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by Towle_ 16y ago
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann..."
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Word to all that. Come to think of it, I've never personally seen a graph of tuition inflation with out-of-pocket payment, private loan payment, and federal aid payment all on top of each other, mapped over time. THAT would be a telling gra
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by Towle_ 16y ago
You can certainly look at it that way, if you choose to. The thing is, this is a Pandora's Box situation. The noble goal of using federal grants/loans to make higher education more accessible results in institutions being able to charge mo
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by Towle_ 16y ago
How this post gets written without mentioning federal student loans and grants, I have no idea. It's not a coincidence that every tuition inflation graph you see starts around 1980.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
'Disingenuous' isn't quite the word I would use. I'm sure the author really does think he's contributing to The Crusade, which is precisely the problem. He can't just dissect the errors in Arrington's logic. No, that's not good enough. He n
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I don't think he's lying to us, I think he's lying to himself.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
It's "offensively wrong" because the author (a male) is striving for an image of being genuinely sympathetic to The Plight. "Look at me, I'm so understanding."
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by Towle_ 16y ago
You're right, I'll do that next time. I didn't get the kind of discussion I was interested in last time, so I thought I'd try a second time. Not "over and over." A second time.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
If it can be used again, I'll use it again. No sense it paraphrasing just for the hell of it. You can't plagiarize yourself.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
This is the United States of America in 2010. It's not ancient Egypt. It's not feudal England. It's not even the U.S. in 1950. You can do whatever you want to do and be whoever you want to be. Nobody is stopping you but yourself. Might your
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Person A is doing everything he/she can to learn. Except ask what PXE is. If they had done that, Person B would've known that they needed all the help you're talking about, but he didn't because Person A didn't ask. People aren't mindread
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by Towle_ 16y ago
That's not what I'm calling bullshit. Keep reading.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
"Person A: I need to reinstall this computer with Debian, but I don’t have a CD or DVD burner or any flash media. I’m not sure if I have any other options. Could you help me? Person B: I don’t have time. Just use PXE." The author is contriv
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by Towle_ 16y ago
If you're not hearing the Glass Ceiling/Patriarchy Excuse every time you see a story involving gender and employment, you're living under a rock. Many women feel that tech is male dominated and that it would be nice if there were more wome
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by Towle_ 16y ago
The general idea that there are a bunch of old men sitting around in smoke-filled rooms saying to each other, "Hey, I have an idea! Let's intentionally discriminate against women in our hiring and salary setting practices. Why? Because fuck
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by Towle_ 16y ago
The more excuses any given demographic has available to it, the worse it will fare.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
arm: The rules also seem to change over time... This is one of my main concerns, onwardly. While I acknowledge that I as the user must give permission for the application to access different kinds of information, FB also changes their pri
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by Towle_ 16y ago
1. Get visa, go to U.S. 2. Start U.S. company 3. Find U.S. investors, notify them you won't be staying in the country for more than a few months 4. ?????? 5. Profit
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Assume that from the landing page you can be confident that none of your personal information will be shared and that the application will never post anything to your wall, etc. I wouldn't assume that. By default, I would be skeptical. I
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Randomly? Sure, some MIT guy made it... but this is Google we're talking about . ;)
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I personally wouldn't sign up for anything with FB connect, but who cares? Go for it. If you really must have just one form of login, then FB is by far your best shot. If it doesn't work, nothing else would have.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
How do you plan on starting a company here if you cannot live here permanently?
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Honestly buddy, keep your stats. I have neighbors. It's difficult for anyone who's not from a rich country to immigrate here, not just Muslims. It's difficult for Indians, Latin Americans, Africans, everyone. edit: By the way, if you didn't
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by Towle_ 16y ago
... it's kind of impossible for a young Arab Muslim to travel to America (This is the truth regardless what you hear in your American media) Nonsense. I personally live in an area with a large immigrant Muslim population, both from the Mi
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by Towle_ 16y ago
All fair points, and you could make many, many more. So could the other side. In fact, that would make for a great article, because people like you and me care deeply about whether innocent people are being killed arbitrarily. A fair, factu
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Kurt Vonnegut On Plot Archetypes (2005)(laphamsquarterly.org)
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by Towle_ 16y ago
"Japan also has a 99 percent conviction rate..." How it took 7 paragraphs to get to that, I have no idea.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
This is a shit deal. What they are essentially doing by tying your pay to the growth of the site is pushing all of the risk onto you , and you're getting NOTHING in return for assuming the liabilities that come with. If they don't have the
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by Towle_ 16y ago
It's (likely) not a strategy. Other explanations exist. You need to know more than just the age distribution of founders YC invests in. You also need to know the age distribution of founders who apply to YC. It's silly to assume that th
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by Towle_ 16y ago
No obscure reference. I probably made that joke too hard to get by making it so G-rated. Whoops. Might sound silly at this point, but I thought there was a serious chance that comment would get down-voted into oblivion. Sure, it's at +64 r

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