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by vivekd 7y ago
I think what she is saying is true, unfortunately the article is a bit shallow. I went into this article looking for examples of behaviours that mark people for victimization and strategies for changing those behaviours. I didn't fin
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I think puppy linux and tinycore are the lightest ones Ive heard of. Haven't tried either yet, I find mainstream distros like debian are still light enough for most old computers.
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Certainly, and it puts the company at risk of a discrimination suit along with the associated fallout when you have arbitrary whim based termination practices like this.
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by vivekd 7y ago
Here in Canada the prosecution would have quickly withdrawn the charges. It's pretty clear that they were acting under the color of law, given that the State admitted they hired them. If they went beyond the contract, it seems pretty
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by vivekd 7y ago
That would be completely irrational and indefensible, but it's also not what Stallman wrote. What he wrote was that Epstien had the power to force his victims to act as they were willing. Stallman said he believes the victim was bein
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by vivekd 7y ago
To be fair to Stallman though, he later recanted on those positions. I can't remember the exact post but he said something along the lines of how someone explained to him how much pedophilia harms children and so he has since recanted
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by vivekd 7y ago
So the cost of an apartment is $4000 and medium income for new employees is $10000 according to the article. Am I missing something - that seems more affordable than most major metropolitan areas. With two incomes that would be more than e
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by vivekd 7y ago
I heard UPS and Ali Baba have both started experimenting with drone deliveries in China. It seems we're falling behind in this market so hopefully Flirty experiences success. Faster and cheaper deliveries could add billions to the ec
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My mother was a teaching assistant at a small private school. There was one girl there whose parents wouldn't let her have her smart phone and she was the only one with no phine. So a group of girls ran a fundraising drive to get her
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by vivekd 7y ago
I looked into flat earthers are little on the internet because it just seemed like such an out there idea that I wanted to see how they justified it. A lot of it seems to be based on them misunderstanding refraction and the way light behave
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Ubuntu shares software search results with Amazon(gnu.org)
2 points by vivekd 7y ago|0 comments
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by vivekd 7y ago
I think the disturbing question that this brings up is: Given that so many judges are willing to abuse stun belts and turn them into a morbid torture device, how can we trust these people to adequately decide important criminal cases. In my
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by vivekd 7y ago
>management says he or she is an ahole but do the most work and everything they say os true Now the question is whether management has a clear picture of what is happening on the floor. Do they know who the top performers are or is mana
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by vivekd 7y ago
I built my small biz website using django and a previous one ib php. Currently Im rebuilding in amp. I built a python webscraper to get names of competitors and another python program that calulated serverance pay entitlement. Short term s
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by vivekd 7y ago
Amature hobby programmer here . . . yeah Im not going to do what the author suggested. I have no plans on working in the field. I dont care about functional programming or abstraction. I just see a task or project I think will be cool, g
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I know my dad was loyal to the company he worked for, and he declined many other better offers, gave up seeing his family, and devoted himself to them. Some time later, the corporation was bought up, his immediate boss left and he was down
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by vivekd 7y ago
Doesnt seem to make much sense for defense unless you're defending against a small group of attackers since you cant fit many defending forces on the Crannog. If it was protection from raiders or animals using those stones to build a w
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by vivekd 7y ago
This is an interesting claim but after reading the article I feel like I came out having learned nothing more than I did from reading the headline. What genes were involved? What was the methadology? What is the correlation rate between th
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by vivekd 7y ago
Could causation be an issue here? I mean people who are already generally unhappy are more likely to be pursuing happiness while generally content people are unlikely to have the pursuit of happiness as one of their goals. Perhaps it isn&
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by vivekd 7y ago
Funny, I'm East Indian, I've spent 3 years in America (Michigan) and the rest of my life in Canada, I don't think I've ever in my life had someone say "go back to India." This is not to say that I've neve
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by vivekd 7y ago
But to be creative you need to do lots of hard work. For example being able to do a creative task like playing or creating a new song on an instrument requires practicing many hours on with different chords and positions to get good at the
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by vivekd 7y ago
That seems to be the whole push of this article - relabling environmental discourse using words like terrorism and genocide in new and unusual ways to provoke an emotional reaction.
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by vivekd 7y ago
This is an interesting story and I would like to learn more about libra-coin. Unfortunately I think hackernews has a strong anti-facebook bias that is making the opinions here nearly universally one sided. I think we can say three things f
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by vivekd 7y ago
I'm an early adopter of 8chan. I don't participate in the more racist or extreme boards on 8chan. I want to argue that there is value in 8chan. For example during the egyptian protests, one of the most popular boards was devoted
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Weird metal anomaly found beneath the moon's south pole(space.com)
12 points by vivekd 7y ago|2 comments
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I agree that its not money that is the obstacle. But I dont know if its convenience either - there are platforms out there now that will let anyone host a website with less effort than sigining up for facebook and learning the platform. May
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Im going to respond in a limited way because I think this is leading to a big fruitless debate. But notions like limiting native ability to sell the land b/c quote "it would be gone in a generation" is paternalism and I woul
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by vivekd 7y ago
I think you are absolutely right - but the continuation of these structures and conditions that make violence against women ripe, easy and prevalent are due to structures that the government set in place. If natives actually owned the lan
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I could have topd them how to prevent more murdered or missing aborigional woman and it would have cost a lot less than $ 92 million 1. Take some of that 92 million to run a bus service along the highway of tears and similar areas where lot
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by vivekd 7y ago
I disagree. I think it largely depends on the work you do. If you are doing something you dont enjoy.or don't find meaningful, the work is just a means to an end. But for many people a job is something they derrive meaning from, man

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