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by jqm 12y ago
Dog bites man is not news. Still waiting for man bites dog.
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by jqm 12y ago
Samsung AT&T go phone. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/at-t-gophone-samsung-a157-no-con... $10 to purchase. Throw it away, drop it in the toilet... as long as you can get the sim, no problem. And if, like me, you don&#
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by jqm 12y ago
So what happened with the unsold inventory? Maybe you could donate it to a children's home or a school or something?
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by jqm 12y ago
I believe trying something is the best way to find ones real abilities (or lack thereof). Not coincidentally, it is also a way (sometimes) to actually improve said abilities. Some people don't try much, and so assume they know a lot ab
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by jqm 12y ago
I'm guessing this is for a good cause but I don't know that a bundle works in this particular case. Also, I disabled my ad block software a few weeks ago for unrelated reasons and when I visited another (news) page a few minutes l
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by jqm 12y ago
People with college degrees, in the past, earned significantly more over their lifetimes than those without. But this may or may not continue, particularly for certain degrees where the person may have been better off learning marketable sk
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by jqm 12y ago
The article references clever bot as an example, so as of right now, I'm not very worried.
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by jqm 12y ago
This is very cool. Enjoyed playing around w/ it. Nice job. But one thing (for whatever it's worth) what makes vim super useful (to me anyway) is the plugins and my vimrc with custom key bindings. (edit) On second look, it appears
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by jqm 12y ago
Agreed on Thinkpads. I just picked up two oldies (core2 duo) for less than $100 apiece on ebay. No hard drives, but I had some laying about. Although the tech is old, the machines are in amazing shape (they are so well built). They do every
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by jqm 12y ago
I can't remember the last time I had to fix a driver problem on Linux. My GF, who is not very computer savvy, has been using Mint for years at home and at work. Unfortunately, there were no command line configurations needed even once
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by jqm 12y ago
Indeed. They should call it "Mac Friday" deals. Sqlite manager pro? Really? Someone would pay for that?
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by jqm 12y ago
The site is nice but, having read through most of it I don't think I care for it. It seems to promote (among other things) aristocracy, dictatorship and censorship (to varying degrees). It glorifies mindless ritual. It seems to believe
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by jqm 12y ago
The 20% fee seems ridiculously high. I suppose this has to get passed on the customers, but the review system alone will probably keep people going there. On product reviews, I know some are juiced but I still look at Amazon reviews when ex
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by jqm 12y ago
Ya, that's what it seems it should be... But then you have to hire contractors to do all that. And managers to manage them. And managers to manage the managers. And pensions for all the inspectors and managers. Or the government could
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by jqm 12y ago
Someone down voted that comment, and understandably so as it probably came off a bit flippant... So here are some numbers. The US, with ~320 million people is nearly 25% of world GDP. The US has public/private debt of ~146 trillion dol
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by jqm 12y ago
It's a rough job propping up the economy of the world through consumer spending fueled by massive debt, but Americans are always up for a challenge. I mean.. if it weren't for my GF's credit card, how would that Bangladeshi c
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by jqm 12y ago
How much would it really cost to feed and house a person for a year? In real terms I can't imagine it's that much. But I suppose it's been tried before probably with little success. (Destroyed projects and bloated government
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by jqm 12y ago
I don't think so. But they do have a disproportionate market share. Why?
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by jqm 12y ago
So how exactly is Google able to be in position to engage in this unfair promotion? Because they are.....?.
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by jqm 12y ago
Reducing the effectiveness of search does almost nobody any good. If the concern is so great, pool some resources and make an equivalent government sponsored search engine. Which probably no one will use because as much as they mistrust Goo
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by jqm 12y ago
Incidentally Swizec, you are speaking to people primarily in the US. They have spent the last 200 years convincing themselves that what you say just isn't so regardless of whether or not it actually is.
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by jqm 12y ago
How about something rather than someone on the top? The idea behind successful governments is system rather than person. Lets extrapolate this and design better systems based on rationality rather than short sighted greed. Then, if people l
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by jqm 12y ago
Bingo. I believe you have nailed it. This is the eventual and (I believe) inevitable answer. Open the code. Let anyone see how it functions if they care to take the time. Base it on real math. Real statistics. Remove the political sound bit
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by jqm 12y ago
Referencing my much downvoted comment currently at bottom, Rothko (I had to look him up) is a prime example of exactly what I'm talking about. Quite possibly I just don't get it. But what I suspect is something along the lines of
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by jqm 12y ago
Myself, as a secular person, the way I approach religious art is the same way I approach non-religious art. I give it a brief glance and a slight nod (if nod worthy which usually I don't feel is the case), then I proceed to ignore it.
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by jqm 12y ago
Based on this article, it seems that one answer might be further research on non-opioid painkillers. Sure, there will still be experimenters/thrill seekers who wind up with problems, but the people exposed through the prescription syst
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by jqm 12y ago
I have a theory that sometimes mental illness is manifestation of a naturally evolved attribute gone too far. Sort of a "cancer of thinking" if you will. In this case I would say it is the the ability to perceive and relate patter
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by jqm 12y ago
"Blacks on average have lower IQs because..." Maybe and you should state that as such. (For the record I don't believe blacks to be inferior or whites to be superior. Nor do I care. I just don't think non-facts and postu
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by jqm 12y ago
I don't think anyone can be a jerk all the time and be successful. Probably the key is selective jerkiness. At least until you make it. Then you can probably be a jerk as much as you like. (Not sure it's required though).
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by jqm 12y ago
What an unusual idea. I like it. Governence in this fashion might actually solve some problems rather than creating corporate resource wars. Sadly it will probably never amount to more than say...the sister city program. All symbolism no su

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