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by astine 15y ago
There was no Klan in the 1880's. There was a Klan from the end of the war until the 1870's but that was a disorganized vigilante group and it was suppressed by state governments. Around 1915, Birth of a Nation came out and people started
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by astine 15y ago
"as we involve the U.S. military in more and more missions that look highly political" "War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl von Clausewitz ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz )
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by astine 15y ago
My point is, in a stateless society, the rich and power become the state. If they have good sense, they will encourage order and economic growth but they will be the wealthiest members of their respective societies and above any laws they
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by astine 15y ago
That's like arguing we shouldn't oppose Internet censorship because censorship is just a kind of regulation and other regulations make the Internet possible. Besides it's totally possible for billionaires to exist without a state or regulat
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by astine 15y ago
It's posts like this which most clearly demonstrate why people dislike Apple advocates. Your words make it seem like you're unable to consider that Apple's success might be partly due to something that you consider superficial, like marketi
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by astine 15y ago
This is a project that I would like to see succeed. Emacs is my most important tool and the best improvement I can think for it to have is to have a better Lisp behind it. Threads, better error handling, tail-recursion, all would be huge
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Blackout Day, The Public Consciousness, and a general defense of Slacktivism.(theatticlight.net)
1 points by astine 15y ago|0 comments
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by astine 15y ago
He writes the descriptions, but the number is a hit counter. You'll notice that it increments over time.
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by astine 15y ago
I'd like to know what they mean by that. Are they saying that Joel's blog is merely his opinion and that business is not directly subject to his whims and opinions, or are they saying that the advice only applies to blogs and non-serious th
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by astine 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that they are not trying to avoid hurting people's feelings. The problem with "discipline" is that people see the word and assume that we're merely talking about strength of willpower. The key to discipline is building good
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by astine 15y ago
It's not scientific at all and it's not meant to be. It's a question you can ask friends to try to get to know them better.
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by astine 15y ago
Republicans don't hate liberalism, they hate democrats and "liberals" is just another word for democrats in American politics. It's just a case of factionalism and the democrats can be just as bad.
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Howling Banshees or Striking Scorpions (Simulations to pick Warhammer units.)(terminally-incoherent.com)
1 points by astine 15y ago|0 comments
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by astine 15y ago
I've always felt that a "startup" was any business which was not yet profitable or had not yet reached a certain 'scale' appropriate for their industry and ambitions.
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by astine 15y ago
I think you're only talking about the enlisted. It's different for officers. A lot of memebers of the military went through a service academy or ROTC scholarship, and the military has been known to pay for furthering education for its offic
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by astine 15y ago
It really depends on the distro. Linux can literally be customized at any level and even the most basic components, such as the filesystem or cron scheduler, can be swapped out with alternatives. Generally, the biggest difference between di
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by astine 15y ago
In addition to Ubuntu, I'd also note Knoppix, which itself was forked from Debian. It was one of the first successful live-CDs and has a lot of forks in its own right.
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URI Prefix Middleware for Clojure Ring(theatticlight.net)
9 points by astine 15y ago|1 comments
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by astine 15y ago
When I was a young child my family had a "Dirt Devil" brand vacuum cleaner. My mother put some masking tape over the "Devil" part of the vacuum's logo because she was uncomfortable with the word. She certainly wouldn't do the same today, bu
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by astine 15y ago
You're being down-voted for the very same reason that someone in the US complaining that Canada doesn't use imperial units would be.
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by astine 15y ago
The author addresses that as well. By making a change to the only permissible browser on iOS and Apple could block sites they don't like as well. It's fortunate that they don't currently do this but we shouldn't let them get into a position
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by astine 15y ago
The complaint that the author makes isn't about consumption vs production devices, it's about curated experiences. Apple can veto your income on the insistence of popular opinion or on a whim, or with no stated reason at all. The author ext
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by astine 15y ago
Let's take the empirical approach: " Come, BrainF k isn't that bad: it's probably one of the most pleasant of the popular languages; it's just unpolished and has some stupid bits. " Nope, guess not.
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by astine 15y ago
Patrick makes a good point when he points out that people filter out spammy looking ads so blending, more even than relevance, is necessary for click through. The most surefire way to get folks to click on your ads is to put them on Google,
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by astine 15y ago
Ok, forgive me but I'm not sure what this link is supposed to demonstrate. I see mostly pictures of white men here punctuated with a few asians. I know the article mentioned a Ruby conference getting a larger female audience but these aren'
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by astine 15y ago
I'm fairly certain the grandparent meant MacOS for which the explanation would make sense. Dos and Windows were more widely available and could run more software because of Microsoft's comparatively open business model.
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by astine 15y ago
Sebastian seems to describe himself as a 'strategist' and he claims come up with business plans for a living. I think this means people pay him to come up with plans of action for their entrepreneurial projects or established businesses or
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by astine 15y ago
I agree with most of what you've said here, I don't know why folks have voted you down for it.
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by astine 15y ago
"Do we (or should we) unequivocally respect anyone who risks their lives for a "higher" cause?" Sure. I think one can acknowledge the value of a sacrifice without necessarily agreeing with the cause which motivated that sacrifice. In a more
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by astine 15y ago
The performance problem with using multiple queries comes mostly from the network latency and query overhead that happens every time your application needs to make a call to the database. Prepared statements minimize the later and connectio

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