guessthejuice

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by guessthejuice 8y ago
As opposed to Disney's or Coca Cola's or Mattel's psychological war on kids? Hollywood's psychological war on kids? Is it only a war on kids if tech does it or is it just another clickbait ( medium's psychological w
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
No matter what firefox does well, it isn't going to keep converts as long as their default background is so blindingly white. I still don't understand why firefox refuses to slightly gray out their background by default. Chrome pu
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
What do you mean? The washingtonpost said that there was irrefutable evidence that hussein had WMDs and was working with al qaeda. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/02/06/i... The
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
He may be a hero to us, but he is also a coward to a lot of iraqis. For all the sympathy we conjure up for our own, we too easily forget the suffering of others. To put things into perspective, about 4000 americans died as a result of the i
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
Easier for drama to escalate when everyone knows everyone and the town is so small you can't escape each other. You get into an argument with someone in NYC and you can go your own way and never see them again even if you live in the s
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
Everyone? I remember a large contingent defending microsoft. Remember Saint Bill and his magical "charity" foundation that is curing all of the world's ills? Lately, there have been a vocal group defending corporate interests
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> I also have a young family so I need to be careful with my time commitments. Any suggestions? Spend time with your family? Time is the only thing you can't buy. How are you going to start a side business and earn income if you ar
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> What part do climate change deniers deny? It's two fold issue. People question the level to which human activity contributes to climate and they question the remedy to it. Obviously climate change has always happened. It happened
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
Is it me or are we seeing a bit too much buzzfeed articles here lately? SQL injections are child's play. Literally. It's last decade's "hack", if we can call it that. Using parameterized queries ( which you should b
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> This is something we handle really, really badly. We handle it bad because the news scaremongers with hyperbolic exaggerations. The people get overly anxious and of course politicians rush to the worst possible "solutions". I
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
BTC was trading at nearly $20K just a few months ago. Now it is trading at $6K. How is going from $20K to $6K "only been rising"? A lot of people are underwater when it comes to bitcoin.
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
Or when the tech bubble or retail leasing bubble pops in the next recession. Considering who they are targeting as customers, it could be a very painful 2 or 3 years depending on the severity of the recession. Also, when the execs of a mone
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> protectionism just doesn't work well in the long term. If that were the case, the US, China, Japan, South Korea, Britain, France, etc wouldn't be major economic powers. Every major economic power today copied the US protectio
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> There is a big difference between ideas like LGBT/PoC/Women rights, abolitionism, ... and White Supremacy, Racism, Religious Fundamentalism, ... : One advocates for inclusion, social peace and acceptance, the other for exclus
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> Then why is it okay to have admisisons standards at all? Because we want the best and brightest attending these universities? People most capable of actually performing and graduating? Is this a serious question? > Don't they i
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
It's called clean energy evangelism. reneweconomy's self-description. "Australia's best informed and most read web-site focusing on clean energy news and analysis, as well as climate policy." It's an advocacy o
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
No. PhD should be about truth, research and advancing knowledge. Knowledge/science shouldn't be politicized. It's such an absurd assertion when you consider that different people have different ideas on how to improve society
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
I always thought it odd how our media so heavily focused on the few hundred/thousand soldiers who died in an illegal invasion of iraq but not the hundreds of thousands of iraqi children who died. Is it bias or something else? Also, the
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> A common argument in philosophy is that bad ideas should occur in the open - where everyone may ridicule them. Also, so that good ideas can have their day in the sun. Lets not forget that most "good" ideas were once considere
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
People don't realize that just 8000 years ago, you could walk from britain to continental europe as it was connected by land to europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland It's amazing how in a short per
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> That’s just insane. It really isn't. It's why wall street is selling on the news. > This is a great accomplishment for NYT but I’m worried about what it means for the rest of the industry. It really isn't. It's w
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> The greatest marketing trick the NYT has ever pulled off is presenting themselves as the last bastion of objectivity in the trump era. Considering most of the nation doesn't trust the NYT, not sure it was much of a trick. People t
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> Show us where graduation criterion is skewed. What? Who is talking about graduation criteria? > An effort is being made to provide opportunity to those with less access to it That's fine, as long as the criteria is the same. &g
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> This is a value judgement, and a tedious one at that. Yes. Discrimination is a value judgment and tedious one at that. We are agreed. Not sure why you support discrimination though. > If you want to encourage women to have children,
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
"Common view" by whom? Academics who needed to make things up to in order to make a name for themselves? Media who needed to fetishize to get views? The only way we say one culture is "collectivist" and another "ind
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> If you think the absolute mark is an appropriate criteria then yes, that should be it. Not absolute mark. Just the same standards. > If you are looking at ability to apply oneself as being the criteria you have to examine a lot more
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
I remember reading about this years ago. It's sad that this problem hasn't been resolved in all that time. We already have a legal system that advantages the wealthy ( more money for better lawyers, experts, etc ) over everyone el
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
> Yes. One practice is honest and one is dishonest. Do you really not see a difference? Both are equally dishonest. > "We invited you in with your lower score because we recognize it is more difficult for you to achieve that scor
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
Of course. There is no such thing as laissez-faire governance. All major economies have a close government-corporate structure because every major economy modeled themselves after the most successful economy in the world - the US economy. W
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by guessthejuice 8y ago
I've heard it my entire life too and have come to the same conclusion as you. But I don't think it is argumentum ad antiquitatem though. I think it's the media's version of "publish or perish". Journalists have

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