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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Negroponte got on 60 Minutes. That was the whole point, wasn't it? "A committee of scholars -- what could possibly go wrong?" Actually, I saw a OLPC laptop back in the day. It was pretty nice, but you had the feeling that the
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Could be, actually. The press sucks: a bunch of untrained people too lazy to get off their laptops and talk to people. I don't think Quora falls into that "spammer" category, though. No one is seeking to make any serious mo
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
I think you were lucky they told you anything . On Quora they just say "your answer was deleted for violating Quora policies. Click here to read our policies." This sort of "tell them nothing" approach seems pervasive i
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Great article. I visited his grave in Ketchum, ID. It's a short walk off the main highway. Anyone who writes fiction (or reads fiction!) is in his debt. I named my first cat "Nick" in homage to the fictional Nick Adams.
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
> Pretty much everywhere Um, no. If you mean "moving to blue cities" no, that is not the trend. Just the opposite, in fact. As for "can you name any city": Sure. How about Detroit, Cleveland, Newark, Camden, Baltimore
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Sounds like a job for Red Adair! [1] Too bad he's dead. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Adair
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
You really want to push an article with garbage phrases like this? "By far the greater part is the story, sufficiently notorious in its own right, of the well-known anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon: of his work among the Yanomami people
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Funny that one of your sources (the NPR one) is exactly the same as my graph. Other than that, it's full of qualitative statements that give an impression the data doesn't support ("For decades, the number of women in compute
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
> recent and old anthro research "Anthropology" is a field that so thoroughly discredited itself by political advocacy that no one to the right of Trotsky could possibly take it seriously. These are the people who trashed Napol
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
I didn't say being an employee made you an insider. However, many (most?) companies nowadays impose blanket trading restrictions for the month before earnings reports. I know Google does, and probably the other FAANGs as well. In my ex
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
First of all, you're right about the title. The article is not about day trading, which confused me at first too. However, "insider" is often construed broadly as "possessing material, non-public information." For e
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
The author gives the impression that women were well represented in the beginning, but were pushed out. We can look at photos of programming teams in industry, going back as far as you like, even to the 50s, to demonstrate that that's
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
All the discussion about how much Senators and Representatives should be paid and whether it leads to bribery misses the most important moral point, which is: They are in a position to influence stocks, and hence must be barred from owning
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Many other people have pointed this out as well. Generally the article follows the "summary - supporting details" format, which is pretty standard in papers like this. You are being extraordinarily generous to just let them slide
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Wokeness alert! Did some censor insert this phrase after the rest of the article was written? "the leading elements contributing to toxic cultures include failure to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion" and yet there is no
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
The lengthy discussions about what qualifies as "anarchy" is a perfect illustration of why anarchists (and libertarians) never take power. The devotees are more interested in being correct and arguing with each other than in the m
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
I've heard the same stories. People imagine "arbitration" is like Judge Judy: you both tell your side, and then she issues a ruling. Badda bing, badda boom. NOT! You have to get a lawyer, and it drags on and on.
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Maybe do some reading before you say silly things like this. Even Reagan's defense establishment didn't want to give the muj shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, until the mid-80s. That's what really turned the tide. Carter
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
What a silly comment. If the guy you don't like puts up good numbers, those numbers are meaningless? What numbers does Carter have that you like? The Dow (or S&P 500) is the weight of the world's expectations about the US econ
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
What's your point? Coolidge was in fact a very good president.
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It's so funny to read debates about things that happened 40 years ago. Why not go even farther and tell us Alger Hiss was innocent? Just look at the Dow since then, and sit down. The stock market is a weighing machine, as Benjamin Grah
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
You are ignoring the fact that Tim Cook fought the government on the San Bernardino shooter, and still has his job. The Board is not going to fire Pichai over this, provided he appears to be fighting through the courts rather than practicin
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Would you care to explain that?
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
What disingenuous nonsense. The press would have been ALL OVER this story if it was Don Jr.'s laptop. How much press did the Steele "dossier" get even though it was total fabrication? If the establishment refuses to even look
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Pro tip: when you see a string of mush words, like navigate, negotiate, access, pathways, marginalized, manifest, and discourse, you can safely skip the article.
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.. and thanks for proving my point: you don't give a rat's ass for the actual minorities; just the abstract concept of them.
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"Nothing to see here. Move along." Reaction of all the Antifa fanboys. "No, there's no Antifa! It's a myth." Can you say "disingenuous"? When you condone political violence by your side, you need to o
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
The problem is that "extremism" just means "content that my team doesn't like." Antifa calls for murdering AfD politicians, but that doesn't merit deplatforming? Please.
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Really? How can you tell? What don't I understand?
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How tiresome that all the posters think "trigger warning" should continue to be a thing. Haven't you figured out yet that it was, and continues to be, a dumb idea? Life is harder for some than for others. Trying to be extra k

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