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by w00pla 17y ago
This seems like a really bad article - trying to compare "white supremacy" to "gender stereotypes". There is a huge difference between a child killing himself (suicide) and lynching. The author should maybe consult a dictionary if he/she do
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by w00pla 17y ago
> Of the ongoing conflicts with 1000+ deaths per year, 6 are in Asia and only 2 are in Africa. Can you give a citation? As an example, South Africa is basically engaged in a civil war with itself (22,000+ people die violent deaths). Zim
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by w00pla 17y ago
> Africa's most robust economies, such as those in Ghana, Botswana, and South Africa South Africa is not nearly seeing a “brain gain”. We lose qualified professionals to first world countries, yet only get semi-qualified people from oth
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by w00pla 17y ago
Can they then at least pick one scraping site from all the others (to prevent duplicate information)? Although this is perfectly legal, there is quite a few big sites that scrapes Wikipedia and adds ad-sense. If you are searching for a narr
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by w00pla 17y ago
The question is: why doesn't google do anything about this? There are countless such pages. Why not just blacklist domains? Or artificially give them lower pagerank? Or is it okay as long as they get ad-sense money?
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by w00pla 17y ago
That is true. The UK's highly skilled VISA system is much better - if you have a certain education + X years experience you get a visa and you can work and change jobs. With the US system, you can't even change jobs (if you quit, you have t
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by w00pla 17y ago
> I was actually fortunate enough to attend a presentation that the first author gave just a couple of days ago. Extremely off topic: I remember implementing an algorithm from the second author almost 10 years ago (before soul-crushing
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by w00pla 17y ago
The seat should be half-reclined (not movable). The most important thing is that the seat should be solid. Nothing is worse than sitting on a 12 hour flight in front of a guy that kicks your seat (or sticks his feet on your armrests).
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by w00pla 17y ago
China already produces a lot of people with higher skills (design & development, etc...). It is probably going to be fine. African countries should start to worry - the time when the development goes from commodities -> manufacturin
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by w00pla 17y ago
> The CEO of Wal-Mart has, at any given time, thousands of delivery trucks on the roads, trucks that contribute to traffic congestion, increase the risk of accidents, cause potholes, and spit out harmful emissions into the atmosphere. D
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by w00pla 17y ago
> However they're the religion that best learnt (even if by force) that science must be respected. The notion that there is (or must be) a conflict between religion and science is fallacious. It is an idea currently extremely popular wi
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by w00pla 17y ago
Maybe. The advantage of private schools is more choice. The problem (at least here) is that public school teachers are unmotivated and discipline (of both teachers and students) is often lacking. It seems that public schools cater for the l
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by w00pla 17y ago
The Catholic Church is scarily in tune with the latest scientific thought (I say this as a protestant). I would not be surprised if they have an army of economists.
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by w00pla 17y ago
I’m not American, but these things seem universal – sport jocks (rugby, football, etc…), ineffectual unionized teachers and anti-intellectualism. It seems public education systems are everywhere uninspiring at best.
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by w00pla 17y ago
That doesn’t really sound like a convincing argument. Didn’t Hitler use state organs (such as public schools and public broadcast) to further his agenda? > How would you feel about this case if the home schooling did not involve Christi
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by w00pla 17y ago
Here is the problem with public school – it seems that it is an anti-intellectual place. I was bullied quite a lot in school (I was skinny, academically inclined and have extremely bad eye sight). It seems that bullies single out people who
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by w00pla 17y ago
It may be easier to teach your cat not to leave cat turds lying around than to teach your robot not to run over them...
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by w00pla 17y ago
I've heard (don't know if it is true) that the first sections of the bible were only oral history. Most of it only got written up during the exile in Babylon. I don't know if it is true or not, but I think it should be taken into account th
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by w00pla 17y ago
For someone that has a Kindle/KindleDX/Nook: How good is the Kindle/Kindle DX for technical books? I want to buy one (since I am immigrating and will lose all my textbooks). Is it good for technical books - since the page turn speed is appa
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by w00pla 17y ago
> Not big of a deal, until someone who is pregnant, immunocompromised, or of adult age with lowered/no immunity to chicken pox gets Immunocompromised and old people (and high risk people such as doctors and nurses) should be vaccinated
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by w00pla 17y ago
Most countries with these problems have high unemployment - so increasing the number of healthy workers would not do anything for their problems.
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by w00pla 17y ago
> 2. We test vaccines exhaustively and have decades of field data about them. Other medicines are also tested. The problem with vaccines are that they are incredibly widely used (millions of kids get them). Thalidomide also managed to g
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by w00pla 17y ago
The problem is not with vaccination - but the amount of vaccines (which is getting pretty ridiculous).
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by w00pla 17y ago
Many of those famous books are famous only because people read them and feel cultured and sophisticated (IMHO).
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by w00pla 17y ago
You have never used a Nokia N70/N73. I press a button and then go for a coffee break.
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by w00pla 17y ago
Or just a USB port to plug in a mouse. What would also be nice is that if it has a USB port so that you can download movies/books from your PC to the tablet. And it also should charge through USB...
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by w00pla 17y ago
There is only one reason: books. I have a shipload of textbook that I will lose when I go overseas. One textbook easily costs $100+. A tablet or kindle like thing would work perfectly. At the moment the kindle's page turn speed is too low f
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by w00pla 17y ago
> I don't use AdBlock. I use a popup blocker, but I think if I am looking at a website I should at least give them the basic revenue of viewing the advertizing. I block gifs and Flash. It is moronic to have text on screen and then have
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by w00pla 17y ago
Why do you guys work with a GPA system? Why not use percentages? What is a 4.0 GPA in percentage?
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by w00pla 17y ago
There are some striking similarities. > In our case all candidates are reasonably corrupt. Our previous batch of rulers at least had the decency to try and hide their corruption. This president is pretty open about it. > What we do

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