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by itistoday 16y ago
"Globalization, social networks, massive change taking place. Blah blah blah" About as stereotypically Harvard a piece I've seen. It's similar to what one may observe in the wild when birds puff up their bellies to look intimidating. While
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by itistoday 16y ago
I think the WSJ owes Mrs. Chua an apology. Come to think of it, if they actually do release an apology, it will probably serve as an additional boost to the book's sales. It makes me wonder whether the author of the original piece was just
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by itistoday 16y ago
Right around level 27 or so these baddies come in that shoot probably 20 or so individual letters at once at you, and that's when things start getting a bit more interesting...
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US Government subpoenas Twitter for info on all wikileaks followers(twitter.com)
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by itistoday 16y ago
There exists no private entity that can legally stop me from saying what I want Correct! Your company can fire you for saying something bad about it online, but they can't throw you in jail. No one can throw you in jail for what you say o
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by itistoday 16y ago
If you honestly believe that the phenomenon of regulatory capture means we shouldn't attempt to regulate anything at all, then please hand over your Freedom of Speech Card. While you're at it, I could also use an indentured servant... Maybe
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by itistoday 16y ago
Lot of nonsense in this article: > Regulation = Freedom only in George Orwell’s 1984. I guess we should stop regulating that whole "freedom of speech" thing. Who protects your freedom of speech? AT&T? Verizon? Did you forget? THE
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by itistoday 16y ago
IHMO this is classy, smart marketing on your part. And it happens to be championing privacy concerns. More power to you.
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by itistoday 16y ago
> But what if our understanding is a result of conditioning. Indeed, it is fascinating just how different eastern and western understanding of enlightenment is. Or, perhaps, how differently they express themselves. One of my favorite
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by itistoday 16y ago
This reminds me of the time my iPhone saved my ass. The fault was completely mine, I'd miscalculated how long it would take me to get from the apartment, onto the BART and into the gate at SFO. I could see I'd miss my flight if I tried to r
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by itistoday 16y ago
I thought it was great; very applicable to programming (though jordanb made a good point as well). :-) Sorry to hear about your head though, hope it wasn't too serious.
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by itistoday 16y ago
The fools do not exist on their own in some sort of vacuum. If society is showing symptoms of rot and great inequality then it is a statement about the society as a whole. It is everyone's shared failure. Despite how things may seem, it is
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by itistoday 16y ago
I think this article contains pure wisdom. I'm getting hints that many people are starting see this as well. If you have a runaway success, then you're in a position to make that success into something really meaningful, not just for you, b
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by itistoday 16y ago
I do, I'm sure there are many who do. You shouldn't be ashamed of standing up for truth (unless, of course, you feel that doing so is causing more harm than good, and there's the rub, but I feel Wikileaks is on the whole a force for good, a
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by itistoday 16y ago
For the genres/fetishes, it would've been interesting to see how those differ between male/female survey participants.
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by itistoday 16y ago
Beautiful, simple, to the point. The only thing missing is a "take action" section at the bottom.
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Scientists create computer-programmable bacteria(news.blogs.cnn.com)
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by itistoday 16y ago
The jury is still out. Gurzadyan dismisses the critical analyses as "absolutely trivial", arguing that there is bound to be agreement between the standard cosmological model and the WMAP data "at some confidence level" but that a different
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by itistoday 16y ago
> Corporations are stuck in the middle looking at their bottom line, but pressured from both sides. Maybe some of them fall into this category, but many of the others are the ones pulling most of the strings. They are responsible for
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by itistoday 16y ago
Considering your existence, that possibility should already be taken seriously. What's interesting though, is that if they actually find evidence for microbial life on another planet far away, then it's mighty likely that said planet alre
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by itistoday 16y ago
"Don't mix business with pleasure" Out of curiosity, are there any examples to the contrary to this? Any long-term successful couples who've built a business together?
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by itistoday 16y ago
Congrats Mozilla on the release! Odd title though for this post, for where is the "everyone"? The link shows comparisons to previous versions of Firefox, not other browsers. One thing I hope they fix before final release though is the const
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by itistoday 16y ago
Anyone else completely baffled by how they got their hoodies on?? The photo on the right doesn't show any buttons and the opening for the neck seems way too small for them to fit their whole body through it.
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by itistoday 16y ago
> Still, it's not our place to be "prescribing" drugs to someone who really should be getting some professional opinions. Of course it's not our place to prescribe drugs. I am not prescribing anything. If you say you're tired and some
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by itistoday 16y ago
"Best"--I'm not sure of, it's certainly up there though. "Safest"--It's quite safe, especially if done in the right set and setting [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting
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by itistoday 16y ago
throw999, Some serious advice that I'm willing to get downvoted for: try taking a medium to large dose of a psychedelic (psilocybin perhaps). Make it an introspective journey, follow the best practices, have a sitter (closest friend is goo
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by itistoday 16y ago
Why not just tell us the truth to begin with: It has very little medical benefit and the only reason you want it legal is to get high. Because that's not true... It has _tons_ of well documented medicinal benefits, and many people enjoy
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by itistoday 16y ago
I also would be interested to see how a doctor can ethically give you a prescription for a substance that does absolutely nothing to benefit you. This is not what is meant by legalization. There would not be a black market because doctors
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by itistoday 16y ago
And note how little prohibition did to stop the existence of alcoholic parents. They were still around, but you had to deal with Spatz Columbo running around too, shooting up the place. If you want to fix the alcoholic parent problem, creat
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by itistoday 16y ago
> I'm 100% in favor of decriminalization for these reasons and more; that's different than full-blown legalization, though. Remember the law of unintended consequences. Decriminalization is neutered legalization. We should stop coming

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