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by thwest 14y ago
If food safety was prioritized above profit they could afford to hire employees that aren't idiot assholes.
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by thwest 14y ago
Death threats aren't the only thing a government can do to reduce the reliability of the press. Whistle blower prosecutions, contempt of court charges for journalists protecting sources, NYT shelving articles until after elections, the tipt
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by thwest 14y ago
Where do you get your information regarding the environmental costs of manufacturing and disposal of vehicles and large appliances so that you can make this judgement?
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by thwest 14y ago
Reads more like a resume than reasons for leaving.
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by thwest 14y ago
Yeah, a lot of people feel like its an action movie level parody of the genre.
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by thwest 14y ago
The more fundamental flaw is how to drive _on_ a mile per gallon rate.
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by thwest 14y ago
Agreed. The most frustrations I've had with google lately is when it assumes I care about some cluster of social chatter that vaguely intersects with my search terms.
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by thwest 14y ago
That has not been my experience at all, even at primarily Windows targeting shops. Yes, Windows devs do love Visual Studio for intellisense and debugging. However, the few that I've met that weren't competent with gcc/cygwin/ssh/git/cmake/&
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by thwest 14y ago
Is this comment intended to be a critique of the speech, or in concurrence with the speech?
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by thwest 14y ago
View full curriculum isn't working either.
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by thwest 14y ago
Most signals you get by sampling real world objects will be fairly sparse. You can expect anywhere between 50% and 95% of the coefficients in a wavelet or fourier domain to be near zero depending on the class of signal. However, be wary of
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by thwest 14y ago
On Mayday of all days such a characterization of Marxism as the extreme on a 1D number line of political responses to urbanization feels simplistic. Of the infinitude of academic distinctions of Marx's writing to be raised here, the distinc
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by thwest 14y ago
My point is that we don't need to crouch this argument in conditionals. I have no qualms shunning ugly behaviors no matter how "successful" they are.
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by thwest 14y ago
You would be happy with a definition of success that allows for the sidelining of an entire gender?
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by thwest 14y ago
This argument rings hollow at every university where I've encountered it. Universities are educational institutions and athletics are great but if they produce surplus it has an obligation to fund academic activities first and foremost. Phr
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by thwest 14y ago
The industry isn't sticking its head in the sand, they are out there aggressively purchasing content creation to ensure that the most interesting content is only delivered through their pipes. They're going out with all guns blazing in orde
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by thwest 15y ago
Banding is fundamentally a problem with Bayer Filter sensors. Bring back prism spectral modulation 3CCD before you are considered cinema quality in my book.
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by thwest 15y ago
The purpose of the camo didn't have to change, the purpose of computer vision has been to mimic the human visual system already. Both systems of perception take pains to match the sensed scene against expected structure of objects in the na
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by thwest 15y ago
We can still agree homakov doesn't deserve this kind of lingering resentment on behalf of the OP.
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by thwest 15y ago
Thanks for having people answer feedback with real emails. My feedback has been mostly about the existence of malware-wrapped download links for popular tools like FileZilla, PuTTY, vlc, etc. I've gotten good support responses that have rem
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by thwest 15y ago
I hope they issued a personal one to @shanley as well. Their argumentation was way worse than the video.
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by thwest 15y ago
PCs will stick around, of course. The worry for me is that when PCs serve only engineers and content creators the production scales will diminish, and prices increase.
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by thwest 15y ago
I have have better luck with awesomebar personally. My searches tend to hit words in URLs and titles of history before I actually want to duckduckgo. Omnibox also breaks my usage pattern for intranet (no tld) URLs.
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by thwest 15y ago
Why is this a problem for Mozilla but not a problem for VLC? I've found the VLC firefox plugin more stable than flash, downsides being it doesn't always get detected by javascript feature tests and UI integration isn't the greatest.
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by thwest 15y ago
Agreed. At certain scales, it no longer makes sense to give primary mover status to humans within institutions. It is important to realize that there are several mechanisms within institutions that alter the values they serve. It makes more
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by thwest 15y ago
And here I am, just wishing someone could sell me awesome $10/mo email without feeling the need to leverage my presence on the mass media cognitive battleground.
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by thwest 15y ago
Perhaps it is easier to explore the limits of individual ownership when they are taken to the extreme, rather than to a minimum asshole status example. Consider that an entrepreneur could obtain ownership of an entire nation purely through
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by thwest 15y ago
Of course one expects marketing mental diseases to be effective! 'Its not your fault, take a pill and it will all go away' certainly has mass emotional appeal. However, the article is not too convincing about the methodology of excluding ma
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by thwest 15y ago
If you want to raise the level of discourse on the internet is it your obligation to object to people's core statements, rather than ancillary fallacies that might surround them. Did you ever answer this from cmhammil? I simply ask yo
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by thwest 15y ago
Some are primed to blanch at transhumanism; Some are primed to accept a class-based social hierarchy as simply mundane and not an ethical issue. Every new privilege granted to the top socioeconomic class is an appropriate opportunity to ask

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