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   by locopati 16y ago

   Don't kill the messenger?
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   by locopati 16y ago

   "If I write something set 60 years in the future I am going to have to explain how humanity got there and that's becoming quite a big job," [Gibson] said. "Compared to that further investigation of our alien present seems actually way more
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   by locopati 16y ago

   You are connecting the actions of the CEO with the actions of the company. I am making a point about the culture of a company that actively promotes themselves with sexist advertising campaigns. They are free to do as they wish and I am fre
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   by locopati 16y ago

   So, to recap: sexist advertising campaigns for the benefit of the entire company == OK; the CEO shooting an elephant == boycott. To be clear, I'm in no way agreeing with his actions, but it was getting fed up with the advertising that got m
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   by locopati 16y ago

   You say solved, but there was nothing to solve in your example cities since they were not planned or built from whole cloth (yes there were plans - the NYC grid, the Paris hub-and-spoke - but the cities, as you point out, grew and evolved).
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   by locopati 16y ago

   The question that comes to mind - are they building a new NYC every 12 days or are they putting up a whole lot of building every 12 days? To borrow a cliche, NYC was not built in a day (or even 12 days) - it's an accretion and a culture. Ho
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   by locopati 16y ago

   Or realize that healthy food actually tastes better than unhealthy foods
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   Japan Radiation Map Roundup(news.sciencemag.org)

   1 points by locopati 16y ago|0 comments
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   Radical Optimism(kk.org)

   2 points by locopati 16y ago|0 comments
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Some readers might be put off by 'designers', 'women', or 'open source', thinking that the article would not be of interest to them. In reality, the essence of the article is how one makes any project inclusive to outsiders. This could appl
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Don't let the title fool you - these are some valuable thoughts on growing inclusive projects.
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    by locopati 16y ago

    It should be clarified that you are referring to income mobility between parents and children, and not income gain over the lifetime of an average worker or change in average wages over time.
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    by locopati 16y ago

    War is a Racket... http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html by Major General Smedley Butler... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
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    by locopati 16y ago

    'still dangerous, but only to the people nearby' Depending on what happens in the next week or two and depending on which way the wind blows, that could be 35m people nearby in the Tokyo metro area.
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Chase can kiss my credit cards good by if that's the case. I don't hold checking/savings accounts with Chase, but that doesn't mean I need to support this behavior via their credit cards. Citibank is on the edge of being booted as well for
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Something similar on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xylDxj6-9dY
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Also this NOAA video modelling the tsunami http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8ISvC_Krw
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    Japan Earthquake Swarm Google Earth Animation(youtube.com)

    1 points by locopati 16y ago|1 comments
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    by locopati 16y ago

    A bit of an exaggeration on 'you couldn't even have a $1000 bike in NYC'. I have one and lock it up outside - I see plenty of them locked up around town. But, yes, they're all locked with thick chains and heavy locks, and the seat should be
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Not all jobs are as amenable to freelancing as software
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    by locopati 16y ago

    The possibility of not having sufficient proof is the underlying bedrock of 'innocent until proven guilty'.
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Reverse engineering database diagrams (which Visio Pro can do via an ODBC driver)
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Because that angle has been tried repeatedly and is usually shrugged off by conservatives as 'too European, too socialist'. So, this is an attempt to point out that we're not in great shape and shame politicians into doing better for the pe
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    by locopati 16y ago

    I've done well by myself too, but two points do not make a trend. It's clear from looking at the numbers that most people are not doing better over time. Furthermore, I'm well aware that I'm probably one slip (e.g. a major health problem, a
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    by locopati 16y ago

    I don't want my OS to be interesting - I want it to be stable & reliable. Those sides are usually mutually exclusive.
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    by locopati 16y ago

    I'd amend that to say 'go about your activity without being killed'. For some animals (e.g. carnivores), killing is part of their activity. For humans, it's a choice on where each of us draw the line.
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    by locopati 16y ago

    I'll throw a vote behind the Hag Balans kneeling chair, which apparently is no longer being made but the link below lists other kneeling options http://www.ergodepot.com/HAG_Balans_p/6035.htm
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    by locopati 16y ago

    What's stopping you?
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    by locopati 16y ago

    But a computer's detection and response to a signal is probably faster than a human's reaction time.
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    by locopati 16y ago

    Can you expand on your comment to explain how it makes any sense?