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    Also the idiotic "Right to be forgotten".

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    Comment #10929345

    If it's a PhD in something like "Whiteness studies" or in multitude of similarly useful subjects, then gainful employment as a barista is a happy ending really.

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    Comment #10096077

    What this article ignores is that intelligence is at least 60% inheritable, and elite professionals are likely to merry other elite professionals. So wealth factor is not the only …

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    Comment #8243185

    >He, like Thomas, would not follow the risen Christ unless he saw him himself An extraordinary statement without evidence. People today have all kinds of beliefs without evidence. …

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    Comment #8148755

    >ten years earlier was not a US plot, yet nobody questions that. Are you joking? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

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    Comment #8100413

    The Final boss fight was a little unintuitive for me. I thought it was completely a puzzle or a memory task, because you can't damage him right away. So I repeated his patterns wit…

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    Comment #8060482

    Making Cairo C API a C++ standard, through automatic conversion, looks all kinds of wrong to me. The result is not properly generified like Boost GIL, and it carries vaguely define…

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    Comment #8059870

    Could you please list literature/papers that you found especially useful while making that renderer? I plan to do the same thing for education purposes.

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    Comment #8046571

    There are silent corruption bugs in storage drivers for example. Having that kind of competency in-house is too expensive for most companies.(Not Spotify in this case, but problem …

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    Comment #7924400

    investment in C++ compiler technology has been shared in form of llvm with rust and other languages.

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    Comment #7669330

    Large photo of this motherboard: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibmevents/14051347355/sizes/o/ They've masked all the chips with something black. Are they hiding chips they are usin…

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    Comment #7403221

    >One easy way to get kernel lockups is to use fglrx. Yup. Changed my GPU to nvidia, no more core lockups.

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    Comment #7326648

    >Otherwise sudden worry about taxpayers doesn't sound exactly genuine. I don't worry about taxpayers money. I'm saying that taxpayers money are never simply gifted to people, there…

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    Comment #7325820

    >That is very sinister, to finance NGOs that promote human rights and democracy. It's indeed sinister, when the government spends money of taxpayers, billions of dollars over years…

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    Comment #7325543

    >are the first to popularise Where did I say they are the first? Ghandi's struggle against colonialism, and I suppose Mohism are not about government coups, especially in modern co…

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    Comment #7325379

    It's ~$200 million of official US support for NGOs per year. Quite a lot considering $100-400 average wage during this period.

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    Comment #7325335

    You are placing me in an uncomfortable position of spewing pro-Kremin propaganda. Ok. >Presenting this as if it is some sinister technique freshly invented Well, I didn't go into d…

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    Comment #7325061

    >That's some pile of bullshit. Who are "we" that set up the riots? "We’ve invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prospero…

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    Comment #7125356

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_%28political_party%29 The party that is a significant force behind the protests is definitely ultra-nationalist. You could see it from the stat…

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    Comment #6759146

    This could also partially explain Russian unwillingness to smile. Most of Russians were born and raised in relatively big cities, not in suburbia where "friendliness to neighbor" c…

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    Comment #6631952

    Don't trust anything Russian state-owned media says. It went completely crazy in last 2 years. I recently watched a "Documentary" on this main "news" channel Rossiya 24, which spec…

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    Comment #6611509

    >Which component? Cypress Semiconductor CY8C24794-24LTXI Programmable System-on-Chip