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by kafkaesque 11y ago
I read the article, and it wasn't all that insightful, to be honest. However, this is a topic I'm very interested in because my fiancee is the first person I've ever met that does not reply back soon to a text message and h
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
Yeah. That's a good point. I was back in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago. I took a taxi from the airport and at one point we were "delayed" for maybe 5 minutes and the driver said, "Ugh. Why is there traffic?" That
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
I've lived in Los Angeles/the US for 4 years now. They just started implementing them on some freeways, like I-10 (maybe 2 years ago?). They eliminated the (free) carpool lane and put this in place. I know city workers who brag ab
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
Isn't this basically FasTrak? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FasTrak It seems to represent everything else in the state of California: you get what you pay for. It creates a classist, elitist society.
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
I'm in LA and every time someone finds out I'm Canadian, they say, "But you don't have an accent" or "You don't sound Canadian", and on the rare occasion, people refer to my Vancouver accent as "
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
This is definitely off-topic, but have people taken a look at Po-Shen Loh's company expii.com? He's the coach for the US team. It says: Expii is a collection of free, interactive, explanations written by people from around the wo
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
This excerpt from the article is relevant to your reaction: In a letter to a student who pointed out that the chubby Midwesterners in his State Fair essay seemed “animal-like,” he answered, ashamedly, “It’s death if the biggest sense the r
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
I'm a Canadian citizen (but I live in the US), so I think I know what' hes' referring to. With Bill C-24, whether you were born in Canada or were naturalised, if you qualify for another citizenship or hold citizenship from an
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
I had the same experience. I cut off all noodles/pastas and breads, and ate no pastries/sweets/chocolates. I went from lifting a few times a week for three months to once a week and my brain could not have a rational thought.
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by kafkaesque 11y ago
> what is the usefulness of philosophy? This is kind of the wrong question to ask, if I may say so. Once you realise that everything that is not science is philosophy, philosophy doesn't only become interesting, but essential to liv
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The most racist places in America, according to Google(washingtonpost.com)
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
How bad is the racism in Portland, Oregon? My girlfriend is Japanese and doesn't speak a lot of English. We were thinking of moving there, but I'm worried about this. She is a ballet dancer, so I assume artists mostly everywhere (
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Why Life Is Absurd(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by kafkaesque 12y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
(Going to take some downvotes today) The incident is likely to be remembered as a failure of Hollywood leadership. As the attack progressed, both studios and the industry’s Washington-based trade associations — the theater association and
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
(Put on a big tinfoil hat) I'm doing some conjecturing here, but could hacking in the 21st century and cyber warfare be the new virtual/online 'rioting'? For example, Sony aides the US army since it is affiliated with Ro
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Why Our Memory Fails Us(nytimes.com)
76 points by kafkaesque 12y ago|26 comments
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Vancouver firm developing tracker that will monitor the air you breathe(theprovince.com)
1 points by kafkaesque 12y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
I know a couple people who use Twitter as a personal "online diary"; like a microblog. Nobody knows who they are; they post anonymously and are not connected with no one that knows them. These people are also, frankly, not very te
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Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own ‘Dark Web’ Site(wired.com)
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
They already do this in Peru, for example. Say you are in Lima and want to buy a plane ticket to Arequipa. If you have a South American ID ("DNI"), you pay a very cheap rate. If not, you pay the regular USD rate. I recall a long t
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
That's interesting because #1 is my ex (who's not too active on Facebook), as well. But #2 is my cousin who is hardly active on there. #3 is someone who is kind of active but I never hung out with much. My current girlfriend, who
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
Keep in mind you might have to do some research as to what and where he refers to subjects. Borges loves allusions. Sometimes I got the sensation that he had already figured out concepts and historical characters so well that he then starte
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
I majored in Spanish literature and philosophy. I wrote quite a bit on Borges and wanted to write my thesis on him (more specifically, how translation affected his work and views--translation as art, if you will). I never went to graduate s
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
I understand what you are saying, but Borges was always very thankful to American scholars having first discovered him at a time when he felt no one in Argentina cared about him. As many things in Latin America (and in non-US countries), it
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How a new type of “evercookie” tracks you online(economist.com)
24 points by kafkaesque 12y ago|7 comments
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Kids and parents turn to coding to boost college, career prospects(latimes.com)
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
Nobody has a Spotify playlist for this?
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> What do you have in mind as the alternative? I'll be upfront and say I'm not a huge fan of the US. I'll probably end up moving back to Vancouver, but honestly, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, Seattle) is fi
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by kafkaesque 12y ago
>The westside is really going up in costs now. It's not only the Westside. My girlfriend lived on the border of Hollywood and West Hollywood (La Brea area) and she used to pay around 1200 for her bachelor/studio room. Ever sinc
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This Link Will Self Destruct(tlwsd.info)
2 points by kafkaesque 12y ago|2 comments

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