danieldon

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by danieldon 17y ago
The author of the article from this thread is actually practicing skepticism No, he's making unsupported, assertive claims, premised on the anecdote that "any black person will tell you, when black folks date online they don't go
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by danieldon 17y ago
How is it at all unusual? The OKCupid data reflects census data on interracial marriage pairings, which shows low numbers of marriages between black women and men of other races ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Uni
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by danieldon 17y ago
What kind of data do you absolutely need...? The kind of data that demonstrates that the OKCupid data doesn't reflect broader dating patterns.
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by danieldon 17y ago
Maybe you read a different post, but the one linked here simply argues that "any black person will tell you, when black folks date online they don't go to OKcupid," then lists a bunch of sites targeting black users and concludes that the OK
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by danieldon 17y ago
Hopefully everyone here can recognize that Ta-Nehisi Coates' post simply presents a hypothesis and contains absolutely no supporting data.
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by danieldon 17y ago
How does that make any sense whatsoever as a response to the OP?
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by danieldon 17y ago
You are referring to this clause, correct? "attaching a link associated with at least one of the activities of another user to at least one of the plurality of news items where the link enables a viewing user to participate in the same act
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by danieldon 17y ago
I guess I'm failing to see why this doesn't apply to a whole bunch of generic social activity feeds. Github's activity feed, for example, seems to fall under the patent. What am I missing?
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by danieldon 17y ago
My experience on OS X: First, Firefox takes a long time to start up, probably between 5 and 10 seconds. Tabs open and close quickly, but there's a constantly noticable 1/2-1 second delay when opening a new window. ⌘-N ... short pause ...
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by danieldon 17y ago
See these for reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132138 http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966555 http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode Still, S
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by danieldon 17y ago
"I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double
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by danieldon 17y ago
It's terrorism because it's directly in line with 18 USC 2331: (5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
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by danieldon 17y ago
He states in the final paragraphs that his goal is to affect change in the government and coerce the public to change the government, so he very clearly did have an objective.
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by danieldon 17y ago
He's absolutely a terrorist according to 18 USC 2331: (5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appe
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by danieldon 17y ago
"they want to--wait for it--check their mail" Neither Gmail nor Yahoo are strictly email anymore. If you believe they are are, you're living in a fantasy world. Both have chat, and yahoo even has stuff like calendar and notes. "Webmail" i
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by danieldon 17y ago
Sane people don't have excessive drama with their exes.