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Re:Message from President-Elect Donald J. Trump
on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @02:38PM (#13016872)
No longer mentioning term limits... interesting
Re:Elementary OS
on Monday October 31, 2016 @01:19PM (#12838817)
I thought it was a good OS but it does not play well with the newer HP laptops. Sadly had to revert back to Windows 10 :(
Re:What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005)
on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:02AM (#12701176)
Then avoid The New Yorker
Re:The Morning Routine That Will Save You 20 Hours a Week
on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:03PM (#12541708)
Title is a little clickbait-y and misleading, but still a very informative article
Re:Parents will leave if Hillary is elected. What country should they ...
on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @10:57AM (#12539990)
Ha! Moved to the States from Pakistan at a young age because parents were too liberal for Pakistan (still fairly conservative here) and I couldn't agree more.
Re:In India, a Rich Food Culture Vanishes from the Train Tracks
on Monday September 19, 2016 @05:36PM (#12534961)
One of the things that Eastern cultures gets so right, that seems so foreign in the West. The last time I shared a meal with a stranger was in college
Re:The Netflix Backlash: Why Hollywood Fears a Content Monopoly
on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:44AM (#12532302)
I am surprised that the article didn't once mention the lack of advertisements on Netflix. The are inherently selling a different product than television by not having ads
Re:The king of smokers
on Thursday September 01, 2016 @12:43PM (#12406783)
> [tobacco's] virtues rarely get a hearing, and yet the latter are many and great. To quiet nervous rest; to soothe a ruffled temper; to favour calm and partial thought; to steady and clear (not to cloud) a confused, overworked brain; to counteract the effects of physical exhaustion
Read that and my immediate thought was "Huh, I've heard this argument before."
Re:The 13 countries where being an atheist is punishable by death
on Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:44PM (#12362744)
I didn't find this article to be well researched. There is a minority of athiests living in Pakistan quite openly and no specific law in Pakistan carries the death penalty for athiesm.
Re:Peter Thiel and Y Combinator fund a “litigation financing” startup
on Thursday August 25, 2016 @01:28PM (#12360799)
As far as I am aware he has never been diagnosed by a licensed psychologist. Indications of sociopathic tendencies are not evidence enough that he is a sociopath, diagnosis is.
Re:Leonard Guarente's Anti-Aging Pill
on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:17PM (#12346054)
"Guarente has a third child ... but is unable even to find him, because he is a computer programmer specializing in encryption who has managed to scrub the internet of clues to his whereabouts" This made me chuckle