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by astine 13y ago
Hey now, that's cherry picking data if I've ever seen it. Of course Nevada has a high suicide rate. Try comparing Alaska to sunny states where people don't throw their life savings away.
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by astine 13y ago
I find that for myself, that when I work without Internet access, the boost I get from a lack of distractions usually cancels out the problems caused by inability to look things up. A lot of the time, having to figure out things that I woul
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by astine 13y ago
This is not true, or is only partly true depending on which KKK you are talking about. The original group formed in the 1960s as an anti-reconstruction organization and used terror tactics to chase politicians and businessmen they didn&#x27
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by astine 13y ago
I think you mean Paul/Saul of Tarsus. There is no "Paul the Baptist." John the Baptist died before Jesus did. Paul of Tarsus was certainly one of the most influential of the very early Christians, but by all accounts, Chris
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My Experience with MongoDB(theatticlight.net)
1 points by astine 13y ago|0 comments
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by astine 13y ago
Lunch as the primary meal of the day is a staple of Mediterranean cultures. Italy, Spain, Greece, et. al., all have large lunches and small dinners. Latin America is also in many ways a Mediterranean culture so many Latin and Hispanic coun
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by astine 13y ago
I think you're conflating Bezos and Ballmer.
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by astine 13y ago
Right, Nature, the scientific journal. The way it's worded, I thought this was going to be some kind of proof that Krebs was incorrect.
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by astine 13y ago
This is a very interesting article, but the experiment, as described, doesn't seem to back up the thesis. They show that people who have less money are more taxed by financial questions, but that could just as easily be a cause not an
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by astine 13y ago
There were a lot of ancient societies that didn't have money but still engaged in commerce. The ancient Egyptians payed taxes in food for example. What the article stresses is that we don't have a record of the Incas' merchan
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by astine 13y ago
Not individually, but there are groups who attempt to keep track of which cause the most damage when you eat it. It's not likely to solve the problem in the long run though, because there are a lot of people who just don't care.
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by astine 13y ago
It's worth noting that, in the United States a at least, there is a strong anti-farmed fish movement coming from the environmentalist community. They like to point out all of the damage that fish farming does to a local ecology without
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by astine 13y ago
An unofficial biography is not the same thing as a work of fiction. In fact, it might be less fictional than an account by that person. So long as the author has not invented anything he put's into the book and has fact-checked all of
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by astine 13y ago
Of all the countries on Earth, there are only really two that could mount a full scale invasion against the United States and hope to win, China and Russia. Neither is likely, but it would have to be one of them for us to consider this scen
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by astine 13y ago
Stability was also the limiting factor in flying wings back in the 50s and 60s, and the B2 proved that electronics can solve that problem. So stability seems like a solved problem to me. Military use seems like the most obvious use for thes
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by astine 13y ago
It's highly unlikely that anything about the Zimmerman trial was a deliberate ploy to distract the American public from more pressing issues but... The president did explicitly weigh in on the trial which gave it more notoriety in the
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by astine 13y ago
I like it I feel that this is one instance where skeumorphism goes well. I can look at my actual card and visually match what info goes where without having to be told. One thing, I think it would be simpler for a user if the card showed bo
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by astine 13y ago
I don't think that anyone who clicked that link really believed that they were going to find out "one weird trick," so much as they just really wanted to know what you were really linking to.
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by astine 13y ago
People need to stop applying the terms "right" and "left" to politics as if they had objective meaning. There was a time that right wing meant monarchist and left wing meant democrat. Then there came a time when right wi
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by astine 13y ago
Can you get a piece of paper that will assure and potential employers that you have actually studied what you say you've studied?
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by astine 13y ago
"Literary merit aside, 50 Shades of Grey was a massive hit, and also pornographic, meaning that lots and lots of people read it," Which is probably something that the UK government does not want happening again. "and lots and
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by astine 13y ago
Oh no, this new wave of UK anti-porn zealotry will ban even legitimate literature like 50 Shades of Grey... Give me a break. 50 Shades of Grey is a porn novel. It's a porn novel that made the best seller list, much to the first world&#
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by astine 13y ago
Yes, things are pretty bad: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/16/detroit-dire-but-privat...
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by astine 13y ago
C is like the marketing slogan to Othello (reversi): A minute to learn, a lifetime to master. The language is fairly simple in terms of features and aspects you have to learn to use it, but concepts like pointers and direct memory
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by astine 13y ago
http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/01/22/what-do-declining-abo... The original argument is in the book. The idea is that children from disadvantaged families are more likely to be aborted, while at the same tim
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Sleeping On Time Very Underrated(sebastianmarshall.com)
3 points by astine 13y ago|0 comments
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by astine 13y ago
That's not an argument, it's a request.
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by astine 13y ago
I think that depends a little on what you're writing: "Oh no! The flight system on this rocket ship is going haywire!" "Ok, ok, but at least it's not the plumbing!"
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by astine 13y ago
There's a GPS devices welded to the bike frame? Congratulations, you'll get the bike frame back.
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by astine 13y ago
I don't think anyone's saying we're in a commie gulag, but the comparison is still valid. The vectors for abuse of government power are growing and our resources are shrinking. The problem is still bearable, but we're he

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