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by mfoy_ 7y ago
To quote Drawn Together's Foxxy Love: "This whole test is racially biased! Question one: 'What SPF lotion would you use if your were going down to the polo grounds, fellow Klan member?'"
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Well, I'm not American...
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
You get a lot of weird stuff from overseas resumes: photos, religion, gender, marital status, father's name, etc...
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I mean... other than the obvious ones? (i.e. the same reasons which are why North American companies usually don't or can't request a photo...)
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
The people who "select the best product" basically only have visuals to go on, therefore they actually select for the prettiest product, not the best tasting product.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Similarly my parents live in a rural community and practically everyone grows garlic, but farm-stands have trouble competing with grocery store (read: Chinese) garlic.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Well, I don't know about dinosaurs, but horses have small blood pumps in their hooves. So each step helps circulate blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_(horse_anatomy)
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Agreed, the rider would be less likely to fall off, and would have better visibility.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Blood vessels can expand and contract. That's why fighter pilots without legs can actually withstand higher-g maneuvers. That's also why compression socks can improve circulation and reduce swelling in your ankles if you have to s
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
By getting publicity he builds social capital, which he (presumably) can turn into real capital through his work. From his bio "...leading the evolution of startups and enterprises to achieve the highest level of security and complianc
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I guess it's hard to say, because we don't know what we don't know. The famous example is Newtonian physics which seemed to perfectly explain everything.... until new tools and methods came out that were capable of showing
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I think this is the point: >There is a popular and persistent image of college admissions in which diversity-obsessed universities are using affirmative action to deny spaces to academically talented affluent students while admitting low
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
(Related: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/e-cigarette-vaping-lung-damag... )
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Anecdotally, I know people who started vaping without ever having touched cigarettes before.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
>Your post seems to say I think it clearly does not . It was descriptive, not prescriptive.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I love fake-Agile, it's such a hilarious concept.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
The number of ingredients something has is not a good proxy for its difficulty. For example, tapioca only contains Cassava root, but here is how that is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4qTxKdjagg Maybe provide more
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I think that we can safely assume that if something directly comparable but much worse, both ethically and legally, has occurred (e.g. doctors being bribed by pharma companies to over-prescribe their drug), then it's not a stretch to
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
According to KeePass2, the password: "12" contains 7 bits of entropy, but "1234" only contains 5 bits of entropy. Is that right?
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Ah, darn, I was hoping for a whole bevy of cool links. Thanks! :)
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Don't suppose you saved a link to that comment?
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Probably forgot his password.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Sooner than you think: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-plastic-munching-bacteria-c...
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Someone who hasn't heard of USB Switches.
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
The nature of the book necessitates gross generalizations. It literally could not be anything else. It's like saying you don't like Expanse because you don't like sci-fi... Okay, but why did you read it if you know you hate s
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Thanks! This comment was exactly what I was asking for, and it inspired some good follow-up comments!
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I mean, that's obviously a "gross generalization".
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Gross generalizations aside, do you have any examples of things he gets really wrong?
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
I've thought a lot about that option, but the problem is that wealth provides a disproportionate amount of influence in politics. If all the people who didn't want to give any of it up hoarded it and spent it lobbying to keep ineq
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by mfoy_ 7y ago
Except one person has no rights and is literally the equivalent to a nice laptop in the eyes of the law.

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