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by atlantic 13y ago
and I was, effortlessly and by a wide margin, the star student in his class.
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by atlantic 13y ago
I live in Portugal. Decriminalization of drugs for personal use happened over ten years ago. Nothing dramatic happened. Life went on as before. Except that we have less people in prison, and more in rehab. And if anything, crime went down a
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by atlantic 13y ago
Considering things in this perspective, is it so far-fetched to at least consider the possibility that 9/11 was a false-flag attack?
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by atlantic 13y ago
The OP cites scientifically-established correlations between low productivity and sleep deprivation. You, on the other hand, point to a couple of heavyweight counter-examples (Edison and Newton), plus one historical period (early industrial
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by atlantic 13y ago
I wonder if there is any relation between this set of vulnerabilities and the Datong system used by the UK authorities to mimic/replace mobile phone base stations. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10&#x2F
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by atlantic 13y ago
I had a friend in Belgium who was raped in the street one evening by three young men. The police did not take much interest. There was no medical examination done. They said they would call her back to look at some pictures but they never d
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by atlantic 13y ago
No, it's not. Even an average developer gets to pick between half a dozen offers when looking for a job. And his choice isn't always based on who pays him the most. Camaraderie and interesting projects also count for a lot.
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by atlantic 13y ago
it's --> its. Maybe not so useless.
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by atlantic 13y ago
When he says "you can convert it into something", what is meant is something of intrinsic value. So gold does not need to be converted into anything, it already has intrinsic value for its use in jewellery, electronics, etc.
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by atlantic 13y ago
We had a similar post recently for a new Apple phone. I don't remember seeing any accusations of astro-turfing on that occasion.
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by atlantic 13y ago
As you say, it's likely that most governments monitor domestic internet communication to some degree. It's very unlikely that any government but that of the US is trying to monitor international internet communication in its total
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by atlantic 13y ago
I don't think Chesterton was under-appreciated. When my father attended university in the 40's, he belonged to something called the Belloc-Chesterton club, and apparently those authors were all the rage at the time, right up there
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by atlantic 13y ago
Excellent point. But do we ever lose consciousness, though? Arguably, a continuum of consciousness is what defines us as individuals. If there was an absolute loss of consciousness, you would indeed die every time you fell asleep, but this
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by atlantic 13y ago
The style of a security agency generally would be to make it look like either an accidental death (car crash) or a natural death (exotic virus), so as not to attract the attention of the police or the press. The mafia style, on the other ha
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by atlantic 13y ago
That's not a bizarre coincidence. It's not enough to imprison the whistleblower, they also have to taint him and call his moral credibility into question, so as to head off any public support for him.
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by atlantic 13y ago
The Beetles -> The Beatles
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Interview with LulzSec's Topiary(ask.fm)
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by atlantic 13y ago
fowl --> foul
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The new dissidents.(thenation.com)
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by atlantic 13y ago
I don't think the only alternative to the current system is home schooling. There are schools in which learning is less curricular and more curiosity-driven, and the pupils go on to be very successful in higher education. In Belgium I
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by atlantic 13y ago
"wreaks of Asp.NET WebForms." Sorry, it's "reeks".
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by atlantic 13y ago
The whole difficulty the senators are having seems to be how to define "journalist" in such a way as to exclude people associated with WikiLeaks, which, whatever you think of it, is clearly a journalistic organization. Sounds like
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by atlantic 14y ago
Algernon Blackwood's short stories.
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by atlantic 14y ago
When working freelance I bill by the hour, but for the purposes of creating time estimates for clients, I consider a workday as 6 hours.
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by atlantic 14y ago
I learnt to code in exactly the way described, with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and a manual, no teacher or other form of instruction. I still think it's the best way to learn. Looking around for something similar to teach my own kids programmin
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by atlantic 14y ago
It's interesting that governments are aware of the threat, but they don't take any action against the root cause, which is inappropriate, nonmedical antibiotic uses, particularly with livestock and poultry. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/1
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Monsanto versus the people(aljazeera.com)
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European court rules against extraordinary rendition(aljazeera.com)
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by atlantic 14y ago
C#/ASP.NET developer, freelance web development work.
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by atlantic 14y ago
On the contrary, these examples seem well chosen. If it is true that the elite is essentially a closed society that looks after its own, while trying to maintain the illusion that a meritocracy is still in operation, then you would expect a

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