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Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted(laweekly.com)
2 points by lingben 11y ago|0 comments
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The Unusually Accurate Portrait of Hacking on USA’s Mr. Robot(vulture.com)
1 points by lingben 11y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 11y ago
Yes, it would seem so. Not an expert but my guess is the earliest use of diacritics appeared around 100 years after Mohammad's death. So even, being generous the claims they make in the article don't hold water. The probability is
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by lingben 11y ago
Japanese concept of 'forest bathing': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_bathing there may also be a biochemical process here involving the inhaling of phytoncides we don't really need another reason
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by lingben 11y ago
ah, my mistake, I read it in the NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/europe/quran-fragmen... "Saud al-Sarhan, the director of research at the King Faisal Center for Research an
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by lingben 11y ago
as already mentioned in the article[1], the velum may be much older than the text written on it since it was very valuable and regularly reused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest really surprised that they did n
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by lingben 11y ago
he's making a lot of money doing what he enjoys and it is legal, so what exactly is wrong with that?
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by lingben 11y ago
wait, you're saying that you accumulate FF points when you are flying on a ticket that you got by redeeming FF points? wouldn't removing this simple feature nullify what he's doing or at least a great deal of what he's a
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by lingben 11y ago
> Margin debt, for instance, has increased significantly in China It is even more insidious than that. Chinese companies have pledged their stocks as collateral for loans so the whole thing is a pile of circular promises, one built on to
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by lingben 11y ago
I'm rather confused why not contact a lawyer and pursue legal action? world-glance.com screams caution since there is so much missing, team info, personal names & bios, contact, address, etc. and it was only registered in Feb 2015
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by lingben 11y ago
pretty sure you're misunderstanding how firefox handles that, it downloads to local and checks against it, not the other way around
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by lingben 11y ago
are you referring to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9779440 this is the first I've heard of this, could you be more specific?
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by lingben 11y ago
literal 'evil maid' attacks on the horizon /s ;)
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by lingben 11y ago
I didn't say they don't. I said that 'hurt feelings' are not grounds for a criminal nor civil legal case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHMoDt3nSHs
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by lingben 11y ago
Sure, but some things are self evident and it makes no sense to waste public funds on them. If you hurt my feelings, that's neither a criminal nor civil offense. "Sticks and stones..." silly me, I thought we all learned this
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by lingben 11y ago
'hate speech' has a very high bar and from the court details there is zero evidence that the defendant engaged in anything remotely approaching harrassment, never mind hate speech. by their own admission and by the evidence, the p
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by lingben 11y ago
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson edit: although tangentially relevant, this case in Canada is hair raising: http://news.natio
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by lingben 11y ago
This 1908 paper he wrote in the journal 'Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy' is a little bit clearer on his meaning: http://www.ditext.com/mctaggart/time.html But it still comes across as a
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by lingben 11y ago
I suppose 'Dear Mr and Mrs Birch' since they have both male and female flowers?
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by lingben 11y ago
Yishan referred or suggested Ellen Pao, Sam and the board made the decision: http://blog.samaltman.com/a-new-team-at-reddit
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by lingben 11y ago
> but at least she tried to stand up against some of the worst of Reddit. I'm baffled at how people misunderstand Ellen's actions in shutting down a few subreddits randomly. She did not 'clean' reddit of the worst of
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by lingben 11y ago
Considering that it was Sam who brought in Ellen, what do expect him to say? if that isn't enough to warrant 'corporatespeak' over-drive, consider that Ellen really enjoys suing her employers and she still hasn't been ab
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by lingben 11y ago
Everything about their saga is bizarre. Did you know that up until his marriage to Ellen, Buddy had lived as a homosexual? he was living with a partner of multiple years (Hobart “Bo” Fowlkes) and was openly gay. Not that there is anything o
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by lingben 11y ago
Just reading the title, I thought this would be another article about the Congressional loophole - where members of Congress can trade on insider information with impunity. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/0
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by lingben 11y ago
with respect, you are missing the whole point of this issue! It isn't about doing X but about how you do X. If Victoria had done her job with condescension towards mods, if she had been haughty in her communications, arbitrary and non-
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by lingben 11y ago
It is a 2 way street. The community can be nasty but they do not treat every admin this way. Consider Victoria who was just fired. The whole shenanigan today isn't really about her but about the way the mods are being treated. But my p
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by lingben 11y ago
reddit is one of the simplest and easiest sites for a new user to learn to use. Somehow, Ellen Pao doesn't know how to use reddit, nevermind what the culture and community that has built over a decade truly means. She meant to send som
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by lingben 11y ago
just when you think reddit's management can't get any more unprofessional or juvenile! wow, just wow! subreddits like /r/science /r/art /r/law /r/gaming /r/history /r/ask
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The Iran I Saw: Far from nuclear negotiations, new tech-savvy Iranian generation(politico.com)
3 points by lingben 11y ago|0 comments
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Google Scrambles After Software IDs Photo of Two Black People as “Gorillas”(slate.com)
21 points by lingben 11y ago|15 comments

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