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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Don't express skepticism of the wonderful and plainly obvious merits of GMOs on HN, please. It'll get you tagged as a conspiracy theorist and/or luddite.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
I'm glad the "rigorous testing process" was mentioned. The facade of "we only hire superninja-kickass-hyperexperts and we will verify that you are such a programmer before we hire you" attracts a certain type of pe
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
BTW, we have the love the article's secondary title, clearly a reference to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell_the_Glove
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
If you join a foreign militia and take up arms against the United States ..." The whole point of due process is that the pesky "if" part needs to be proven . Otherwise your argument is entirely circular.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Again, it sounds like you're basically unaware of the distinction Western European-style democratic socialism, and communism (Marxist or otherwise). Yes there's some overlap, but the differences are greater than the overlap, and
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The interviewer called me on it, and (verbatim) said “are you fucking with me?” I still haven’t met anyone else who got told to stop fucking around in an interview. Which she can safely take as a sign that she should be very, very glad no
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Between the 1950s and end of the 1970s the UK was implementing something quite close to communism. This is a pretty ridiculous statement to make. You might want to look up any generally accepted definition of 'communism' (as op
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Why a woman murdered her son with salt(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|1 comments
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Genomes document ancient mass migration to Europe(bbc.com)
2 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
When reporters asked former world chess champion and Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov who was behind the assassination of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, he dismissed the question as irrelevant. Whoever did the dirty work, he implied, woul
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
As always, correlation does not equal causation. The article doesn't claim that it does. That's why the title was specifically constructed to use the phrase "association between" (rather than "causes" or &qu
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
It's not at all out of character for the CPD, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department#Cont... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zuley
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China’s Censorship Agency Sings Anthem About the Joys of Censoring the Internet(slate.com)
2 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
American cities have tried rent control, and it simply leads to a shortage of rooms for rent. In NYC's case, it also leads to 1.5-2 million people being able to live in the city who otherwise (at market rates) simply would not be abl
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Enforcement requires some loss of privacy, but living in central London is not a human right. It is for those who already live there.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
I highly, highly doubt any Egyptian living in Iraq for a period of time would not be able to pick up the dialect rather quickly. Except when you're working for an occupying military force, you're not really "living" in
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Outing AI: Beyond the Turing Test(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|1 comments
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Lawmaker asks if swallowed camera be used for female exam(salon.com)
2 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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Lookout Mountain, Hollywood's Top-Secret Nuclear Film Studio(slate.com)
1 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
OK fine, then: they raise them predisposed to become smelly and grubby.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The advice offered by the poster I had initially responded to -- "don't let your kid play minecraft until he starts doing better in school" -- seems to embody the very essence of helicopter parenting.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
It's also important to raise a child who understands duty, responsibility and obligation: because those are also part of life. Right -- but there are ways the child can attain that understanding without its parents perpetually lordin
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Why not just enforce a policy of no raised voices in the computer lab (and no coming to school, period, without practicing proper hygiene), regardless of gender?
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
You're not just leaving out important context -- you're missing the main point, entirely: This morning, as always, my son was up and dressed before the rest of the household; he likes time to play Minecraft before school starts.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
She was a druggy after all and got everything she deserved. The user above may have meant it as sarcasm, but the funny part is, this is in fact pretty much what the cops were saying about her in the weeks after her murder.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Per the WP article: The officers involved in the operation were suspended with pay, and the family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city. Message to the officers, and to their brethren colleagues in the profession being, in so m
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
A little background on Rachel, from that fine New Yorker article, "The Throwaways" (12/09/03): By the time Rachel was twelve, she had been a ballerina, a Brownie, an equestrian, and a Weeki Wachee Springs Little Mermaid
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Google apparently shows Kosovo as a disputed region in the U.S., as well (demarcated by a dashed, rather than by a solid line). Ditto for the Crimea.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Silently legitimizing the gains made in a war of naked territorial aggression (in order to maintain market share, most likely) doesn't require a lot of balls, in my book.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
If they had balls, they'd show it as belonging to Ukraine -- or at least as disputed -- on both maps.

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