travmatt

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by travmatt 9y ago
China represses it’s own citizens and would gladly blow other countries citizens to bits too
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by travmatt 9y ago
Your suggestion is that by ending the Pax Americana, everyone would be safer?
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by travmatt 9y ago
I’ve found it fascinating that people cannot coherently talk about a different nations moral failings without equivocating and falling back onto moral relativism and what-aboutism regarding how the US is just bad. Funnily enough, the EU is
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by travmatt 9y ago
What am I not getting? How lazy I am once in bed.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I’m reading a book, “The Great Game”, about the 18th century geopolitical competition between Russia and the UK to control swaths of Central Asia. A good portion of the book is just explaining the dates and destinations of secret expedition
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by travmatt 9y ago
If you're interested in the formation of states you'd probably be interested in Francis Fukuyama's "Origins of Political Order". He starts from small bands of hunter-gatherers and explores some factors that drove
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by travmatt 9y ago
IIRC there’s an ongoing breeding program a Russian researcher is conducting with foxes - explicitly breeding the friendliest individuals. In addition to the ears drooping, others morphological differences manifested - the friendliest animal
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by travmatt 9y ago
If you found that interesting, you’d probably also like “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell. A major theme is how major elements of ‘ghetto’ culture actually derive from the North-Britons and Scot’s these people lived near.
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by travmatt 9y ago
It’s really only ‘interesting’ to the extent one finds its hard to believe that people would harm another on the basis of their supposed sexual orientation. Otherwise it just sounds like humans finding more pretexts to harm each other, whic
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by travmatt 9y ago
I prefer them for exactly this reason - I’ve learned that I actually prefer less novelty in my playlists than I previously assumed. Spotify seems to understand this, and incrementally alters my playlists, moving through tracks and doing a g
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by travmatt 9y ago
Even if you get the first shot in, there’s no guarantee that the persons friend won’t hit you in the back of the head with a bottle of beer and leave you struggling with a nasty concussion. Or the person you hit strikes their head on a hard
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by travmatt 9y ago
If I’m understanding where you are currently, I’d recommend Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial. It really bridged the gap between hello world type tutorials and how a modern framework functions.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I just did the same. Such a strong feeling of nostalgia
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by travmatt 9y ago
If one doesn’t believe that a market with only two companies could be competitive, they should consider Uber and Lyft. I wouldn’t be surprised if employees from each dressed up in war paint and brawled a la The Warriors.
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by travmatt 9y ago
It’s odd how you are trying to misrepresent and confuse other people about the truth.
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by travmatt 9y ago
"A lawyer who happened to be Russian" is an extraordinarily significant misrepresentation of who Natalia Veselnitskaya is.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I picked up vim very well from vim adventures. Once I finished the game those key movements were in my muscle memory, and that’s all that was really needed to get me up and running.
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by travmatt 9y ago
It’s more like the “I don’t know what else I was expecting” meme from Arrested Development.
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by travmatt 9y ago
Have we instituted similar reforms for med students, or do they still compete on the basis of how little sleep they get?
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by travmatt 9y ago
I feel like the trick in modern piracy isn't finding a ship, rather knowing how to survive once the US Navy shows up.
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IIRC Bloomberg terminals have pretty extensive information regarding shipping.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I'm not a trader but that still stands as one of my favorite books, it's wonderfully written
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by travmatt 9y ago
I've heard some Brits complain about American misdeeds throughout the Middle East without a hint hypocrisy crossing their face.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I've heard of people getting small concussions from riding jet skis across choppy water
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by travmatt 9y ago
To whomever inside the ad industry that keeps making remarks such as this, I'd suggest that this is equivalent to free advertising for Apple.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I'd suggest that your sentiments map very nicely onto a rationalist view of the world but poorly onto reality. I think this more generally falls into a bias some hyper-logical people propagate, that since they assume they make decision
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by travmatt 9y ago
> [Durov] The encryption of Signal (=WhatsApp, FB) was funded by the US Government. I predict a backdoor will be found there within 5 years from now... If you can't win an argument on the merits, spew unfounded sensational accusatio
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by travmatt 9y ago
IIRC correctly gold has been a popular currency because it has properties that allow it to fulfill the functions of a currency quite easily - it's uniform size and weight and overall geographic availability lend nicely to being a unit
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by travmatt 9y ago
You also have to look at the scope of the work performed too, wouldn't you?
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Assuming this service held some type of protected information (i.e., credit card data) I'd assume that such conduct would constitute a negligence of some variety.

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