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by rmxt 12y ago
What answer regarding nuclear weapons would you expect to get on a hypothetical news.ycombinator.jp? a .ru? I think the GP and Snowden's point is that the world would be better off without them, not looking to start a debate about wh
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by rmxt 12y ago
I am not arguing in favor or against calling it execution, just pointing out that your tactics are underhanded and trollish. The issue isn't as black and white as you want it to be and no amount of your cynicism or finger-pointing will
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by rmxt 12y ago
>It fits the definition of "combat" used by almost everyone. And basically no-one would define it as "execution". So there's your problem there. A simple search would show you that your assertion is mere bravado
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by rmxt 12y ago
Dragging down on "1, 2, 4, 8" in Excel 2007 gives me "9.5, 11.8, 14.1, 16.4, 18.7".... but maybe newer versions have gotten better.
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by rmxt 12y ago
It's a bit of a sleight of hand to conflate "other relevant" questions with the one that tptacek posed above re: Jewish people and banking (which is the one that you replied to). I agree that the relevant questions you add ar
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by rmxt 12y ago
It's nice to know that there will always be someone around to ask the question, "But what if [insert superficially homogeneous ethnic/religious/race/gender/etc. group here] actually are inferior?", becau
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by rmxt 12y ago
Why should anyone ever be put in such a position where they even have to think of saying something like that? Your entire framing of the situation is exactly why it is a cultural issue. Why does sexual harassment have to devolve to physic
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by rmxt 12y ago
This is not a very helpful response. Just because your anxieties are not triggered by the knowledge of what the NSA does, does not make it right to minimize the worries of others with vague (i.e. not backed up with hard evidence) and dism
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by rmxt 12y ago
While one might be able to give a fair and balanced take on "non-optimal alternatives," I frankly believe that a bad idea, or at least bad historiography, doesn't deserve a very big seat at the table of discussion. You paint
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by rmxt 12y ago
Even if that is true, that does not make the forced migration and continued subjugation of slaves in the American South through the 19th century any less deplorable. Slavery is slavery. Your implicit acceptance of the "lesser of two ev
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Open Tax Solver: Updated for 2014 Taxes (US, Open Source)(opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net)
1 points by rmxt 12y ago|0 comments
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by rmxt 12y ago
I find this fascinating, and I think it's a great reminder of what public institutions are capable of, especially since they are oftentimes the sole stewards of these sorts of information. Aside: I am really interested in contributing
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A Beginner's Guide to the Redpill Right(boingboing.net)
1 points by rmxt 12y ago|0 comments
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by rmxt 12y ago
Not sure where you are in the world, or where you are in life, but if you are looking for a secular answer to your dilemma, I would recommend looking into professional therapy sessions. While venting to others is a relief valve for life, wo
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by rmxt 12y ago
No matter how noble the underlying cause -- and it's certainly a noble one -- self-promotion seems to be part of the game with this one: the author is also the submitter of the article to HN.
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by rmxt 12y ago
I would venture to say that what you focus on in your comment runs explicitly counter to what the GP was trying to emphasize in their post. For the people who teach kids of grades 3-5/ages 8-10, I doubt that they are in the business of
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by rmxt 12y ago
Despite the diversity of NYC as a whole, my anecdotal experiences suggest that people can still harbor those sorts of unconscious thoughts while living their entire lives in a "diverse" city. I say "diverse" because ther
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by rmxt 12y ago
If you dig through to the source reddit posting [1], you can see that the post only really puts 6 different individual taxi IDs out there for visualization. To me, only the first 4 seem like a good visual fit for the prayer times, and the o
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by rmxt 12y ago
Here's a baby step in that direction for NYC: http://a841-dotvweb01.nyc.gov/ParkingRegs/ViewController/Loc... CSV and shapefiles can be found here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html&#
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by rmxt 12y ago
A couple of thoughts: 1. The current NYC signs have arrows indicating directionality of the applicable rules. There are three kinds ( <--, -->, and <-->). Only one of their design example shows this information and it's im
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by rmxt 12y ago
Thanks. Knowing that, I'll probably go out of my way to whitelist 'piwik.js', etc. I'd be willing to trade some personal information to any host wanting to use a self-hosted Piwik instance over a big analytics platform.
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by rmxt 12y ago
I think a fair portion of the people who are consciously blocking GA might think that beaming back a ton of information to the Google mothership is also "being dick," because they don't want ad-tracking profiles to be built f
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by rmxt 12y ago
My point of contention isn't whether or not we should police high crime neighborhoods more or less, it's whether we should condone the (less-common) explicit or (more-common) implicit police policy of using race as a proxy for the
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by rmxt 12y ago
No, there are problems with racial profiling long before things devolve to "unreasonable, excessive and unwarranted violence." What defines a "problem area" as you put it? What is an "indicator"? Am I incorrect
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by rmxt 12y ago
Slick interface, cool visual presentation, and awesome intentioned resource for people in need...but outside of seeing "MN" in the URL and clicking through the links, I wouldn't have known that this is limited to Minnesota&#x
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by rmxt 12y ago
Obligatory plug for an open-source alternative, Redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
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by rmxt 12y ago
An article about a politically significant LGBT person in South Asia without exploring or giving a more substantial background on the concept of Hijras feels a bit like having pizza without cheese. Being from the West and growing up with it
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by rmxt 12y ago
From Woodlawn you can take buses to 3 different subway trunk lines, with access to both the East Side and West Side, in addition to an Express Bus to Midtown East and the Metro-North to Grand Central. Those are pretty decent transit options
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by rmxt 12y ago
Does 4G really offer much pure competition when the two biggest (by number of subscribers) wireless companies, Verizon and AT&T, also do business in FTTP/DSL services in many of those very same markets? Verizon: http://w
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by rmxt 12y ago
Pretty cool visualizations, but I would take the accuracy of the data with a grain of salt until I saw the source data. There's no universal map of neighborhoods in NYC, and I think that every New Yorker has a different sense of where

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