mitochondrion

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by mitochondrion 8y ago
It would seem that Walter is not so Bright.
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
The quote suggests that Silicon Valley CEOs spend a significant amount of time thinking about politics, and their engineers do not.
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
Besides administrators and sports programs, glamorous campus amenities and affirmative action admittees.
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
The US government gets to define racism, if legal requirements to employ a precisely calibrated ratio of whites, women, blacks, and latinos are any guide. This is America, after all, and that’s what freedom means .
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
People are fired for racism all the time. You don’t disagree with that, do you?
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
The fact of the matter is that, broadly speaking, basic programming is a suite of cognitive processes that pretty much all come online at the same, reasonably above-average IQ, and they are irreducibly complex; they cannot be further simpli
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
Have you encountered Julia, and if so, what did you think of it?
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
NYT is just giving MSFT its pat on the head for being "with it".
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
In a more humane age, they were housed in asylums. Then Reagan happened.
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
I'm sometimes amazed at how afraid otherwise competent software dudes are of a bit of sysadministration.
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
To be fair, the sort of people who used to live there then are not of a kind with the variety that live there now. Most of those who could leave — undoubtedly like yourself — did.
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
Long live the Gates?
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
Do you not self-host?
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
Why not just scrape the site? I don’t see what the problem is.
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by mitochondrion 8y ago
When you say "pre-Trump-era industrial region", do you mean that there is now more industry there, or less?
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
>they are inherently fuel inefficient compared to devices with wheels Total cost will be lower. >they are noisy, a problem which can probably never be solved unless breakthroughs are made in science-fiction fields like anti-gravity No
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
California is undergoing a demographic transition.
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
It really just depends on who exactly the "public" is that is inhabiting the "public spaces". I'm sure this Khosla fellow wouldn't mind his property being used by beautiful surfer girls in bikinis who don'
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
What did you think they meant when they said "national security"? Obviously it was something like, "we are the nation and we need to secure ourselves from all enemies foreign and domestic". Bend over for your ritual di
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
That sounds perfect. Is it too much to ask for three company names to start me off in looking?
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
>The current uniformity predates GMOs, it stems from F1 hybrids that are effectively clones, and the legislation that makes it practically illegal to sell or plant non-patented seeds. Granted. But in the grand scheme of things, this is a
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
Well, all GMO products are subject to the same pressures of divergent interests. If you eat things, and if some GMO products you might eat are bad, and if the only genetic-modification-related insight you have into what you eat is "is-
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
>we're increasing biodiversity Are you sure? Farmers used to have their own subtly different strains of crops at the individual, village, town, and country levels in a kind of expanding concentric ring pattern. Now, at least for cas
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
The problem with GMO foods is not that they have been manually manipulated by man, but that they have been manually manipulated by men with interests not necessarily congruent with the persons eating them: namely, the emphasis of crop yield
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
>"Hola amigo" is an expression that many US Americans understand and do occasionally use to greet one another I suppose that depends on your definition of "US Americans".
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
>Their families have mostly been saying the same thing. To be fair, they probably just want grandchildren.
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
The federal government tends to be corrupt in ways less "shallow" and outrageous, but on a much more enormous breadth and scale.
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
Trusts and LLCs out the ass. Legal entities within legal entities within legal entities, held offshore in some cases, and so on. Personally, I literally don't hold a single titled property in my own name, and never will.
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
>(If you don't understand what I'm getting at: applying responsibility for extreme actions to huge groups of people is ridiculous) Does that apply to the white nationalists as well, or just the half of the mob you view as on yo
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by mitochondrion 9y ago
I don't have a definition of racism, so I can hardly update it, can I?

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