georgemonck

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by georgemonck 9y ago
" That in combination with unrestricted submarine warfare really did mean German conduct in the war was far crueler then the Allies. " Both Britain and Germany tried to prevent the US from shipping arms and supplies to the other c
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by georgemonck 10y ago
this isn’t a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence. I think some "both-sides-ism" is in order here. From the perspective of the right, the left is also advocating hatred, violence and is also trying
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The Crucial Thing Commencement Speakers Get Wrong About Success(fastcompany.com)
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by georgemonck 11y ago
Many endorsers have already committed to implementing changes consistent with the report recommendations – from revised essay questions and marketing materials, to the development of entirely new recruitment, scholarship and high school pr
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Adele is the largest selling artist on earth. What’s she going to do about it?(medium.com)
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by georgemonck 11y ago
" Every morning, we all wake up to a world that isn’t optimized. Reading the news, commuting to work, ordering coffee, planning a vacation; far too few of these experiences were optimized using data. As a result, our lives are filled w
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by georgemonck 11y ago
An account shares access to the same file system, but can be restricted as to which files and directory it can see and execute. An account in a chroot jail gets its own view of the entire file system that is completely isolated. The root fo
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The Sheltered Ones(jrganymede.com)
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by georgemonck 11y ago
I don't like how politics becomes warfare, but the phenomena exists, and we need a name for the people who engage in this kind of activism. I don't think that all leftist activists are social justice warriors, but there are very c
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by georgemonck 11y ago
The thing is, there is no big yellow line between aggressive politics and warfare. If someone gets me fired from my job, that is actually worse for me than if I get punched in the face. And while many SJW's don't engage in violenc
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by georgemonck 11y ago
What word would you use for a left-wing activist who aggressively wants to name and shame, or purge, or get fired, or get banned, any person on the right who crosses a certain line? These types of people exist, is is a real phenomena, so it
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by georgemonck 11y ago
There are a few underlying issues here. There is a lot of denial about the nature of the intellectual bell curve. The majority of people are not that smart and cannot make thoughtful contributions to most discussions. The majority of people
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by georgemonck 11y ago
It took a lot of active mismanagement and folly to keep Pipes from living up to its promise. I would love to read a blog post about how exactly it was mismanaged. It would be great for others to learn lessons from the mistakes.
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Market Fundamentalism in the Mission?(marketurbanism.com)
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The Art of World War One in 52 Paintings(madefrom.com)
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by georgemonck 11y ago
Actually, if you were really worried about epidemics, it would be better to fragment the world further. Make travel much harder and rarer. From an existential point of view, mass air travel is a really bad idea. If a pandemic ever breaks ou
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by georgemonck 11y ago
There are really two issues: the knowledge acquisition and the money. I have made a good living in software for nearly a decade, without having a computer science degree. Being self-taught was not a problem. My only problem is that I never
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How to Become Famous: The Social Networks of Lawrence of Arabia(sociological-eye.blogspot.com)
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