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by alexqgb 11y ago
It wasn't a conspiracy. In a country where laws against interracial marriage weren't struck down until 1967 (SCOTUS: Loving v. Virginia), there was no need to be furtive about racism. Quite the contrary, segregation was a selling
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There's a big difference between a network of highways connecting cities and highway construction that guts urban cores. It's possible to value the former while regretting the latter.
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Eh, not so much. As a dev kit user, you should be aware that (a) the DK2 a far cry from Crescent Bay, which is much closer to what Oculus plans to go to market with and (b) that a display of Crescent Bay's caliber needs a lot more powe
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That may be easier said than done, given that FB has already invested $2 billion in making Oculus happen, and have openly set their sites on getting a billion users into VR within a decade.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
If we're doing a round-up of great Musk pieces, the interview Ross Andersen did for Aeon should not be missed. http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-o...
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Ah, well that's a very different concern. And yes, I agree with you entirely. The idea that a company could secure an investment this large before producing a solid product with a clear path to market is...problematic. And so is the id
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That was exactly the point - the personal liability isn't to the investors, it's to the state, which tends to take a very dim view of unpaid wages. In California, I believe treble damages are standard, so missing a $50,000 payro
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The point wasn't whether or not the $200m ad spend was well advised or well managed. It was included in this scenario as a stand-in for any number of ways that a company could burn through a lot of cash without achieving a sustainable,
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There's no downside if the complaints come from real people. An individual filing a series of spurious and unsubstantiated claims can be charged with libel, or safely disregarded. After all, problem cops tend to be systematic about the
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Video is going to use the more data than, say, search because that's the nature of video. After all, video is more-or-less why broadband exists in the first place. And more to the point, the extreme variability in the amount of data
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FWIW, Tim Berners Lee wasn't a "digital native" and he understood the web well enough to invent it.
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"it's debatable whether state tax money should be spent to ensure his constituents have free access to watch Netflix and play Candy Crush." I'm sorry, but it sounds like you have absolutely no idea what you're tal
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While it would certainly be wrong to call children idiots when teaching them basic arithmetic I'm not convinced it's entirely out of place when you're explaining the same thing to grown adults.
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Slapping "In God We Trust" on everything was not only a fairly recent development, it was a cynically calculated response by a chastened business class that found itself coming under extraordinary scrutiny in the wake of the Great
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I have a partitioned drive on my MBP, and an install of Snow Leopard (10.6.8) that I still use periodically. Every time I switch back to Yosemite I get irritated by the way it makes my machine seems slightly but noticeably less responsive.
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There may be a growing awareness that police unions are not like other unions. Historically, American cops were used to violently break up strikes, so their fraternal orders have never been seen by other unions as trusted members of the sam
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I wouldn't say it's stupid so much as variable in its value. Some people are naturally attracted to a wide variety of people, ideas, experiences, and so on. For them, following this advice is likely to turn out well. For others, w
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by alexqgb 11y ago
That's a really great video. I can understand why he was so highly regarded. So sorry that this is what brought it to my attention.
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Then maybe not coined, but certainly adopted and popularized. Point being that whatever more benign associations may have been associated with it at one point have been permanently altered by GamerGate.
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Hope this helps. Good luck. And one more thought: even though companies have pay ranges for each position, they're not about to disclose that directly, for obvious reasons. Instead, the person negotiating on their behalf will size you
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Exactly. One way to deflect the question is by saying that you're not about to provide any non-public information about an employer to anyone outside that company, and that includes specific details about their pay structure. You can a
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Nobody self-identifies as an SJW, unless they're being extremely ironic. The term was coined by overt misogynists as an expression of abuse, derision, and hate and nothing's removed its nasty connotations since then.
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That too ;-)
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So it looks like xkcd isn't always on the money. http://xkcd.com/977/
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I've been on Twitter since 2008 (@alexqgb) and I've unfollowed a lot of people since then, but I can't think of one who lost my interest because they became a raging troll. Anecdotal, I know, but I've seen exactly zero
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FWIW, obsessive focus on filtering for high quality information and "a realtime feed of random messages from the Internet" are basically the the opposites of one another. But I will say this: without judicious policing, the channe
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"If Twitters CPM is much higher than Facebook's it's because it is attractive to advertisers." Not necessarily. It may simply be overpriced but not yet at the point where the market has enough information to force a corr
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The problem is that while prospective employers can't ask your companies HR dept. to verify anything beyond the most basic facts of your tenure, they can make note of whether your direct manager is included in your list of references.
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It's a mistake to think of the NYT as a monolithic entity that deliberately leans one way or another. I've got a few friends who work there, and they all report that "the" Times is actually about five distinct fiefdoms e
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What's notable about two of those cases is that they're about frustrating the power of the electorate. The value of the SCOTUS to Conservatives is that it provides the ultimate bulwark against the power of the vote, which - in a f

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