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by tkahn6 14y ago
Maybe you think you and others are a target of 'whimsical retorts' not because you are the target of 'whimsical retorts' but because you have a poor grasp of what legitimate rhetoric is. Your claim is that there is manipulation of reddit. M
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by tkahn6 14y ago
So it's impossible for people to find that little factoid about Mountain Dew genuinely interesting and therefore it must be a corporate conspiracy that it reached the front page of /r/TIL? Absolute pure insanity. And why then is reddit's ob
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Ah yes there is 'flood' of pro-Israel comments so it must be a conspiracy. And what about the 'flood' of anti-Israel comments? How very reddit of you.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
You live in a Western country. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a Western people, people very similar to you. It was systematic and calculated, not a result of wild raping and pillaging. It was not the result of famine. That's why we focus
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by tkahn6 14y ago
That's orthogonal to my point. Teacher quality or competence in assessing quality, doesn't have anything to do with whether they assign grades in the ways I've enumerated. I've had absolutely amazing teachers that have graded in those three
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by tkahn6 14y ago
These are orthogonal issues and thus can both effect the value of a report card. Beyond that, I agree with your point.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
> The report card. Grades are assigned in three ways 1) Relative to the skill your teacher believes you have 2) Relative to the rest of the class 3) Absolutely based on what the teacher individually believes constitutes mastery of the m
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Formal education, in a lot of ways, is a very dehumanizing experience. Vanishingly few students give an iota of a damn about critical thinking, about understanding the implications of what they are reading or studying, trying to make connec
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Battling College Costs, a Paycheck at a Time(nytimes.com)
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by tkahn6 14y ago
In my experience, the people who talk about America being the most violent, the most corrupt, etc. are the ones who also like to decry 'American exceptionalism'. And if you think that non-Americans don't think about Americans that much, I s
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by tkahn6 14y ago
How do you know that it is Americans who are pushing that narrative?
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Thanks, that's informative. I agree that it weakens my argument
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by tkahn6 14y ago
> That's a separate issue from hashtags. Not when they're trending nationally.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
That's a straw man. The point is that they were trending.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Do you have any examples of racist hashtags trending on Twitter in the US?
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Sounds like France is pretty racist and hateful in general. Can you imagine #AGoodJew or #AGoodNegro trending in the US? That's absurd. I don't see how censoring the tweets will fix that or change anything. So much for fraternité.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Something interesting to note is that the complexity and internal coupling in GCC was an intentional design decision by GNU to make it harder for non-free software projects to make use of gcc. Here's a pretty good talk about the philosoph
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Oh wow that's cool.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Is there a reason you chose to drop a class and not just do it in your free time and take a hit on your GPA for the semester?
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0.052%
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by tkahn6 14y ago
The change in policy means that instead of needing 0.013% of the voting age population to sign your petition you need 0.052%. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28+25%2C000+people+%2F... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28+100%2C
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Swartz is dead, so I don't know what pardoning him now would accomplish other than securing a useless symbolic 'victory'.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
There's a difference between international and domestic security policy.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
$1MM is not a fantastical figure. Not every lawyer can mount an adequate defense in a federal criminal case and the ones that can cost a lot of money. As for sentencing, it doesn't matter. He shouldn't have been charged in the first place a
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Aaron was charged with a federal crime for what should have been a civil matter. He was charged with 35 years in prison and his legal defense would have cost him over $1MM. That's wrong. I don't want to live in a society where that is accep
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by tkahn6 14y ago
> Think about Kim Dotcom, Bradley, the British bloke you chaps tried to get, copyright stuff, patent stuff, hell, think about damn drone strikes which I assume will begin to happen in the US eventually. Well there's no common thread tha
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by tkahn6 14y ago
Yes, he claimed that. It doesn't make it true. His own father believed that he was involved.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
I have something similar in my .tmux.conf file Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/u6JY0.png Config file: https://github.com/tylerkahn/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf... Works with OSX and Linux.
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by tkahn6 14y ago
I would love to use it but last time this came up (almost a year ago), people voiced security concerns. Any different perspectives on this now?
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by tkahn6 14y ago
The examples you give are idiosyncrasies that shouldn't be in your code base in the first place (IMHO). These are things that vary from language to language and trusting yourself and others who are going to be reading your code to keep trac

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