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by coffeevradar 10y ago
It reduces use, but the people stubbornly still using tobacco are likelier to be poorer. No peer-reviewed studies are required to demonstrate that it's a regressive tax, any amount of "Think of the children!" posturing notwit
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by coffeevradar 10y ago
This article is quite touching, but so much of it is about one girl processing her grief for her mother. I was left wondering what sorts of things she would have used to occupy her time if she had been born in a different era and experience
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by coffeevradar 10y ago
I wonder how many others feel so uncomfortable visiting Gawker that they'll debate whether to click this link. I did click it, and read the letter in its entirety. I found it utterly unconvincing: a last-ditch moral appeal from someone
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by coffeevradar 10y ago
It's like my nosy neighbor who only just started watching me when we made eye contact.
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
Because computers will somehow be more noble than human beings. Wait, that doesn't make sense.
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
I have less faith in public radio because my local station is always playing Lumosity adverts. I'm old enough to remember when the whole "sponsored by" thing being extended to full ads was a controversial development on US pu
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
I don't think "invective" means what you think it means.
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
Here's an English translation: http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/11/24/clamping-down-with...
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
Here's Le Monde's English translation: http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/11/24/clamping-down-with...
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
I don't care very much what contrarian things a freelance tech writer has to say about someone who has actually accomplished something. This seems like a brazen effort to attract outraged clicks. And citing a satirical article, even if
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
> retains hair loss I don't think I understand.
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
He comes off as so full of himself when he claims that the original programmers didn't know about the different ghosts' "personalities" (algorithms). He's referring to this: http://home.comcast.net/~
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by coffeevradar 11y ago
Not sure I agree. My automotive paymasters have given me my biggest paycheck...well...ever.