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by mason240 12y ago
>If killing you means that the pathogen can spread more rapidly, it will evolve to do so. The plague/black death/Y pestis is another is a great example of this. It keeps its rat host just alive enough for just long enough for m
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by mason240 12y ago
Brendan Eich, would be CEO of Mozilla.
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by mason240 12y ago
It's hard to disagree when stuff like this, comparing the death of a high schooler to the a conspiracy to assassinate JFK, is on the on the front page. http://www.reddit.com/r/serialpodcast/comments/2n7m7
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by mason240 12y ago
Unless they are directed at undesirable groups. Then it's ok by you, because reasons. Your justifying it right now, for the second time. Hence the cognitive dissonance.
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by mason240 12y ago
Did you feel any cognitive dissonance when typing that?
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by mason240 12y ago
>That doesn't seem right It's not, and there has actually been a low-level national (US) dialog on the subject over the last month. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/3631024
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by mason240 12y ago
>Much to my surprise, I found out that reddit's front pages are not a pure "meritocracy" based on votes, but that rankings depend heavily on subreddits. Is this really a surprise? If just went by upvotes alone, a sub with
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by mason240 12y ago
By that logic, wouldn't every part of government with unions be "run by organizations with direct financial interests in growing...?" That seems like it would be a union problem and not a prison problem.
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by mason240 12y ago
>many prisons are run by for-profit companies. Citation for the "Many"? Only about 5% of prisoners are in private prisons.
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by mason240 12y ago
Wait until that guy realized 99% of the internet is just databases with skins.
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by mason240 12y ago
It's too bad the article didn't mention the explosion of history podcasts, thanks largely to Lars Brownworth (12 Byzantine Rulers) and then Mike Ducan (The History of Rome). Since then there have been several dozen podcasts to get
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by mason240 12y ago
>She also have this conspiracy theory about sport stars returning to sport 3 months after especially bad injuries - they must get stem cells, it's impossible otherways. No conspiracy, they are all using HGH. Someone did some analysi
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by mason240 12y ago
I am in a similar sitation with a 2000 Honda CRV. It has a rear hatch with a swing open hinge and rear tire mount, perfect for hauling bikes. Unfortually I can't find a new vehicle with the same setup, everything now has "minivan&
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by mason240 12y ago
I did us the pronoun "him," then I edited my comment.
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by mason240 12y ago
Manning should never even be brought up in the same context as Snowden. It's both discrediting and insulting to compare the two of them.
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by mason240 12y ago
She even makes it sound as though the lack of record keeping was done deliberately as a CYA strategy.
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by mason240 12y ago
As recently as 2 years ago, our apartment complex actually charged a $30/month fee for paying rent online (as opposed to sending a check).
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by mason240 12y ago
>If, on the other hand, I must constantly look out for potholes [then I am not in civilization]. I guess civilization isn't possible in North America above 45°N then. The other poster is right, your comments are better suited for Re
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Reddit requiring remote office, WFH employees to move to SF or lose their jobs(nbcbayarea.com)
8 points by mason240 12y ago|0 comments
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by mason240 12y ago
It wasn't relevant. Damage from corexit would have be factored into initial concerns.
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by mason240 12y ago
Rich people make up a smaller % of the population than 10%.
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by mason240 12y ago
That's the point, it is a meaningless term.
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by mason240 12y ago
What is being unsaid here is that the whole reason China needs those islands is because their territorial waters are completely surrounded by other countries. In order for Chinese ships to reach the open Pacific, they have to go through eit
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by mason240 12y ago
>remove the local government, and replace it with puppets working for your country's interests, Not even remotely close to what happened.
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by mason240 12y ago
Until you hate-retweeted by someone with lots of trollish followers.
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They are active participants.
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by mason240 12y ago
The first paragraph says it all: >According to Alan Morrison of PwC, "The new analytics is the art and science of turning the invisible into to visible...It's about detecting opportunities and threats you hadn't anticipate
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by mason240 12y ago
He might be referring to when Twitter moved form Ruby on Rails and did a complete rebuild in Java. http://readwrite.com/2011/07/06/twitter-java-scala http://www.zdnet.com/twitter-rebuilds-on-j
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Brain Krebs: DQ Breach? HQ Says No, but Would It Know?(krebsonsecurity.com)
3 points by mason240 12y ago|0 comments
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by mason240 12y ago
Just to put it into perspective, Amazon has 132,600 employees. So if a full 25% of Amazon employees decided to be company men/women, that alone would account for all their sales.

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