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by grandalf 9y ago
What content are you talking about? RT has published a lot of great stories that are are not flattering to the US (such as about the Flint Michigan water crisis) but are absolutely legitimate news stories that our corporate media doesn&#x27
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by grandalf 9y ago
So it's propaganda to talk about the Flint Michigan water crisis and the utter failure of US officials in dealing with it? That's the kind of stuff RT publishes most of the time! Read through the historical headlines. This is a v
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by grandalf 9y ago
This is profoundly disappointing, and is yet another indication that Twitter is clueless about being a platform and wants to be a content company. There have been many other decisions where Twitter was tone-deaf about its platform status,
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I got a Soylent subscription and it's pretty good to have it around for those times when you really don't want to spend any time preparing food and want something moderately nutritious and fairly inexpensive, with near-infinite sh
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by grandalf 9y ago
Not complying with some silly license restriction is a pretty dumb reason for getting a fine.
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I've worked with Flatiron grads and the ones I've worked with were significantly higher caliber than typical bootcamp grads. Here's why: - They all had high powered professional careers before deciding to attend Flatiron. In
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I draw a cute little animal on the signature line (the species of which I'll keep confidential for security reasons) and nobody has ever noticed or questioned it.
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by grandalf 9y ago
This a great analysis. I would love to see a public page displaying title changes so that I could click "request explanation" and the mods could offer an explanation for those every day based on reader interest. Whatever is going
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by grandalf 9y ago
We (my roommates and I) used to do this while tossing a frisbee in college. It’s amazing how we could do hundreds of associations and then go backwards without missing any.
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> you paint the sentiment around the decision to put a stock up for sale in a somewhat negative light Only to the extent that all stocks, bonds, and investments (in a sense) compete against each other. Thus, selling means that the owner
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by grandalf 9y ago
> For a proper debunking, you need to address the fact that it's usually pretty easy to wring cash out of a business, but you can only do it once. I don't think that's the primary point, because the CEO should have an ince
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by grandalf 9y ago
There is a pervasive idea that longer term investments are somehow better (morally superior, more socially responsible) than short-term. This stems from the ancient prejudice toward financiers (usually jews) and the corresponding ancient pr
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Gene" is often used as a technical term to refer to a stretch of DNA that produces a protein. How does something like pleiotropy happen if a gene simply codes for a protein? Is the thing that is pleiotropic actually the protein
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by grandalf 9y ago
Just curious how one would define that limit. Would it be correct to define it as: Bits of data delivered at or above minimum tolerable latency per hz of RF bandwidth per second?
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Can someone explain a bit more about "horizontal transfer"? It would seem that a gene is simply a symbol in relation to the DNA it is a part of, and so there is no reason to believe that a particular gene would mean the same thing
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by grandalf 9y ago
This is an interesting argument. I'm aware of it but wasn't aware that the other person was referring to it in his post. I certainly think it would be interesting to have the FCC allocate a band that could be used in a less regula
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Union membership/power has been steadily decreasing over the past 50 years. To me, it seems disingenuous to refer to "big labor" as if they're some sort of powerhouse given the way that corporate interests have been
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> you even used yourself as a source That part is simply my opinion, no other citation is available.
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by grandalf 9y ago
It's hard to support groups that hire thugs to stand on the picket line and intimidate customers from going into Borders to buy a book. I won't forget the way it felt to be intimidated by those thugs. It's worse than intimida
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Do you really think unions believe that they have a negative effect on business? They don't care. Unions drove the US automakers into bankruptcy with unsustainable pension plans, and corrupt regulators failed to adequately insure
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It's important to keep in mind that Tesla (like Walmart, Whole Foods, and Amazon) has been targeted by big labor for infiltration and union formation [1] [2] This is not necessarily because working conditions make workers feel that the
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by grandalf 9y ago
Well, in this case what we are seeing is the growth of a regulatory state that exists mainly to help select firms generate profit. This is known as "regulatory capture" and infrastructure services that the government can justify r
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by grandalf 9y ago
> would open more unlicensed space, on more useful frequencies Which spectrum do you think should be reallocated to mobile use? > This "natural scarcity" is a property of the deployed technology, not of the universe. What fr
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by grandalf 9y ago
Mobile carrier consolidation has been one of the major failures of antitrust regulators. Looking back to the Sprint/Nextel merger, plans and pricing both declined in customer value severely in the months after the merger closed, with
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by grandalf 9y ago
Solid discussions. I learn much more from the random comment here and there than from the articles. Not all comments are like this, but a very high percentage compared with other discussion forums. The best comments are sometimes tangenti
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by grandalf 9y ago
It's amazing how many products cut tiny corners which end up resulting in a lot more EMI than would otherwise be necessary. One other phenomenon I've learned about recently is that some switching power supplies can create all sort
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by grandalf 9y ago
Also, Github and Bitbucket should allow much more granular ACLs such as single repo, single repo shallow clone only. Ideally they would also support some form of steganographic tagging of repo contents as well, in case of a breach.
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by grandalf 9y ago
This attack has been obvious for quite some time, it's amazing that Apple hasn't modified IOS to incorporate a trusted modal for password entry.
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by grandalf 9y ago
It's 2017 and humans have built several anemonae, and we have several highly profitable firms that are built around these anemonae. Their employees act as the stewards (clownfish) more as beings in symbiosis than as one controlling the

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