katz

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by katz 18y ago
"There is corruption everywhere, even in the newsrooms." So? What is to prevent a rival paper from reporting on the newsroom? (I actually have memory of this happening - an editor of a major newspaper was a philander and another paper ran a
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by katz 18y ago
I have not heard of a case where the press was involved in corruption - honestly. And even if they were corrupt, they were corrupt with private money. Even in cases where the press "got it wrong" the harm of public interest was not that gre
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by katz 18y ago
Really? I can think of numerous cases where the press uncovered corruption. Investigative reporting is extremely important - and there is no alternative to that.
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by katz 18y ago
" Would it have been spoken by cavemen, would it have been simpler? What would be missing, future tense, abstract concepts we take for granted?" The caveman language you describe look a lot like the language used by modern day teens.
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by katz 18y ago
Journalism faces almost the same obstacle. The current business model is not working any more and there are no alternatives. I have not bought a single newspaper this year - and I have not even looked at online advertisements on newspaper w
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by katz 18y ago
How difficult is it to move there? I am finishing up my Masters degree this September and want to go to California for at least a year to work. But it looks to me that you can only get H1B visa's which makes you totally dependent on a singl
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by katz 18y ago
I'll give it a shot (full disclosure, I have not been to Russia but have a keen interest in the country): "and oh, goodness, weren’t there just a great number of these in unregulated America?" Europe which is much more stringently regulated
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by katz 18y ago
" it seems that the world is collapsing" The world has been collapsing the past 2000 years.
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by katz 18y ago
“This is so common I probably don't need to give one, but a great example was the constitutional amendment last year to ban gay marriage in California. What a stupid, pointless, hateful thing to do. And all because of these "ridiculous/irra
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by katz 18y ago
“I confess I'm a little confused as to what an "extreme" atheist even is. I mean, a normal atheist believes that there is no God. How do you go past "does not exist"?” An extreme atheist is someone totally pre-occupied with his belief in at
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by katz 18y ago
"Reddit has a pro-atheist bias, sure, and I for one am very comfortable with that." I am atheist/agnostic yet I don't feel comfortable with Reddit. This is because I am not obsessed over religion (or lack thereof) and I treat everyone with
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by katz 18y ago
The problem is that most stories about atheism is not posted in the atheism subreddit. Most of those stories spill over into worldnews or math or science. Stuff about conservative american commentators gets labelled 'funny'. "Or just don't
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by katz 18y ago
"talking armies of Indians and Eastern Europeans" The problem with Reddit is the army of intolerant atheists and the anti-GOP circle jerk. If you just take a look at the front page you will see that this is true. American politics is really
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by katz 18y ago
I was with the author until this sentence: “that are produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. When possible, these foods should be locally grown.” Uhm... I eat foods with “pesticides” every day. Pesticides increases the crop yie
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by katz 18y ago
I am in the middle of a Quote 1 now... :( The nice thing about Quote 10 is that 9 people effectively dilutes the responsibility.
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by katz 18y ago
"I really like the fact that its save file is PostScript." Yes - it creates larger postscript files. "non-obvious UI is actually pretty quick to use once you get used to it." For some reason xcircuit adds extra pages without any warning - w
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by katz 18y ago
Most "user" open source software sucks a hell of a lot. I am currently having a running battle with xcircuit. This program is supposed to draw circuit diagrams, yet it saves it in PS format! It manages to fuck everything up. The user interf
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by katz 18y ago
What amazes me is that Adobe Acrobat gets larger and larger in every new version. And it always wants to access the internet. I don't know about flash - I disable it by default. Disabling it gets rid of both annoying moving advertisements a
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by katz 18y ago
"I'm not sure there is such thing as an inherently boring software project." Have you never heard of SAP?
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by katz 18y ago
"I have to wonder why that, culturally, seems to be linked to Asians?" It is not Asians - it is most cultures where the parents are fairly poor and the children have a chance to succeed in life. A second generation rich (well off) person wi
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by katz 18y ago
Or just take an ordinary attorney and TMS him...
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by katz 18y ago
"So all the torture, repression, and extreme poverty during the Pinochet era was worth is huh?" I never said that the oppression during Pinochet's term was right. What I said was that Chile's macro-economic policy was right. The economic gr
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by katz 18y ago
Chile is one of the best South American countries. It has a lot less poverty than its more socialist neighbours. Here is a quite from WP: > Currently, Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations.[5] Within the gre
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by katz 18y ago
You can try www.reddit.com/r/math although it is not that good. You may be able to digg up something nice at http://planetmath.org/?op=forums . I don't think there is really a nice discussion forum for math :(
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by katz 18y ago
Ouch. There is a huge degree of truth in that. Situations differ however and I know of at least a few local book exchanges that are making a living (i.e. in operation 2+ years). I do however not know of one central/large one. There are seve
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by katz 18y ago
There is another bigger one: College Book Industry. The current system is pretty inefficient. This probably differs from country to country. The current system here works like this: The universities give lists of subjects and prescribed tex
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by katz 18y ago
Or different countries. There are quite a few countries in which CraigsList never really "caught on" and where there isn't really something similar.
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by katz 18y ago
"1) Keynesian beauty contest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest" This is so true. Most of the other sites degenerated into karma wh*ring. Another problem is that the behaviour of a dominant group attract others from the
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by katz 18y ago
This is so true. South Africa is in the same situation – its banks are extremely strong (the majority of the UK Barkley Bank's assets is its stake in a South Africa bank). The reason why SA banks are so strong is that there is simply no com
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by katz 18y ago
Hmmm... I love investigative reporting - but it will completely die out when good newspapers come along. The problem is that 80% of the news newspapers sell are commodities. Go to news.google.com and you get 10 articles from different paper

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