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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I'm glad Tesla's doing so well, but a cautionary word about Consumer Reports: they're often wrong. Some of their recommendations in fact turn out to be total disasters.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
These rich, overeducated elites seem to all be Ivy League style Frankfurt School liberals. Just sayin'
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Not anymore than any other abbreviation. .com = commerce .gov = gov't .net = network .org = organization These are simple terms associated with the language of those who invented the net, so it's no more specific than asking us to
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Might as well just start using freetext at this point. Register your search term with Google, then forget about it.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I can't wait for robots to replace baggage handlers, who seem to be the weak link in the chain. You put a laptop in your bag, and it vanished? Statistically that's most likely. It doesn't take a smart criminal to invent the &
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Ten reasons why CSS sucks(raizlabs.com)
1 points by amerika_blog 13y ago|2 comments
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
> It took one worker in the household to pay the bills; now, two people work and can't make ends meet. People forget this, mainly because they want to, but also because their TVs say we're living in the golden age.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Most revolutions replicate what they rebel against. Marxism was just an extension of French Revolution logic (1789) and not surprisingly, has followed a similar path: executions, social engineering, fanatical militarism and finally internal
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
We're not blocked, according to this. Score one for the Chinese.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
That's a design task, not labor per se.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I hear the sound of 7 billion people writing terrible fanfic, while breeding profligately, as the mounds of landfill grow higher, and finally global war breaks out from total boredom and frustration.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Perhaps because "capital" is composed of the products sold because labor is willing to pay for them? These two sides aren't as cleanly drawn as people might like to think. The preferences of individuals drive the economies of
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
The house always wins.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
One paradox of money is that the more you distribute it, the less it is worth. When you think about it, this makes sense. If it's easy to come by, it's proportionately "worth less."
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
This is a good point, and one that most people haven't written about. UBI means no welfare state other than UBI. It also means you rely on people to administer that income themselves. On the other hand, it is socialism, and socialism h
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Aldous Huxley beat you to it.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I agree he deserves a pardon. A lot of law and public acts seem to be "signaling," e.g. it's OK to do this and not-OK to do that. Temporarily coming down hard on someone to signal that people should NOT do what he did is OK;
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
> as FB is the 21st century equivalent of the market square, and 1st amendment should prohibit what they are trying to do. Legally, no. In spirit? I agree with you. Anywhere that users interact, make friends, and exercise creativity shou
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Your society is so insufferable that they've died out.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
You've confused a figure of speech with a point of argument. cf. "Information wants to be free."
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
If I could, I'd start everyone off "learning" about computers by using an Apple ][+. It is an open enough environment to learn just about everything, and a restricted enough environment to encourage efficiency and elegant des
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I generally cite the triad as thus: Bathory, Hellhammer and Slayer, all of which had releases in the 1983-1984 period. Sodom is also important. Death, less so, since its demo at that point sounded more like speed metal (it was only after th
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
And the Swedes helped invent death metal via Bathory. It's all your fault!
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Back in the 1990s, I used to wander around IKEA with death metal friends, reading out the names of products in the "death metal" voice. According to staff there we weren't the only ones.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Oh wait, I can plug a project here! http://www.deathmetal.org/ The net's oldest and longest-running metal site.
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I think the question would more be of an American who moves to Turkey, then ten years later goes to Russia and commits the crime there. Is this person a Turk or an American? They don't live in the USA; it doesn't make sense to cal
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Quick link for that: http://geert-hofstede.com/national-culture.html
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Or could it have to do with the higher intelligence, introspection and desire for order of Japanese people, versus for example people in Miley Cyrus videos?
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
Does "Greek" mean "lives in Greece" or "ethnically Greek"?
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by amerika_blog 13y ago
I think that's convenient terminology but nothing else. Suicide is what occurs when you don't have the option for life. When you have a terminal disease, you've entered the state of being in the end of life. You're just

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