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by pravda 9y ago
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat." - Gore Vidal Even more true today then when Gore said it!
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by pravda 9y ago
Well, tobacco use generally affects just the user. Alcohol is the real killer. Alcohol users drive into school buses and kill innocent children. Now that we have our first president who doesn't use alcohol, it's time we crack dow
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by pravda 9y ago
Some AWS visitors: Cliqzbot, VidibleScraper/1.0, CheckMarkNetwork, CCBot/2.0 ( http://commoncrawl.org/faq/ ), linkdexbot/2.2; + http://www.linkdex.com/bots/ That last one is a "S
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by pravda 9y ago
Well, from amazonaws.com, there are so many requests for wp-login.php! And then all the off-brand scraping companies use amazonaws.com.
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Can't say that. Maybe he has a dog.
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by pravda 9y ago
>What are sites' motivations for blocking AWS IPs? I block AWS. So many crawlers up to so much nonsense! I don't block by IP, but by hostname. $block='.amazonaws.com'; $ua = @$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'
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by pravda 9y ago
> http://hsperson.com/ So I went there, and read the 8 bullet points under "Is this you?" and then I thought, well yeah, that applies to everyone! Here's one: "Do you get rattled when you have a lot t
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by pravda 9y ago
>$ 576 for 1 single chest x-ray Well, that's just a rip-off price. >Health Insurance coverage is too closely tied to employment. In order to get continued coverage, you are more or less working "for the man" till you di
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by pravda 9y ago
>Those three are all well-known business leaders who have dated or married their subordinates. Here's another one: Bezos! He married a subordinate. http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Mackenzie+Bezos/Business+Lead
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by pravda 9y ago
For those without WSJ accounts: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/business/eu-google-antitr...
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by pravda 9y ago
>Just compare for profit higher education with public higher education. The wages/benefits for workers former very much lag those of the latter. And here appears the Broken Window Fallacy!
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by pravda 9y ago
On a bicycle or in a car? I ignore stop signs (and red lights) on a bike. I ignore certain stop signs (not all!) in a car. Never felt unsafe doing either one.
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by pravda 9y ago
I do feel a little bit of schadenfreude at the predicament of NYCs biggest medallion speculator: http://pix11.com/2017/06/07/nyc-taxi-king-accused-of-failing... Now some medallion owners are trying to get
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by pravda 9y ago
I don't think it was ever a technical term. A technical term would be something like "Mongoloid Idiot". That was considered pejorative, so it became "Down's Syndrome". Then it became "Down Syndrome",
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by pravda 9y ago
I uploaded Comrade Putin. [1] Thinks he is 45 years old. He is 64! Not calibrated for the superior Russian genetics. [1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuV5wciUAAA0aBz.jpg
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by pravda 9y ago
>This law as it's written has got to be unconstitutional. ...and certainly as it is applied here, to a 'zestimate'. I predict Zillow will make a motion to dismiss on first amendment grounds. I also predict the judge will
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by pravda 9y ago
Self employment tax = Social security tax. And I don't think it is going away. It's a regressive tax, the most beloved tax.
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by pravda 10y ago
You can purchase someone's IoT guesstimates for $4,200! The article references this: http://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/944711-internet-of-th... Which is this: http://wintergreenresearch.com/in
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by pravda 10y ago
I think I am going to brand myself an "IoT Consultant". Get me a share of those Dollar$/Euroz/Renminbis. Anyone else done that? Any IoT Consultants out there?
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by pravda 10y ago
I just set up a Windows 98 system last week! Installation of win98 is so quick, so easy, compared to XP. But websites don't render so well in the win98 version of IE. I don't think it knows about CSS.
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by pravda 10y ago
And let's think about what the boomers didn't have. No cell phones. No GPS. No soft contact lenses. No electronic fuel injection (carburetors! yay!) No Google I can keep on going with this for a long time LIFE WAS A LIVING HELL F
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by pravda 10y ago
>Governments really want people to stop smoking. Are you sure that's true? Governments earn an awful lot of money from smokers. Given the upcoming pension crisis so many US cities and states are facing, it might make sense to encou
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by pravda 10y ago
How did that happen? I have a 'fake' Facebook account (the only kind I'd ever have!) and I wonder what it would take for Facebook to ask for 'verification'.
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by pravda 10y ago
>That leaves me wondering what force is preventing price from rising in the case of developer talent? Well, it's not Steve Jobs. Not anymore.
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by pravda 10y ago
Just make sure the dials go up to eleven! For that one more, that extra push over the cliff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o
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by pravda 10y ago
>In particular, this made me sad: the 10K resistor to ground isn't strictly necessary, but it ensures that the MOSFET remains OFF if the arduino is disconnected or it's pin is not an OUTPUT. Not sure why that made you sad (extr
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by pravda 10y ago
To all those with teenageish children: do kids nowadays still hang out at the mall?
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by pravda 10y ago
Speaking of Submariners, this reads like a submarine article. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by pravda 10y ago
Jobs! and Profit! Digging for coal puts Americans to work, but more importantly, brings profits to coal companies. That is the justification.
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by pravda 10y ago
>Is lying really the behavior we want to incentivize? Oh gosh. You make it sound bad that way! It's not 'lying', it is 'strategic disinformation'.

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