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by selmnoo 13y ago
It's not really as simple as that. If you say GG is partaking in biased journalism, who's to say whether the silence and hesitance of established news organizations (to not be as aggressively iniquisitive as GG has always been) is
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We will lose a generation of scientists because of current-state academia(anothersb.blogspot.com)
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I remember having a conversation with you about how uneven access to opportunity is in America among different races, economic classes, etc. - and I recall you saying in a resigned way (something like) "Oh welp, yeah things are bad, bu
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by selmnoo 13y ago
The bags are made out of something physical, a depletable resource. And put together by labor that is also finite (there are only so many low-wage Indian and Bengali workers to put these things together). So, while a seductively attractive
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by selmnoo 13y ago
You've raised some valid points, but I'd like to respond simply: I (personally) pirate most things that I pirate because a lot of these things are not comfortably affordable to me. I wish I could buy all the books that I want, t
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> [...] because the VC and support and resources all go to the 26-year-old with powerful (inherited) connections. Really? Do you really think this is so? Is y combinator, in that case, rigged? Because as you know pretty much all graduate
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Farm bill: Why don’t taxpayers subsidize the foods that are better for us?(washingtonpost.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Yes, that is precisely and literally what I am saying. I'm saying that if women wish to be taken seriously they need to behave like men. Thank you for this very constructive dialogue, I have developed so much insight in this exchange.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Very slightly-off topic: So, I have this theory. The theory is that Microsoft and/or Apple somehow infiltrated the Ubuntu organization and got their men in as developers and made big changes to sabotage and undermine the Ubuntu project
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Thought experiment: you see a man, same age as Linda, doing all the things Linda is doing (squinting eyes, and then abruptly opening them and doing an affected laugh, fixing clothes, fixing cute socks, sitting on a sofa with legs bent and s
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> It's not like Linda Liukas is a pin-up model trying to trade on her sexuality. So, I get what you're trying to say, but this is a tough one. Because, Linda did play up as a flirtatious girly girl in the promo video. Serious
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by selmnoo 13y ago
So, what about you jl? You'll still have your hands on deck? Not to be so intrusive, but I recall pg talking about the son -- was that a factor in pg making this decision? To dedicate more time to parenting or something like that?
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> People pay for things because they want them, because it makes their lives better. Nope. I could really want a cigarette, bottle of alcohol, or a large cheese burger with 2 patties, doesn't mean it would make my life better. In fa
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Speaking as someone whose pictures ended up on Facebook (without me even having a Facebook account), I can't even begin to describe how frustrated I feel about this. I basically have no option of recourse, because there's a revise
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> It's just immoral to use children their images in adds. And I don't think that this fits Zuckerbergs original intentions when he started Facebook. Heh, really? Are we talking about the same Zuckerberg who got his start making
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Comcast buys Time Warner Cable for $45 billion(money.cnn.com)
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> To follow this tutorial you will need to have Python 2.7 installed with a working version of pip and virtualenv. Is that true in general for this CMS, that Python 2.7 will be needed? Python 3 isn't supported?
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by selmnoo 13y ago
You're worrying about the wrong things. The problem here is not the pay of heart surgeons and neonatologists, the problem is with insurance companies, our healthcare system, etc. etc. Focus directly on fixing those issues, large salari
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Not if they never find out that there exist things called "barbies". We never introduced our girls to barbies or anything -- only cars, legos, etc. etc. and they're more than happy with them. I think barbies dolls should be o
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Speaking as someone who is also familialy-related to a neonatologist and a cardiologist -- both of whom earn more than a few million per year, I'd say they deserve every last dollar of it. They had to go to school for some while, and w
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> I hope that he gets scared and lonely as he gets older and older, when his billions won't change anything and when he realizes that all of his misery stems from his own choices. I know the word "sociopath" gets thrown ar
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That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter(slate.com)
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Noob question: how would you... use that cheat?
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It's not that they're "leaving it up to its customers to be responsible", it's strategically employing black patterns to exploit specific mistakes people make. Are you 100% on top of your every bill? Do you know eve
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Because he's an asshole with a long and illustrious history of doing shit like this? I'm just really sad that we, the programmers and engineers, keep letting people like him climb up the ladder.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
The video might me unavailable if you're not in UK. Find the video here in that case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIASWpnJRp0
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BBC Documentary: The Men Who Made Us Fat(bbc.co.uk)
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I apologize for being nit-picky here, but please upload it somewhere other than Facebook. (It's just a personal policy to not visit Facebook and give them any data about me, and I'm sure there are others like me here).
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How one man's Olympic design influenced your next trip to the public restroom(pri.org)
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I'm assuming it's a tactic to increase dead-tree edition sales, so they can go a big reseller and have them agree to sell it at a much bigger scale. I know of authors who've employed this strategy before (and had it work). So

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