thenmar

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by thenmar 12y ago
Um, it did come from a Native American group. Not that your opinion on whether or not something is an "actual movement" matters to anyone but yourself...
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by thenmar 12y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "the left"?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Evidence of fasting having value is interesting, but I wouldn't put much stock in the "wisdom of the ancestors".
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by thenmar 12y ago
Can you find ANY evidence of this loophole holding up in court? You seem really sure but a quick google suggests that it's just as unrealistic and urban legendy as it sounds.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Not that I disagree, but it's not like you'd notice if a car hadn't been inspected for years and had a non-functioning airbag. At least not until you needed it.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Can you elaborate on how lawyers are "member[s] of the protection racket"?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Nice find. The account is an hour old, and is named after a meme referring to government incompetence/absurdity. I wonder how long they brainstormed that.
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by thenmar 12y ago
I think it'll be good to break out of the polluted and meaningless .com namespace.
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by thenmar 12y ago
I dunno, seems pretty honest to me. It's what they concluded, isn't it? A correlation that should be further studied.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Which subreddits are you talking about? (out of curiosity, since my experience with reddit, even with smaller subreddits, is almost entirely negative)
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by thenmar 12y ago
Did you read the complaint, or at least the first few pages of it? I'm as big a fan of the Rift as anyone, but as another commenter said, it is "pretty damning" if you look at it objectively.
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by thenmar 12y ago
I think this is a joke but I don't get it... could you explain please?
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by thenmar 12y ago
I don't have a lot of hope for environmental issues. Cable news has managed to turn climate change into a debate where everyone's opinion matters. You even see people who should really know better, on sites like hackernews, saying
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by thenmar 12y ago
What way is that? Reddit's staff are intentionally hands-off and it really shows. In fact, the only successfully moderated subreddit of any significant size I can think of is r/askhistorians.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Here are the two main problems with this comment: -"lawyers are greedy" trope isn't really true, most lawyers would prefer to settle than go to trial (trial is more profitable for the lawyer) because it's a satisfying wi
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by thenmar 12y ago
What's a "Social Justice Warrior"?
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by thenmar 12y ago
If you'd like to confirm this, spend five minutes reading the comments section on any mainstream-media article about climate change.
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by thenmar 12y ago
The flip side, of course, is the non-technical CEO walking down to engineering and shouting, "We need more money! Double the number of lines of code you are producing!"
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by thenmar 12y ago
I think it will probably be much more complicated than that. Suppose the car is controlled by an artificial neural network that has been trained with a combination of real world experience and human-generated driving data. There is no giant
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by thenmar 12y ago
I'm having trouble understanding what point you're trying to make. Is it that if a computer bug causes an accident, the victim wouldn't have an individual to fantasize about getting revenge on? That the company that developed
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by thenmar 12y ago
Wikipedia says Swedish drivers can't get a fully-privileged license until they're 20 or 21. Compare that to the U.S. where in many states a 16 year old who took a single practical driving test is considered fully qualified. I wond
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by thenmar 12y ago
I'm replying to this because I can't reply to ForHackernews's comment, but this really needs to be said: "patriarchy" is most certainly NOT "vague and ill-defined to the point of meaninglessness". To say t
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by thenmar 12y ago
I'm curious about how controversial this post seems. It has been bouncing back and forth from light gray to black. Is it that people disagree with educating others? That they have a knee-jerk reaction to the word "patriarchy"
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by thenmar 12y ago
Perhaps, but taking it at face value is dangerously close to thinking it's okay to tell somebody to "man up" or "laugh it off" when they're offended by sexist/racist/offensive comments. Remember, in h
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by thenmar 12y ago
Well, yeah, that is how you do science, actually.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Thank you for posting this. I don't understand how climate change denialism is such a popular opinion among people who _should_ know better.
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by thenmar 12y ago
How so? The capital investments are too high. Regulation is the only thing that has successfully created competition to monopolies in our economic history.
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by thenmar 12y ago
I don't think this is the best analogy. Understanding a "full stack" isn't so you can manage specialists, it's necessary to _be_ a specialist so you can build something that you know doesn't have an obviously i
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by thenmar 13y ago
Users connect their card to the Uber app. Drivers simply press "start trip" and "end trip" (on their own device, after having accepted the call and arriving at the pickup location) - all the billing is done by Uber. The
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by thenmar 13y ago
I asked an Uber driver about surge pricing once, and he said that he doesn't see what the surge rate is. He just gets texts from Uber sometimes saying, "demand is off the charts! get out there!" So it's interesting to he

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