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by riggins 13y ago
Non of those were remotely credible. I agree that those claims weren't credible. I struggle to see how the fact that absurd and derogatory claims got play in the press for 4 years supports your claim that Obama gets special treatment
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by riggins 13y ago
we've had 4 years of people running around claiming that Obama wasn't born in the US and that he's a secret Muslim sleeper agent based on him being black. The claim that he isn't scrutinized because of his race is indefe
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by riggins 13y ago
fascinating to listen to Brooks wax poetic about authoritative structures. One would think he might be a little skeptical of them ... guess not.
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by riggins 13y ago
I feel like people who are much younger than me don't have any frame of reference for a time when surveillance wasn't the assumed state of affairs. It's mind blowing to realize there are people who are too young to have exp
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by riggins 13y ago
Really. I can say it easily. It's a risk I'm willing to accept and a risk I would hope every patriotic American would happily accept to preserve our liberties. BTW, where does your logic stop? My brother got killed by a drunk dri
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by riggins 13y ago
to put my reply in context. I live in NYC. I used to be in the WTC on a weekly basis for business. I was in Rockefeller Center when anthrax was found in Rockefeller Center (that was actually kinda scary). I'm aware that 'PRISM&#x2
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by riggins 13y ago
You're funding someone who the government most likely has labelled a terrorist huh? how do you get 'terrorist' from revealing secret information?
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by riggins 13y ago
Really, terrorism? exactly. people are making unsupportable claims.
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by riggins 13y ago
I don't understand your comment. Are you suggesting it's stupid to sign this petition because doing so is asking for trouble?
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by riggins 13y ago
and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. It will be turnkey tyranny. you hit the key point. You don't need to be much of a student of history to know that at some point there's going to be someone
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by riggins 13y ago
By the way, I don't know about anybody else, but for the first time I can think of, I'm seriously concerned about the consequences of posting support for somebody like this online. I don't know how things will play out years
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by riggins 13y ago
This is not about age, but about staying current and sharp. Yep. I don't know why these types of posts get so many comments. It seems really obvious.
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by riggins 13y ago
So the FBI would only be able to wiretap suspects who are either too dumb to use encryption — in which case they ought to be easy enough to catch without wiretaps I think the author under-estimates the difficultly of catching criminals.
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by riggins 13y ago
There are so many things wrong with this article. WSJ content is behind a paywall. WSJ opinion pages are free. If you're a capitalist, and believe goods fetch their market value, that tells you all you need to know.
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by riggins 13y ago
the erosion of shopping malls continues. warrants noting that malls require anchor tenants to work. It's the convenience of to being able to go to one location and get clothes, tools, make-up, music, videos, books, etc, that makes malls wor
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by riggins 13y ago
reminds me of a passage from In The Plex Over the years Winograd had become an expert at figuring out where students stood on the spectrum of brainiacs who found their way into the department. Some were kids whose undergrad record was stra
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by riggins 13y ago
I can imagine eating them. but I'm not much of a foodie to start with.
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by riggins 13y ago
there was a similar story with an ex-marine last year. http://www.nbc12.com/story/19396255/marine-brandon-raub-spea... Its certainly shocking to see people being arrested over facebook posts. No sure what to do. Maybe start a campaign to
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by riggins 13y ago
Code/App Academy, people learning Ruby on Rails and going to entry level jobs I kind of doubt it's Code Academy. This article as of Jan 2013 said Udacity (which IMO is more rigorous than Code Academy) has only placed 20 people and Courser
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by riggins 13y ago
Cash is much more valuable than stock. Any CEO worth their salt would ALWAYS issue stock and never cash Here's the entire quote. Steven2012's claim is that cash is always more valuable than stock. He's dead wrong. If you don't believe me,
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by riggins 13y ago
Cash is much more valuable than stock. this claim is indefensible. It depends on the valuation of the company. For example, at IPO MSFT had 25M shares outstanding @ $21, total market cap of $525M. Obviously 5M shares of MSFT stock (market
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by riggins 13y ago
SWAG: demoting the entire thread is the best way to snuff out the flame war. My personal observation is that part of the motivation for trolling/flame wars is attention seeking ... i.e. you don't have a flame war without an audience.
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by riggins 13y ago
Lots of expensive acquisitions. Was Mayer known for being good at capital allocation/m&a at Google? I've got the feeling this isn't going to end well.
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by riggins 13y ago
Considering how big of a lie Google's "Don't do evil" motto Genuinely curious here, what are the things that google has done that people think are evil? Maybe as a follow-up, what corporations do you think make a greater positive impact t
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by riggins 13y ago
I'm an admirer of Google. My point, which I was being kind of oblique about, is that IMO its not really logical to expect Google to have the same revenue model for a car as they do for the search service. To me it seems totally reasonable t
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by riggins 13y ago
there's a fundamental assumption in this article that I think is very doubtful. this article assumes that part of the customers 'payment' for a self-driving car will be advertising. That seems like a very poor assumption. Personally, I assu
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by riggins 13y ago
at the behest of oil companies I know a lot of people made this claim in the lead up to the Iraq war but I find this claim pretty weak with the benefit of hindsight. While the predictions/criticisms that it would be a protracted struggle
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by riggins 13y ago
So this is a bit of a tangent, but I'm a bit of a fan of economist Hyman Minsky (fascinating, accessible writing on economics btw). One of the really interesting things that Minsky repeatedly points out is that advertising isn't technologic
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by riggins 13y ago
I have a ton of sympathy for the professors. You've certainly have put in a lot of work to become a professor, studied your whole life, and then out of the blue you're potentially obsolete. The article kind of bugged me simply because the p
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by riggins 13y ago
In Residence concept is a throwback to the bad old days of exclusionary education. considering Hacker School is free, I find this claim pretty indefensible.

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