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by ivanca 11y ago
Even if the coffee had kill her is still stupid; lets put it this way: making the coffee inhumanly hot is just as smart as cleaning the cups with cyanide, but we don't have a law that forbids cup cleaning with cyanide (or a silly messa
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by ivanca 12y ago
White people in China accounts for 0.8%, black people accounts for 13% of the US, meaning statistically one in every 10 techies should be black but they are not and financial opportunities are also statistically low in that racial group (pr
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by ivanca 12y ago
The army isn't going to fill itself.
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by ivanca 12y ago
Actually no, because for it to be systematic there must be enough cases to be noticeable, and also they must pass all aptitude tests, and sometimes that puts some people in disadvantage: for example if one of the test for a new position is
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by ivanca 12y ago
Yes, and if you hire -for example- black paraplegic dwarfs you are going to deal with even more discrimination lawsuits. Of course this isn't like it should be, is just the historical legacy of homogeneity on communities, is been this
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by ivanca 12y ago
This would be such a bless for lonely people like me, even if I get rejected by one team you could always try next time with different people. Even if the site doesn't go viral, I'm sure many people would love for it to stay alive
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by ivanca 12y ago
Natural selection favors _survival_, not _well being_, for example many of us will die of aging but is also arguably one of worst ways to die. So maybe the lack of plasticity is just another form of progressive decay.
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Japan is getting an anonymous whistleblowing platform(techinasia.com)
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by ivanca 12y ago
TL;DR: Some bacteria use their DNA as a database of bad viruses for identification purposes. This way of editing DNA has been replicated artificially and it's called CRISPR. Awesome.
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by ivanca 12y ago
Hi there Javabu, I'm starting a similar path, I have not released anything but I know a lot of Unity and Unreal programming by now. I'm interested in working together with people with greater programming experience than me and you
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by ivanca 12y ago
As a side note, Clash of clans makes 5 million dollars per day so what they spent in this ad is like pocket change for them.
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by ivanca 12y ago
Lets bring them back.
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by ivanca 12y ago
>"skill is in their muscle memory " Muscle memory (Fine motor memory in this case) only develops for movements that are repeated many times per day, usually in continuous succession, such as typing, piano playing, guitar finger
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by ivanca 12y ago
"Hot spot" is not data plan, is using real WiFi to get work done specially in coffee shops. But not even "Juan Valdez" here in Colombia has power sockets available for customers to use; while most of them in USA (at leas
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by ivanca 12y ago
We don't need social perception shift, they just need to do it. We have seen they do many things that the public disagrees with (eg. NSA Spying, Iraq war, etc) they might as well do something good.
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by ivanca 12y ago
This is an interested idea, but what I would pay for is a GUI for scrapping, for example: clicking an element, seeing what classes it got, and be able to click each class to see if it matches the elements I need. And then generate the code
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by ivanca 12y ago
The ambiguity fear is born from self interest, of course no one wants the possibility of being legally allowed to be killed. The thing is that the other species don't want that neither, they just cant express it with words nor communal
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by ivanca 12y ago
The FBI having "proof" that they can't disclose is just as good as nothing, you can pretty much do any claim as long as you can just say that you can't disclose all information. Please, this is the same people who said I
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by ivanca 12y ago
>Be foolish to bet against that, since the US has never stopped being at war with North Korea since the 1950s. They are not trying to hard right, I mean they trhowed down Saddam Hussain in a couple of years, but somehow they are unable t
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by ivanca 12y ago
The Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN; Korean: 대한민국 해군; Hanja: 大韓民國海軍; Revised Romanization: Daehanminguk Haegun) is part of South Korean army, not the USA. Please know your stuff before you talk.
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by ivanca 12y ago
Ok, how much do you wanna bet than in less than 6 months there is going to be a war? (probably giving the weapons to south Korea so the put the body count)
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by ivanca 12y ago
Yeah, no conspiracy here. A hack in a private company is a reason good enough to start another war. I didn't know people feel so patriotic over Sony Entertainment
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by ivanca 12y ago
There is absolutely nothing better than a common enemy to stick people together, just ask ISIS.
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by ivanca 12y ago
Really? Not a month has passed since the hack and the US officials already declared they are sure it was North Korea, using very weak evidence? This smells as fishy as it gets.
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by ivanca 12y ago
Nobody is in the "side of good", everybody is in their own side, that's all. If you think killing 130 hospital patients is bad then this is a bit tad worse: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068
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by ivanca 12y ago
One thing that wasn't mention by the article is that drug prohibition is (at least partly) based on racist beliefs[0], here is a famous quote from Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (an early pre
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by ivanca 12y ago
If Google decides to respond, they should just delete all Yahoo and Mozilla results from their search engine; and if they do it would be just fair (... and Mozilla complaining would be extremely hypocritical)
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by ivanca 12y ago
The funny (or scary) thing is that South Park predicted exactly this 100%: An Uber competitor hires a criminal to be a Uber (Timmy) driver to sexually assault the first female passenger it gets[0] and get it really bad press. BTW, this also
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by ivanca 12y ago
Kids are happy anywhere, that's the beauty of it, and commuters look unhappy anywhere too. None of that is the problem with North Korea, the problem is much deeper. If you want to understand why please watch the video from this wonderf
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by ivanca 12y ago
Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/23...

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