slurry

11 ms·

61.
by slurry 12y ago
He does provide some evidence, although I'm not sure how much like statistics it is. Here: "Last week, the company parted ways with Vic Gundotra, a talented executive who led Google+ through a thick fog of expectations. The compan
62.
by slurry 12y ago
>Attractive woman are going to have such problems as a matter of course. Men are attracted to woman primarily based on their looks People are attracted to all kinds of things. Go out to a big box store in an unfashionable suburb some wee
63.
by slurry 12y ago
>Why does privilege mean that white, male, straight, or non-disabled people are not allowed to say "lighten up" or even express an alternative opinion on these topics? Why are their opinions now less because of their skin color
64.
by slurry 12y ago
Disagree, but upvoted. Magical realism in general and Garcia Marquez in particular are more critically problematic than many realize. I don't think this thread should gloss over that entirely, even if the tone of objection is unlovely.
65.
by slurry 13y ago
I think it's a shame that this comment has been downvoted to hell, because it's actually quite illuminating: the satire in it, such as it is, revolves around the assumption that FOSS politics is equal to or greater in urgency than
66.
by slurry 13y ago
Ghana and (southern) Nigeria, where this guy has been, are among the most urbanized parts of the continent. There are a lot of dense conurbations and they are fairly close to one another. That's obviously relevant for cell service. Man
67.
by slurry 13y ago
What are a couple of really well-run African governments? Interested to know.
68.
by slurry 13y ago
It's like 'libertarian' has become just a generalized synonym for 'clueless douchebag', shorn of policy prescriptions.
69.
by slurry 13y ago
Normally, you are right. 'Lost contact' therefore suggests something very wrong has happened.
70.
by slurry 13y ago
Why would you blame the study authors for doing a correlation study? I know "CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION!!!" is the go-to takedown on the internet, but correlation studies actually can have significant value - otherwise peer-revi
71.
by slurry 13y ago
> (It wasn't so long ago it was pretty much pure sci-fi.) On the other hand full employment through monetary policy is pretty much science fact. Yet neither the United States nor the EU even pretend to pursue it. (China pretty much
72.
by slurry 13y ago
> This discovery excites me because the person also mentions that it has Caucasian characters in the manuscript. That actually, to my mind, increases the probability that it is nothing serious. When Westerners 'discovered' the
73.
by slurry 13y ago
Maintaining a conceptual separation between "VC" and "hedge fund" is probably unhelpful.
74.
by slurry 13y ago
> since the Venezuelan government seems to do the impossible -- running an oil country into the ground. Most oil countries are badly run; and whatever you think of Hugo Chavez and his party, Venezuela was already at least halfway into th
75.
by slurry 13y ago
I'm really surprised at the negative comments regarding VR. It just seems so obvious to me that VR is going to impact the world in a huge way. That seemed really obvious to me in the early 90s, too. I don't mean that to sound di
76.
by slurry 13y ago
I remember Massimo d'Alema (a former prime minister and minister) using "ella" which is some kind of regional/archaic form of "lei".
77.
by slurry 13y ago
Biblical Greek has no formal, only singular/plural. Same with vulgar Latin. Latin and Greek are rude languages and the our father is a rude prayer, so tu/toi/thou are perfectly appropriate.
78.
by slurry 13y ago
I just assume the intelligence community has penetration into YC at an organizational level anyway. (Not to single out YC, just any firm in that class).
79.
by slurry 13y ago
I used to work for him. I agree.
80.
by slurry 13y ago
My point wasn't that Argentina should have fewer parties - historically, there have been two main ones (PJ and UCR). I think more viable parties would have helped. But, if you are going to have a two-ish party system, left-right is IMH
81.
by slurry 13y ago
NB: The Diplomat has strong links to the government of India. It maintains a consistently hawkish editorial stance on China.
82.
by slurry 13y ago
Argentine government is especially bizarre because the party system has historially not made any damn sense at all. People used to give US politics flack for having clear cut left and right parties. But the Argentine party system has typica
83.
by slurry 13y ago
The thing to remember about a CVT is that it's held together by a rubber band. Materials engineering has gotten very good at making stronger rubber bands that don't snap under hard use, but the application you have in mind sounds
84.
by slurry 13y ago
My local supermarket has low prices, and yet sometimes I get things at Costco. Prices are relative. US wages are low relative to historical US wages and wages in comparable countries, yet they are high relative to China et al. There is no c
85.
by slurry 13y ago
"Full time job" -> "side projects". I appreciate the shift.
86.
by slurry 13y ago
In retrospect, those might just be Greek letters written a little fancy rather than astrological symbols. For instance, the circle with a dot could easily be a theta rather than a sun symbol. Current-day astrological glyphs don't seem
87.
by slurry 13y ago
Could have been rolled as an oracle. Although glass strikes me as not the best material for that. Especially ancient glass that didn't have all of the chemical strengtheners that modern glass does It might have been just an object of c
88.
by slurry 13y ago
Overall, technology hasn't really "stabilized" since the loom, either. It has, however, stabilized locally for periods of time in one area of industry or another. And it is likely to do similar things again.
89.
by slurry 13y ago
This is as likely a magical object as a gaming die. Glass would have been expensive for a mere gambling device, whereas bone dice were cheap. It's a Platonic solid found in Egypt, the epicenter of Neoplatonism. And the symbols on the s
90.
by slurry 13y ago
There are contexts (say, the comments section of a story on foreclosure) where "I don't buy a house I can't afford" would be a full-on raging asshole thing to say. But you went further than that: "I also don't

More ›