Torgo

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by Torgo 10y ago
You make a good point. 45% of the country are probably part time workers aged 18-23, who soon will become more valuable contributors to the economy than Warren Buffett.
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by Torgo 10y ago
Buffett paid almost seven million dollars in federal taxes in 2011, that's a huge absolute amount for a single individual and whatever the rate that is for him, I'm finding it really hard to frame him as a moocher compared to almo
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by Torgo 10y ago
Trudeau is reasonably smart, and admitted his knowledge was basic. It's everyone else that's acting ridiculous. >“I was flabbergasted,” Laflamme says. “I don’t know how he does in other subjects, but in quantum physics, he know
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by Torgo 11y ago
the playbook will fail if there are undefined variables, I find the story suspect.
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by Torgo 11y ago
not all young people use a vocal fry; it is learned; it is increasing; a lot of people find it annoying.
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by Torgo 11y ago
To co-opt a recent argument from the bathroom debate, what are they going to do? Check people's genitals?
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by Torgo 11y ago
Your definition of free speech is alien to the legal history of this country.
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by Torgo 11y ago
Mailgun has been good to me, but I was getting bounces sending to a user with a Comcast email address.
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by Torgo 11y ago
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson all project a proud, willful disrespect of philosophy, which has been noted and argued about on HN substantively. I'm sure Tyson's Internet superstardom with the Reddit and
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by Torgo 11y ago
Complaints of this nature have been going on for a while, but they get flagged off HN in record time by assblasted Tyson fans.
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by Torgo 11y ago
The real ID act created a data sharing system between all the states of everything encoded on your driver's license, including picture. the picture is then fed into facial recognition software which is used in a variety of places. A wh
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by Torgo 11y ago
Social graphs help solve and prevent crime.
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by Torgo 11y ago
Downvoted by an abolitionist!
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by Torgo 11y ago
As is par for Chomsky, he will mention neoliberalism and the demonization of immigrants in the same breath, without ever directly bringing up the fact that the flood of immigrants is both caused by and promoted in the interest of neoliberal
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by Torgo 11y ago
Extralegal mobs that keep out drug dealers.
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by Torgo 11y ago
Maybe we should legalize organized crime instead of drugs. The logic is about the same.
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by Torgo 11y ago
I think it is that when you get older you start noticing all the things the system is providing, and realizing how you're tied to it and how it is tied to that process.
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by Torgo 11y ago
Doesn't group calling require a bridge plugin on your XMPP server? I set up Jitsi to do point to point (encrypted) video between two of our offices to replace Skype, and it worked fantastic.
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by Torgo 11y ago
She can't take back what she said at this point, it's been revealed that she has willful negative biases based on protected classes that she applies to employment. Canada doesn't have a white male exception to these rules. Sh
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by Torgo 11y ago
Raphmedia is just stating a fact, though. There used to be a pretty great diversity of sites on Tor for a while, then after Freedomhosting got taken down most of what was left was the illegal stuff. If anybody here is listening, set up an o
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by Torgo 11y ago
The 33rd degree is the highest degree of initiation into Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Clearly they are in on the conspiracy.
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by Torgo 11y ago
Science was done in the Royal Society, there certainly was no competition, pride, ego, greed or politics there!
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by Torgo 11y ago
I didn't vote it up or down because it's an opinion, but I found the "I wish nobody talked about personal things at work" part to be outlandish to the extent that it made me wonder momentarily if it was a troll.
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by Torgo 11y ago
>My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist. #Islamophobia" The OFAC list includes anglo, Latin and Chinese names as well. :-P It's not all about you.
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by Torgo 11y ago
Where can I see this documentary?
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by Torgo 11y ago
Is this because he deceptively listed himself as being employed by Buzzfeed?
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by Torgo 11y ago
This is a nice simple tool. Not sure why people are being so critical.
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by Torgo 11y ago
The explosive anger at the Linux Code of Conflict betrays that this fight has been less over needing clear rules as it is the need of some people to force their particular set of rules in as many places as possible.
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by Torgo 11y ago
Technically? I've done it for a few years now and am happy. I daresay, ...it just works.
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by Torgo 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne... From a feminist perspective some complaints are that lack of structure creates a vacuum in which sociopaths and bullies can run free. Also it doesn't

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