maverick_iceman

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Undoing Insularity: A Small Study of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem (2016)(econjwatch.org)
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
A person will be more reliable than your phone regarding these basic information? Give me a break.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Was this in planet Earth or somewhere else? I've been to over 1000 movies and have never seen it happening with me or anyone else.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
If you don't like Uber don't take Uber.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
What incentive do taxi companies have under existing regulations to make the lives of passengers any better? They have been granted A monopoly by the government and passengers will have to take them however bad they are because no competiti
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Drivers are adults. They can stop driving for Uber any moment that wish. Or do you think that adults don't know whats good for themselves and government needs to tell them what to do?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
You know what sucks? Being black and not able to hail a cab.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Taxi service was bad everywhere if you were black.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
This is why Europe will never be able to catch up to America when it comes to tech.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Would ~$500B in revenue count as the economy?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Making their anti-spam operations transparent may be self-defeating, spammers may then be able to game the system.
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The Local News Business Model(stratechery.com)
1 points by maverick_iceman 9y ago|0 comments
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
>this influence is orders of magnitude greater than any other company. This is silly, Facebook and Amazon's influence is comparable, if not more. And I'm not even talking about the banks.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Yes, what GP said is true, at least since the 80s. Before that, too powerful monopolies were considered bad for society; that's why Standard Oil was broken up. However, understanding of US antitrust law underwent a shift in the 80s - n
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
>Whats the viable alternative to Android? iOS.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
It's fascinating to see how the NIMBYs couch their arguments in terms of environmentalism and morality, when they are motivated by nothing else than greed and shallow personal interest at the cost of everyone else.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Why isn't that trivially true of all languages? You can generate infinitely many valid strings of arbitrary length in any grammar. How's that special about Sanskrit?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Panini's work is considered to be the precursor of Backus-Naur form.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form#Histo...
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
What would be the point?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Or maybe Facebook's "Add Friend" feature suggested GP to the girl.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Try inviting pro-Israel supporters and see what a stink BDS and the general leftist students make. [1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/students-are-shoutin...
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
I see this as an outgrowth of left-liberal student bodies clamping down on conservative speech on college campuses. If leftist students can block Ann Coulter from speaking then why can't Chinese students block the Dalai Lama? Every spe
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
What's an example of "broad soft science"? Astrology? Telekinesis?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Why don't you run anonymous surveys so that employees can give feedback without fear of repercussions?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
I always wondered about those bright colored regular shapes when I landed at SFO. Glad I finally know what they are.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Courts can't overthrow bad laws, they can only overthrow unconstitutional laws (or state laws that violate federal laws).
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
We understand gravity very well. General relativity is a beautiful and highly tested theory of gravity.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Scott Aaronson discussed Integrated Information Theory in 2014. His conclusion was that it is a failed research program. [1][2][3] [1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799 [2] http://www.scottaaronson.com
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Why is it beyond the scope of science? No experiments have shown that consciousness can violate the laws of physics and steady progress has been made in explaining consciousness from neuroscience.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
I think nicknames are somewhat more than a Bengali thing. :)

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