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by alexqgb 11y ago
It may not have been IV, but I doubt they missed this story. Or this one http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/east-texas-judge-...
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In my experience this isn't so. While most companies are reliably bad, I have never had a customer service experience as cartoonishly awful as the one I got from Google. And that was for a paid service.
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This is putting it politely. Using the word "sharing" in this context is more than a misuse, it is a deliberate misrepresentation. As such, it represents an clear ethical failure. The fact that it's so public signals that you
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The point is that California had an exceptionally bad problem, which is why the response was so stringent.
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Confusing it's and its is a minor grammatical error. Generally, making this mistake does nothing to change an expression's meaning. Responding to criticism by inventing hyperbolic scenarios and punctuating them with questions mark
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The reason California is so strict is because LA used to be synonymous with lethal levels of smog. Used to be.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Eh, no so sure about that. His work meticulously avoids the things that don't work in VR, which indicates a strong sensitivity to the effects of bad VR. My guess is that he'll simply stop watching the moment he realizes that whate
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Sorry, but the constellation of ill-effects stemming from heavily militarized, increasingly lawless, and demonstrably corrupt police forces goes way beyond the relativly limited number of people who produce, distribute, and consume recrea
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And hope your children are dead too, and also your grandchildren.
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And my point is "common among whom?" If the same percentage of black people and white people define a word in the same way then it safe to say that definition does not carry racist connotations. But if "common sense" ac
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Sorry, actual racism is rooted in the belief that one race is morally and intrinsically superior to another, and that this supposed difference should be reflected in law, the economy, and pretty much every other imaginable facet of society
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I don't know why you would say that. This isn't some faceless and inhumane government bureaucracy. It's just other people trying to live their lives in the world without having the more unpleasant members of the privileged cl
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Oddly enough, the people who define racism in that way tend to be operating from positions of power. It is rare for people who have historically been in positions of weakness to define racism as you do here.
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It's only wrong if you strip it of all context. In the real world, which is defined by deep and ancient legacies, things are very different. In in America circa 2015, where the status quo is inherently wrong and racist, it's wrong
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Why the caveat about disregarding historical status? Given that we're still living with its very ill effects, what legitimate reason can there be for ignoring its source?
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Full stop? Sorry, but there are millions of people who strongly disagree with your perspective, and the points they have to make are very fair ones indeed. You may not like them, and you may not agree with them. But saying the matter isn&
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by alexqgb 11y ago
No, that's not what racism means. Racism is the practice of including race in the construction and maintenance of social hierarchies defined by legally and culturally enforced norms of dominance and submission. In other words, racism
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Their reasoning seems pretty clear "Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort." It's worth noting that "privilege" comes from the Latin for "private law
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by alexqgb 11y ago
My iPad has been sidelining my MBP for some time. Installing the public beta of iOS9 - which includes cmnd. + tab switching between apps - accelerated that trend. And increasingly, I'm using Siri / voice input for more and more st
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"I mean, Jesus Christ! If there are a bunch of really happy and super loyal people working here and that does great things for the company then maybe it'll turn out that I'm not as important as I think I am and then what?! &
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That's exactly why I found it interesting. It's always revealing when a response mixes shock and outrage with a series of dodges, misdirections, and evasions.
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Needless to say, advocates for the shipping industry aren't happy about this kind of coverage. http://gcaptain.com/maritime-industry-advocates-slam-the-new...
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When I was in high school, an exceptionally popular varsity athlete was killed in his sleep by an anyurism. It was profoundly shocking to realize that things like that could - and did - happen.
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"All the world's information, organized." "You mean like this?" "Holy crap, no."
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Not necessarily. In the short run, perhaps, but that's not the point. The point is that your analysis reflects a very poor grasp of what's happening.
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What you don't understand is that a debt represents a risk to the lender , not a guarantee. If a debt were a guarantee, then there would be no basis for charging interest. In a well regulated system, the people who make bad bets are
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Um, what? It will be forced into austerity? I'm sorry, but they have been. Past tense, like…years ago. That's why they're suffering a 25% unemployment rate and a contraction of GDP that exceeds what the U.S. saw in the Gr
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Never forget that the term "moral hazard" has—until very recently—referred to policies that increase the dangers posed by reckless lenders . The realization behind this expression was that the existence of an onerous collections
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Okay, but why are you doing backflips to avoid placing any blame on reckless creditors? If idiotic European governments elected to bail out the private, sub-prime lenders whose bets in Greece had gone bad (due, in large part, to the credit
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The accountants are in even bigger trouble than the lawyers, fwiw.

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