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by Towle_ 16y ago
Really, downvoted? The people here are ridiculous. I'm fucking done. Peace out.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
WOW. Thank you for posting. Sincerely, College Senior.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Agreed. Since no single term beats all the others for clarity though, I'm willing to grant them "reverse mentorship." Personally, however, 'reverse' anything makes me think of "reverse racism," my least favorite phrase ever. Even in the a
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I posted in another thread that it was ironic Facebook would be against the re-purposing of a facebook's info and photos, given that's exactly what Zuck did to create Facemash. But honestly, one must sympathize with their desire to protec
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by Towle_ 16y ago
"[I]magine the possibilities for a Halo movie done right." This seems a tall order, if you plan to base the story around Master Chief. Now that's not a necessity, of course... but this is Halo. Master Chief is a vessel character, like Neo
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Why Your Business Should Consider Reverse Mentorship(openforum.com)
1 points by Towle_ 16y ago|2 comments
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Mashable article by Ori Brafman, author of Click : http://mashable.com/2010/06/17/facebook-connect-fail/ Why Facebook Can't Genuinely Connect People "But there are specific factors, or accelerators , that trigger such connections -- a
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by Towle_ 16y ago
C'mon guys, everybody knows it's wrong to take a bunch of info and photos from one facebook site and re-purpose them on another. Mere hours before lamebook was hacked together: "You are probably going to be a very successful computer pers
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by Towle_ 16y ago
To end prosperity, guarantee everyone in Canada $20,000 a year.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Extra Credit: Why aren't the senators' party affiliations listed?
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Long live the Austrian School. Nothing else makes sense.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Idea: Stock bought/sold on Nov. 19th not subject to capital gains tax
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Yeah, they are now . That's the freaking point. Two groups who slaughtered each other for centuries are now indistinguishable to observers.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I doubt that the majority of problems comes from a sense of entitlement, like you strangely enough, seem to believe. What? I'm not making value judgments. This is absurdly simple. If people have reason to believe that their efforts will b
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by Towle_ 16y ago
It should be noted that it matters not whether those excuses are valid. When an entire group buys into the idea, correctly or incorrectly, that their lack of success is someone else's fault, the group as a whole stops trying at all. "What's
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by Towle_ 16y ago
The more excuses any given demographic has available to it, the worse it will fare.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Have the Japanese hit such an enormous creative block that they're investigating our PBS cartoons from 1998 in hope of business plans?
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To The Chronicle of Higher Education, Everything Looks Like A Nail(chronicle.com)
3 points by Towle_ 16y ago|0 comments
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I'd like to see the study done with people who are living in a country where their race is a tiny minority. You mean like people of East Asian descent in Finland? ;) I joke, but I'm also making a point. That's valuable if that's what they
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Wow! Sifting through sixrevisions.com ... they have some fantastic shit. Good writing, sure, but GREAT topics-- and that's such a rarity. A big* high-five to abraham for the submission. *The kind that makes your hand sting. Because I love
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Call it America's brainiest place to live. I will do no such thing, CNN. I grew up in the DC metro area. It's a horrible place, don't ever move there. Where SF has an entrepreneurship draw and LA has a fame draw and NY has a money draw, D
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by Towle_ 16y ago
tl;dr: They don't get it .
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by Towle_ 16y ago
"Leibnitz > Newton" could provoke a fist fight. This would be hilarious to see. edit: Better than xkcd, depending on your sense of humor (i.e., whether you have one) is smbc-comics.com. Dunno how he licenses his stuff though.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
They know something we don't know. A 5% increase in capital gains tax in 2011 shouldn't be enough for this movement by these people. They should be planning on holding onto their stock indefinitely, especially at places like Amazon with n
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by Towle_ 16y ago
£200M in finance: Because nobody knows the VC game like pencil-pushing bureaucrats.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I am more gun shy about posting comments that might get a below the average response. This is what makes this a dangerous road to go down.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Whether or not they're plants, they are certainly not representative of the movement as a whole, neither its former nor current self. The bigots are the people "we" associate with the Tea Party because CNN focuses on them. And CNN focuses o
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by Towle_ 16y ago
A short history of the Tea Party: It was started as a libertarian-minded movement with a Ron Paul flavor to it. Initially, the right- and left-wing mainstream media were unsure of how to cover the Tea Party. Their ideology of libertarianism
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Also interesting is division by 7 resulting in a decimal. 1/7= .142857 repeating 2/7= .285714 rep 3/7= .428571 rep 4/7= .571428 rep 5/7= .714285 rep 6/7= .857142 rep It's the same string of six digits, the only difference is which digit you
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by Towle_ 16y ago
As soon as employers made college a necessity for jobs of any significant income (and even some of shockingly low income, such as “receptionist”) back in the 80s or 90s, college started increasing tuition costs into the stratosphere. The c

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