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   by eip 11y ago

   A pretty large percentage of Americans would refer to a black person born and living in Africa (or any other continent besides the Americas) as African-American. So you may be giving them more credit than they deserve. I would bet a large p
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   by eip 11y ago

   Blacks make up 13% of the population in the US but 75% of NBA players and 67% of NFL players. Do you think white peoples under representation in US pro sports is more due to genetics or environmental influence? Having worked in Sillycon Val
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   by eip 11y ago

   Someone once said to me: "I don't smoke weed to enhance my trip. I trip to enhance my weed."
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   by eip 11y ago

   Real heads just use telepathy.
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   by eip 11y ago

   "How One Creepy Company Uses Smartphones to Secretly Track Voters" Not exactly a selling point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMN8REGJXaA
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   by eip 11y ago

   >to run queries over Cassandra Why not just use Presto? It gives you basically full SQL capability for Cassandra with minimal effort.
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   by eip 11y ago

   I setup a DNS server once that would replace ads with porn. Worked pretty well.
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   by eip 11y ago

   > It's so easy to get distracted and not get your work done. >the social interactions of an office On the rare occasions that I work in an office most of what I see is people getting distracted by social interactions. I don'
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   by eip 11y ago

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQwwGPiyW9M
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    by eip 11y ago

    There is no way to know whether someone is driver or passenger without them volunteering that info. If they are willing to tap a button that says they are driving they could just easily press a button that disables talk/text.
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    by eip 11y ago

    http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/566179-always-that-same-lsd-...
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    by eip 11y ago

    if(speedOfGPSMotion > walkingSpeed){ disableTextAndVoice(); }
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    by eip 11y ago

    "Walmart" "minimum quality standard" Pick one.
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    by eip 11y ago

    Ask the people who work at Google and Facebook.
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    by eip 11y ago

    In five years fanboys will believe that Apple invented the electric car.
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    by eip 11y ago

    Java 8 is definitely an improvement over Java 7 but Scala is still nicer to work with. It can be a little more difficult to read others code though.
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    by eip 11y ago

    http://www.rssident.com/feeds
18. 408.▲
    by eip 11y ago

    Sweet. Now you can hit your monthly data cap in 40 minutes.
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    by eip 11y ago

    https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/storage/ https://www.hetzner.de/ot/hosting/produkte_rootserver/sx291
20. 410.▲
    by eip 11y ago

    >but the real game-changing feature is that you get a single "executable jar" artifact for deployment Like a war file?
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    by eip 11y ago

    I think he was talking about soda fountains.
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    by eip 11y ago

    http://genius.com/Bill-hicks-on-advertisers-and-marketing-an... "Seriously though, if you are, do."
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    by eip 11y ago

    Good to hear. Waiting for a useable version on a good phone in the US. Preferably a OnePlus.
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    by eip 11y ago

    "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without."
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    by eip 11y ago

    If you work on a computer all day in an office you are stuck in past. Do you still use fax machines too? The Internet has been fast enough to make remote work feasible for at least ten years. Commuting is a horrendous waste of resources.
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    by eip 11y ago

    Most people want to be able to subdue and/or kill other human beings which disturb their daily lives, but they do not want to have to cope with the moral and religious issues which such an overt act on their part might raise. Therefore
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    by eip 11y ago

    The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a political structure is a subconscious wish or desire to perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood. Simply put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk
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    by eip 11y ago

    At $85/person for a 270 mile trip that's a little less than a dollar per mile assuming you can sell all three seats for every trip. The car itself costs more than that. The time and effort required to organize the trips isn't
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    by eip 11y ago

    "When the government is able to collect tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quan
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    by eip 11y ago

    Can we make Hegel into a verb? For example "You are being Hegeled".