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by slurry 12y ago
That's like saying if housing is effectively free (because buildings don't get paid).
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by slurry 12y ago
Nanu nanu.
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by slurry 12y ago
open defecation, which is more widespread in India than Africa, For real? It's astonishing that India - a second world country, alleged rising star - could get beaten out in sanitation by Africa.
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by slurry 12y ago
Automation tends to hit at the middle, not the bottom. For example, blacksmiths got replaced by automation. Highly skilled labor, replaced by machines + lower/unskilled labor. Burger automation is the fantasy of automating all the way
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Lou Reed played a Web 2.0 conference in 2006. It didn't go so well.(wordyard.com)
6 points by slurry 12y ago|0 comments
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by slurry 12y ago
I take a person's website with a big grain of salt out of hand if they link to a lot of HBD blogs like hbdchick and Steve Sailer. "Take with a grain of salt" is not the same thing as "reject...out of hand". I later
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by slurry 12y ago
I think it's a legit point. If I had to do it again I would have used italics.
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by slurry 12y ago
And...three posts down on the author's homepage we get to race and IQ, then a little further down a cross-post deal with Unz Review. HBD-curious at best. I take his musings on Austronesians with a consequent grain of salt. I think the
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by slurry 12y ago
Published on Facebook? Really?
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by slurry 12y ago
Headline fail. The very next thing out of his mouth is: "...and that's a stupid thing to say."
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Neuromancer, 30 years old this month(theguardian.com)
95 points by slurry 12y ago|61 comments
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by slurry 12y ago
It didn't mention color graphics either. The presentation is about game mechanics, not delivery.
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by slurry 12y ago
Paris has height restrictions, which doesn't seem to have deterred artists. On the contrary, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a096d1d0-d2ec-11e2-aac2-00144...
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by slurry 12y ago
I dropped out of academia and my advisor was a self-absorbed prick, but: for concentrated learning there really is no comparison.
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by slurry 12y ago
I guess I'm showing my age and/or wrestling fandom here, but you guys don't think of caning when you think of Singapore? I've always thought "Oh, Singapore," next thought: "where they cane people."
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by slurry 12y ago
Thus, NIMBYs and city haters are standing in the way of history. Lobbying for height restrictions? Lobbying against the next Michelangelo.
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by slurry 12y ago
Is access to small consumer loans really that significant among the problems facing Rwandans, Paraguayans and (I forget the other places[s])? It seems to me that, if it were, there would already be a better solution than Facebook in place.
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by slurry 12y ago
Other people are already treating HIV with anti-retroviral drugs. Why can't we tackle it with shamanic healing ceremonies? This is not evidence-based development strategy. This is a shot in the dark.
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by slurry 12y ago
e-Readers - Kindle DX too awkward, old-tech; other readers can't handle PDFs worth a damn.
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by slurry 12y ago
What's frustrating is how un-data-driven these efforts are. Surely we have some empirical research by now on the most cost-effective ways to improve quality of life through aid projects. And my guess is the top ten are all sanitation-r
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by slurry 12y ago
Really more of a sunken city than a sunken civilization. Still pretty cool though.
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by slurry 12y ago
I thought NR was for legalization from way back? Quietly anyway. Definitely Bill Buckley personally was pro-legalization from at least the 70s onward. Edit: and the piece is by a sitting Republican congressman, who is a somewhat legendary f
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by slurry 12y ago
Actually the French suffer from this as well, thinking that every language has the rhythm of French, and only stressing the last syllables. Having taught Latin to French speakers, I can confirm.
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by slurry 12y ago
I think zombies are a proxy for other teenagers. They travel in packs.
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by slurry 12y ago
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx
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by slurry 12y ago
To me, the article plays this as slightly humorous and kitschy, whereas your comment makes it seem much darker, especially with the Dr. Tiller comparison. One thing you get wrong is, this began among workers at Tsinghua University, not rura
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by slurry 12y ago
What will happen to GNOME if it does not successfully compete with the big dogs? Nothing. It does not compete with the big dogs now, has never done so, and - whatever convergent multiplatforming it may do in the future - is unlikely ever to
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by slurry 12y ago
Drug prohibition is old. But the militarized quasi-Schmittian state organs devoted to enforcement them, and their attendant juridical pretexts, are of a more recent vintage.
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by slurry 12y ago
Other features of the last 40 years, besides the drug war, include the virtual disappearance of urban rioting and the erasure of youth/minority political militancy. I believe this is not a coincidence. Arbitrary search and seizure, che
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by slurry 12y ago
"Big Data is any thing which is crash Excel." - @DEVOPS_BORAT

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