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by bjhoops1 14y ago
That's crazy! Maybe the most ridiculous drug-related story of all has to be the Opium Wars the British fought in China so they could continue to sell opium to the Chinese masses. True story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Wow, I'd heard before that the "Coca" in Coca-Cola used to be cocaine, but I dismissed it as an urban legend, not even worthy of a google search. This is so worth being wrong.
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Well I guess it makes me feel better to know that there is stupidity to be found even amongst the mighty C programmers!
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Can't help but picture GOB Bluth: "Illuuuusions, Michael!" Great article though! This is a constant source of confusion for anyone not intimately familiar with JavaScript.
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Perhaps a suitable-enough replacement? :)
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I can't wait to see this once it's open-sourced! Holy Grail, indeed!
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Anyone who thinks about it critically knows that "Follow Your Passion" just won't work for the vast majority of people. What I have found, though, is that expertise breeds passion. Anything can become enjoyable once you become really, r
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TypeScript/JavaScript AMD Interaction(github.com)
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Well, this makes me feel better about wondering for years whether I was really an introvert or in fact an extrovert. Now I can be proud to claim the term "ambivert"!
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Judge: "Let's start with the assumption that O.J. did in fact murder his wife. Now the question for the jury is how badly did he murder her?"
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
It is a good question whether or not something as general as multitasking exists as a skill apart from a particular context. I recently read an article here - http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2007/Crit_Thi... - which asks
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
You forgot the link to a fake news article interviewing an "economist" predicting Massive Wealth Destruction and peddling a workbook detailing how you can survive the impending disaster.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
The entire expose is worth reading: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/ The most outrageous part in my mind was where Assistant AG Lanny Breuer (who just resigned) gave a speech in which he talked about how he loses slee
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Let he who has never been an asshole throw the first feces.
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Haha yeah after I wrote that I got to thinking that "large town" may have been more in keeping with the scale. Thanks for calling out my exaggeration. I think that the reason people (like myself) call out billionaires is because they are s
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Thank you for pointing out how incredibly complicated and thorny the issue is. >how much of that additional value should we... enable them to control? The answer may range from "none of it" all the way up to "all of it". Both extremes a
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
>By being able to post on HN you are about the same magnitude "better off" in real wealth terms compared to a man in the Shomali plains than a billionaire is to you. Does that make your accomplishments better compared to that Afghani ma
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
I'm suggesting that for amounts of wealth past some (admittedly arbitrary) point, there is such a high concentration of power that it raises ethical questions, regardless of how the funds was obtained. Just thinking along the lines of Dr.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
"They deserve every penny of it?" I'm sorry, but there's no way that any person's individual contributions to society are worth 3-4 orders of magnitude more than most other people's. And if there are such individuals, they are the Teslas
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At risk of sounding like a communist... When you consider just how much money $10+ billion is, from an ethical standpoint, does any individual deserve to have that much money/power? I can't help but think that it is really a grotesque thing
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
I noticed this too - his four heirs listed are worth > $120 billion between them. Absolutely nuts.
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Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Thank you for making me feel better about not having completed any of a number of Forever Projects.
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Almost the entirety of this post comes from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. Good read though and good summary!
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Wow. Didn't realize a lawyer could have such nerd cred. Respect.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Wow. Amazing how quickly these have proliferated and evolved. Just a couple of years ago there were only a small handful of options, and nothing as impressive as some of these. Exciting times!
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If you think we're done with neoliberalism, think again(guardian.co.uk)
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Aaaand they just raised the petition threshold to 100,000: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57564203-93/white-house-rai...
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
They need to add this to http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ . And if you haven't been there, you should check it out!
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Seriously? Still on the disable-JavaScript kick? scratches head

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