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by vivekd 10y ago
I understand that facebook is free to decide what content it hosts. But I think deleting a post by the prime minister of Norway is extremely disrespectful to the people of Norway. I am shocked by their behaviour and won't be using th
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by vivekd 10y ago
no I think even in that situation I still wouldn't call the cops. It still seems like an extreme and paranoid response to jump to "he's casing me, better call the cops" from someone wanting to borrow a ladder and not be
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by vivekd 10y ago
I studied anthropology as my college minor and the consensus in my classes seemed to be that farming was never really a new discovery that was 'invented.' Rather it seems likely that ancient people had known about the possibility
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by vivekd 10y ago
>. In Hong Kong there are entire streets given over to baby formula shops because the Chinese from the mainland don't trust the stuff in their shops, with very good reason. But aren't Chinese shops much more heavily regulated t
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by vivekd 10y ago
I agree with the conclusion, that there is truth in stereotypes. I think the bigger issue is what we do with the information we gather from stereotypes. I have a strong desire for a world in which people are judged on their merits and char
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by vivekd 10y ago
I remember reading that facebook had done something similar to a social media aggregation for scraping content from its website. This whole opening up of law suits for getting information that companies put out publicly for all to see seems
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by vivekd 10y ago
I remember reading this in my high school English class, it was really the only substantive work that I ever come across on how not to write badly. I could never find another how-to work on how to keep your writing from being bad.
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Clovis California releasing genetically modified mosquitoes to fight Zika(wired.com)
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Just type the title into google - a free version should be one of the top results.
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by vivekd 10y ago
The suggestion that millennials are having less sex because they are unattractive seems far fetched. I'm not sure what obesity rates among millennials is - but I'm sure if enough of them were that fat, it would sort of become the
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by vivekd 10y ago
I agree with you that there should be restrictions on foreign investors looking to housing as investment. . . at the same time, I am worried that they are being used as scapegoats to avoid addressing much larger structural economic and legi
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by vivekd 10y ago
Canadian corporations have to have a certain % of the board as Canadian residents so I don't think we'll be seeing too much of that sort of fraud. At the same time this tax seems like a band aid solution taking the politically ea
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There has got to be some ways in which this basic economic assumption is wrong. Like with cars, I can buy a car and when I sell the car it will be worth much less. But I will buy that car anyways because I need a car. Or for a business pe
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Needybot: A robot designed to need your help(medium.com)
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by vivekd 10y ago
I learned it recently, the best tutorial on Django is right in the docs. The docs start you off with a tutorial for building a polling app that is really great for teaching the basics https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't really follow American politics too much (I'm a Canadian), but as I see it, the people who stand be really adversely affected by Trumps policies are illegal Mexican immigrants and people from Islamic countries, and to be h
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by vivekd 10y ago
I would imagine that guns are for those immediately life threatening emergency situations where there really is no other option. If an officer could make it back to his car, grab his gun, bring it back again and face the suspect, my guess
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by vivekd 10y ago
It changes widely by district I find. For example in Toronto, out police are relatively professional, level-headed and nice. But just step over east a few km to Simcoe County and suddenly the cops there start acting like power mad tyrants
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by vivekd 10y ago
I agree, it is better to have the government do their own websites rather than go outside. The only thing is the allegations seem to be that 18F is helping government agencies draft up procurement contracts and then bidding on the same con
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by vivekd 10y ago
I remember Stephyen Jay Gould wrote an essay caleed the "cosmic dance of Shiva" where he talked about how the fossil record suggests that mass extinction events at regular intervals of 20 something million years. He wrote that si
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by vivekd 10y ago
I think on top of immigration polices, there is also a natural selective process imposed on Asian immigration just through sheer logistics. For example, through having the financial means to go to a different country. The average income i
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by vivekd 10y ago
I wonder about that, because the Sherman anti-trust act says 1. "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is decl
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by vivekd 10y ago
I wonder how this would affect individuals who do physically intensive work such as manual labor. The article seemed to focus on writers, CEOs, I wish they had included a few people involved in physically intensive work. I wonder what thes
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Wouldn't the solution to this problem be simple. So you have black individuals being disproportionately charged under the law - so why not include an extra set of inquries in court for black individuals to ensure that they are not bei
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There are so many factors that arise in something like that. For example, the Chipotle executive has access to better lawyers whereas a young black man may only have duty counsel. The Chipotle executive can better speak for himself, knows
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by vivekd 10y ago
This took me aback because I've always heard that medical professionals and lawyers had the highest suicide rates, I guess that was based on incomplete or inaccurate data?