anunderachiever

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by anunderachiever 11y ago
That's a joke ... maybe to show how uncritically journalists will publish anything that comes across as "mathematical".
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
Don't think that is true anymore ... there are lots of qualified Malaysians, Indonesians, Indians and Pakistanis who will work for $10 an hour and be happy about it.
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
Didn't you also support Unicef in Kongo and helped fertilize endangered Rhinos in Tanzania? You must have forgotten about that - ah yeah, and the novels you wrote during your sabbatical while travelling down the Ganges on a house boat
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
> I really hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I'd rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells. Both are useful, but Twitter is sticking to its
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
Maybe that is intended: "China's replacement for Windows is an XP ripoff" http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9396769/china-NeoKylin-ope...
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
Watch "The Act of Killing" and you'll know why this country is resistant to advice and doomed. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
Also Swede here ... I don't agree with the OP on his judgement of the article which is in my opinion pretty much spot on.
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
If you place all 7.3 billion people onto an area of the size of Austria, every one has more than 11m² to their own. Of course this illustration is a simplification but it brings the world population back to perspective.
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
When they went from actually drawing the cartoon to computer-aided animation techniques the Simpsons lost something very essential and organic. I love the Simpsons up until about the fifth season. Beyond that I consider them progressively u
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
"Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), based on sufficient evidence in humans that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer." http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre&#
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
Is it really that bombastic? Lot of people are smoking and will readily justify it with anecdotal evidance proving that smoking isn't really that bad at all - "you know there was this 105 year old Japanese guy and they asked h
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
Kinda funny how hard some people try to reject a finding which is as well supported as it is obvious ... red meat is bad. Same logic applies here as with cigarettes - you decide if you want to take the risk. Beyond your personal consequen
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
"After thoroughly reviewing the accumulated scientific literature, a Working Group of 22 experts from 10 countries convened by the IARC Monographs Programme classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans (Gro
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
I would like to see a deep dream selfie ... Feed it an initial picture (noise, clouds, a selfie) and then backwards manipulate the input to maximize the assessed quality of the "selfie". I guess that would look pretty funny.
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by anunderachiever 11y ago
> At 5pm I'm still at work, which means that whatever meal I'll have will be fast food and not a home cooked meal. You can also take a "home cooked meal" with you to work - for lunch purposes. > But even more probl