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by spitx 13y ago
"Chemical castration is the administration of medication designed to reduce libido and sexual activity. Unlike surgical castration, where the testicles or ovaries are removed through an incision in the body, chemical castr
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by spitx 13y ago
Malarkey. Jobs would breathe fire when hes incensed or inflamed. Furiousness is a skill that your kind cannot internalize. It brings out the best when rightly meant and rightly utilized. One has a right to be inflamed when his or her world
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by spitx 13y ago
I do not think HN frowns on inflammatory speech if worded deftly. If you are inflamed, your speech should be inflammatory. Anything less will be intellectually dishonest.
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by spitx 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds like an interesting read. Here's a review of the "Study Edition" of this book: "How much mathematics can there be? they are asked. Instructors in a Mathematical Experience course must be prepare
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by spitx 13y ago
>That even if we find a Grand Unified Theory of Everything that fully explains the physical world, we'll never run out of things to discover. That's odd. In my experience, these detours in these discussions come as a result of how vague
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by spitx 13y ago
"For centuries, mathematicians have strived towards a single goal: to understand how the universe works, and describe it." I cannot resist engaging that loaded premise. It is a thought that I've wanted - for some time - for some
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by spitx 13y ago
The critique is really porous and rife with contradictions. I won't even bother paring them down. One example: The other thing that Miller totally glosses over (or is just ignorant of) is that the one-child policy is a) very badly
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by spitx 13y ago
Have a cookie. You're delirious. United States being in the top five capital punish-er list conveniently masks the fact that the top culprit, China, is in a league all by itself. Its several orders more depraved. Its several orders higher t
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by spitx 13y ago
Perusing the same global distribution list of capital punishment shows 43 American executions. Do not spout falsities here. You will be called out. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Global_distr... Meanwhile your "wo
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by spitx 13y ago
"Although the state has only recently taken an official role in the control of human reproduction, its current policies stem from the age-old concept of the individual's responsibility to the collective. It is this emphasi
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by spitx 13y ago
I've heard of this cozy relationship before, sporadically at best. Could you elaborate on this? Links to definitive works on this subject by respected scholars and experts would be great.
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by spitx 13y ago
"When I learned about Chinese eugenics this summer, I was astonished that its population policies had received so little attention. China makes no secret of its eugenic ambitions, in either its cultural history or its governme
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by spitx 13y ago
In case you are not, at first brush, convinced that "specialists" with "vast amount of expertise" in organizations of national importance are routinely found to be incompetent schleps easily manipulated by your average conman, we can hop ov
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by spitx 13y ago
So mediocre opportunists who fill the ranks of nearly every outfit in America do not appall you? The brain trust in most companies doesn't fill a beer boot.
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by spitx 13y ago
This is what consistently appalls me ( and yet astounds me at the same time ) That companies and organizations are full of utterly untalented and wholly ill-suited & miserable folks who somehow lucked into lofty and well-paying jobs. An
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by spitx 13y ago
Thiel had hammered home these points before, yet no one seems to take notice. Links to video footage of past debates and conversations: A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-rxtwhzcY
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by spitx 13y ago
I think the low-cachet quotient society bestows on technology is the huge carcass no one wants to talk about. It is the real answer why we cannot get enough women early on in the STEM pipeline. It is the real answer why technology workers h
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by spitx 13y ago
I loathe the fact that Thiel's arguments do not get enough purchase even within the technology circles. Argument 1 The fact - and it is very much a fact - that, off late, technology hasn't progressed very much at all. Argument 2 And that ou
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by spitx 13y ago
Hogwash. On a scale of measurement of worthiness of a certain quality - any quality - if you fare so many orders in the negative that you barely register on the scale at all, it is generally held that you nary have a claim to call into ques
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by spitx 13y ago
This is utter balderdash. A nation that executes thousands of its citizens yearly, while also arranging sham trials and allowing affluent perpetrators to have body doubles serve lengthy prison sentences, should be the last to point
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Facebook Director Jim Breyer To Step Down(bloomberg.com)
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by spitx 13y ago
Huawei's chairwoman, Sun Yafang, worked for Chinese intelligence before joining Huawei. Source(s): http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.com/2011/10/huaweis-chairwoman-w... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fSL5mPB_18Q/TphTDDqd2OI/AAAAAAAAAI... http://w
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by spitx 13y ago
At least UseHipster (dot) com had a (moribund) byline. Source: http://www.communiquepr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/...
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by spitx 13y ago
All other things on parity, your daughter stands to edge ahead of her peers applying to elite universities due to her unique upbringing and the element of life experience quotient it adds to her candidacy. Unless of course she is in competi
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by spitx 13y ago
I didn't mean to draw attention to the uproar over Summers' comments. If I hadn't been upfront about that portion, I was certain that people would try to scuttle the validity of the comments on Irish-Americans in light of what he said about
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by spitx 13y ago
There are several problems with corralling peoples of varying regional backgrounds into a neat label or two. This poses a problem for the sake of consideration of applicants for admission into institutions of higher learning not unlike it d
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by spitx 13y ago
We cannot continue to condone this kind of antagonism. This cannot be good.
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by spitx 13y ago
You cannot even begin to understand the degree of disdain these folks have for techies without reading Rebecca Solnit's diatribe on Silicon Valley's employee shuttles ruining the city. Source: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/di
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by spitx 13y ago
I think Durga's comment on the NYT site puts it best: While the above story describes a real problem in SF, it ignores two much more significant contributors to the issue that interlock with the effects of tech money. First, SF r
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by spitx 13y ago
UPDATE 6: 08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2, the man who is still on the run. Sunil Tripathi, a philosophy major at Brown University has been missing for

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