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by ripb 12y ago
>Except Americans despise snobbery or snobbish attitudes of any kind, its almost taboo, while the Brits embrace it. Ah, making sweeping generalisations of one demographic containing about 80m people and another of 330m people. Bound to b
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by ripb 12y ago
Wait, you're telling me someone born into extreme wealth and power, with an unrivaled network and level of influence throughout the world, who could just click his fingers and have something done and fund it from the vast amounts of mo
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by ripb 12y ago
Wisdom and foresight or lust fueled selfishness?
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by ripb 12y ago
Interesting find. Makes me once again wonder what other previously thought to be lost treasures are sitting, hidden from the general public, out there on private shelves or in private collections.
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by ripb 12y ago
But Romania is so beautiful this time of year, comrade hobs.
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by ripb 12y ago
Wow, great read. Very frightening, especially when one considers what they could be at today.
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by ripb 12y ago
>The CIA spied on MLK Jr., discovered he was having affairs, and used that to try to blackmail him into committing suicide. Have you got any more on this? Would be interested to read.
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by ripb 12y ago
>All thanks in part to the those that trudged on during the rough times just for the love of the sport. I.e. men. Like IT: There was no money in it, just a load of guys doing it for the love of it. 20 years later there's huge money
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by ripb 12y ago
>The point is that the target demographic of commercial skateboard culture shrank drastically. If the previous demographic was 50/50 and each were contributing a similar amount of cash to the sport, therefore supporting its commerci
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by ripb 12y ago
>Or why do we have this separation? Because it's easier to be a big fish in a small pond.
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by ripb 12y ago
>The Internet is enabling a government of the people for the first time since our population exploded in the last century. Is that you, Obama? What is this nonsense? >Things are bad right now, but they're getting better. Things -
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by ripb 12y ago
>Stealing a comedians joke is similar to stealing a developers source. I'm surprised at some of the responses here Source code isn't written to be shared or to entertain others with. Quite the opposite, in fact, as we strive to
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by ripb 12y ago
"I wouldn't be very happy if I were expected to contribute to travel or lodging while "co-working on vacation" - or if the trip used up any vacation time." This is the kicker. It sounds like an absolutely fantastic
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by ripb 12y ago
This is absolutely pathetic.
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by ripb 12y ago
>I think they're just trying to attract more women, not disqualify men. They may not explicitly disqualify men from attending, but the language on the site and the proceeding application form makes it very clear who they want, and d
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by ripb 12y ago
What I find interesting is the mainstream denial or outright rejection of the concept that the West is engaged in psyops online, on sites and services we ourselves actively use. If you go on Reddit, for example, you'll find plenty of h
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by ripb 12y ago
>If you don't plan to maintain your code what you did is not "open sourcing": it is merely a source code "release". "Open source" means "welcome", if you don't mean it, don't say it.
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by ripb 12y ago
>At my company, we depend on a lot of open-source technologies. We expect that someone will keep rails up to date, fix security vulnerabilities etc. That's a pretty terrible, and indeed entitled, attitude to hold I must say. >I h
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by ripb 12y ago
>but perhaps it can remind us that nothing we do can guarantee a long and healthy life. Except advances in biotech...or at least I'm drastically hoping so.
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by ripb 12y ago
If it's any consolation, 10k USD is about 14x the median monthly salary in Egypt. http://sites.miis.edu/educationinegypt/files/2013/05/CIEsala...
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by ripb 12y ago
>The best option is not screwing up our planet We're not looking for a lifeboat, humanity is simply looking for another planet to screw up.
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by ripb 12y ago
Off topic but have you found any services that are good for tracing one's lineage? I would pay a considerable amount, probably capped at 10k, for a service that was able to provide me with an accurate, detailed and thorough description
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by ripb 12y ago
>This culture of "words mean whatever I want them to mean" is ridiculous The culture of bending anything to suit the agenda / narrative where one's feelings are prioritized over reality.
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by ripb 12y ago
It's totally irrelevant to what happened but totally relevant to the current mainstream narrative of women versus men. It allows them to take something non-gendered and create an absolute shitstorm from it.
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by ripb 12y ago
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by ripb 12y ago
Can't find anything cite-able on it unfortunately.
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by ripb 12y ago
>And why does the tech segment even give a crap? Because tech isn't an industry any more, it's part of mainstream culture, and thus tech "news" has to be watered down or diluted to suit the mainstream audience, hence
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by ripb 12y ago
>Girls should be exposed to sciences/tech and working together with their male peers on complex projects very early in the K-12 system. That would also naturally adjust males behavior too. And thus just 20 years down the road ... Ca
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by ripb 12y ago
When I started my UG in CS there were 4 women in class of 110. By the time we finished the degree, there were no women. And yet tech companies are now being told that in order to bring about equality, they must hire the comparatively tiny n
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by ripb 12y ago
>Stereotyping women on being more social is just unfair, because while we think this way, we fail to see something positive in men. Worse yet. We claim women are social in a positive manner, and then claim men being social are promoting

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