, so the lack of a speedup compared to Fx3.6 is not terribly surprising. JaegerMonkey is in Fx nightly builds at the moment and is supposed to be featured in Fx4b7 (to be released
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This disconnect between what someone says and does when polled on questions involving race is called the 'Bradley Effect': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
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I bought a 24GB ExpressCard SSD to use as a boot drive and to launch certain applications from. Gave my MacBook Pro new life, even though it's not a high end SSD.
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The groundwork for TRIM has existed in OS X since 10.5. For some reason, Apple is waiting to enable it. http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?59299... http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?59512... ht
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Reminds me a little bit about this article on Shane Battier: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?... It goes into how Battier gets to see the charts and statistics for the players on the opposing team, so that he'l
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I'm the same way. Whenever I encounter one, I tool around in AbBlock Plus for a while until I find the appropriate scripts to block.
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Here is the Yale Alumni Magazine article that the NYTimes piece references: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2010_09/egypt3841.h...
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Your comment is unnecessarily condescending. I have the unabridged text of The Wealth of Nations on my shelf, next to books by virtually ever other major political economist: Locke, Malthus, Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Engels, Keynes, Veblen,
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That's a nice restatement of Smith's 'Invisible Hand' concept.

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