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by largesse 11y ago
Michel Houellebecq alludes to an interesting idea in his novel Soumission - in the hierarchy that the West is using for identity politics, race and religion are less touchable than women’s rights and gender equality. The West will not criti
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by largesse 13y ago
> As much as I admire the dreams and accomplishments of Elon Musk, I have trouble getting past the idea that he failed to maintain his marriage It takes two to tango. Maintaining a marriage is under no one person's control.
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by largesse 13y ago
I'm not buying it. Both paintings are of Alice from behind with the same pose. That's about it. Are we really copyrighting poses now?
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by largesse 13y ago
Me too. For me it would be called 'Facebook Homely'.
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by largesse 13y ago
Best April Fool's Day joke ever.
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by largesse 13y ago
That's just an extension of the "big city" effect. In general, attractive women gravitate toward big cities seeking successful men. I know that sounds sexist, but it really is a thing and it skews demographics. There are more dating women
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by largesse 13y ago
In a world of alternative currencies, is deflation of one such a bad thing? I think that the salient issue with Bitcoin is that it is going to deflationary at a set time and while people may hoard it, its divisibility 1/(10^8) should allow
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by largesse 13y ago
Wouldn't that violate Facebook's TOS and therefore the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
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by largesse 13y ago
One thing that the article did not touch upon is that there seem to be health advantages for children who are born of young parents - they have better telomere length [1] and possibly greater longevity. When you add to that general issue of
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by largesse 13y ago
There's that, but I'm sure they'd have lawyers work out some sort of indemnification. The first media reports would need careful PR handling. I see this as something similar to what AirBnB went through. It's not unprecedented.
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by largesse 13y ago
Or products.
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by largesse 13y ago
Wal-Mart is big enough that they can take those thefts as a loss. I see it working. If done right, it could leverage into neighborliness. It should be marketed that way. I can see people doing it just to have an excuse to meet their neighbo
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by largesse 13y ago
I'm tempted to believe that also.
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by largesse 13y ago
I think the same thing is true and I have a very strong suspicion that the reason people are not more outraged is because they've been conditioned by film and television to believe that the government has those powers and uses them routinel
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by largesse 13y ago
Thanks!
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by largesse 13y ago
Is there some checklist some place that can be used to beat people over the head with the very basics of security for a user-facing site? Sort of, "If your developers are doing this today, they are grossly incompetent and you are putting yo
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by largesse 13y ago
I'm finding myself more and more irritated with this sort of submission to Hacker News. It makes a bold assertion and does nothing whatsoever to back it up. Then, half the comments here attempt to do the digging needed to back the point a
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by largesse 13y ago
It's funny to see how this story migrated from being about the tech industry to being about startups. Are the two synonymous now to people outside the industry?
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by largesse 13y ago
It's not coming up. Load problems I suppose.
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by largesse 13y ago
Given this, I wonder what the rationale is for denying felon's passports? I mean, if it doesn't prevent you from leaving the country or entering the country, both of which are violations of international law.
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by largesse 13y ago
I'd like a lawyer to explain the legal distinction between a felony and a misdemeanor. Over my lifetime it seems that the the number of felonies has grown enormously and many of them don't seem to be for offenses that have much harm relati
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by largesse 13y ago
I wonder.. technically, not having a passport doesn't prevent you from leaving the country. You can get in a boat and take off. Leaving by plane is difficult, as well as legally entering another country. Is it actually illegal to reenter t
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by largesse 13y ago
There's a theory that the same thing happened with Al-Qaeda. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda#Command_structure
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by largesse 13y ago
Nope. I don't consider PyCon a "professional conference." Programming is not accountancy, or medicine. "Professional" is a word that people use to lull people into circumspect behavior leaving their basic humanity aside. Sometimes there is
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by largesse 13y ago
I have to chime in here. Physical labor itself is not necessarily wearing. When I was growing up, our next door neighbor in his 80s was constantly gardening and doing projects around his house. He was in incredible shape for his age. He us
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by largesse 14y ago
We all deal with the fact that we're in the middle of change, and it isn't always comfortable. Just as it wasn't comfortable for people dealing with the acceptance of homosexuals: I think everyone accepts that the word "faggot" is no longe
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by largesse 14y ago
It's an odd choice that they have to make, to press this or just install a video surveillance system and malfunction it, saying "oops" if the police ever come by for footage. I'm cynical enough to think that if they press it, they will be
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by largesse 14y ago
Go for it.
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by largesse 14y ago
We are entering the MAD-SM era: Mutually Assured Destruction via Social Media
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by largesse 14y ago
You're assuming that the people who are against public shaming are the ones doing it to her. "The mob" you speak of is not a thing.

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