scilro

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by scilro 13y ago
I think this is a case where his privilege is pretty irrelevant to the point being made.
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by scilro 13y ago
Technology can never solve social problems. The answer is to simply work on fixing the problems we have in society the only way we actually can: through discourse, activism, democracy.
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by scilro 13y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive.
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by scilro 14y ago
There's nothing stopping the H1-B worker from also arranging a false wedding (or a real one), though.
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by scilro 14y ago
They're concerned about a shortage of cheap tech people.
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by scilro 14y ago
It's a known issue in Chrome: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435
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by scilro 14y ago
It's important to distinguish between stimulus spending (which consists of typically one-off measures to fight recessions) and the regular payouts that the government makes every year. All deficit spending last year consisted of the latter.
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by scilro 14y ago
Full text of the announcement: We're excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and
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Sparrow acquired by Google(sprw.me)
502 points by scilro 14y ago|380 comments
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by scilro 14y ago
CollegeHumor did a better parody over a year ago. http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta...
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by scilro 15y ago
Your argument falls apart when you posit "worse at math" as an essentialist trait caused by genetics, without so much as a link to a single study showing this. Saying "Women are just more social on average" does not prove that it is genetic
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by scilro 15y ago
They need to bring in someone who can write without seeming like a 12 year old who grew up on 4chan.