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I was implying hiring them as programmers and shrinking the HR dept.
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"If someone really thinks their ideas are true and right, then they should have the confidence to see those ideas tried and tested in the real world, against all the alternatives." My idea is that dropping a bomb on you would immeasurab
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by ucee054 14y ago
Why you might want to detest Rand personally may include her "saying European colonists had the right to take land from American Indians" (see wikipedia) or her hypocritical cult-of-personality/adultery (google for Nathanial Branden).
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they tend to be comprised of the only cute girls in the whole company Why's that a reason not to fire the lot of them? You have a harridan making your life miserable with stupid policies but she looks cute ? You call that a good trade? Y
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OT, but: Why the hell do Americans refer to the old-blue collar workers of the 1970s (eg General Motors factory workers) as "middle class"? The term working class was invented for a reason.
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Or you can go after the wall street bankers who launder the drug money, pulling the plug on the pushers' finances.
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Shall we create a liquid, transparent, legal market for murder as well?
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I've been rating my music ever since, and then using playlists I think I spotted your problem.
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I thought Bocconi had a good reputation?
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It is Israel that breaks the ceasefires and starts the violence. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-kanwisher/reigniting-vio...
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If you don't trust them, surely you should stick to procedural. Functional is over their heads, and OOP gets you inheritance spaghetti.
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"jack of all trades" = superior product "master of one" = inferior product see also: Worse Is Better, Innovator's Dilemma
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In case, like me, you like SQL: http://gadfly.sourceforge.net/
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what exactly is the problem with Jews talking about ways in which they were hurt as a group in the past? The problem is with shmerl saying we can't use the phrase "affirmative action". At no point did the OP imply that there was no discr
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No, your criteria are bogus. We simply have to establish that it is not literal usage. Calling someone anti-semitic when you mean prejudiced is euphemistic in exactly the same way it is euphemistic to call someone a Nazi instead whe
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I wish you would say "unix console"; Apple is FreeBSD not Linux
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Agreed. <pedantic> Are you clear that "anti-semitism" carries some meaning other than "prejudice against jews"? So if you use it to mean "prejudice against jews" it is a euphemism . I can give you the history of the term if you lik
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by ucee054 14y ago
Well in the first place framing this discussion mostly around jews is precisely the problem. Don't you understand why it is offensive? The same way it's offensive when my jewish relatives claim the Nazi genocide was the worst catastrophe
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Right back at you
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Universities had national census not only for Jews obviously. Then complain in your comment about all the people treated unfairly, don't mention anti-semitism only. If you don't get this - there is little point in explaining it to
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You weren't talking about those who were discriminated against in Russia, you were talking about jews who were discriminated against in Russia. Implying that all the others who were discriminated against don't count . And there were lo
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by ucee054 14y ago
Don't conflate prejudice with anti-semitism . It's plain insulting.
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From article: "People of other nationalities, like Tatars and Armenians, against whom there were prejudices and persecution— though not nearly on the same scale as against the Jews " The Soviet Union killed Ukrainians by the millions .
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offensive bullshit.my partner is a prof...you ignorant fools The ignorant fool is the one who thinks he has the right not to be offended by the truth. Or the one who generalizes from his personal interest. You want to contest something, d
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Says someone who's never had to do data cleansing for a living. Try telling me you're "passionate" about that .
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it is distinctly the odd-one out because it doesn't even refer to a specific genus Cow can refer to female elephants as well
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The B.Sc...means precious little...What’s way more important to me...is the reason why you did it in the first place. If it’s not because you love it then I’m going to be much less interested in retaining your services, even if your techni
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No, I think the Iranian space program has always been much lower priority than the Iranian demand for healthcare. What really demonstrates how effective the US blockade of technology to Iran really is is all the innocent Iranian civilian
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When the author says the three stage rocket is simple, he is saying that that rocket is simple, not that three stages is simple. The author's English is correct with the meaning but can be misread. He hasn't used English that can be una
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a country with relatively unstable government is making progress toward having ballistic missile capabilities Is unstable a euphemism for bad bad bad or do you actually know a damn thing about Iranian stability? And who is Iran unstab

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