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by kolpa 9y ago
There's a lot more to 'news diversity' than the basic "left-wing" vs "right-wing" opposing views on hot-button controversies of the moment. The topic selection is as important as the bias selection.
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by kolpa 9y ago
What specifically is broken? Basic keyword search seems to work.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Sarcasm doesn't work in short text. It just causes confusion and adds nothing, since it just relies on the reader to decided whether the utterance means its face value or opposite.
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by kolpa 9y ago
A televangelist, then.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Being involved in the church is lovely, but rather separate from bring a pastor. That's the point with Mr Rogers. He was an active pastor who ministered outside church.
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by kolpa 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage#Seigniorage_as_a_t...
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by kolpa 9y ago
USD is also the de facto currency in many less-developed regions of the world, and also for international oil trade. One day those markets might become the "tail" that wags the US domestic "dog"
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by kolpa 9y ago
How much is their currency worth on the foreign market? It's value is based on how much products and services are for sale by people who accept the currency. A bunch of retirees sitting on local money with no productivity will generate
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by kolpa 9y ago
It's more precisely that they have a strong sense of filial responsibility (vs larger societal responsibility). Children are expected to financially and socially support parents. The shame is in admitting that family support is absent
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by kolpa 9y ago
A big part of Mr. Rogers appeal was back in the pre-Internet less-connected world, he and his cast were people you could see and who talked to you when you were home alone.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Mr Rogers is the modern-day Mr. Rogers, and a good detox from the patience-destroying sensory-overloading shows like Power Rangers.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Sigh, a story chopped up over 29 tweets.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Picard was a model of a good leader. That doesn't mean a spaceship command is a model for how all society functions.
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by kolpa 9y ago
> Of course black people live in our city. Lots of people live in our city. They're just like you and me. For many people, "they" are you and me, not an object lesson to be taught about.
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by kolpa 9y ago
> I still occasionally hear criticism of the show as being unrealistic, that it papered over things or was shallow or ungrounded. Where do you hear that? Shallow or ungrounded compared to what? GI Joe? Caillou? Barney?
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by kolpa 9y ago
Does being rejected by cliques at lunch make your experience worse than be rejected by cliques in other activities at work? Would a non-cafeteria workplace, where cliques went outside to eat, or brown-bagged in the break area, or sat each
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by kolpa 9y ago
ResEdit. A word I haven't seen in decades, still one ECC pointer hop from top-of-mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResEdit
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by kolpa 9y ago
Legally speaking , robot-tickets for driver offenses can generally be avoided by simply making an affadavit of non-responsibility, since the robot doesn't have evidence of who is driving the vehicle. The whole system relies on the hono
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by kolpa 9y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562214/ > A common expression would have us believe that ‘you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar’. But this is not true in the case of the fruit
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by kolpa 9y ago
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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by kolpa 9y ago
That only works if your entire program is in one currency, and you don't use any non-currency integers in your program . The OP is talking about currency conversion and type-safety.
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by kolpa 9y ago
You could use ".get()." instead of "->", but I don't see how that helps.
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by kolpa 9y ago
> > as long as we’re following these rules/ guidelines If that's an assumption, it's not worth much. A safe language is one that enforces the rules, not one that hopes the program authors self-enforce.
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by kolpa 9y ago
That's exactly the problem. C/C++ has undefined behavior as part of the language spec, so it can never be safe unless you use a compiler that promises to reject programs that invoke undefined behavior.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Played by who? Who made money on Theranos? Anyone who knew it was a fraud wasn't going to profit from investing. They wouldn't be able to cash out before the product failed at market. Maybe a supplier would profit from selling s
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by kolpa 9y ago
Jobs's job was to look at stuff and see what he could sell, and to demand that employees invent more stuff to sell. Holmes' job was to invent stuff on demand. She tried (and failed) at a much harder job.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Holmes' lab lead / advisor and orignal bizdev lead was a Dean of Engineering at Stanford. It's not just a sophomore not doing her homework; it's a $$$-eyed senior tenured professor at a premier research university who p
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by kolpa 9y ago
Both, obviously.
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by kolpa 9y ago
There's no reason to believe that a human life form is capable of being immortal without going insane.
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by kolpa 9y ago
You're missing the point. The point is to get money and brains for imaging and drug research, not really to clone people.

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