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by araneae 15y ago
It's not always that simple. Sometimes a piece of software has only one instance, and you want to contribute to that particular instance and not the general one. For instance, you may use a particular website or web application, so you woul
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by araneae 15y ago
I've only tried contributing to OSS once. They had n00b-tagged tasks on pivotal tracker, the problem is they wouldn't give me the permissions to sign-up for that task. Instead they said to claim it on IRC. Except that two other people thoug
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by araneae 15y ago
The difference is that losing a child gives you real information about your surroundings. Taking LSD doesn't allow you to take in any different input- it simply changes the way your brain interprets that same information. I can see why peop
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by araneae 15y ago
The analogy about penicillin is quite silly, because LSD didn't save this guy's life- it didn't do anything tangible- it was a mental experience disconnected from reality... whereas the death of his child was real. If the pill brought the
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by araneae 15y ago
>That's not how it works. How do you know how it works? It's possible it doesn't, but release of vasopressin in the brain is responsible for bonding behavior i.e. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v365/n6446/abs/365545a0... On th
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by araneae 15y ago
>same level of power as one of my children dying. See, that's terrifying to me. I've never taken LSD but I don't think I would ever want to put myself in the sort of situation that trivializes the death of a child by making it equivale
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by araneae 15y ago
You can also do the opposite to your advantage. For instance, the ad pop-ups on salon.com have the close button on the left, which means I end up looking at the ads a little longer.
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by araneae 15y ago
If you knew you'd die in 35 days you would probably be in hospital and too sick to do any of these things.
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by araneae 15y ago
Fortunately bacteria can be killed by a thorough cooking; fresh vegetables can be just as bad, if not worse, since staph doesn't cause food poisoning. My mother's on a neutropenic diet (leukemia) and she's not allowed to eat salad, but over
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by araneae 15y ago
Staph infections are a common bacterial skin infection, especially in athletes and among wrestlers. And even though MRSA is largely a problem in hospitals, that doesn't mean it's not a problem for all of us. Most people visit a hospital at
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by araneae 15y ago
Or that airport security partially designed to harass people.
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by araneae 16y ago
Why do we make B students sit through the same classes as their brainy peers? Not to be too literal here, but the B students are not necessarily less brainy. In college I was everywhere from a D student to an A+ student; it took th
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by araneae 16y ago
I was challenging that; I think that the reason Montessori kids do better isn't because Montessori is genius, but because it's more in tune with how kids learn naturally. It's more that standard education is bad, not the Montessori is good
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by araneae 16y ago
You too can cheaply imitate a Montessori school by a)Taking your kid out of public school and b)Encourage your kid to do things he finds interesting with you at home and take him to museums and crap True, it requires a mostly unemployed par
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by araneae 16y ago
I just thought it was to provide daycare en masse so that women can work.
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by araneae 16y ago
5th: Dalai Lama Well, unless it's to the Chinese. Then you can't compliment him.
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Good asks experts: is the paleolithic diet really better?(good.is)
1 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
It's a signal, just like northface jackets and ugg boots are a signal or threadless t-shirts are a signal. It's not about personality formation, it's about group identification.
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by araneae 16y ago
These rules aren't even internally consistent. For instance, 5 and 9 seem to conflict with 14. If life is short and you need to enjoy it, why would you spend 40 hours a week flipping burgers? Rule 12 just seems a bit near-sighted and a litt
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Sexism against female engineers at University of Waterloo(geekfeminism.org)
5 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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Scott Adam's Controversial Deleted Post on Men's Rights(tinysprout.tumblr.com)
28 points by araneae 16y ago|34 comments
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Everything You Know About Entrepreneurship May Be Wrong(blogs.forbes.com)
3 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
And this is exactly why an open device like Android is so much better. The problem is that what speech is "icky" depends on the person, and if you ban "icky" speech then you'll be banning all sorts of things others do not find icky. Apple
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by araneae 16y ago
That's not an insurmountable advantage. In the freshman CS class I took they started us out with a GUI that had an interactive prompt. (DrJava)
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by araneae 16y ago
She never went back to IRC. There are other ways to find knowledge.
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by araneae 16y ago
Agreed. My dad didn't have a high school degree- or even a GED- and he got a full scholarship to UMass Amherst. It wasn't that unusual.
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by araneae 16y ago
Landlines only make sense if you own a home do your number won't change that often. My apartment doesn't even have a phone jack.
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by araneae 16y ago
There were about 5 identical jokes in this thread and this is the one that irked me the most. Mostly because I nor any of my other female friends are particularly interested in any of the stuff listed here. As I age I've transitioned by bei
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by araneae 16y ago
And you're saying she's never talked you out of a frivolous purchase, and you've never talked her out of a frivolous purchase?
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by araneae 16y ago
The Bible calls bats "birds," that's probably where he got it from.

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