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931.
by cbd1984 12y ago
The problem is, it isn't easy to distinguish between "playful homage" and someone cynically trading on your goodwill with products designed to trick customers. Especially if you have to convince a court to stop that company
932.
by cbd1984 12y ago
The Florida land boom was in the 1920s. The Marx Brothers made a comedy about it: The Cocoanuts (1929), their first full-length film.
933.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Why this desperate attempt to make it somehow the fault of "Republicans"? They're the ones trying to make something created by the Heritage Foundation seem "Socialist".
934.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Why is mentioning transphobia such a downvote-trigger?
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Yes. Being anti-racist is just like being the Thought Police in Nineteen Eighty-Four .
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by cbd1984 12y ago
How reliable are Teslas compared to Mercedes S class? Not that being more reliable than a luxury automobile is a huge achievement: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/01/makes-expensive-car...
937.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Every time Elon Musk makes this kind of announcement ... he does it not because it is easy, but because it is hard! For his engineers. Not so much for him.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Cable and fiber ISPs as they exist now, with the same company owning the wires and providing the service, are inevitably going to be natural monopolies, because of the massive start-up costs of entering the market combined with the trivial
939.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Why didn't you ask about trans people or people of color? How about asking about Muslims or Wiccans?
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> TRADITIONAL!!! cuisine Which is no more than a few decades old at most, a century at the outside. People live, people die, and new people do the "same" food differently; people move, new people come, and there's a new in
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by cbd1984 12y ago
And the worst part is, the developer will likely refuse to see that there is, or ever could be, a problem. "It's evil , fercryingoutloud! Don't do evil ! Everyone knows what evil is!" And it gets used, and that claus
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by cbd1984 12y ago
News as in Usenet.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Why was this downvoted?
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Flagged for being transphobic.
945.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Broadcast news started out as an FCC mandate for licensing purpose, and a differentiator where more quality made a difference in the performance of the network. Given the history of news, this is very doubtful, unless you define '
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Internet trolls are the people who dox others and drive them to suicide. We can achieve more without them than with them.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
No, the person who's harassing someone for being different isn't making a joke or a point. They're harassing someone for being different. People who try to make others commit suicide don't have a valid point.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Flagged for being transphobic and gender-essentialist.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> In the old days 1994, there was at least some journalistic content on the news with Peter Jennings. And people from a prior generation laughed at the idea of Peter Jennings being 'journalistic' and pinned their ideals on Brin
950.
by cbd1984 12y ago
As far as I'm concerned, a kidnapping case from two states away isn't news. News is something which could affect me or which I could affect; if it's an Amber Alert from my hometown or close by, it's news in a vague sense
951.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> In the old days 1994, there was at least some journalistic content on the news with Peter Jennings. And people from a prior generation laughed at the idea of Peter Jennings being 'journalistic' and pinned their ideals on Brin
952.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Nobody needs the people who harass others and attempt to ridicule them into silence.
953.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Trolls are reinforcing the bubble by "proving" that everyone outside of it is purely an asshole with no intent to have a conversation, merely to insult and ridicule and try to cause people to leave the forum.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> You're completely ignoring equity. You're assuming equity is guaranteed. If you buy a house at $X, and it adjusts to $X/2 because of speculation or job losses in the area, you're still paying down the $X + $Y mortga
955.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> hire a delivery company As usual, this plan is OK for the more affluent and makes life more difficult for the poor.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> strict monogamy Honored more in the breach than the observance, in many households.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> We (and by we I mean Popperians) want to believe that science is a series of universally positive logical assertions that can be cut down by a single negative observation, as logic would dictate. But we don't always know what the
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by cbd1984 12y ago
In most complex jobs (that is, jobs with a theoretical component someone writes books about), the theory part mostly comes to the fore when something goes wrong, and you have to diagnose and fix the problem. So, in this case, programmers wo
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> The upshot of all of this, according to Kuhn, is that the criteria for scientific truth are always caught up in certain historical assumptions and that we have to take these assumptions into account when assessing the veracity of a giv
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> I think this is a very naive refutation of what the point was about Kuhn. I don't deny that it's naive. > First off, the notion that engineering "validates" science. What do you mean by validate? Do you mean succ

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