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by amerika_blog 13y ago
You're having a mental failure here: "I'm curious: if you found another engineer who was in a messy codebase doing something something seemingly crazy, would you 1) assume they're an idiot or 2) reserve judgment until yo
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Much of journalism is actually fiction, mainly because it shows you one detail and neglects to mention context. Source: former journalist.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
And it works as you'd expect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
This is nonsense. Refrigerators are easily found used for under $100 (just like the flat screen TV from someone else's example here). Eating out, at a minimum, is 2-3x ingredient cost. Besides, you're reading way more into my comm
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
"She then wipes down the family’s small refrigerator, stuffed with lukewarm milk, Tropicana grape juice and containers of leftover Chinese." Eating out is a great way to stay poor.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Why am I disappointed that I'm not on there?
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
School is an obedience/memorization test, the exact opposite of the real-world applied thinking skills that are needed. Private schooling is bad; public schooling is even worse. That's where ideology substitutes for academics as w
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
First goog hit: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I understand, but for devil's advocacy sake, that leads to other problems for the content reader, such as: * Duplicates. Endless duplicates. * Rejection of good content because the headline is bad. * Essentially outsourcing this functi
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
tables still > css
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
> That's great and all, but in a newsroom, when the editor changes your title, they tell you why so you can do better next time. I agree that would be nice. However, as you know from running a busy site, it's not always possibl
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
HN uses the editorial approach to content, figuring that having some people edit user-supplied content will make it more standard and enjoyable, like a newspaper. I have some doubts about this as well.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
That place is the worst of the self-congratulatory, narcissistic, Reddit hive-mind.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Robert Putnam concluded that the less a society has in common in terms of background, culture, heritage and values, the more alienated it becomes: http://boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08&
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Oh. Mother Jones. Well, that's about on the level of the National Enquirer for me, so I'll pass.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
You're not understanding. Overpopulation involves the worldwide figure. The point of the statement is that immigration increases overpopulation by moving people to a new place, and then replacing them in the original place.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
http://www.overpopulation.org/immigration.html Your first sentence is a logical error, since overpopulation is measured worldwide.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Oh gosh, it's "The Bell Curve" debate all over again.
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The (In)compatibility of Diversity and Sense of Community(msu.edu)
1 points by amerika_blog 13y ago|0 comments
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
"Just look at how college costs magically rise to the availability of loans and grants. " That's the universal problem with subsidies. That, and reward for non-performance.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I have a better idea: Universal no-income. Instead of making costs higher by distributing money and thus making it less effective, distribute no money, lower costs and allow people to live more comfortably.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Good. Immigration contributes to overpopulation, both by importing new people and causing replacement breeding in the emigrant nation.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
There are other factors involved in that situation which cannot be discussed here, comrade. One is the lack of cohesive national culture. Another is that, by approach the poor in an appeasement frame of mind, the USA has already induced the
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
If you start giving out "free money," more people will show up to claim it.
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Prozakhistan (an early hypertext experiment)(anus.com)
3 points by amerika_blog 13y ago|0 comments
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I love it. The original idea of the web was, like gopher, to detach content from presentation and universalize it. Custom design especially flash has gotten away from that. Then again, it was also fun to play with. http://www.anu
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
The reason for this: as a modern Western society, we no longer have much in common, we no longer have communal rituals, and we share very little in values. Thus people drift apart and worse, "friendship" has come to be an act of c
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Are you speaking of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"?
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Glad to see this here.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
High ability at a repetitive task is a skill, not a genius.

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