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African military intervention forces Gambian dictator to accept election results(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ancient Egyptian pot burials(arstechnica.co.uk)
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by vivekd 10y ago
Did I just miss something or did the article offer no evidence for it's position that personality can changer other than presenting some writing exercises by high schoolers that asked them if personality can change. It didn't see
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by vivekd 10y ago
Gotta go where the people are. Most Americans are on twitter. I don't think a National Parks RSS feed would get anywhere near that amount of viewership
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immigration "rates"
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My own country, Canada, seems to be doing a good job, and I'm not sure but I think we have even higher immigration rates than Europe or the United States and we're still a fairly liberal, progressive and integrated society. I thi
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by vivekd 10y ago
I agree, I don't know much about digital marketing but I know that anecdotal evidence, which is all the author is presenting, is next to useless. I've heard other claims from people about how they made enormous sums on facebook.
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by vivekd 10y ago
So the TLS's answer to the categorical imperative is "be as good as you can be I guess. . ." That has the same problems that they find in utilitarianism, only even more so. It is even more vague and even less calculable tha
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by vivekd 10y ago
That life expectancy equation is a bunch of malarky. It means average time a person is expected to live based on death rates. So if you have a high infant mortality rate, it will affect the numbers. For example, in Sri Lanka during my gr
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It's not like we're ever given the option right, society poses a narrowly defined set of options as to how we can live and the lives of a 1929 person is never presented. If when I was in primary school or high school someone had
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by vivekd 10y ago
Could be a leverage thing, prosecutors do that a lot, they hold up a really high but impossible to prove charge to try and get you to plead guilty to a lower and difficult to prove charge. The DUI charge might have just been a strategic pl
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by vivekd 10y ago
>California vehicle code defines a “drug” as any substance besides alcohol that could affect a person in a manner that would “impair, to an appreciable degree” his ability to drive normally. There's your problem. When you have vagu
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I go to free yoga, there are a few places in my city offering. I know Lululemon offers free yoga at their stores in most cities throughout the world.
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A part of me wishes I had bought back when it was still only a few hundred. At the same time, I still really don't see a future for bitcoin. Sure it can be good for hedging against currency falls, but that's not a good long term
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If the Japanese are working so much that some a literally working themselves to death - why is their economy so bad? My guess is that a lot of that time is getting used up with unnecessary busy work rather than actual productive labor.
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True, but is it regulations that keep the bank from stealing your money and using your financial transactions against you - or is it the prospect of losing billions through loss of customer trust. I would guess it's the later because
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The way I see it, it's kinda like a bank, yeah sure my bank has enormous control over me, and can on a whim ruin me with my financial, purchase info and control over my assets. But they have a very, very strong incentive not to do so,
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>Wages in Shanghai have more than doubled in the past seven years, and the company that owns the factory, Cambridge Industries Group, faces fierce competition from increasingly high-tech operations in Germany, Japan, and the United State
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by vivekd 10y ago
1. Marketing 2. Django (mastery instead of just the basics) 3. A solution to Parkinson's law
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I don't want to minimize the concerns of groundwater loss, but I don't see it resulting in a food shortage as the article suggests. It just means we'll have to desalinate. Yes that will mean food prices go up, but they also
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by vivekd 10y ago
Building a home with my own two hands has been a bit of a dream of mine. The government, governments in general but particularly the government in my own country, have become so overbearing, with a desire to micromanage and control and mon
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by vivekd 10y ago
Lets not jump to conclusions, maybe this is being caused by life but there are also lots of other things besides life that can cause radio bursts in regular intervals, like a neutron star.
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I think he was talking about the costs and long term commitment and decades long curtailment of freedoms rather than just the pregnancy.
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I think you are just rephrasing "20 dollar fee to prevent minors and fund human trafficking" into "state controlled paywall." This is no different from the British TV tax, it's a small restriction on speech that wi
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I'm not the one who brought up the first amendment or free speech or legislating morality issues, I'm just responding to legal based arguments of others with legal based responses. My feelings on the subject and why it's go
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Backpage has been investigated for human traffiking and the sex trade https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/can-prose... and here is an article on the link between human trafficking and internet
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The supreme court has found that the legislature can make laws regarding morality and in fact that one of their jobs was to legislate towards public morality. You're debating based on what your ideals of government should be instead o
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't think that slippery slope is likely. There is a world of difference between pornography and controversial political speech. We have had obscenity laws putting strong restrictions on pornography for a very long time (see 18 US
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It's not censorship because people still have access to it. The supreme court has already held it's okay to put small reasonable restrictions on certain types of speech so long as you don't forbid it altogether. Putting a s
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But the guy in the article was in tech.

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