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by apalmer 11y ago
Article raises an interesting point... I think the divide is valid between social class and economic class, however i will say it is much more fluid in US than in most other countries both developed countries like UK and developing countrie
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by apalmer 11y ago
honestly this is not correct from a communication perspective. Literally this is a team lead educating a junior developer who completely oversteps his bounds and does not even understand why this is an issue. In dissecting your statement, &
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by apalmer 11y ago
what happened in Egypt was a revolution, you are attaching additional meaning to the word that it really doesnt hold.
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by apalmer 11y ago
the thing that is preventing this from happening is starvation. In a capitalist society where 90% do not contribute to production or commerce and the labor is done and capital owned by the 10%... the 90% starves.
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by apalmer 11y ago
but that's the thing... they most likely wont be paid for unproductive work or given a basic income they will simply be let to starve as has ALWAYS been done historically. This is the key point that always perplexes me in these discuss
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by apalmer 11y ago
You have a very very mistaken view about the level of sophistication necessary for reproduction. Its just not based in fact. There are still multiple stone age level tribes on the earth. take a woman and man from such a society with no tool
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by apalmer 11y ago
What are you talking about? You are completely out of touch with reality. Society is great and is humans natural state... the vast majority of people are going to eventually experience psychological issues due to being alone and will lose t
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by apalmer 11y ago
Thats not true, they have lone individuals who can live isolated in the wild. its just not a factually true statement.
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by apalmer 11y ago
they made him one because he is the president of the united states and he demanded one directly as you say. they didn't make her one because she was not the president of the united states, she asked repeatedly for the same thing the pr
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by apalmer 11y ago
this is editorializing on his part. the rest of the post seems to be fact and not opinion, so i wish that sentence had been left out.
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by apalmer 11y ago
understood. completely. fundamentally the situation here is the secretary of state chose to use a system which put information that potentially impacted millions of lives because she didn't want to have to log into a desktop to check h
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by apalmer 11y ago
fundamentally as far as i can tell based on what i know of the details primarily based on the article here... sometimes in real life processes are by necessity awkward. 2 factor authentication is awkward, long complex alphanumeric password
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by apalmer 11y ago
explain what this means?
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by apalmer 11y ago
there is no source for this. just seems reasonable. it was a well used email address by a standing'secretary of state of the united states'... this is definitely a target for world wide intelligence agencies. couple this with the
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by apalmer 11y ago
i dont really know the story other than this article... but seems she was given a awkward but approved secure email methodology. she was repeatedly told that what she was doing was insecure. she more or less just chose to take this approach
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by apalmer 11y ago
hmmm, keeping all politics out of this... seems like she at a minimum she doesn't 'get' technology and didn't understand why this was a big deal at the time. seems pretty clear cut at least that she refused to keep commu
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by apalmer 11y ago
pretty unlikely. even the governments harshest critics wouold honestly have to agree that the general prospects of the average chinese citizen has been steadily getting better in a very palpable way. the horrible oppression and control rema
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by apalmer 11y ago
Its not working out for you, maybe it doesnt work for you. Therapy works for many people however so I would suggest you do not put people off from it although it does not work for you. As far as it goes i dont think therapy works by teachin
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by apalmer 11y ago
The number one most similar was 'jumpoff' in NYC around 2000. Have a memory of getting a haircut on near timesquare in manhattan at this time period and a younger guy (maybe 20) talking to the older barber (maybe 30) saying, &quot
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by apalmer 11y ago
dont understand the mystery that is attributed to 'jawn' in this article. I have known a couple slang words in my own lifetime that have been used in an all purpose manner similar to 'jawn', the only real difference is t
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by apalmer 11y ago
Two things: 1) of all the animals that move around freely on this planet, i think bipedal walking is amongst the rarest mode of transportation, i mean you got many animals that can go bipedal for short bursts but outside of that you got bas
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by apalmer 11y ago
I understand completely but what i am saying is... they set out as far as i know to create a social media chat bot that sounds like a teenage girl who is immersed in her social media environment. it didnt fail this in any way as far as i ca
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by apalmer 11y ago
I am not understanding the spin that is being displayed in general with regards to Tay. Microsoft created a chat bot, the chat bot chatted. It wasnt a failure on any technical level as far as i have seen.
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by apalmer 11y ago
i am not sure i understand how this is supposed to work, if we are being really logical in the financial discipline shouldnt like 75% of alphabet subsidiaries shut down?
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by apalmer 11y ago
no this is the fundamental engineering issue... there is no magically mythical perfect package manager, and even if one exists there is a real intrinsic cost to adding a dependency. It is not a huge cost... it is minor... but the benefit of
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by apalmer 11y ago
YES... it is... its a trade off... code reuse has a upside and a downside...
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by apalmer 11y ago
you are part of the problem here. Many folks are refusing to even consider the fundamental issue because it is different from the mindset they are used to. Yes this particular episode is related to the unpublishing results... however the un
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by apalmer 11y ago
Serious question. How do you eat? How do you pay for electricity?
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by apalmer 11y ago
Unfortunately although the practice is horrid, I dont see much to justify the claim
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by apalmer 11y ago
Seems like this viewpoint is based on preconceived views of 'europeaness'. However agree in general that this articles claim of African fractals doesn't seems to be based more on geometric patterns that please they eye more t

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