raptorex

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by raptorex 15y ago
"Yet, Dawkins continues to treat religion as a philosophy, and attempts to tackle it philosophically. As many philosophers have pointed out, this is not Dawkins' strong point and he comes off sounding like an extremely misinformed amateur a
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by raptorex 17y ago
yeah, well does "attractiveness" of a 2d picture of a face that looks like it was computer generated (the second male picture) as compared to an actual person's face actually correlate to physical attraction in the real world? I don't thin
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by raptorex 17y ago
maybe I'm just feeling negative today, but this sounds like some bullshit to me. it sounds like the kind of thing that would be appealing to managers: having "not exceptionally intelligent or talented" employees who become completely obses
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by raptorex 17y ago
google brought up this news story about it: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29546/1141/ which links to this Tetsuya post from a few days ago: http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001299.html
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by raptorex 17y ago
vaksel, you already admitted you don't understand why somebody would want to commit suicide. if you have to get all uppity about free speech and civil liberties on an internet forum right now (as if you are really saying anything novel), a
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by raptorex 17y ago
Well OK, but speaking as somebody who got a quick free replacement when my kindle had a problem that actually was Amazon's fault, I still think it's sort of lame. In my opinion Amazon was demonstrating that the kindle is relatively durable
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by raptorex 17y ago
What. Electronics are fragile. Nobody owes you $200 if you drop them.
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by raptorex 17y ago
yeah, it's convenient but I get eye strain pretty easily. if you happen to have a kindle, hatchet does the same thing for it. it's a much better platform for reading text. it costs $0.15 per use via Amazon's conversion charge though. ht
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by raptorex 17y ago
ah, and it just crashed when I tried to delete a bunch of messages. it was trying to index them, using 60% of my cpu, despite the setting telling it to automatically delete them because they were more than 30 days old. which has been set
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by raptorex 17y ago
I agree, I have been using it for years at my company and it consistently performs very poorly when you have a large mailbox (and it's unusable if you try to have it save messages for offline use). filters randomly miss messages, only to w