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Comment #4000331
Maybe I should rephrase. We weren't taught that white people invented everything, it's just that everything we were taught about was invented by white Americans and Europeans. The …
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Comment #3999180
Honest question. I'm not white ; do many white people in America really truly believe high school history as it is taught? i.e that white people invented absolutely everything and …
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Comment #3997417
About a billion people agree with you, and a billion people don't. The other several billion do not give a shit, even under the most promising of conditions, because they have real…
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Comment #3997032
Yeah. In Europe, cars treat bikes like vehicles, and bikes treat cars like vehicles. In America, bikers simply do not follow the laws they are supposed to - and neither do cars. It…
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Comment #3994874
I think it's just technology adoption lag. Cruisers have had these cameras on their dashboards (dash cams) for a while now. At first with resistance but now it's saved more cops th…
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Comment #3994462
This entire article is nonsense. People in SV buy expensive cars, boats, planes, flashy watches/jewelry, and all the other shiny things that rich people in LA, NY, and Florida/Texa…
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Comment #3983210
Islands is actually a fairly large chain in southern california (where all that is good and bad in hamburgers come from) and they make pretty damn delicious burgers and Mexican-Ame…
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Comment #3963036
You were the head of marketing and you didn't know who your own customers were? ... Excuse me? If you feel you were wronged, sue them for what you feel is right and move on as quic…
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Comment #3954092
From the wikipedia: Before joining Oracle, Benioff worked as an assembly language programmer at the Macintosh Division of Apple Computer, where he was inspired by the company and i…
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Comment #3954071
> great businesspeople are undervalued Nitpick: by definition, great businesspeople have lots of money (value). You should say that business people with an unknown track record are…
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Comment #3932586
"Hey Markus, you forgot to give me the information XYZ in time!" The most important thing to realize is that this is a test; he is testing whether or not you know how to play this …
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Comment #3932129
This is a fantastic article - something wannabes definitely need to be seeing - Instagram started when he was TWELVE YEARS OLD. I hope this article goes into a series like uses.thi…
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Comment #3929569
but I also never got any of my stuff back Well, did you ask? And by ask, I mean have a lawyer ask for you.
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Comment #3925882
The good ones are already doing consulting work for the cops, FBI, military, intelligence, etc. There are countless books and movies and news reports about this, from organized cri…
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Comment #3921604
So in other words (for men) to get the most responses from dating sites, be happy and white and wear sunglasses in an outdoor setting with a 5 o'clock shadow and show your fit body…
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Comment #3921352
Oh, right, the mountains :)
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Comment #3921324
so when trucks would drive their chips out to California, some of the seals would open up due to the pressure difference between the high altitude air and the air sealed inside the…
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Comment #3920499
I'm guessing the 10 year plan is they're going to start competing with orbitz, travelocity, priceline, tripadvisor, flightcaster, hipmunk, everyone in the travel space basically. L…
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Comment #3920227
1,000 employees? For what?
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Comment #3919433
The difference is Samsung is a massive wholesaler of critical phone components to pretty much every other manufacturer, including Apple. Ever heard of a "reference implementation"?…
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Comment #3914873
You should go look up the definition of "profit". It doesn't include salaries and benefits, which are called "salaries" and "benefits".
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Comment #3912029
Grocery stores aren't very profitable.
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Comment #3911598
What I meant was the internet helps me do things in the real world.
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Comment #3910973
Life before the internet was incredibly boring most of the time. You spent the majority of your free time figuring out ways to wring the most value from the 10% of time spent doing…
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Comment #3910867
And how exactly does reading self-help books affect how other people behave?