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by scribu 12y ago
> German is criminalised in 23 states. You're not allowed to speak it in public, you're not allowed to use it in the radio, you're not allowed to teach it to a child under the age of 10. I found that striking - how could s
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by scribu 12y ago
IMO, this would be more interesting as an alternative way to write complex queries in an ORM. Currently, all ORMs that I've seen try to mimic the declarative SQL syntax, which doesn't always look pretty.
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by scribu 12y ago
> people don't get undeserved hate That is obviously not true. Racism, homophobia, bigotry are every-day examples of undeserved hate. Regarding the rest of your hypothesis - that when the brand is represented by a single person, the
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by scribu 12y ago
Ok, so your argument seems to be that if you hide behind an impersonal brand, you'll be safe. Sorry, but I'm not conviced: > No matter how many people hate General Motors, the spokesmodel of the latest TV commercial is not like
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by scribu 12y ago
That's an interesting take on the matter. An internet where all online identities are decoupled from offline identities seems possible, at least in theory. The idea that using your real name online makes you act more responsibly doesn&
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by scribu 12y ago
Before thinking about passing anti-online-abuse legislation in all countries (which, like you, I'm not very sure would be effective), we should first agree that online abuse is actually a bad thing, with real negative consequences. The
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by scribu 12y ago
I don't know; I think anti-epilepsy filters can be a _part_ of the solution (at least for the epilepsy trolling sub-problem), among many other things. Bulletproof vests aren't a solution to gun violence due to practical reasons (u
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by scribu 12y ago
I think there are several points: 1. Most people starting out online are not aware that "Your chances of being harassed increases linearly as your popularity." and most people that haven't been abused online themselves don&#x
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by scribu 12y ago
Could you provide a link? The only recent thing I could find was http://www.france24.com/en/20140925-france-heightened-securi...
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by scribu 12y ago
As the author mentioned at the beginning of the article, ads for household cleaning products work by making promises (if you use X toothpaste, your breath will smell fresher for 24 hours), instead of creating cultural signals (Beyonce drink
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by scribu 12y ago
I agree that a sinecure is probably not the best long-term strategy, but "work even harder and earn even more" doesn't sound any better. There's simply no guarantee that working an extra 10 hours per week, for example, w
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by scribu 12y ago
I'm not sure what you're suggesting: that corporations should just adopt the Linux kernel development approach? that all software should be developed as open source? Like you said, a corporation is not the same as a team of enthus
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Science of Science Policy(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by scribu 12y ago|0 comments
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Cat Parasite Modified Into An Effective Cancer Vaccine(iflscience.com)
2 points by scribu 12y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 12y ago
Browsing through the last two day's worth of front-page posts, I notice that most of them are related to programmers or entrepreneurs in some way. In this context, yeah, the article is off-topic. However, I did find a few recent histor
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How we end up marrying the wrong people(thephilosophersmail.com)
2 points by scribu 12y ago|2 comments
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by scribu 12y ago
Nitpick: I think organized religion (a group of people) could be more easily compared with "the scientific establishment" (also a group of people) instead of with "the scientific method" (an abstract idea).
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by scribu 12y ago
Dissenters should be given air time proportional to the quality of the counter arguments they put forward. "Nuh-uh" isn't a very strong counter argument.
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by scribu 12y ago
Why?
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by scribu 12y ago
> We live to give our tiny contribution to humanity, and we do it by creating something through work. A lot of people consider their contribution to humanity to be their family or the activity in their (local or online) community. For th
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by scribu 12y ago
A sports team faces many real challenges besides the artificial challenges on the field: many months of training before a big playoff, which involves individual player discipline, extensive interaction with the coach and the other players,
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by scribu 12y ago
From Wikipedia [1]: "In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a) universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint, and b) universal redistribution of that design or blueprint,
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The Limits Of Physics(aeon.co)
1 points by scribu 12y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 12y ago
"Awkward." That's the gut reaction I got while seeing the person in the video using this device. That said, touchscreens still feel less satisfying than physical buttons, so maybe I'm just being nostalgic.
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by scribu 12y ago
And here I was thinking that I'd been the first to have the kooky idea of implementing Scheme in Python: https://github.com/scribu/scheme.py :) It was a really rewarding experience; definitely recommended!
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Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?(motherjones.com)
8 points by scribu 12y ago|6 comments
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One in two boys develops breasts(sciencenordic.com)
3 points by scribu 12y ago|0 comments
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How Behavioral Economics Trims Its Sails and Why(harvardlawreview.org)
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by scribu 12y ago
Yeah, I remember reading about that. Was a pleasant surprise.
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by scribu 12y ago
I use Firebug too, mostly because you can see in-progress AJAX requests in the console.

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