rubashov

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by rubashov 16y ago
Communications technology is to fundamental social institutions and mores as apples are to oranges.
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by rubashov 16y ago
The rich are a minority group. Regressive taxation seems pretty uncontroversial, though highly discriminatory.
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by rubashov 16y ago
You don't have to be religious to notice that exclusively vanilla heterosexual marriage has been common to all advanced societies. There are plenty of other models, but any culture that rose to power picked the one. It seems to me perfectl
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by rubashov 16y ago
I don't think you're working with applicable terms, really. I'd just say there are markets and business cultures where trust and the sense of fair play is prevalent, and those where that is not the case, and leave it at that. Touchy subjec
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by rubashov 16y ago
A predatory business culture is "conservative"? I don't follow.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> eating a lot of ... meat is harmful As one of the links explains, the data shows almost the opposite. More meat was weakly protective.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> too much meat is hard on your digestive tract That's completely crazy. Meat and fat are the easiest things to digest. There is no such thing as an allergy to meat, whereas something like a quarter of people have various allergies to
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by rubashov 16y ago
That's a distro thing. A slackware or debian setup will not have much superfluous stuff installed.
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by rubashov 16y ago
He gave you a citation. search on epigenetics. It's seen a lot of headlines in the last couple years.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> They didn't develop civilisation They didn't make very many durable stone structures. That's about all we know. The complexity and quality of their societies may have generally exceeded ours. We do know they had transcontinental tra
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by rubashov 16y ago
> increased energy intake and brain size Human brains have shrunk since the establishment of agriculture. Brains are smaller now than during even the middle ages.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Fork is still expensive. It is not sane to fork per request.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> It skims the cream from every race and class and population Interestingly, it turns out poor "cream" whites and Asians are excluded from elite private institutions. Other races get preference for being poor, but only rich white kids
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by rubashov 16y ago
> when you actually switch to another language When I'm using some scripting language and not Qt, I wish I was using Qt. Qt is the shit. If you haven't used it you can't criticize C++. I've whipped up several things I know would have
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by rubashov 16y ago
No idea. Throw 'em in tupperware and they keep just fine.
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by rubashov 16y ago
I find windows almost unusable without virtuawin. It very successfully adds virtual desktops to windows.
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by rubashov 16y ago
I'm an expert because I live next to a place that roasts daily. It tastes the same when the beans were roasted a few weeks ago, I assure you.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> This is all spot on The beans really do not need to be roasted in the last few days. Roasted beans stay fresh for at least a month if stored properly.
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by rubashov 16y ago
I get just as close a shave from my braun foil as wet shaving. There is no compromise. Electric shaving is much cheaper. I replace the foil and cartridge every six months. I'm convinced few people ever figure out how to correctly use a
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by rubashov 16y ago
This guy's goal was apparently to get all his calories from home, rather than supplement his diet with fresh home produce. In that situation it makes little sense to grow anything but potatoes or yams. Nothing else is as easy, nutritious,
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by rubashov 16y ago
Nazis are an American cinema cliche, often used in good cinema. But I think this has rather less to do with Nazis themselves and more to do with the film business. Soviets and asian communists as bad guys didn't work because there were pe
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by rubashov 16y ago
There are plenty of non-exploitative work places. At most places I've worked the organization genuinely cared for employees. There is such a thing as being a dick to an organization that has treated you well.
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by rubashov 16y ago
The key to proper meditation is a good view and three well made cocktails. For the view your choices run ocean, mountain, or city. In each case, classy hotel rooftop works well. For the cocktails, the importance of quality vermouth and bi
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by rubashov 16y ago
> As long as you can find a way to support yourself I'm not nearly so sanguine about most people's ability to make that happen. The kind of people who get into a seed funding program probably don't have to worry about living in mom's b
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by rubashov 16y ago
I don't think it's responsible to advise people with negative cash to take big risks. Risk is for people with no debt and a year or two of living expenses in cash.
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by rubashov 16y ago
perl6 is a huge leap beyond the current crop of interpreted languages. Go through this content to get an idea: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/
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by rubashov 16y ago
Judging from IRC and perlmonks.org there are tons of newbies trying to do real work. I gather the growth of CPAN and core contributors indicate growing growth. I am genuinely curious where you got your ideas about on perl usage? Regardless
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by rubashov 16y ago
I really doubt sarbox says anything about email.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Maybe for certain business activity, like I dunno, HIPAA related stuff. But I'd be shocked if there are any statutes requiring email retention across an entire organization.
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by rubashov 16y ago
If I was a CTO or legal counsel at bigcorp I'd say we're going to POP3 and everyone's email lives on their hard drives. Given the risks, I don't understand why companies keep around big, easily subpoena-able email databases.

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