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by paidleaf 8y ago
Cruelty was par for the course when it came to nature documentaries unfortunately. Most nature documentaries of the past were staged. One of the most infamous one was where they would trap and drug jaguars and them dump them on the riverban
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by paidleaf 8y ago
I had a huge argument with my philosophy professor about this. Our class was discussing the distinguishing characteristics between humans and animals. Someone brought up humans commit suicide while animals don't. The professor claimed
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> How is a company that had a net loss of $933 million and that owes $18 billion in rent even remotely worth $35 billion. Theranos had a valuation of $9 billion not too long ago. Did we forget about Pets.com and all the "valuable&qu
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> One of the best decisions I've recently made is starting my morning by reading a newspaper back to back. That's the worst thing you can do. http://time.com/5125894/is-reading-news-bad-for-you/ http
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> Its relatively new. Put there by State street[1] to promote gender diversity. It was put there to promote State Street, one of the oldest and biggest financial institutions in the country.
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> I shorted (a very small amount) from about $320 down to about $270. That's when Elon had his very standoffish and defiant earnings call. It's pretty dangerous to short high flying stocks like TSLA in a major bull market. Espe
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by paidleaf 8y ago
There is no need for insults. I said elon musk has positives and negatives. How is that being a bootlicker? And I never said I supported the objectification of women. I said I believed in independent free choice of both men and women. If a
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Certainly not the democratic or republican parties. And certainly not the government watchdog institutions which are all run by former execs of major corporations. It's hard to imagine any organization that can stand up to such concent
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> The "Big Three" television networks will become the "Big Two". The "Big 6" film becomes the "Big 5". Just as worrisome is the merging of delivery/distribution ( ISPs ) with content. > You
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> and so stupid hacks like MySQL’s utf8 character set (I seriously don’t know why anyone ever thought it was a good idea in 2002–2004) are now obviously insufficient for full Unicode support If I had to guess, they did it for space and p
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> Just before he died, he was preparing a campaign to the WEST. Why did you capitalize west? And I'm fairly certain this is not true. The best we know of his immediate plans prior to death was that he wanted to centralize his empire
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> I feel this whole theory misses some key elements of our ancestors. First the idea that each male was able to reproduce at the same rate or had the same opportunity to breed as each other; The article is talking about Y chromosomes, no
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by paidleaf 8y ago
That's true. Musk, like all people, have their positives and negatives. But he's always been this way. The question is why the sudden change in sentiment? And as bad as elon musk is, the journalists are much worse. I'd rather
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> Why is the war hypothesis considered more likely than say a widespread, long lived contagious disease that had significantly higher mortality in males than females? Most likely because disease don't discriminate along clan lines a
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> It's likely that Alexander would have taken over Italy had he lived a couple more decades. At the height of the greek empire, it's pretty much a given that alexander would have easily conquered italy. But there was no real re
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> Seriously, what has he done to deserve this negativity? Interesting isn't it? It's almost like someone turned on a switch and suddenly there is rampant anti-elon musk sentiment. What has elon musk done recently? Well, he went
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Pretty much every major website does this. Not only that, if you are using windows 10, it does this too. Not only does windows 10 track your mouse movements, it tracks your keystrokes and it scans your filesystem and sends the meta data inf
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Netflix isn't your ISP. Netflix doesn't control the means of delivery/distribution. They rely on Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, etc to deliver their data. Netflix can't just decide that they don't want to compete with
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> The /bin/sh stuff is due to Ubuntu symlinking dash to /bin/sh and that reacting badly with both the R shell wrapper and some Microsoft R Server features. Which is understandable considering the switch from bash to
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> In other words, the field just has very low standards for truth, in a scientific sense. The field has little to no scientific sense. It's why psychiatry/psychology is a soft science. It isn't based on the scientific meth
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Saying it was "common" is simply a lie. I would love to see her stats because I've been working in tech for a while now and I've never seen the term "coding ninja" in a job ad. I've seen ludicrous demands
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> 1958 is when men had the best wage to rent ratio, and that helped create families and have children. I don't think it is necessarily the current state, but our view of future prospects that may matter more. I wonder if there are y
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by paidleaf 8y ago
It's not the lone bureaucrat. Do you really think one guy is behind this? He had support from the industry, the media, politicians and the elites. If you haven't noticed, the elites ( not just in the US ) but in europe, china, rus
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> Plain "Chinese" commonly refers to Mandarin in English usage. What we call "chinese language" has historically been cantonese as that's what we are mostly familiar with ( mostly via immigration ). Most of us do
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by paidleaf 8y ago
What clickbait nonsense and misleading nonsense. Solar accounts for 1.3% of our electric production. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427 Saying that solar is the biggest source of "new" US Powe
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source. It's called stats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War... https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by paidleaf 8y ago
There is no such thing as a "chinese" language. Your statement is akin to saying "You'd better start learning european then". China is a region with a far greater linguistic diversity than europe.
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by paidleaf 8y ago
It has nothing to do with advertising. It's about control and propaganda. The elites want to take control over social media. They want social media to be like the rest of media. Where the masses see what they want us to see. It's
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> though surely recognising that some of his policies are heading in the same direction and that his followers espouse much of the same views are worth noting. So trump ( pro-israel zionist ) with a jewish daughter and a jewish son-in-la
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> With Oracle remaining evil and Microsoft making waves in open source these days MSFT is not making as big a wave as you'd think. A lot of the hype is MSFT PR machine running rampant. I use Visual Studio/.Net on windows and on

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