w1ntermute

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by w1ntermute 14y ago
You're the one who seems to still be incapable of understanding what I'm saying. I don't deny that discrimination has occurred in US. I never have. The difference is that significant steps have been taken to combat discrimination in Ameri
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
The most difficult part about getting into the wedding business as a startup is advertising . People (hopefully) only get married once, and they're usually too happy to go shopping around for deals. This is why wedding businesses can rake
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
I don't deny that blacks and Native Americans have been treated poorly, and that they still face discrimination. However, that doesn't change the fact that those people you see on the street are there because they refuse the help they are
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
The OP was wrong in using manual scavenging as an example of a lack of economic progress, when it is actually an example of a lack of social progress, as I mentioned in a reply to him[0]. However, I don't believe that the homeless problem i
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> As I walked out of the Van Ness MUNI station in San Francisco last night, I walked by at least 20 homeless people, just lying on the street. A couple on wheelchairs, the rest just lounging around. A few of them reeked of urine and fec
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> the US doesn't have young girls whose job it it to collect other peoples faeces with their bare hands [1]. I would say a country that has that doesn't need a Mars mission. This is primarily not an economic issue, it's a cultural one,
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"Let's play a game": CyanogenMod feature management(plus.google.com)
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> a new world where a lot of the content is provided more-or-less for free, but we still need reliable places to go for news That's a wonderful sentiment, one that I'd love to see come true. But until someone can make it happen, we must
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
That's a very grave statement. You're essentially saying that the entire newspaper industry has been propped up on the basis of misinformation regarding the effectiveness of advertising. While this was a lucky flaw that allowed the Fourth E
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
That's partially because Google Translate was trained using EU datasets. The EU produces thousands of documents every year that must be translated into each of its member languages. This means that Google Translate is very accurate when tra
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Yep, the animation technology is trivial compared to the content. Sure, Pixar has good animation, but that's never been what's really set it apart.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
I'm very glad to see this happen, for a coincidental reason. Xfce is a great DE and a solid implementation of the traditional desktop UI paradigm that many of us ("us" being power users) are comfortable with and productive in. While the maj
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Like unimpressive said, there is a big upside to the filtering effect that there being a price will create. I don't use Facebook or Twitter because there's too much noise on there and I don't want to offend people I know who are very nice i
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
I'd love to use uzbl, but unfortunately there's no LastPass support (apart from some bookmarklets that can provide basic functionality). So I've stuck with Firefox but have installed Pentadactyl, which adds Vim emulation support. It gets me
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
I use Deluge as my only client, accessing a Linux daemon instance of Deluge from a Linux client and a Windows client. The only issue I occasionally encounter are errors in the final download, but that's easily fixed by forcing a recheck.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Arch + xmonad + Screen + urxvt + Bash + Vim here, though I've found my use of Screen has dropped significantly since switching from KDE to xmonad, because the tiling is done right in the WM. I've got certificate-based login and Bash aliases
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> There is more to an education than reading, math, and science. The US is particularly famous for frequently forgetting that other countries even exist. Most of the Anglo world (including, but not just US) is seen with some derision in
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> It seems the Conservatives are back in power Are you sure about that? With the downfall of Bo Xilai and the Chongqing model, it seems to have put the progressives, such as Wang Yang (the Guangdong party chief), in an advantageous posi
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> Native-born Americans like me who have lived in east Asia are APPALLED at the wasted opportunities that United States schools have with their lavish resources to provide a truly world-class education. United States schools do not do a
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> There are a lot of loan words in Mandarin from Manchu, for example, 姑娘, 罗嗦, 邋遢, 马虎, 麻利, 别扭, and lots of other common phrases. And I acknowledged them. Similarly, southern Chinese languages feature borrowings from Tai, Austro-Asiatic,
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
You were also incorrect in stating that the Forbidden City was built by the Yuan dynasty. Although there was an Imperial City (known as "Khanbaliq", meaning "great residence of the Khan" in Turkic languages) built by the Yuan at the same lo
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> Likewise, Mandarin is the Manchu language... the ethnic minority that conquered China and became the Qing. The Han (majority) now speaks the minority's language Say what? Mandarin Chinese was originally spoken by Han Chinese only and
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative. Wow, never thought I'd see scient
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
One of the many reasons using a password manager and having different, random passwords for each site is a good idea.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
It's not that simple. There are a lot of people living in apartments - how's it going to work for them? And where exactly would you place the indicator? In your front yard? Normally, delivieries are made to your porch, but the drone would h
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Yeah, I just don't see grocery delivery becoming feasible until it's done using UAVs. But the main issue with that (aside from getting FAA approval, which is in the works) is that it'll require retrofitting houses with delivery chutes.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Unfortunately, it seems a little difficult to avoid the brogrammers these days. Just another thing to get used to, I suppose.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
That's because the iPhone severely limits what you can do with it. I'd say a one-time investment of 5 minutes to solve any battery life issues you might encounter is irrelevant compared to the feature differences between iPhone and Android.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
The last time I checked the local Verizon retail store, they didn't even have any dumbphones in stock - the only way to get one was to order online.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> Do people order prints anymore? That's exactly what I'm wondering. I mean, if you'd told me about the basic concept behind Picplum, I would've rejected it in a split second as entirely absurd. But they've been live since August 2011 a

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