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by charonn0 14y ago
The iPhone? Seriously? On the same list as agriculture and fire?
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by charonn0 14y ago
Vague warnings about higher taxes do not constitute a complete thought or a compelling argument.
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by charonn0 14y ago
Most on the Left have come to view the Right, and the GOP in particular, as petulant, self-absorbed and obstructionist jerks. This perception only really came into its modern form when Newt Gingrich and the Republican House of Reps. forced
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by charonn0 14y ago
The left (IMHO) sees the right as having lost touch with reality (e.g. Sarah Palin), or as closeted racists. The right (in my experience) sees the left as weak, mewling followers of a Socialist secret Muslim bent on taking away their guns,
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by charonn0 14y ago
Why are you counting the ~100,000,000 people who are ineligible to vote?
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by charonn0 14y ago
They're mad that Obama wont he election. The Declaration of Independence, while not possessing the force of Law like the Constitution, states that the powers of the government arise only from the consent of the governed, and that since they
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by charonn0 14y ago
And if more than one theory is more-or-less equally probable, simple, and in accord with observed reality then you test all of them to see which you can eliminate. Repeat.
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by charonn0 14y ago
You know it's a great party if the music is performed live by the guy who wrote the book in your field.
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by charonn0 14y ago
The last video of the bat slowing down exactly as it contacts the ball would make Isaac Newton proud.
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by charonn0 14y ago
The part I liked was when the author complained that there were too many jobs.
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Tech firms find havens from U.S. taxes(sfgate.com)
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by charonn0 14y ago
For those who don't read Chinese, the first column "Last 5 Minutes", the second is "Last 10 minutes", the third is "Last 15 Minutes" and the fourth is "Today,the failure rate".
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by charonn0 14y ago
Just don't make me use a Google account instead of a VT API key and I'll be happy.
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by charonn0 14y ago
It happened to UnrealIRC a few years back. The tarball on their website was adulterated to include a backdoor and the published checksums were altered too. They've since moved to cryptographic signatures for verification. http://www.irc-ju
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by charonn0 14y ago
Perhaps you should ask yourself why you thought it would be funny, rather than psychoanalyze a stranger on the internet.
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by charonn0 14y ago
"Try Los Angeles, there are few gringos here, and fewer all the time." I was referring to this statement. And it is a racist statement. It is exactly as racist as saying "Try Illinois, there are few wetbacks there and fewer all the time."
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by charonn0 14y ago
SF is far more Hispanic and East Asian than white. In any case, why so racist?
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by charonn0 14y ago
The San Francisco Bay Area? That's where I live. Mono-cultural it is not. Maybe you meant another Bay Area (there are as many of those as there are bays.)
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by charonn0 14y ago
In America I don't need to travel at all to hear many different languages, experience different cultures, etc. They're all in walking distance in any major city. European mono-cultures need to make nationalistic distinctions, the American m
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by charonn0 14y ago
And just yesterday there was a guy on HN claiming that FB ad clicks were 80% bots.
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by charonn0 14y ago
Not owning any Ubisoft titles and not really interested in opening up IE, can someone explain what it is that Ubisoft/IE users are seeing?
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by charonn0 14y ago
Doesn't mention the important part about the court "determines whether the laws voted on by Congress are constitutional" which, now that I typed it out, seems to be the definition of Judicial Review. I agree that the the situation is alarmi
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by charonn0 14y ago
Just redirects to the paywall for me.
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by charonn0 14y ago
The purpose of patents has nothing to do with theft or personal property rights. They are a voluntary grant of special protection to the inventor by rest of society; society promises to grant the inventor exclusionary protections for a peri
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by charonn0 14y ago
Do you have an alternative source? The WSJ article is behind a paywall. :\
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by charonn0 14y ago
Based on the data Microsoft is willing to publish, one can only assume that they are using the threat of a lawsuit to intimidate other companies into signing lopsided deals like this. That is, of course, illegal under US anti-racketeering a
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by charonn0 14y ago
Who cares! It's free, evidently, and free must mean worth having, right?
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by charonn0 14y ago
Why, then, wasn't Skype required to implement CALEA-compliant functionality before Microsoft bought them?
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by charonn0 14y ago
The Parisian Police did nothing?!
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by charonn0 14y ago
"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (...) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." Obviously we can't have children questio

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