dmhdlr

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by dmhdlr 14y ago
And without pretending that he can fix the world. Which is fatuous and provides a cover for business to continue as usual. Ellison is satisfied with being destructive in one domain of affairs. Gates isn't happy with just screwing up computi
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
> high-end residential lol
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
> The whole cleaning industry could be changed. By making it obsolete maybe. Sounds like unemployment.
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
Obnoxiousness isn't the right word.
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
Had to be Government students.
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
The Gates Foundation's answer to the thousands of public libraries Carnegie built is . . . the Khan Academy?
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
>Bill Gates is not a Western country Except that the Gates Foundation acts like one. Its endowment is larger than the GDP about half of the countries of the world. It exists to promote a "creative capitalism" in which the domain of publ
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
Not sure why you need a cognitive explanation for what, outside rightist establishments, is hardly a controversial sentiment. Western countries telling the rest of the world what to do is not only condescending; it repackages old imperial p
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
What rule is there against condemning your own ancestors?
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
Rich whites were specified.
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
Let's hope the Martians fare better than the Native Americans.
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
Why is psychoanalysis a problem in the humanities? Humanists aren't doing brain surgery. American psychology departments don't give them clinical psychology PhDs. Psychoanalysis isn't popular because it gives an accurate depiction of realit
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
BLDGBLOG is a gold-mine for these kind of things. http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
And a terribly overrated one that won't go away... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_of_Style#Criticism
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by dmhdlr 14y ago
Among the Western public this might be true. But among intellectuals the bigger prejudice is that numbers are "hard." I certainly find them to be so, and have felt like this since high school algebra. At root it seems to be an epistemologic