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by alxp 17y ago
This post reinforces that the use of dogs to control humans is disgusting.
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by alxp 17y ago
The rest of the sentence puts it in context and is a position I can respect: "I won’t be telling her there are bad people out there- I will tell her even good people can get sick from things like drugs, depression, or anger, and do bad thin
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by alxp 17y ago
That's what I mean, the 'loser' is the one who chooses to not play the game when he knows the house (sociopaths) sets the rules to always come out on top.
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by alxp 17y ago
I wonder if there's a vocabulary in some industry, like maybe the gambling world, that can describe the players in this game without loaded words like 'sociopath' and 'loser'. I sort of liken the clueless to a scam artist's potential victi
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by alxp 17y ago
Slate has a reputation for knee-jerk contrarianism in its writing, not surprising that they tried to go for the same attention-grabbing schtick when writing about software. Sad but typical. This is a good reply.
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by alxp 17y ago
Digg will give you a big spike right away but it fall off the front page so fast that it doesn't last long. Slashdot seems to give you a boost for a whole day.
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by alxp 17y ago
It is always, always, always better to have a delay in version 2.0 than that a delay in version 1.0.
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by alxp 17y ago
OKCupid seems to attract a hipper crowd more likely to not be religious, compared with eHarmony which has a pretty clear Christian vibe to it which would likely attract users who would reply more readily to 'god' than 'atheist'.
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by alxp 17y ago
Q. What do vegetarian zombies crave? A. Graaaaiins
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by alxp 17y ago
But the question is is this advantage worth the ever-increasing tuition prices for most students? Before there wasn't a choice, now we'll see what the market effect of the competition of different education models will result in.
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by alxp 17y ago
Also: How many children were kidnapped by a non-custodial parent who grabbed them by picking them up from school?
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by alxp 17y ago
Font racism.
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by alxp 17y ago
Pissing on Jeff's coding ability became passé when he put out the best programming Q&A site out there. You need new material.
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by alxp 17y ago
They're dimmed because they have a tag that is in the user's list of "ignored tags" - not because of downvotes.
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by alxp 17y ago
StackOverflow does some pretty clever things like using JavaScript to dim or hilight questions on the front page based on the user's Ignored or Interested tags, instead of generating a unique set of front page items HTML for every user.
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by alxp 17y ago
Haha yes, because good programming and good networking skills are so clearly linked.
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by alxp 18y ago
I often see the "Accepted" answer with 2 or 3 points, and then a question below that with 10+ points which has more work put into it over a longer time, so the first answer was a quick solution to fix the asker's question, but other users p