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by dubfan 13y ago
Stephen Colbert plays a character that satirizes conservative jingoistic "patriotic" mouthpieces of the Republican party, the kind typically found on Fox News and some talk radio stations.
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by dubfan 13y ago
You and I didn't know that because the system works. Nobody gets TB from riding in cabs, so nobody knows it's a problem and nobody realizes unless they look into the regulation. This is the big problem I have with the libertarian
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by dubfan 13y ago
> You know the person you are going to meet must have it together enough to have a functioning credit card, smartphone, and cell service. That's a poor heuristic. Ted Bundy had it together enough to get into law school.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Every time I've witnessed infinite scroll being implemented into a project I've been involved with, the decision was not made by the developers.
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by dubfan 13y ago
This is total anecdata and all caveats apply, but there is a Trader Joe's in south Everett, Washington, near the Everett Mall. Between the high crime rate, 1960s car-focused urban planning, apartments run by slumlords, and bikini baris
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by dubfan 13y ago
Or bitela.bs? (.bs being the TLD for The Bahamas)
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by dubfan 13y ago
That sentence appears within the quotes indicating the document text. The post is not very well formatted but that indicates to me that it is a direct quote from this purported document.
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by dubfan 13y ago
And almost all of that money goes to dictator Obiang, his family and his cronies. Equatorial Guinea is the quintessential kleptocracy.
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by dubfan 13y ago
In Seattle with AT&T I find that I often have to disable LTE because it's so slow. I just ran a test and I get about 1.5 Mbit/s downstream on LTE. Pathetic.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Seattle doesn't have ghettos. Seriously, compare Oakland or south-central LA to Seattle's "ghettos" and tell me they are similar. Vancouver's Downtown Eastside had the worst concentration of poverty and desperation
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by dubfan 13y ago
These Mercer livability rankings are based on quality of life for expatriates working for multinational corporations. Every year these rankings make the headline rounds but articles fail to mention that detail or explain why that's imp
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by dubfan 13y ago
I've had a similar outlook for most of my life and have faced the same response. The criticism I faced for simply being realistic and pointing out flaws in the "power of positive thinking" was overwhelming and made me think t
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by dubfan 13y ago
> Is it because the answers come from the general population rather than students? I believe that is the case. Those studies you mention generally use results of standardized tests taken by students. For what it's worth I'm not
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by dubfan 13y ago
This is exactly what I mean. Science is not a religion. It is not a faith. Calling it that betrays a lack of understanding of the scientific method. The scientific method is not perfect and there are worrisome trends in modern practices of
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by dubfan 13y ago
The full paper is here (link in the story is broken): http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/content/chapter-7/c07.... To me the worst part is on page 25. Only about 30% of Americans understand scientific
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by dubfan 13y ago
That doesn't seem like an optimal solution. Ideally these lists should match against more data than just a name. Financial institutions seem to work this way. I share my name with a convicted Ponzi schemer currently sitting in federal
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by dubfan 13y ago
I don't know what it's like in your area but the Craigslist personals here are just abysmal, full of very low quality mates. I think the anonymity and lack of entry barriers scares anyone worthwhile away, leaving only the desperat
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by dubfan 13y ago
Yeah, this belongs on the sidebar of Huffington Post, not here.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Actual headline should read: "Confused front-line tech support rep parrots back answer to a leading question that he probably didn't understand"
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by dubfan 13y ago
For starters, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Massacre
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by dubfan 13y ago
Not all "access point covers" go to sewers. Some go to communication conduits. Sewerist.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Well, I was considering getting an ASUS to replace my current Netgear R6200 (the built-in DNS relay stops working after a few days of operation and can't be disabled). Now it's looking like I'd be better served building a lit
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by dubfan 13y ago
> Given Africa's status as a developing country Africa is not a country.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Yeah, something keeps scrolling off screen (probably the flying Kerbal) and the side nav floats into the middle of the text.
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by dubfan 13y ago
I always detested this empty "leadership" concept and I actively avoided doing anything like that in high school. I was lucky enough to get into my top choice of universities despite this. Today, I don't think I would be able
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by dubfan 13y ago
The political spectrum wraps around and converges at the extremes. I'm reminded of the controversy in Portland around water fluoridation. Many of the ostensibly left-wing opponents of fluoridation, when presented with the argument that
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by dubfan 13y ago
The addresses it generates are generally non-existent (if they do exist, it's a coincidence)
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by dubfan 13y ago
The car generation is really strange. I just generated an occupational therapist aide who drives a 2001 Ariel Atom.
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by dubfan 13y ago
I've been using Windows 8 on my desktop PC for some time now (primarily used for gaming and entertainment, not development) and for my purposes it's a clear upgrade over 7. Yes, the Metro apps are terrible but you don't ever
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by dubfan 13y ago
I'm not sure what that has to do with a naturally-occurring drought.

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