jrmurad

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by jrmurad 17y ago
I was with you until you said: "the best way to fight the war on terror is to give people in Afghanistan, Saudui Arabia, etc. a decent life." Take this very terrorist, for instance. - engineering student - son of a "prominent" banker (a ret
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Also, you only say what percentage of revenue comes from likely "deniers" (based on origin.) If you think you're measuring "gullibility," wouldn't it be more informative to know the two percentages of likely vs. unknown/random who visit you
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by jrmurad 17y ago
> I wonder if this implies something about gullibility. I wonder if this implies that skeptics/deniers are more productive (and have more money to spend.) I wonder if this implies that skeptics/deniers are more curious (and will follow
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by jrmurad 17y ago
> And the old privacy settings are still available Not quite. I previously relied on one particular setting which seems to no longer exist. I had a "Limited Profile" list of friends who had my full list of friends hidden from them. (One
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The inconvenient truth about malaria(spectator.co.uk)
87 points by jrmurad 17y ago|77 comments
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I'd never heard this before but I can see why naming the subject helps over using "I" or "we." Writing "Jason likes cake" on my website would tie me to the "cake" keyword moreso than "I like cake", right?
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Why Does Google Search Love Examiner.com?(time.com)
24 points by jrmurad 17y ago|10 comments
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Yeah, those paranoid deniers are just like those creationists who ignore data that doesn't fit into their pre-determined conclusions. Wait, what?
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I also got through college in 2 years and graduated from Georgia Tech when I was 20. Sometimes, however, I wonder whether I would have retained more of what I learned had I kept a slower pace.
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Runaway With Asperger's Syndrome Spent 11 Days in the Subways(nytimes.com)
1 points by jrmurad 17y ago|0 comments
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by jrmurad 17y ago
So? "WSJ readers" might say that they'd prefer "Civilisation" (or space exploration, universities, development of the Internet, etc.) be supported on a voluntary basis rather than by forced participation. That hardly precludes them from e
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by jrmurad 17y ago
1) True 2) True 4) True 3) True. But I followed up. Signed in today for the first time in several months. My first hand was AA, I kid you not. Followed by: AQ,AT,66,KQ. Then the hands started to look normal. Within the remainder of the 30 m
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I'm a user they burned through. That was before the revelations about their offer tactics. I stopped playing their No-Limit Texas Hold-em poker app because I was suspicious that it was rigged. I thought that maybe I was just a typical unluc
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Besides, isn't a decade "three times" longer than it takes to get an education from Harvard Business School?
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I hesitated to post because it might be considered "political." However, I thought HN-ers would be interested in the economics of market self-correction.
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Ex-Chief Returns, Luring Talent From Bailed-Out AIG(nytimes.com)
1 points by jrmurad 17y ago|2 comments
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by jrmurad 17y ago
What good is broadband access without some kind of computer? Do Finns have a "right" to computers too? If some Finn chooses to live in a remote area of the country, must he be provided with broadband? By whom? How? Or else what (the provide
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by jrmurad 17y ago
It's not difficult to squirm out of this particular case. " I couldn't live here." Such a statement imparts neither a positive nor negative reaction. It's easy to turn around on the offended party: "Why would you assume an insult?". With
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by jrmurad 17y ago
I can't say I've been following this case closely nor am I a lawyer but... it sounds like the Pirate Bay guys are saying "we don't own the [possibly] criminal enterprise; we just run it." If the organization's activities are deemed illegal
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Note: I'm not a Twitter power-user so I may be ignorant of something. When I clicked the link and it asked me for authorization to access my account, I hesitated. I went back to the link you provided to see if there was any information rega
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by jrmurad 17y ago
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/index.html http://www.markleith.co.uk/?p=245
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by jrmurad 17y ago
This seems to be common knowledge about pigs. What makes them smart? I've spent a lot of time with pet dogs and maybe an hour with pigs (livestock, not pets) on my Aunt's farm. I saw no evidence that pigs have intelligence or personalities
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by jrmurad 17y ago
It must be quite an education-system to teach math like that. Elsewhere, one might be taught that a variable in calculating those costs would be the taxes paid to fund the college. Maybe you haven't paid much yet but I suspect that your par
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Perhaps. I'm not a fan of any recent administration or the Times but that argument strikes me even more ironic considering that the Times' ethics (as presented on and off the editorial page) has always been in favor of violating the rights/
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Isn't this ironic? Hasn't the Times printed stories despite being told that doing so endangers "national security" (i.e. could result in the deaths of citizens)?
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by jrmurad 17y ago
Where are you getting Portugal from? Portuguese (the language spoken in Brazil)? Clicking the "acesse"* link brings me to Yahoo's clearly Brazilian portal. * which I think might be spelled "accesse" with two C's in Portugal (like acção-&#62
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by jrmurad 18y ago
I'd prefer to see it as "failure"
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by jrmurad 18y ago
I'd prefer to live in a world without any tax assessment on my house or my neighbors. Problem averted.
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by jrmurad 18y ago
> I don't really see enough incentive for the governments of the world to be paying for biased research in favour of global warming The incentive seems obvious to me but correct me if I'm wrong: increased taxes and regulation resulting
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by jrmurad 18y ago
After the 20th question, it guessed Bertrand Russel when I was thinking of Thomas Paine who was in the list after I told it the guess was incorrect.

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