LeeHunter

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by LeeHunter 12y ago
Another masterpiece of science journalism from the BBC!
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by LeeHunter 12y ago
Plant something other than grass. Seriously. I'm experimenting with yarrow in some problem areas on our property: a hot dry and sandy septic bed and some embankments with crappy soil. Yarrow can be mowed much less frequently, looks ama
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by LeeHunter 12y ago
But when other countries have tried to loosen their drug enforcement policies it is the US that has historically leaned against them very hard with the big sticks of trade sanctions and development aid.
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by LeeHunter 12y ago
Wow. Just a raft of unfounded assumptions there. For example, warming won't necessarily create farmland in Canada (much of the topsoil in Canada is very poor anyway) but will certainly destroy vast amounts of farmlands in warmer countr
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by LeeHunter 12y ago
Eh, seriously? "By 2030, the benefits of these three sets of sector policies would include 94,000 premature deaths avoided annually and GDP growth of $1.8 trillion-$2.6 trillion per year," according to the report. "The polici
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by LeeHunter 12y ago
If the OP works for the company or is a stock promoter it might break some rules. Talking about your own investments (even hyping them) is not against any rules. The Internet is awash in stock forums.
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by LeeHunter 12y ago
If you're interested in motion picture sound design, you'll want to read about the groundbreaking work done for The Exorcist way back in 1973 http://theexorcist.warnerbros.com/cmp/silencebottom.html
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by LeeHunter 12y ago
Exactly. Editing WP for money is a conflict of interest unless you're being paid by Wikipedia. Hellbanning is the most appropriate action.
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by LeeHunter 12y ago
From what you describe, WP was totally correct to ban your organization. Your business model was to inject commercial links into articles. The fact that you think you provided some value in exchange is pretty much irrelevant.
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Back in the early 1970s the Canadian navy tested a small hydrofoil ship for antisubmarine work and coastal patrol. It could travel at 60 knots. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Bras_d'Or_(FHE_400) At the time
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Some of this is disturbing and some is not. I don't know why the article makes a big deal out of predictive policing and it's roots in counter-insurgency. Putting police officers where crime is likely to happen is just good manag
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
I wonder if the information they are collecting can be just as useful to the bad actors (particularly the government). As in "Oh look there's still an open bakery in this sector! Let's start shelling."
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Not to mention that the Koch bros really only have two items on their agenda. No taxes for rich people and no environmental regulation.
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Why are you talking about "lethal dose" when the issue with atrazine is specifically a proven link to birth defects at very low doses?
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
It would be more interesting to know how that compares, perhaps per hundred words, with other bodies of text, professionaly edited and not. And, for an article on finding grammatical errors, there were a surprising number of grammatical er
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
And you are repeating this 'rather bigoted saying' here why?
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People prefer big interruptive web ads(adweek.com)
2 points by LeeHunter 13y ago|0 comments
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
One of the most astonishing books I've ever read is Unbroken, which is the true story of an American pilot (and Olympic athlete) who went through a similar experience as a POW of the Japanese. Well worth checking out.
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
"Is there some benefit to knowing the fate of Facebook?" If you care about social media in general then yes, the fate of the world's largest social media platform is tremendously important. If your life or business doesn&#x2
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Looking through the lens of 2013 it might sound stupid. In the cultural context of the mid-20th century it was perfectly appropriate. Fifty years from now the word "iPhone" will probably sound like the dumbest name ever.
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
The actual argument was not critiqued, so yes.
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
A line-by-line dissection of a writer's pposition is not an ad hominem attack. Slamming Jezebel for some supposed disposition for ad hominem is itself, ironically, an ad hominem attack.
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
From Jezebel: "Camille Paglia has been trolling since before trolling was A Thing. She's the OG of barfing up archaic assertions about women, men, and feminism, justifying them with sweeping, unverified statements, and dressing th
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
This. Given the choice of dealing with a world that is always shiny, bright, cheerful, smooth, clean, and instantly responsive and a world that is frustrating, demanding, ambiguous, unyielding etc an infant (and a helluva lot of adults) wil
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
"... the 'left' using lethal force to ensure that people pay for other people's healthcare." WTF? Here's a message from the civilized world where publicly funded healthcare is an utterly mundane fact of life, o
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
I've been reading stories about the supposed wonders of Internet-connected fridges for at least a dozen years and I'm baffled as to why anyone would think that this is a good idea. I generally have a great idea of how much milk I
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Correct. And I should add that what is considered the "left" in the US is what most of the rest of the world considers slightly right of center. The US right, virulently opposed to environmental regulation, basic human rights (e.
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Are Apple's App Store Rankings for Sale?(adweek.com)
1 points by LeeHunter 13y ago|0 comments
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
To misquote Churchill "Capitalism is the worst possible system, except for all the rest". The problem here is more a lack of strong mechanisms to set and enforce standards along with a host of deeply rooted cultural norms (especia
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by LeeHunter 13y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Internally developed systems in the government tend to suck as badly and cost as much or more than solutions that are contracted out. Software development, except in relatively small isolated cases, will never

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