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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The cold war was crazy. It's still going on, just under different guises.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Keep in mind that Sipher's post, while interesting for the historical context, significantly pre-dates (by about 3 weeks) the AP findings, which bring significant new details into the picture (about both the severity of the symptoms, a
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Or be effectively giving a large cash handout to someone basically on the basis of happening to be around at the time. "Doing right by those around me, even if it doesn't change the whole world" is another way you could loo
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
How you mean?
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
If people give you money, you earned it. Are you really sure about that? You may want to revisit this assumption.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
They were thinking about where to buy a second home and whether their young children should go to private school. Then she made a confession: She took the price tags off her clothes so that her nanny would not see them. “I take the label o
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Fury at 'Bodega' tech startup that aims to put corner shops out of business(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
What does not make sense is letting someone out and then not treating them as normal humans again. Because the current criminal "justice" system has very little to do with actually preventing and helping society recover from
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Commutativity is a life saver for distributed computing. Nice to know, and I wish I understood these issues, and these kinds of arguments better. I'm just saying - the original blog post didn't come anywhere near to making that
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
That's nice, but form a hard-nosed engineering perspective, not just sometimes, but in general 19 lines of yucky procedural code that pretty much anyone can understand (and debug) are usually way, way better than 9 lines of "ele
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A New Startup Called Bodega Wants to Keep You Out of Bodegas(gothamist.com)
2 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide(theguardian.com)
3 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|1 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I actually meant it more in this vein: "Given that the current descent into barbarbarism -- enacted by an outlier minority of their population, in one tiny corner of their country -- is still but a tiny fraction of what the Europeans,
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Trespassing is an "implicit threat" that justifies initiation of violence to you? You're dodging the central issue: that it was the miners' act of trespass that, in itself, constituted the "initiation of violen
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
In deciding to encroach upon those tribal properties (and hence, implicitly threatening the long-term physical survival of the people currently living there), clearly it's the miners who initiated violence, in this case.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
If the bank or government forecloses on my mother's house, I can shoot whoever comes to take ownership? That's clearly not a relevant analogy. Why does the concept of "ancestral property" somehow suddenly make violenc
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
If these are similar to other "uncontacted" tribes I've read about, they seem to react quite violently/aggressively when confronted As you would do, if a bunch of assholes started encroaching on your ancestral property
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Your countrymen are just playing catch-up, on top of what the European colonialists did for centuries. And not just "settlers" and miners acting on their own - but acting on the direct behalf of, and and funded by their local gove
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
This guy's pretty cool. Check out his modular multiplication tables: https://friendlyfieldsandopenmaps.com/2017/09/07/beauty-in-m...
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Indeed. It's exactly this kind of "doing nothing" which makes the world turn on its axis, pretty much.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The commenter was just simplifying. By "doing nothing" what they really meant was "by not doing all that much work". Compared to people who, you know, actually do hard, serious work for (much less of) a living.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
But you're leaving out the more important part (per the NOAA summary): Anthropogenic warming by the end of the 21st century will likely cause tropical cyclones globally to be more intense on average (by 2 to 11% according to model pro
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Right -- moral of the story being, one needs to evaluate any given framework import choice on its intrinsic attributes , pro and con. Not simply on how new and shiny it is. And potential collaborators and colleagues, likewise. Just give
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I think you should hire energized, motivated, continually educated employees that stay at the top of their game...not boring ones. I think the point of the article, which was rather subtle actually, is that "top of their game" i
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Most students will benefit from already understanding calculus, when they are learning trigonometry. The argument cuts both ways: not only can one strongly benefit from a basic understanding of trigonometry when learning calculus (how the
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I agree that the post was overly hyperbolic. But unfortunately by this point it's beyond dispute that Google has engaged in some seriously questionable behavior, on ethical fronts -- such that to refer to this conduct as a serious &qu
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Why was this post flagged? Yes it's a bit of a rant, but overall the topic is definitely valid. And most of the author's basic observations (if not his overly charged moral characterizations) seem reasonably valid, also.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The underlying cause of this whole issue is the changes in tax policy instated in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, previously income was taxed at higher rates unless deductions were utilized which forced those earnings back into the economy cre
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Houston floods show risks of ignoring science and letting developers run rampant(qz.com)
48 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|52 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
There's no genuine, credible anti-corporate voice in American politics. There are plenty, actually. They just don't get a lot of airplay in the... corporate media.

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