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by mark_integerdsv 7y ago
Sitting on my bed in Cape Town, South Africa and knowing that I'll probably never be able to attend his seminar, it's nice to read your folks good experiences. It's nice to think that something you dream about is in fact some
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
This is super interesting and great timing for me but I can't seem to access the PDF anywhere, Various links that I have found through google all point to what seems to be an old half used domain... Any suggestions?
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
South Africa. Totally illegal. If caught you you can be stopped and your phone impounded for one week and released only upon payment of a fine. There was a news report recently indicating that only a very small percentage of these phones ar
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
Oh god... here I go... as a motorcyclist (sorry) this is something that is utterly frightening. I'm out there on the road doing my fu-cking damndest to make sure that I'm driving defensively and predictably, kind of just trying
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
Interesting, a cursory scan through suggests that in groups of friends, the men stay together whilst the women tend to have moved on/away from the group. I wonder is this has to do with the communication styles of men and women where m
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
So? Some Orcas are fabulous, get used to it.
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
Interesting, could you point to some other examples or otherwise expand a bit on this please? I work in the field and I'm currently looking at choosing software, this info might be very important in these decisions.
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
Qlikview is a BI product. In their day they were very promising upstarts in the industry and they really shot ahead on the back of their in memory cube processing. It pushed them out ahead of stalwarts like Cognos and Business Objects for a
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
Similar for me. Reddit is what I do when I'm standing in a queue or waiting for something for a few minutes. I get quite confused when I see people take it so seriously.
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by mark_integerdsv 10y ago
I think the real issue here is that it ceases to be cycling and becomes motorcycling.
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
I just really like to see more of the startup related stuff on HN. I know that talking about content and your preference of things posted to HN is discouraged but I need to mention that for me personally, it's really helped me in the p
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
Howzit bru. I work at a tech startup in Cape Town (in the data analysis & visualization space.) In my experience the challenge is that the local market isn't supportive or capable of supporting in some cases, and breaking into the
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
Interesting. Load times are also noticeably longer on the modern site.
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
I can jump in here. I lost 16kg on a ketogenic diet. My gut is a lot happier as evidenced by more regular and better (firm, soft, not runny) bowel movements. There is a definite smell (breath) associated with ketosis. It varies by person bu
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
...and it will get worse. That is why free speech proponents defend it so vehemently. Because it is a slippery slope and any ground you give up - that becomes the new normal.
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
>And most people don't believe in hanging out with people they don't like. Then they shouldn't do that.
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
>why can't the SJW's and their ilk who came late to the party go find their own place? Because their cause is evangelical in nature. Were it just kept to Tumblr then they wouldn't have much with which to stoke the fires. S
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
>There are complications about the origin of both concepts Are you suggesting that my race and gender are ...'problematic?'
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
This has nothing to do with Nazis, please get a grip. Fascism is a clearly defined concept, and there are many examples other than Nazism. In point of fact: it is not necessary to invoke Nazism in order to define fascism. The kind of autocr
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
>they need to kickban all the hate frothing racists and misogynists and clamp down hard on "free speech" This sounds dangerously like fascism IMHO.
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
What is wrong with being white and male?
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
Why is she paying? They offered to waive those monies if she dropped the appeal. She is dropping the appeal and paying. Weird lady.
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
> I had neither the time nor resources to talk with reporters or journalists. Kleiner reportedly had four full-time PR people plus their defense lawyer arguing their points and providing information and their perspective to the press in
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
Find an organism that passes through the passage and a way to track that. Hitch your wagon to something living that will be able to find a way.
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
I agree with you to a certain extent. I also very much enjoyed his thoughts on privacy/anonymity and the multi-faceted nature of human personalities. You can find some quotes here: http://observer.com/2011/10/
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
Just chiming in here, but it seems that your version of the feminist agenda puts little or no responsibility on women to actually choose. It's all everyone else's fault. Life isn't easy and difficult choices are a part of g
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
> Of course! Especially with the "naturally" part. Biological differences in pertinent cognitive abilities, while they certainly exist, have never been shown to be too big (certainly not big enough to be the major cause for ob
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
I am not a smart man. It is slowly dawning on me that I am missing some not so subtle sarcasm.
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
Ha! I have always been jealous of the people who got firstname.lastname@gmail.com but now I see that privilege has a price. I have a very common first name / last name combo (it's awful, it's not 'John Smith' but fr
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by mark_integerdsv 11y ago
>This is a dangerous line of thinking. If women are naturally better at certain things, it is not a stretch to imagine that they would be naturally worse at certain things. Does anyone truly believe that this is not the case? People are

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