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by omonra 12y ago
Good point - I want to know how long Washington or London would wait before wiping off whichever opponent was sending missiles at them.
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by omonra 12y ago
The article is about defensive technology, hence it doesn't mention the casualties on the other side. Arabs also have a way to prevent missiles raining on them - by not lobbing missiles at Israel.
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by omonra 12y ago
I guess professionals will still say say that submarine 'goes' so it's more correct. But both are used - google results are 25% higher for 'goes' vs 'swims'.
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by omonra 12y ago
It's one of these things that many people may not actually know (like how a ship in english is referred to as a 'she').
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by omonra 12y ago
Actually in Russian a ship 'goes' :)
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by omonra 12y ago
Can they put toned windows on it?
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by omonra 12y ago
This is a great exercise for those practicing stoicism.
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by omonra 12y ago
Aren't those taxes passed to the fliers already? Ie for me the cost of tax usually exceeds the cost of the actual flight ticket.
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by omonra 12y ago
Fair enough - I take your point. He didn't like gays.
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by omonra 12y ago
The word homophobe implies that his views were more extreme toward homosexuals than majority of his class - which is simply untrue. If you want, you could say 'his views, while progressive at the time, would be considered homophobic by
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by omonra 12y ago
Do you actually know how Nabokov's homophobia was manifested? Ie your Nazi relative (if he subscribed to the Nazi doctrine) believed that Jews should be physically exterminated. Slave owners actually owned slaves (although in Africa sl
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by omonra 12y ago
Are you an insectophobe because you crush bugs? No - because our society doesn't have this concept. By the same token, it's not correct to label Nabokov to label a homophobe for not sharing progressive attitudes of a society that
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by omonra 12y ago
Very interesting article, but I do take exception to this sentence "Vladimir was a confirmed homophobe, and his gay brother was a constant source of shame, confusion and regret to him." It's a typical projection of moral stan
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by omonra 12y ago
There are still plenty of other spots in paid results for the competition :)
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by omonra 12y ago
The point of the article is that the sale would happen regardless of the ad. Ie showing an ad on Google to someone who types 'Ebay' in the search string is a waste of money - since Ebay shows up as the first natural result anyways
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by omonra 12y ago
That said, AWS has something like 80% profit margin [1] vs almost no margin for the rest of the business :) [1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/05/amazons-mountain-of-margin...
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by omonra 12y ago
Your point lacks credibility because the one link you cite is nothing but a Kremlin mouthpiece. Ie it's painfully blatant & appears to be written by RT staffers.
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by omonra 12y ago
Mr. and Mrs. Daisy were not amused and plan to sue
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by omonra 12y ago
I think the Slate author is wrong and it's very easy to prove that by considering the performance of immigrant blacks in America vs native blacks. Since both groups consist of people of same race, the disparity in outcomes must have so
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by omonra 12y ago
Your comment presumes that diversity is something that is axiomatically desired. I don't - just like I don't order my bookshelf based on gender/race of the authors and decry lack of diversity there. I personally only care abo
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by omonra 12y ago
What do you think the 99th percentile of SAT scores look like race-wise? Before decrying lack of diversity in field X, demonstrate presence of one in the pool of qualified candidates.
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by omonra 12y ago
Successful tech companies have to be staffed by very smart nerds. So at the end of the day their pool of candidates is that group. So the numbers you see are reflective of the people who make up that pool. If you want to see more X in it -
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by omonra 12y ago
Same white, just fewer Asians. Nothing to see here, all stereotypes confirmed :)
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by omonra 12y ago
So that makes her a privileged [ethnicity] girl in the eyes of less prestigious school graduates? :)
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by omonra 12y ago
Curious to see granularity by job type - ie engineers vs sales.
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by omonra 12y ago
Every time I hear 'white privileged' I detect envy of the upbringing these kids had. Perhaps you should channel that envy into giving your kids a similar upbringing instead of moping how your parents did not?
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by omonra 12y ago
I think wealth-based fines should apply to cases when there isn't a specific financial benefit from activity in question. Ie I can see the argument why speeding fines should be wealth-based (since we can't really quantify what the
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by omonra 12y ago
I don't understand his point. In the video he says "We will get better at understanding what user is asking us . Therefore backlinks will become less important as a measure of how important / trustworthy a website is .&quot
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by omonra 13y ago
I have a different method. I only friend people I know in real life, read FB newsfeed in chronological order (FB Purity handles that) and I unfollow those who post dumb shit.
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by omonra 13y ago
That's exactly what I thought. Why should I care what some random guy called Danny thinks about a clearly controversial issue (and it only seems controversial to those who have a vested interest in this business).

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