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by stolio 12y ago
> (The idea that she was doing it for the money, because of her husband's finances, I find absurd. I could be wrong but I didn't see it as remotely likely that she'd get $16M, even if she won.) Don't be fooled, there&
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by stolio 12y ago
As tbrownaw points out elsewhere they apparently do have an explanation and maybe even the ability to predict the behavior. Essentially this isn't _that_ far away from more common things like paramagnetism and diamagnetism where electr
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by stolio 12y ago
Now we need tangible proof? Now somebody speculating on the internet is unacceptable? When Robin Thicke was attacked for penning a "date-rape anthem" were you the voice of reason in that conversation encouraging people to act
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by stolio 12y ago
Grow up. There's a world of difference between being a zealot and pointing out that Torvalds didn't clone the Unix system in a year. He built the kernel, he did it well and he deserves credit for it. For the same reasons he d
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by stolio 12y ago
You could at least explain why you're downvoting? Is it * Suggesting this is a fishy case of copyright infringement? * Pointing out a powerful political group has been attacking the song since it came out? * Disagreeing wit
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by stolio 12y ago
> I've personally tried a few distros of Linux, originally developed by Linus Torvalds. Is there some Intro To Linux we can point just people to in order to avoid things like this? The "GNU slash Linux" conversation is
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by stolio 12y ago
You may underestimate him, Pharell's probably written well over a thousand songs. He has 59 songs with wikipedia pages! You're absolutely right about people writing fast though. Even Bob Dylan wrote some of his songs in under 20
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by stolio 12y ago
People _hate_ the song. Since it came out feminists have attacked it as a "date-rape anthem"[0] and Robin Thicke has become the poster boy for everything wrong with world. It would be a pretty big coincidence if this copyright
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by stolio 12y ago
....you do realize that Steve Jobs built the power structure he sat on top of, that it floundered when they pushed him out in the 80's, then became successful again when they hired him back in the 90's?
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by stolio 12y ago
Sounds like your bike shop friend as an incredibly rare skill-set to pull that off. Out of a million people how many of them could start a successful chain while still a teenager, even with great luck?
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by stolio 12y ago
Well. If the average size of firms has gone up so has market concentration. Market concentration brings market power, market power brings arrangements that favor those who hold that power. In general, markets with low concentration are de
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by stolio 12y ago
OK, I've spent too much time on this. First, sorry but no excuses for releasing questionable studies that will spread like wildfire due to confirmation bias. Just because something is 'girl positive' doesn't mean we sho
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by stolio 12y ago
Perhaps it depends on how you distribute "vanilla" across the "or"? I read it as "(vanilla BSD) or FreeBSD" but perhaps you meant "vanilla BSD or vanilla FreeBSD" I don't agree that 'the pe
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by stolio 12y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted and at the very bottom of the thread. If the article is true, youtube/google is using their market power in one sector to limit artistic and creative decisions in another sector. If mastering houses si
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by stolio 12y ago
> ...finding that women CEOs in the Fortune 1000 drive three times the returns as S&P 500 enterprises run predominantly by men. Apples to oranges. Why not compare female-CEO companies in the Fortune 1000 to male-CEO companies from t
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by stolio 12y ago
Somebody should tell Apple to change their docs then: > Darwin 1.4.1 is the UNIX-based, open-source foundation of Mac OS X. It is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies and provides protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking. Thi
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by stolio 12y ago
That Apple has a huge amount of mindshare but nobody realizes how much of OSX is based on BSD/FreeBSD is a problem. The license is a success in the sense that the code is being used, but it's failed to protect the project/bra
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by stolio 12y ago
> Marvin Gaye's biographer, David Ritz, sided with Gaye's family, though he said he's uncertain whether from a legal standpoint "Blurred Lines" technically infringes the copyright on Gaye's song. But looking
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by stolio 12y ago
Here's the pith: > "At the base of it, we do need those 13 vitamins. If you don’t have enough of them, you’ll die in often quite gruesome ways. Scurvy is a horrible disease. It prevents your body from making collagen, which is
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by stolio 12y ago
It's relevant because problems like this default to being the result of "the patriarchy" or sexism. OTOH you could argue that women were kept out of skateboarding because the entire thing moved below the glass floor (the oppo
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by stolio 12y ago
Funny thing is it jumped up to +3 karma really quickly before going negative. It was -4 before I went to bed and now it's at -2. It looks like the downvoters aren't trying to kill it, they just want it gray. It's not like I
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by stolio 12y ago
Wasn't the central point of the article that skateboarding is a sexist non-meritocracy and that it parallels the tech industry? I could have done more but I tried to address the first two claims in the amount of time I have to spend o
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by stolio 12y ago
Just because "the target demographic of commercial skateboard culture shrank drastically" doesn't mean it was a conscious or subconscious decision of anybody involved in the industry. I'm sure there were plenty of skate
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by stolio 12y ago
It's really not sexism that freestyle went out of fashion. All the guys that did freestyle were left behind, too. They were also laughed at and ridiculed. The only reason Rodney Mullen kept his career going is he learned to skate str
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by stolio 12y ago
> allowing technology that makes it safer and less intertwined with criminal world seems would seem like a positive step forward. No copy editing? At least proof-read the dang thing. There's no reason to write an article like this
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by stolio 12y ago
We're well above my pay grade here but this is how I look at it. A different system of mechanics is a different system of math, basically. One system of mechanics can have many interpretations but those interpretations may not be expe
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by stolio 12y ago
I'm well aware of the adoption rates of Bohmian Mechanics. What I object to is dismissing it as being the product of emotions and not differing ideas about the universe. On that graph 42% went to the Copenhagen Interpretation whose fa
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by stolio 12y ago
You can reject Bohmians as being emotionally attached to their ideas, but you can also reject non-Bohmians for the same reason. Many (most?) who grasp quantum mechanics on any level feel they've climbed an important intellectual mount
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by stolio 12y ago
Back to harping on the superiority complex? > Now, if you're going to criticize work within the philosophy of science, it's impossible for me to respond unless you point to something specific. I did. The quality of the student
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by stolio 12y ago
(I am not a string theorist.) String theory makes plenty of testable predictions, they just aren't new so it has to compete with Quantum Mechanics. It gets into questions of how to choose between multiple theories that make the sam

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