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by pj 17y ago
For those curious, as I was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_aphasia (also known as Vernicke's aphasia). Basically, these patients get words mixed up and speak funny sentences like the article. I too thought it was superfluous hip
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by pj 17y ago
Men and women aren't equal. Men can't have babies. Who is going to secure the opportunity for a man to give birth? And they don't have equal rights under the law. For example, say a man and a woman have sex and make a baby and the man
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by pj 17y ago
My grandmother helped watching me sometimes. Financially she did it all herself. I had a step dad two times, neither of them worked much though. Contrary to the idea that two parents are better than one, I thought life was better when i
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by pj 17y ago
Hey mahmud, no offense taken. You're just speaking with passion. I don't take it personally.
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by pj 17y ago
I had a single mother and she loathed the feminist revolution. She said it was because of the feminists going back to work and creating dual income families that it was financially more difficult on single parents. Before the feminist revo
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by pj 17y ago
Everyone knows that yellow has been morphed into meaning, "Speed up!" When really people should be stopping. They don't stop. They should stop. And they should be punished for not stopping. Round abouts, when first introduced cause more
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by pj 17y ago
I don't like these stories much because in most of these cases, the red light runners really were running red lights and they were jeopardizing other safe drivers. If you see a yellow light you should stop. If you think the risk of running
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by pj 17y ago
It's not a difficult equation. If you consume more calories than you burn, those calories are converted to fat. The problem is that people want to eat and they end up wanting more than they need. Controlling these urges is sometimes dif
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by pj 17y ago
repost
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by pj 17y ago
wow, that's crazy. If a doctor makes a mistake like that they don't go to jail! how does that work?? it doesn't even make sense!
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by pj 17y ago
I know I'll probably absorb an 8 point hit to my karma for saying this, but all the innovation around how to monetize free software is a bullet point that it doesn't work. I have been considering building my own home lately and while at the
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Online Entertainment Shopping -- the new drug...(economist.com)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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by pj 17y ago
I don't think "sparking conversation" in and of itself is a good thing. Most conversation is mundane, boring, and a waste of time. The problem with Atwood is that his popularity on the web is an example of the stupidification of web progra
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The decline of the landline(economist.com)
19 points by pj 17y ago|21 comments
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by pj 17y ago
Funny, rockmelt doesn't load right in Opera.
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by pj 17y ago
I actually have a lot more respect for people who come here and type their heart out in the open for no other reason than bringing in content and sharing their ideas. Getting a blog is lame compared to that. You get a blog to get ads and at
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by pj 17y ago
I can’t tell if that’s terrible or awesome. This is a mathematical problem like poker. On one hand, it exposes the issue for attack by hackers who didn't know about it before. But it also makes systems in the future more secure. What i
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by pj 17y ago
Dean Kamen is my hero. I'd love to work with him and his team. I'd probably be the dumbest one there and I'd love every minute of it.
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by pj 17y ago
huh?
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Intelligence may be a Darwinian liability(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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by pj 17y ago
Yep, quite different than the impression given by the whole patent troll phenomenon. Imagine if this under dog hadn't gone through so much trouble. The software landscape would be quite different now.
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The first software patent ever granted(wired.com)
3 points by pj 17y ago|3 comments
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The web is still very fragile(qrimp.com)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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by pj 17y ago
I'd like to zoom in on that bookshelf. I wonder what books are on it. All I can make out easily is Watchmen. With examination I see "Infected," left self third from the top. I notice IT and The Stand on the left shelf second from the bott
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The Future of Man--How Will Evolution Change Humans?(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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by pj 17y ago
Oh, I mean no offense to you. It's always better to post links than to hesitate. Let the community decide. But always try to bring good stuff to the community. Any good community has opinions on both sides.
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by pj 17y ago
The proprietary i'm talking about with respect to the iphone is the app store. Not just anyone can write for the app store, you have to go through Apple. The point I'm making is that they are control freaks, always have been and it's not n
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by pj 17y ago
I edited my post to clarify. I was talking about the PC war of the 80's. Apple nearly ceased to exist as a company and Microsoft even gave them some money to keep them alive...
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by pj 17y ago
No one cares that you think no one cares. I'm so tired of the ego-busters. These kinds of generalizations are so 2001. Look, some people do care. The people promoting it. In this community, the same population of people are promoting blo
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by pj 17y ago
Apple lost the personal computer war (EDIT: of the 1980's) because of its proprietary hardware created under the leadership of Steve Jobs. Not letting anyone else make a computer that would run MacOS was a big mistake for them. I don't see

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