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by jacalata 11y ago
They wouldn't have to delete them, just nofollow or something.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Do it like Finland - http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-...
723.
by jacalata 11y ago
More like "OK, where are you exactly, what is your citizenship, what is your race?"
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by jacalata 11y ago
Ha yea, why let Google have the power to destroy your business when you can burn it to the ground yourself!
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by jacalata 11y ago
hilariously, I'm British/Australian, so perhaps I've been overexposed to it.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Were you equally aggravated by the people who said how much they liked the writing style? Sorry, won't be able to get into a long conversation, I'm heading to a bar.
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by jacalata 11y ago
As someone who is not personally humiliated by my interest in computers/tech/programming, I wasn't really entertained by the constant "oh yea lol it's cause I'm a waste of oxygen that I know that, don't yo
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by jacalata 11y ago
I just made it up, I don't even know anyone under 14.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Lyft and Uber both spent years pretending that their drivers were insured while carrying passengers despite very clear evidence to the contrary. Even today they pretend to prospective drivers that they won't end up screwed if they have
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by jacalata 11y ago
It's not in that article, but a number of later articles have been published, here's one - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/paul-aker-us-marshal-student-l...
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by jacalata 11y ago
Well, the original comment was "10% of earners" and I'd bet that smartphone penetration is higher among earners (eg 20% of Americans are under 14, 0% of them are earners and ??~10% of them have a smartphone). So you could per
732.
by jacalata 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the only place you're allowed to call out this use of "begging the question" is when responding to someone who is objecting to some other form of linguistic drift, so it was OK in this case.
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by jacalata 11y ago
There's at least one left in the US that requires a keeper by law: http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINN0741330520080526?i... Other than that, there are a bunch of lighthouses that have some sort of guesthous
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by jacalata 11y ago
Kids often get around those limitations pretty creatively: http://lanayarosh.com/2014/06/whitelist-chat-as-a-strategy-t...
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by jacalata 11y ago
This piece appears to beg the question - is there any evidence that C students are more successful after graduation? Or that students who get a C grade are doing any of the things he talks about? Or is this a weak justification for why hi
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by jacalata 11y ago
Those are months, not days. 1/2016 = January, 2/2016 = February
737.
by jacalata 11y ago
This is an announcement from October 2015. It would be more interesting to see some analysis of how many courses have begun charging for grades - I know the python intro I have been doing is not charging.
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by jacalata 11y ago
People discuss the drawbacks of moving off github in the linked discussion. The big one seems to be visibility.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Here's one :)
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by jacalata 11y ago
I'm not terribly familiar with them, but in general a therapy dog should have been trained in some way to ameliorate a specific condition - eg, to notice that the owner is approaching a panic attack and alert them with a specific serie
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by jacalata 11y ago
$20? Have you never taken lunch to work in your life?
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by jacalata 11y ago
That is a completely different argument to the one you made originally - "some parts of the internet weren't sexist" vs "people weren't sexist because they couldn't figure out your gender" (which is the on
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by jacalata 11y ago
Nobody is going to investigate the background of a drive-by jerk
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by jacalata 11y ago
It was so awesome when you were fine if you either were male or knew enough to pretend to be male!
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by jacalata 11y ago
I see you've never worked in vanilla JS.
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by jacalata 11y ago
I aim to go away from my desk for 5 minutes 5 times a day just to walk to the kitchen and stand there, because getting up and walking around is good for me, I get sick of staring at a computer, and I need a break. If your receptionist is no
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by jacalata 11y ago
An office that is worried about the productivity loss of smoke breaks is run by idiots.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Australia.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Then why did English language websites start out so cluttered? If it was an intrinsic result of the language then it wouldn't be a modern thing.
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by jacalata 11y ago
That's partly due to the lack of any regulation requiring transparency in pricing or even agreement on best practices. I recently tried looking at some dental work and it's very difficult to even figure out if the different quotes

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