lotsofcows

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by lotsofcows 11y ago
"Islam is"... what? That's like saying "Christianity is..." Pick a flavour, then a sub-flavour; you'll still be making generalisms largely but at least you won't sound like a bigot. Even better stop label
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
What? Rolling in it? That's not wrong. This is hacker news not slashdot. Grudging telephone support constantly interspersed with suggestions you might like to buy a training course is pretty common in the financial industry.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Who gets to decide what "basic needs" are? Oh, "in a democracy"! That's ok then. But I agree with you on the whole. The serfs should just be grateful I'm not beating them.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
I love it when people use meaningless phrases like "reach out to you". It makes spam filtering so easy!
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
which.co.uk has guides for virtually everything. A UK publication but there must be similar elsewhere. And brands are usually fairly easy to match across countries.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
While this is a good point along with hiding cereals, leaving fruit in view, using red plates and other proven tricks it does smack a little of the "quick hack". They're all good things do to but if you want to lose weight yo
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Do you still have "3 minor crimes" == "prison time"? Are prisoners still forced to provide cheap "American" goods that would otherwise come from China? Do "Christian" groups still push for the highest
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
I think he's complaining about the manner of writing. It's very reminiscent of "No dogs, blacks or mexicans".
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
This is hilarious! You were bitten by one unregulated system and then, to fix the issue, you called another unregulated system! Your poor mother.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Are you American? Do you support the mass imprisonment of your (mainly black, male) poor? Do you support the death penalty? Are you anti "ObamaCare"? Do you suppory the casual ownership of guns? Is the death of children as a direc
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
And then the USA got it's hands on it and turned out to be super altruistic! I'd managed to maintain the illusion up to that point...
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Your brain is not you. If you resurrected an entire body, whether virtually or otherwise, with all the the myriad microorganisms, etc that implies, it should behave like the person behaved when it was alive.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Really? I thought it was biased toward native USAian speakers. What the fuck is Cilantro?
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
My anecdata is the exact opposite. I find the met office very accurate. One thing I have noticed is that the idiot glyphs they use don't tie into my expectations. I see a picture of the sun behind a cloud with a rain drop on it and I t
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Computer scientists should stop overloading phrases like "over load" to mean other things. Dark ages Europeans should stop overloading Latin words like "lingua" to mean other things. Modern humans should stop overloading
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
This reminds me of Thoreau's Walden: If I pass off most of my needs to others, I need very little. Now, where's my high horse?
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
That's not strictly the case although it does complicate things somewhat...
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Blimey, that was hard to read. Also a couple of points were only relevant to the USA.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
The one question to ask interviewers: "Do you ever use the word 'passion' to refer to anything other than sex?" ...I'll make an exception for religious feelings too.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
There's a defect in the EU, the Greek government, the Greek people and all the states / people who have made business arrangement with the above? That's an awful lot of people. Are you sure the problem's not in the syste
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Man, tell me about it! I needed to do some original research the other day and had to get to an out-of-the-way library. Do you know how hard it is to learn to drive? Took me 3 months! And don't get me started on buying cars and insuran
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
I'm 41. I've never used Ruby. What have I been doing for the last 20 years?
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Stop the population increasing? You are aware that our entire economic system is built on the assumption it'll keep increasing? The reason people think racists are idiots is because racists are idiots. "no other reason than to sto
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Surely this applies to all minority groups all over the world? Some people mix in - some form tight knot groups. The latter is usually the more visible, almost by definition.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Yeah, we seem to prefer the "freedom of speech is a responsibility not a right" angle. Personally, I agree.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Normally when you cite a source, the source is supposed to support your argument. A Japanese man who wins predominately USAian eating contests does support the statement "Competitive eating is popular in Japan".
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Is there some sort of unwritten rule of dietary advice that one should never cite one's sources?
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Yes, because people are so good at judging risk. Go on, say something using the word, "Darwin".
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Authentication and encryption are hard problems. They're also solved problems (for some definition of solved). Like any other protocol, it should concentrate on solving its own problem well and leave unrelated problems to others.
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Came here to say this. Don't reinvent the wheel.

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