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by jstalin 13y ago
I buy almost all my books used on Amazon now, supporting local booksellers and getting them for much cheaper than retail price. Sorry, but this plea to not use Amazon is falling on deaf ears. I'm sorry that your business model doesn&#x
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Thanks for the corrections! :)
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by jstalin 13y ago
Using the hyphen in "friendly-looking" is incorrect. The exception for hyphens in compound adjectives is when the first adjective ends in "ly." It should be "friendly looking couch." http://www.gramm
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One Beautiful Attempt to Fit the US Civil War into a Single Chart(slate.com)
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Does anyone remember Treo?
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When you combine this article with others, like the fact that JP Morgan had zero days of trading losses over an entire quarter, you realize that the market is clearly rigged by the big guys: http://www.zerohedge.com/news&#x2
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This article digs up the age old question: is imprisonment intended to punish or to protect society? Or a little of both?
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I don't understand how an RNG can be compromised to the point that it's got very little entropy, yet still be able to pass randomness tests. Can anyone explain?
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Yes, standardization, one size fits all, the belief that central planners can determine what's best for everyone. My opinion is that all school administration should occur at the school level. Teachers, principals, and parents are best
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I can't really give a concise treatment of the issue on here, but suffice it to say that the leadership of the teachers' unions are very, very change adverse. They are first and foremost a union and trade organization that exists
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As a former member of a board of education in a major city, I learned a few things: 1. There is no one-size-fits-all plan that could possibly work for education. Everyone is different (duh); 2. Centralization of primary and secondary educat
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by jstalin 13y ago
Man, I just bought the ZTE Open to play around with Firefox OS for $80. I should have just waited and bought the Nexus 4 for $200...
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Sorry if it's an apocryphal quote. I see what's happening in the UK, where people are prosecuted for speech and there is no limit to parliament's power (other than watered-down EU treaties and such) and I'm glad we have
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Still takes about 5 seconds for me to see anything render other than the "M" in the corner.
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He acted out while in the Army, obviously behaving in a way that showed his superiors that he needed help, yet they did nothing. He was even busted back down to PFC from SPC. Yet, they put him back on the job. On top of that, he was living
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by jstalin 13y ago
I'm reminded of a George Washington quote: "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." In other words, government is, at its bare naked minimum, the
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Hopefully this thread won't degenerate into anti-transgender comments like so many others today. Obviously Manning has needed mental health treatment for quite some time. Hopefully he can get what he needs while in prison. It's ju
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I think, for the most part, general news sites shouldn't have comment sections.
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At least it loads quickly, unlike Medium which seems to get stuck for a few seconds before it renders the entire page.
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I love his coining of the term "state-loyal journalists." Greenwald, Snowden, et al deserve Nobel Peace Prizes...
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Acts like this are designed to have a psychological effect on the target. Since government can't outright just kill the guy any more, they will do everything they can to make his life miserable by doing things like this. Imagine being
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Al Qaeda "legion of doom" conference call? Not so much.(harpers.org)
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I love the promotions tab. It keeps my inbox much cleaner and much easier to clean up. I browse the promotions tab, look for emails that I'm interested in reading, and "check unread" - "delete" the rest. Combined wi
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by jstalin 13y ago
I'm happy to pay for quality content while filtering out all the jibberish I would otherwise get by watching it on cable TV. And I don't have to pay the $100+ per month that Comcast jacked me up to with fees, equipment, and consta
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I cut the cable about three years ago and I just subscribe to Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu. I'm also happy to spend $1.87 per episode for Breaking Bad. I don't miss cable one bit.
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And/or downloading a whole bunch of something to pastebin somewhere...
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Go. Right now. Donate all you can to EFF. NOW. https://supporters.eff.org/donate Other ways you can help EFF, like using their Amazon referral link: https://www.eff.org/helpout
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by jstalin 13y ago
According to the NRA's 2010 form 990[1], total revenue in that year was $227 million. According to your link, only one corporate donor gave the NRA between $5 million and $10 million and four gave between $1 million and $4.9 million, e
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by jstalin 13y ago
Maybe it's time for an entirely new message transmission protocol. Email clearly is insecure and not securable.
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End to end encrypted email, based in Sweden(countermail.com)
142 points by jstalin 13y ago|73 comments

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