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by NextUserName 12y ago
> 124,000 people applied for the combined 85,000 So if we gave them all Visas - we'd be good for less than two weeks? Sounds like a bigger problem here. On a related note, how many highly skilled and educated people live here alr
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by NextUserName 12y ago
Do you use soap to wash your hands? or just rinse them off with water (especially if you happened to get a little on you)? Do you then pick up your chicken wings or pork ribs with your butt cheeks and stick them into your mouth, proceeding
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by NextUserName 12y ago
If a christian run organization fired an employee (lets not kid ourselves here, Eich was fired) because they paid $1,000 to support gay marriage, how dramatically would the reaction differ from this situation? Why the huge difference? becau
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by NextUserName 12y ago
Tech specs here: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/device-specs.html
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by NextUserName 12y ago
Congrats Apple for all your achievements. It is amazing what can be accomplished when you employ Chinese Engineers and manufacturers who's tech espionage (they steal trade secrets) is one of their best known traits/assets.
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by NextUserName 12y ago
> Virtual Reality is going to change the world Just like 3D televisions/displays did? I have heard this for over a decade and I am still not convinced.
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by NextUserName 12y ago
What he did is support the disagreement that what is now considered a "right" by an increasingly liberal society was indeed a "right". What is wrong with this? Liberals and gays need to realize that they are often bigots
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by NextUserName 12y ago
This seems pretty unpopular PG , and it seems to have a lot of pitfalls and things that you have overlooked. How about making it so that people can opt into seeing the pending comments (so to them everything is as it was before). Let people
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by NextUserName 12y ago
Silence those with opinions that are not popular. Even if their points are valid, censor them. how many innocuous comments (ones that may not be quite worth an up-vote, yet add a sprinkle of thought) will be lost forever? In this scenario,
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by NextUserName 12y ago
Silence those with opinions that are not popular. Even if their points are valid, censor them. how many innocuous comments (ones that may not be quite worth an up-vote, yet add a sprinkle of thought) will be lost forever? In this scenario,
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Two reason that I can guess (before reading any comments or the article). 1. More energy is lost the wider the loop is. This is because on a truly round loop, the cars would be pushing hard against the widest part of the circle as the cars
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> Phillip K Dick was a anphetamine abuser (which no one advocates), but incredible writer. I would never dare suggest someone limit their potential if there are options they can reasonably try. This is very telling and I believe that it
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> I think you're hinging a lot on this incredibly faulty belief: First of all, this is not MY belief alone. It is listed among the side effects on the side of the box. Further studies have pretty much conclusively agreed that these
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> You mean like HIV/AIDs, cancer, autism, epilepsy? Of course there aren't side effects if you aren't treating. I can see that you cannot even reason logically and understand simple comparisons. No comparison can be made
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> Medieval Christian scholars were faced with a dilemma: their religious beliefs required them to believe that the soul was saved through a relationship with Jesus, yet going through the newly discovered Greek and Roman writings it was o
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> Cheating in academia is exactly the same as piracy: It is a service problem. If classes taught useful information/skills in a non-boring way, cheating would be significantly reduced. This is true, but only for certain subjects. I
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Perhaps you should move then. You are free to do that after all. Move or learn to live frugally. Many people cannot afford a house/family until they get married and combine incomes.
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> Society will inevitably return to its nuclear family origins, as the fun loving singles will not provide offspring in quality and quantity to compete with these traditional families. On two conditions only. Much of our false wealth
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by NextUserName 13y ago
The slippery slope is obvious. More and more people today are put on drugs to deal with problems that used to be dealt with naturally and without side effect. Secondly, more and more average people who don't really need these medicatio
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by NextUserName 13y ago
> Physical work isn't necessarily easier for those with ADHD than desk jobs. In high school and college I had some physical jobs. Those jobs are often menial, and the monotony and repetition are really the opposite of what those wit
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by NextUserName 13y ago
You have to draw a line somewhere don't you? otherwise we've eventually got Gattica. Does wearing glasses modify the logical center of your brain like Ritalin? How about we start genetically engineering humans to be smarter, stron
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Visas? you are talking about bringing in people from other countries to start companies here right? Is this because there is not enough founders born in the US? Wow, I go to a coffee shop in bay area and everyone there assumes that I am som
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Modern civilization has certainly invented ADHD. It used to be that if you had ADHD, you probably weren't a banker, lawyer or politician. You certainly would not work in a cubicle and rot away all day. You also lived 15 years longer th
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by NextUserName 13y ago
For every one of you who takes the meds route, there are others who change careers, jobs, or learn exercises and methods to stay on task better. This has been the traditional way to deal with these problems. I am not saying that I would n
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Lets get half the population on ADHD Drugs, then the other half on Anti-depressants. Then we as individuals don't actually have to deal with any personal challenges, not even controlling the growing, intrusive and overreaching power of
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Nope, too much money/power involved.
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Wow, who would have expected that there is slow decay when microbes that decay things are killed or slowed by radiation... What a waste of time.
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by NextUserName 13y ago
This is still not practical for my use. It is a bit like Lease vs Buy for automobiles IMO. I recently bought 2x2tb drives for $75 each and a 2 bay Synology NAS for $150. Now I have redundancy (mirroring), online access, much faster access t
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Do you think that speaking out to the CEO would have changed his mind? I think that if the author really wanted any chance at changing the CEO's mind about women - he should have accepted the job and planted some seeds of thought here
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by NextUserName 13y ago
Did anyone else think that this was a women? The title should not be My First Hand Experience With Sexism . Because first hand would have been if sexism was shown toward the author (because of his gender).

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