jrmurad

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by jrmurad 11y ago
> “Four years is light years in technology,” [the local official] said. I wonder whether the journalist purposely used this as the article's final sentence to demonstrate that politicians don't "get" science/tech
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by jrmurad 12y ago
Why would any sane person tell "us" to not fear them at all ? I live and work in Manhattan. I'm aware of the non-zero chance that I'll be a victim. I don't "fear" this enough to move away but I'd be
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by jrmurad 12y ago
Logical conclusion? So you believe, in the absence of the 2nd Amendment (which allows law-abiding citizens to arm themselves), police executing warrants against suspected law-breaking criminals can safely assume that their targets wouldn&#x
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by jrmurad 12y ago
So it's not out of compassion that you'd want to talk anyone out of suicide, but because they owe you/society something? Also consider the chances that someone who wants to kill himself isn't too pleased with what "
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by jrmurad 12y ago
| should have picked... New Zealand, it's hard to offend kiwis (they are so laid back) Did you just do what you've been accusing others of? (Suggest a discriminated course of action based on a generalization of a certain nationali
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by jrmurad 13y ago
| Any free market advocates or Randians care to try and fit this terrible situation into their worldview? Except anarchists, I think "Randians" and most "free market advocates" are in favor of court (government) enforcem
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by jrmurad 14y ago
Because it's unheard of for fanatics to use, say, bombs?
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by jrmurad 14y ago
I had a similar experience with them in 2009. I went through the same first interview plus the problems plus another technical interview. The did, however, call me back and invite me for an on-site interview. While awaiting the details, I w
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by jrmurad 15y ago
> you can get a one bedroom for less than $2000 a month (in Manhattan, even!) Some might think you're including Harlem, Washington Heights, etc. I pay <$1600 for a 1BR in Murray Hill (midtown).
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by jrmurad 15y ago
I lived on Roosevelt Island for a year. It may not be geographically Manhattan but I it (and other East River islands) is in the jurisdiction of that borough.
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Reddit's IAmA Moderator Shuts Down Subreddit(reddit.com)
17 points by jrmurad 15y ago|3 comments
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by jrmurad 15y ago
The article repeatedly mentions O'Dwyer's lack of connection to the USA. Isn't the connection clearly the American ownership of the content he's accused of infringing (I have no comment on whether simply aggregating links to it actually con
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by jrmurad 16y ago
Libertarians and the free market? Isn't this story about a government-run fire department?
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by jrmurad 16y ago
> What would Thomas Jefferson and my cousin John Adams say if they were here today? Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (John) Adams: "Democracy never lasts long.
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"Fried Beer" &#153(pending) Invented(dallasnews.com)
1 points by jrmurad 16y ago|0 comments
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by jrmurad 16y ago
Which card is that? The best "cash-back" programs I could find only offer 1% on "every purchase".
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by jrmurad 16y ago
"The registration fee, rergardless [sic] of the sport, does not give a parent the right to insult or belittle the organization,” he said." I know their country has severely limited free speech but surely Canadians still have the right to
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by jrmurad 16y ago
But what does "public" mean there? If your privacy settings have information access as "visible to friends only", can "these partner sites" access that data if your friend doesn't opt out of this sharing?
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IT problems still hound Census as it readies count(nextgov.com)
1 points by jrmurad 17y ago|0 comments
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I've seen several MBA beancounters drive software companies into the ground. A few of them, I was surprised to learn, had engineering degrees. I thought that, maybe, they just didn't cut it as engineers and went into "business/management" a
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by jrmurad 17y ago
His "cross"? Mike Wallace is Jewish.
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by jrmurad 17y ago
The only student I know to have died on campus during my K-12 education was a middle schooler who choked on a hot dog in the cafeteria.
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Maybe if "incorporated" cities are thought of (private) corporations rather than as government. That's my best stretch. I suspect, however, that the actual explanation is that capitalist is a synonym for bad/evil on AlterNet.
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I thought this was a good idea. One of my own particular favorite authors is usually mentioned on social sites but in the form of "I hate people who like <This Author>." Alpha testing: I searched for "Thomas Paine" and got one resul
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I was gong to comment "Did you skip the part about doing the work of trying to scientifically reproduce the results with the same data?" after down-voting. I read your username after the vote. I would take it back, if I could, since it's yo
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Dinosaur True Colors Revealed by Feather Find(news.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by jrmurad 17y ago|0 comments
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by jrmurad 17y ago
404: "The requested URL /blog/2010/01/Dear-EarthLink-Customer-Support.html was not found on this server." going directly to http://www.charlespetzold.com/ yields a placeholder saying: "This domain is powered by EarthLink Web Hosting."
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Sometimes that doesn't work. I called Bank of America on the phone about something similar. They processed a credit card payment (to themselves!) which sent me slightly into the red before my paycheck on the same day. This was the second ti
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I don't know whether they're planning to deprecate that but they do provide the alternative local_assigns hash for partials now.
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by jrmurad 17y ago
> In the case that there is no man made global warming and we act, then the outcome is still good This is the kind of statement that fuels skeptics. If the cost of "we act" exceeds the benefit, it is not "good." Skeptics are suspicious

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