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by contravert 12y ago
You won't find a finer example of white privilege. No one cares if a Chinese CEO (or anyone for that matter) speaks English, no matter the difficulty and effort the learning entails. Contrast this indifference with the flattery of the
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by contravert 12y ago
Out of curiosity, do you not watch TV series or movies (on a monitor), or is it just cable TV that you don't watch? What about popular music, news, video games and other cultural expressions that all subtly promote materialism?
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by contravert 12y ago
I've always seen the Supreme Court as a farce. The very fact that laws are decided upon without consensus is troubling to think about. If these justices are the most authoritative judges of constitutional matters and disagree with each
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by contravert 12y ago
This report is based on PISA test results, and you can find some sample questions here: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/test/ I think these questions are quite fair at testing the mathematical abilities of students. Thes
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by contravert 13y ago
But can't you use the same argument for mass? Why focus on calories and not kilograms?
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by contravert 13y ago
Chromebooks all have a hardware TPM and already encrypt each user's local data: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/p... I'm not sure what you mean by having a good token to get ac
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by contravert 13y ago
I just finished reading this book, and I found it extremely insightful. The overview of Western and Eastern history from paleolitic to the modern era really puts the entire question of West vs. East into a grander perspective. However, the
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by contravert 13y ago
Why did you convert to Christianity as opposed to another religion like Islam or Zoroastrianism?
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by contravert 13y ago
For this reason, I try to avoid ads and marketing as much as possible, although it seems almost impossible. Although any individual advertisement is trivial to dismiss, I don't trust myself to resist the ubiquitity of these messages.
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by contravert 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an...
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by contravert 13y ago
On the other hand, many people don't have a healthy fear of automobiles, considering the lethality of the physics involved in a collision.
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by contravert 13y ago
I don't get the obsession with making web APIs for raw data that is publicly accessible and small enough to fit in a single file.
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by contravert 13y ago
I would like to see his original description as well. I've never understood the Fourier transform intuitively, no matter how much my professors and textbooks attempt to explain it. At this point, I'm just applying algorithms witho
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by contravert 13y ago
Wow, this is one of the most arrogant comments I've ever read on HN. How does this story highlight how titles work in "a proper company with true meritocracy"? A true meritocracy assigns titles based on if the CEO shares the
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by contravert 14y ago
A good board game that utilizes simultaneous turns very well is 7 Wonders. The game play is basically like a Magic: the Gathering draft. However, a common criticism is that there is limited direct player interaction (although there are very
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by contravert 14y ago
Well, at the very least, it's getting attention, including yours. How many other startups are desperately seeking employees that you have no idea exist?
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by contravert 14y ago
The real use case for the visitor pattern is to simulate multiple dispatch in a language that only has single dispatch. In a language like Java, if you want to traverse a tree where each node can be a different type, you don't really want t
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by contravert 14y ago
I like the steganographic approach, and it could also work with a repository. Consider the following: -Let Pc be a copyrighted package in the repository -Let Pd be a public domain package in the repository -Let Kc be the "key" of Pc -Let Kd
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by contravert 14y ago
I have given this subject quite a bit of thought, and I believe the solution is to fulfill this objective: Make filesharing simple and intuitive. The article states that the girl ultimately failed to download what she wanted, which I don't
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by contravert 14y ago
It really stood out when you said that you paid an statistician to analyze these games. I assume you did it to understand and try to replicate the successes of the top grossing games. What did you learn that was surprising? Did this level o
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by contravert 14y ago
Can someone explain the technical details on how this program works?
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by contravert 14y ago
While I agree with your ideals in general, I don't think TPB is a paragon we should uphold. TPB is not like "Robin Hood" at all. Have you seen the extremely deceptive ads on each torrent page that looks like the actual download button? The
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by contravert 14y ago
I can't speak for AP classes , whose quality depends greatly on the teachers, and I believe the many of these classes offer very high quality education. However, I think AP exams are a "scam" in a sense. The scam isn't financial, but edu
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by contravert 14y ago
This is incredibly true for me. I blocked time sink websites (like HN ironically) in /etc/hosts for about a day, and then I constantly went back and reverted my changes. Then, I wrote a daemon that constantly checks the host file and puts t
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by contravert 15y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "how easy it is"?
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by contravert 15y ago
Keep in mind that the console versions of MW3 usually has an order of magnitude more concurrent players than the PC version.
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by contravert 15y ago
Would pseudo-code be permitted as well?
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by contravert 15y ago
Well it's not beyond the realm of imagination for pirates to create a platform like Steam but offer all games for free. Torrents are somewhat inaccessible to the average user and they they lack content management support.
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by contravert 15y ago
The obvious question that I don't see anyone asking is what happens when pirates build a more convenient service than Steam? There is no way a legitimate digital distributor can offer more convenience when they are saddled with many busines
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by contravert 15y ago
I would have to agree. When I was working as a full-time developer (for internships), it felt like I had all the time in the world compared to homework and studying.

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