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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism http://www.quora.com/What-scientific-evidence-is-there-to-di... http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrintro.htm http://science-beta
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On my Linux MINT machine, chrome keeps doing something[1] that ends up locking up my whole machine and I have to hard-reboot. It got to a point where I actually had to set up Ctrl+Alt+K to issue "pkill -9 chrome" so as soon as I
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This is like being angry at a public library because it didn't write any of the books it contains.
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If I found out my black son & daughter were being looked after by one of those two....
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That is a long story. But in short, I was just an average gamer/jpop/anime fan like all my college friends. We all fantasied about getting to Capcom & SquareSoft. A lot of them worked at places like Gamestop, from there a few
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http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/09/pove... Take from it what you will. One thing is for sure, it definitely can become an endless cycle once those 2 events (bad decision(s) and
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You're right. Hopefully one day HN (or any online anonymous'ish forum) can reach a point where this conversation can happen, but that day is not today.
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Flagged. And I don't think I've ever flagged anything on HN before. HN has made _huge_ improvements in quality around discussions related to racism/sexism/diversity in the tech scene, but even I know that any #ferguson
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See how much better your comment is now? You should have just said this to begin with.
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>>I mean, how do they keep everything synced between the sheets that contain salaries/benefits, severance actions, etc.? (shudder) From my years working with at&t's payroll system, Export-to-csv out of SAP(www.sap.com)
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So, I'm totally with you on all these foreign-boogeyman stories but this one is a bit different: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30283573 >>"When asked if it was involved in the attack a spokesman f
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No, you're wrong. People can give you whatever source code they want. That doesn't meant it's the same as what's running in production. While this is tin-foil-hat paranoia, when it comes to encryption software in this po
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I'm not sure if this is what the OP meant, but this[1] is what I think of when I hear anyone mention "Truecrypt". 1. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/nsa-paranoia-has-fanned-the...
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Wow, that was fast. That's the end of my idea.
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I've been thinking about how to stop toxic and/or drive-by comments like yours. One idea I've had is a new account shouldn't be allowed to comment until 24hrs after the most recent login until it reaches 7 karma. The onl
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Ya know... at the end of the book "War and Piece", they really get into this stuff for quite a few pages. http://books.google.com/books?id=5ftPAQAAIAAJ&printsec=front... Page 330, Search for the sentence &qu
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>> I can assure you that the "junior" period covers at least 5 years. You can't assure that. There are super sharp people out there with less than 3 years of experience that know a whole lot and there are devs with 10
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I would pay money to enroll in a class dedicated to game console hacking of this depth.
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>>You could just have the servlet write "Hello World" directly. It's been years since I've had to write a Java webapp, but from what I remember using the servlet code to directly write the webpage output was cons
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>>Setting up any web stack is a pain in the ass and probably just as long of a tutorial. I beg to differ. http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html#quickstart-hello-... http://howtonode.org&#x2
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They had their growing pains to be sure, but I'd still say they're the best if you have a USA bank account.
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>>Perhaps you don't know how time consuming getting decent at programming is It sounds like your advice is "Becoming a programmer is too much work, go do something else". The definition of "decent" varies
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>>I expect most us agree that banks _should_ be held accountable for the legitimacy of their customers behaviour. I don't think most people have this expectation. Banks to be accountable for customers breaking law? What's
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Furthermore, I wonder how many threats to police officers are happening right now on facebook due to a controversial grand jury decision that happened very recently. Do we want to investigate and/or arrest all those people? ....granted
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Please, as if the ISC could deal with the insane amount of false alarms it would get. This[1] would happen multiple times a day because nobody can tell the different between a joke & a real threat... except teenagers and people who &quo
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I'm still of the mindset that the problem is transportation in the Bay Area. If I had a magic wand and I could wave it and we all woke up tomorrow to a nonstop-bullet-BART train that goes 100mph from San Francisco to Mountain View, Pal
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Assuming this to be true (and I generally do) , you end up with a different problem - that of resentment. There are groups of people who will be upset that they couldn't get into a school because they were the "wrong" race. S
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>>Most visas (in particular, the OPT in question and the H1B) allow very easy work-permit transfer to other employers. I don't know about the OPT thing, but H1B situations vary[1]. If Obama and his advisers can change the law s
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I feel like being siloed would actually increase the probability of dissent happening. Leaving you all by yourself to question the rules you follow. Of course I suspect a certain IQ and/or education level is needed for this kind of sel
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What is it that you have against underrepresented people? Every post about them you're there to say "Nope, it's their own fault." . I only give you the benefit of the doubt because tptacek has you listed in his HN profi

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