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How a Warren Buffett empire preys on the poor(seattletimes.com)
15 points by sheltgor 11y ago|2 comments
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by sheltgor 11y ago
My mistake, forgot to include the link: https://vimeo.com/97270099
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by sheltgor 11y ago
Watched a great documentary on the Barkley awhile back. I've done a city full and a trail half marathon, but its mindblowing to comprehend just how rough this race is. For those not familiar with the handful of people who have finished
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Have to agree here... my company even develops primarily for Win8, so its not as if I'm not used to using it, but I still vastly prefer Windows 7.
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After Suing, Tenant Comes Home to the Brooklyn Apartment She Was Made to Leave(nytimes.com)
6 points by sheltgor 12y ago|0 comments
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Wish a Windows version was incoming as well. Alas, I'll have to make do with Googling various phrases whenever I want to try and find a webpage I recall seeing and want to find again, but can't remember the name of.
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Thieves Tunnel into Indian Bank Vault From Across the Street(npr.org)
1 points by sheltgor 12y ago|0 comments
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Thanks for pointing that out; I didn't mean to imply that only people with serious advantages get left behind "you might just come from a social/family background that encourages you to take a job as soon as you finish high s
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by sheltgor 12y ago
DARE and a lot of programs like it have been shows, time and again, to be fairly ineffective. Hell, the DARE program was, in 2001 (curriculum may have changed since then, I don't know), placed on the list of Ineffective Primary Prevent
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by sheltgor 12y ago
That, unfortunately, kind of comes with the territory of a site where most users likely don't face those issues on a daily basis. I, fortunately, can say that I'm privilaged enough to have not faced the scenario described in the a
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Clearly you've never dealt with an addiction before. For some people cigarettes aren't just an expensive 'vice', they're a physical need due to chemical dependency. It certainly doesn't help that the most promi
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Looking at the actual situation in countires, though, this is kind of a false argument. Take Africa. Given that there were only two uncolonized countries, the sample size there is too small to be meaningful, though the fact that neither Lib
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by sheltgor 12y ago
I haven't actually poured through the data set linked in the article, but skimming it gives the impression that it includes a variety of images from 1964-70, which seems to me like a lot more than just a snapshot. It even mentions in t
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by sheltgor 12y ago
I do think, though, that as lake99 pointed out there could be TREMENDOUS value in this. Extending our image record a full 17 years is has enormous scientific value. It gave examples of imagery of the Aral Sea, which allows for significant s
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Always found that strange as well. I've always loved being a runner in Seattle because its generally cool, cloudy, and often light rain. To me that's the perfect weather for a run since it prevents you from overheating or dehydrat
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by sheltgor 12y ago
"and therefore making every worker's skill and experience important, instead of them being just a replaceable cog" Problem with this is that most workers don't have the skills and experience, and self-teaching can only g
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by sheltgor 12y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that strong moderation does a LOT to foster strong communities, and frankly very positive ones. Both of my favorite subreddits do this very well, as does my favorite forum, and though you get the jokes about 'fas
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Big problem with this. Particularly with dining plans, many of which don't refund at the end of the term/academic year and are required for the dorms. You want to be thrifty and only spend 600 or the 800 you had this spring? Too b
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Crows as well. One radio report I recall discussed how they not only recognize human faces but can inform others about individuals that threaten them. The researcher who was featured has to wear a mask when he is performing experiments or e
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by sheltgor 12y ago
As I said, maybe one since the Cold War. I knew South Sudan, but didn't think about Timor-leste. So if you take out the various eastern bloc states breaking up that's only two new countries.
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by sheltgor 12y ago
I'm not surprised at all... It's not every day that a country democratically permits succession. There has only been, what? One new country since the end of the Cold War? Further, while Scotland isn't London, it has a large s
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by sheltgor 12y ago
One of the big issues with the testing argument is that, the way common core is implemented at least, it produces no real meaningful change from past failed testing initiatives like NCLB. An increased emphasis on tests sadly tends to lead t
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by sheltgor 12y ago
Exactly this. From what I recall, and from what I hear from several relatives and acquantances who have been teaching for years, is that traditionally the ratio was roughly 70-30 'fiction'-'non-fiction; the latter being novel
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by sheltgor 12y ago
I've read interviews previously where Gates has spoke wonders of the benefits of the school allowing kids more freedom for things like coding, of a well-rounded background in things like English as opposed to using the class more for n
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by sheltgor 12y ago
"To his bafflement and frustration, he has become a remarkably polarizing figure in the education world." There's kind of a reason for this. If you're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting a specific a
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by sheltgor 12y ago
That may not be a bad thing... Work a few blocks over from there and the difference is startling. Having it concentrated in one place where they can keep an eye on it seems to me like it may be a quite effective strategy since it would effe
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by sheltgor 12y ago
As context, Scarecrow is the world's largest collection of home movies in every format imaginable, 120,000 titles in total. They're based near the University of Washington, and have had a huge cult following for years. Problem is,
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Help Turn the World's Largest Collection of Movies into a Nonprofit(kickstarter.com)
2 points by sheltgor 12y ago|1 comments
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Privacy and Surveillance PSAs from the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union (1974)(youtube.com)
2 points by sheltgor 12y ago|0 comments
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The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up Vinyl Records(nytimes.com)
100 points by sheltgor 12y ago|18 comments

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