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by nacker 14y ago
Damn! marshallp, I didn't realize your intent! What can I say? You are absolutely right, in bucketloads!
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by nacker 14y ago
On deeper reflection, this apparently trivial "tech-news-pc-item" has more significance to me than just another signpost on the socio-sexual-cultural degeneration narrative that I see being played out every day. I was an early reader of Wir
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by nacker 14y ago
From my admittedly tl;dr link: "The large institutions have almost all been created by men. The notion that women were deliberately oppressed by being excluded from these institutions requires an artful, selective, and motivated way of look
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by nacker 14y ago
"His successor has not yet been named, but already, observers online are calling for a female replacement. In the words of Wired reporter Steve Silberman, "It's been a boys' club for too long."" Well, that gave me a laugh! Anyone else? ht
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by nacker 14y ago
If you want cynical gender realpolitik you must visit Heartiste, the enemy of pretty lies, who has a superb post today: In simple terms, we proposed that in sex, women are the suppliers and men constitute the demand (Baumeister and Vo
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by nacker 14y ago
Title should be "risk-averse". Pet peeve. Adversity has nothing to do with it.
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I agree that beneficial factors are synergistic, and that without this kind of positive synergy unusual longevity is unlikely. The problem is that such factors are different for each individual. It is a conceit of medical research that gen
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BOTH would seem to be an optimal outcome for us and the other lifeforms on this planet.
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Reign of the Techno-Nanny(thenewinquiry.com)
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The Slate link really is worth reading. Assholology is the hot topic these days, and I have frequently found that reflecting on my own asshole quotient is more worthwhile than focusing on the assholes around me, to the point where I be
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by nacker 14y ago
A person counts as an asshole when, and only when, he systematically allows himself to enjoy special advantages in interpersonal relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people.
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The Coming Global Disorder (commentarymagazine.com)
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Another Robotic Frontier: Fast Food(robohub.org)
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DECLINE, DECAY, DENIAL, DELUSION, & DESPAIR(theburningplatform.com)
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by nacker 14y ago
The problem is the financialization of the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization "One of the most important impetuses to the rise of financialization was the end of the post-World War Two Bretton Woods system of fixed in
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by nacker 14y ago
Nice! But on a netbook if I reduce the font to try to get both the Democrip and Rebloodlican halves on the screen, the Rebloodlican side just disappears.
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by nacker 14y ago
The acronyms don't matter. They'll be back again and again. "Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman’s cybersecurity bill failed to gain majority support in the Senate in August, but now he is pushing for President Obama to issue an executive order
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Him and Andrew Basiago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwE8m50sbWk&playnext=1&#...
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Just ask Kim Dotcom.
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Apple Owns The World's Largest Hedge Fund(businessinsider.com)
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Both. So what can we do? Resisting oppression calls for courage. If you merely complain or protest you may be tracked down and threatened. If you go beyond that to active resistance you definitely run the risk of being labelled a crimina
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by nacker 14y ago
I had to go to the Wikipedia page for Kivy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivy to find out that the "Kivy language" is QML! Seems to me that should have been spelt out a bit more clearly too. It looks great!
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Hate-Speech Hypocrites(slate.com)
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by nacker 14y ago
Well, from a Python point of view, I don't really care if everyone in the world gets a smartphone tomorrow. Can you really imagine a future in which people all over the worlds do not work at desks? Or one in which people sit at desks doing
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by nacker 14y ago
I remember pranking a colleague's computer after a Linux advocacy rant so that that Bill-Borg picture came up on her PC's splashscreen, with the message "You WILL be assimilated". As it happened, that morning, she had just had a meeting wit
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by nacker 14y ago
Well it seems to me that when you said: "> Part of the reason why people want others to use the same drug is to feel less guilty about their using. I think that about sums it up." that is an extremely negative judgement. So you think th
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by nacker 14y ago
Why do you think it is "self-serving" to suggest that you ought to have an open mind? If you don't want to take the trouble to investigate subjects which are of no interest to you, and for which you are just too darn busy, that is just fi
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by nacker 14y ago
I don't know you, and I can't comment on Colombia, as I have never experienced it. Of course, I can enjoy life without that possibly hazardous trip. I'm only suggesting to you that there are non-governmentally approved,very worthwhile, and
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"I vowed to simply abstain from any drug at all. No Beer, Wine, Spirits, smokes, hash, coke or other dope for me. I wanted to be healthy and to live as long as possible while keeping my body in as good a shape as I could." Well Jacques, it
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Python is now totally dominant in scientific domains. The typical user is interested in ease of use and mature libraries, not in speed or niceties that are debated on Lambda the Ultimate.

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