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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
Or navigate to http://devdocs.io/
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
Scan and possibly install something for everyone who handed admin level credentials.
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
It's not the teachers per se, it's the school system that turns them into henchmen. Institutionalized oppression. Still haven't figured out that forcing kids to do things against their will does not make them love doing it. A
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
I hope we are all aware that this is not a black and white issue, that there are many ways to approach it and that there many ways to bring balance to an unbalanced situation. After recently reading of a whole company's IT staff being
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
Unions?
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
If you're on OS X I recommend gitup. Very fast and clean. Although if I remember correctly, it does ask for an email address.
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
I don't remember signing such a contract. So I would say these are not consensual
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
That's exactly how it worked in my community when I was growing up. But-- people had significantly lesser buying power and tools were significantly more expensive. So it was always getting it from a friend or a friend of a friend. Cons
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
They do. Such is the case with the "patriot" act which was prepared and in waiting for a convenient event to justify the power grab. http://www.globalissues.org/article/342/the-usa-patriot-act-...
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
Exactly. Something replacing the mouse/trackpad I use for hours a day would have real value for me, too.
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
As a non-us-er, I am shocked to see that people actually believe that somehow their chosen one's love is held for ransom by Debeers and must be bought out with X salaries. It is so sad that it is possible to socially engineer customs f
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
It's already happening for google's driverless car program. I highly recommend the Ted talk about how driverless cars see the world. Fascinating.
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> We should really legalize Cannabis. My hope is that everyone just uses that instead of the other stuff that is legal. And this is precisely the fear of the huge corporate moneyed law-defining entities that sell and profit from the othe
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
It would be extremely useful for email invitations which change the action when forwarded. If it worked on all email clients.
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Or get Swift on iOS
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
Unfortunately studies show that lawmaking in the U.S. does not reflect public opinion and interests except for the top % of richest people. In the face of this reality, direct action exposing publicly funded papers to the public kind of mak
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
Because in a society believing in punitive justice, punishment is morally right. There's also restorative justice of course but it's more complex and does not bring the same simplistic carnal satisfaction.
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
Your experience is typical for "unschooled" kids who face college -- they learn what's needed in a short period of time and quickly become experts on the subject. Very similar to working in a quickly changing industry like th
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
I highly recommend the Moral Politics talk by Linguistics professor George Lakoff: http://youtu.be/5f9R9MtkpqM In short, the two sides of the debate speak different language representing different world views rooted in upbr
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
Exactly. The institution of school destroys the healthy relationship with intrinsic motivation, curiosity, self-discipline and relationships with others by creating an unhealthy environment and modeling highly pathological versions of the a
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by andrei_says_ 11y ago
> as guiding them down a path that has been generally beneficial for the majority, like going to school. Possibly unpopular opinion: school is not negotiable for children and so there's no guiding. It's pure coercion. Also, the
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They just raised the price of free data by $5/m. You can leave the contract penalty-free. (Unless your account's pricing didn't change)
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Stopping sugar and caffeine changed my productivity and sleep patterns in a very positive way.
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Impro! Is incredible. If you liked the Tao of Pooh, you may enjoy The Te of Piglet