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Reader-funded journalism(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by detcader 13y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 13y ago
His "should" was likely not prescriptive, but instead descriptive.
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by detcader 13y ago
How does agreeing with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about force-feeding people accused of no crimes makes you "biased" exactly? http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/04/05/un-gitmo-detention-regime... What does it say about the U.S. t
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by detcader 13y ago
Why do you think they don't care? You can't blame individuals for a culture that completely eschews skepticism and critical thinking skills in children. I'll bet you that every time an educational program is proposed for nutrition in grade
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by detcader 13y ago
Related reading/watching: Obama's secrecy fixation causing Sunshine Week implosion (14 March 2013): http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/14/obama-tr... Pentagon Papers lawyer on Obama, secrecy and press freedoms: 'worse than N
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Justice Department's pursuit of AP's phone records is both extreme and dangerous(guardian.co.uk)
8 points by detcader 13y ago|3 comments
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by detcader 14y ago
A) Dominant discourse as in the occasional Jezebel article you see shared on FB or actual gender and sexuality studies? What is your experience with the latter? B) You're not giving much to address those assumptions.
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C and C++ as Jesus and the Catholic Church
1 points by detcader 14y ago|0 comments
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by detcader 14y ago
People like this are obviously blind to the sort of misogyny and racism that still permeates human culture, especially U.S. culture, today, and don't realize what considering the people affected by these social diseases can do. When you con
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by detcader 16y ago
I already have Windows + P as my 'gnome-terminal --command "python"' keybinding (in Ubuntu), but I'm sure I'll find a use for this.
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by detcader 16y ago
http://www.lousycanuck.ca/wp-content/uploads/atheist_chart.g...
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by detcader 16y ago
It's fun to replace the word "passwords" in your sentence with really any plural noun.
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by detcader 16y ago
I understood that; but the fact that these are the type of entities that supported this enterprise is telling enough.
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by detcader 16y ago
Just a little information on the source from http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute - The Institute states that it favors policies "that are consistent with the traditional American principles of limited government, ind
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by detcader 16y ago
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute
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by detcader 16y ago
http://imgur.com/Lr6aI.png Social Networking is Destroying The Other Parts Of Our Internet\
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by detcader 16y ago
What if it just means that IE9 takes 21 more milliseconds to complete a "real" test instead of the "optimized" one?</silly question>
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by detcader 16y ago
Ah, jmeter. The whole district was jammed. Two days ISS.
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by detcader 16y ago
A bug: when you put links in, <span>s appear later: http://imgur.com/4bvY8.png
890.
by detcader 16y ago
His chess analogy is the best thing of his you can find on youtube, I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dgrvlWML4
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by detcader 16y ago
When typing/editing an item, ctrl-left/ctrl-right doesn't jump the cursor to the front of the closest word.
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by detcader 16y ago
No, read it now .
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by detcader 16y ago
I already bought an Arduino, but now I want all this stuff from the inventor kit! Should I just buy parts as I need, or are there any other kits like this?
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by detcader 16y ago
Has anyone gotten this thing to even work? Seems to rely on http://code.google.com/p/pypcap/ and when I attempt install from source the install.py turns out to be horribly useless. Without installing that pypcap thing and just using libpc
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by detcader 16y ago
instead of casting other types, just make everything a string: buy a whole lot of pairs of the same type of sock so you don't have to worry about matching types!
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by detcader 16y ago
try: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...
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by detcader 16y ago
It would be nice to have a multi-line textbox I could paste a list separated by \n's that the site would split into individual entries. I want to transfer my list from tadalist.com, as this seems like a better site.
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by detcader 16y ago
Get a Google Reader account. Get an Instapaper account. Get a Dropbox account. Get a Tumblr account, at your own risk. Try Google Chrome.
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by detcader 16y ago
I recognize the fact that the theory of the existence of a deity or deities is logically, scientifically, factually, demonstrably, historically, and obviously devoid of any creditability. So yea, nonreligious. Allow me to plug a speech by D
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by detcader 16y ago
I seriously have always suspected this. If you're going to use a value to represent the perfection of a circle, why not take the derivatives of its properties (area, then perimeter, and once more) until you get a constant? 2pi is that const

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