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Corn is a grain, not a fruit or a vegetable.

Take a look at the test they added in the patch for an example of how the exploit would go down.

That's not really accurate. If one insists on living in a new building with amenities, or in an ultra-yuppified neighborhood (e.g. Marina), then yes, the sky is the limit on rental…

No doubt, but the converse is not necessarily true. There are many high crime areas that are not ghettos, in that they have no particular ethnic make-up. There are even relatively …

Hey man, no need to get personal. For what it's worth, I live in a rural, very low income area. We all have limits on our world views. I simply object to the casual usage of a neut…

I disagree. The respectable "modern" variant of ghetto is still to refer to people or things of a group that are constrained to a limited area. There is the "gourmet ghetto" in Nor…

Link-bait title conflates "ghetto" with "high crime areas". It's disrespectful to the millions of individuals of various groups who have been forced to live in ghettos.

What if you just decided to "not play the game" and pursue a life that was meaningful to you, on your own terms, instead of waiting for somebody else's Facebook post to make feel y…

That's great that Facebook "opened your eyes" in a seemingly healthy way. Seriously. The world was full of ways to compare ourselves with others before social media came around. It…

Comparing is built-in perceptual functionality, but the meaning we associate with what we see are not. I'm not sure what culture you're embedded in, but where I live, in America, w…

This piece was spot on, except for one thing-- the suggestion that "quitting facebook" is unrealistic. Why? Maybe the author was trying to avoid being labeled "too extreme". And gr…

Sure, we all go through life via a form of trial and error, learning from our mistakes. Personally, I think the fewer times you have to go around that wheel, the better. I don't wa…

Looks like an impressive, cool project. The justification for why it matters seems a bit "off" to me: For perspective on why this matters, consider that many Facebook engineers spe…

That is still ignoring the fact that these individuals were in fact willing to take a corporate job, when their price was met. Maybe that price included the ego boost that comes wi…

You claim that this class of people won't work for a "big company" for "any amount of money," yet in the next breath you admit that they will work for those companies in the contex…

To the latter point-- fair enough. There are some significant differences between Mac and iOS development, for example, but it seems that experienced Mac devs generally flourish in…

The author claims that you can hire devs with either ten or 3-5 years of experience "in a particular area." I've never been to Bulgaria, but I know it's hard to find folks with ten…

Non-experience is not the only "failure mode" possible in meditation. Most practitioners find that, as with many spiritual or psychological practices, things get more difficult bef…

In fact, deactivating/"quitting" your FB account is not enough, either. I deactivated my FB account several weeks ago, not so much for privacy issues directly but out of concern of…