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by jfmercer 11y ago
The author of the article, km-515, is the first person I've ever heard of who does not like Tom Bombadil.
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by jfmercer 11y ago
"What do we know about Tom Bombadil? He lies." The author fundamentally misunderstands Tom Bombadil, both in terms of where he fits (or doesn't) into Tolkien's mythology, and in terms of Tom's literary purpose. To
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Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies(nytimes.com)
10 points by jfmercer 11y ago|16 comments
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by jfmercer 11y ago
I've been hoping for exactly the same thing.
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by jfmercer 11y ago
This is magnificent.
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by jfmercer 11y ago
Correction: It was Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed [1], not Chief Justice Earl Warren [2], who "expressed concern that if the Court's power became too widespread, America would have, instead of democracy, kritarchy". He di
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by jfmercer 11y ago
It is worth noting that the first two issues were settled via Constitutional Amendments, whereas the second two were decided by the Supreme Court. If I were a betting man, I would bet that the SSM issue will also be settled by the Supreme C
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by jfmercer 12y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how much the mythology surrounding the Founding Fathers really boils down to taxation.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
Atcore Systems: http://www.atcoresystems.com/ Atlanta, GA We're hiring all levels of PHP developers. Knowledge of JS, esp. Backbone and Underscore, is a big plus. I'm a software dev, not a recruiter, so I can&#x27
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by jfmercer 12y ago
<sarcasm>Great. Programmers talking as if we were economists. Here we go.</sarcasm>
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by jfmercer 12y ago
"Gateway: Unable to connect to host."
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by jfmercer 12y ago
The writer seems to have no understanding whatsoever of either Bitcoin or economics. Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme only in an imaginary world.
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How one boy from Ireland became an app developer at 12(bbc.com)
1 points by jfmercer 12y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 12y ago
Great app, great work. I like anything that can automate beauty into my workspace.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
I have seen many tragic headlines of late, and, for me, this is one of the most tragic.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
This is excellent. I also recommend the Dante Project, hosted by Princeton University: http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/index.html
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by jfmercer 12y ago
Does anyone have a link to a copy of this email?
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by jfmercer 12y ago
I am not a sysadmin or network security guy, so I have to ask: how could hackers siphon as much as 100 terabytes of data from Sony's network without being noticed? Shouldn't they have indictors to see their bandwidth was running
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by jfmercer 12y ago
Weak article. I'd like to see a link to a thorough analysis of the leaked data.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
I wonder how long it will take for black-hat hackers to crack this. I imagine that it will be very difficult to crack, but it seems inevitable to me.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
I will always upvote anything related to Gangnam Style. Always.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
Yes.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
The author seems to confuse HTML for XML. Basically, what he wants is XML.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
An altogether excellent article. You have impressed clearly and eloquently the exact same sentiments as I have about instability of the Javascript landscape.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
Immanuel Kant argued--some say proved--this very thing two centuries ago in his Critique of Pure Reason.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
This is fantastic work. Many thanks. One request though: please add one or more alternate logins than Facebook.
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by jfmercer 12y ago
A member of my family is a retired psychologist who has treated many CEOs during his career. He once told me that "in [his] experience, most CEOs are sociopaths."
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by jfmercer 12y ago
My advice: buy a subscription to teamtreehouse.com. Take ALL of the courses on HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP and/or Rails. They should then take what they've learned and build one or more projects, preferably hosted in a public G
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by jfmercer 12y ago
I couldn't help but notice that this converter was copyrighted by Eli the Bearded. Google "Eli the Bearded", but not from work. You'll get some very interesting results. https://encrypted.google.com/#q=El
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by jfmercer 12y ago
Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations in Greek, which was the language of philosophy in the ancient Mediterranean. It was not uncommon at the time for wealthy Romans to have Greek slave-teachers ("pedagoges") instruct their childr

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