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frjo
reddit.com
A look at Vietnam and Mexico exposes the myth of market liberalisation.
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2005-12-12T05:26:28
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zse7zse
reddit.com
The site states "What can I use it for? Meeting notes, Reports, technical specs Sign-up sheets, proposals and much more...", just like any other new breeed of sites that want us to store everything we have on the web. And they even guarantee multiple levels of security and encryption etc. But what prevents these web site operators fom accessing and/or stealing Meeting notes, Reports, technical specs Sign-up sheets, proposals and much more, for competitive or personal gains...? I am pretty sure that most of them are honest, but what's there to prevent me from setting up a good useful site and stealing all your data? Call me paranoid - I am.
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1,134,365,725
2005-12-12T05:35:25
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[deleted]
reddit.com
Jython related topics by Frank Wierzbicki
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2005-12-12T05:54:08
41
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1,134,367,660
2005-12-12T06:07:40
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rjoseph
reddit.com
Saft is by far the best extension you could tak onto your Safari
1
1,134,367,754
2005-12-12T06:09:14
64
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reddit.com
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1,134,368,231
2005-12-12T06:17:11
9
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cavedave
reddit.com
How to take panoramic shots simply
1
1,134,371,050
2005-12-12T07:04:10
34
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b0se
reddit.com
I don’t know where they came up with this stuff, but Qube Web Search Client has taken the market by surprise. This is a cool concept that’s just beginning to blossom. You can save time by copying and pasting words and phrases.
1
1,134,371,664
2005-12-12T07:14:24
230
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damir
reddit.com
LinkIt by Marc, alternative to reddit wrtten in CL.
1
1,134,375,273
2005-12-12T08:14:33
51
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richardk74
reddit.com
Making websites relevant and usable to potential users across the world.
1
1,134,380,167
2005-12-12T09:36:07
72
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kn0thing
reddit.com
On the bright side, despite kidnapping and cruelly abandoning him, it doesn't sound like he was tortured...
1
1,134,381,378
2005-12-12T09:56:18
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bugbear
reddit.com
Like a lot of people I can't claim to know first-hand about the harsh realities of war. That's why it matters a lot to me that McCain is the one leading the fight against torture in Washington. He has a military background; he would not advocate something that would prevent us from defending ourselves. And unfortunately for him he knows a lot about torture specifically. Even the White House could not avoid noticing how bad it was for PR to have Cheney, who avoided service in Vietnam, advocating torture, and McCain, a war hero, speaking out against it. So they've switched to lying. "We do not torture" is now the official line. For some definition of "torture" that they know the hearer doesn't share. Where have I heard this before? "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
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1,134,384,119
2005-12-12T10:41:59
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[deleted]
reddit.com
This is comment to link Reddit no supports comments. Just testing. Below I seet comment where bugbear discusses war? Something wrong here?
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2005-12-12T11:00:25
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2005-12-12T11:15:31
9
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2005-12-12T11:16:22
9
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2005-12-12T11:16:33
9
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reddit.com
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1,134,386,254
2005-12-12T11:17:34
9
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AaronSw
reddit.com
It's a New York Times editorial that was also published in the _IHT_.
3
1,134,386,388
2005-12-12T11:19:48
69
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AaronSw
reddit.com
[Here's the copy published in the _NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/10/opinion/10sat1.html?ex=1291870800&en=d3e174110265b5be&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss).
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1,134,386,498
2005-12-12T11:21:38
182
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fnord123
reddit.com
The best thing about reddit, imo was the lack of comments. This way, it avoided a lot of the moronicism of slashdot. :(
5
1,134,386,557
2005-12-12T11:22:37
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AaronSw
reddit.com
You can rank the comments and demote the moronicism.
7
1,134,386,601
2005-12-12T11:23:21
52
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ssundar78
reddit.com
just testing this feature
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1,134,386,624
2005-12-12T11:23:44
25
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ssundar78
reddit.com
ye ye
0
1,134,386,748
2005-12-12T11:25:48
5
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AaronSw
reddit.com
_We didn't torture somebody! USA #1!_
1
1,134,387,028
2005-12-12T11:30:28
37
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zlayde
reddit.com
Interesting article on the use of open space in design.
1
1,134,387,270
2005-12-12T11:34:30
55
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jarsonic
reddit.com
reddit got a "runner up" citation in the "Peer Production News" category. Not bad for a site that's only been around for a few months. ;)
1
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2005-12-12T11:39:00
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2005-12-12T12:03:35
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zimba
reddit.com
this is wonderful. just what i needed.
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2005-12-12T12:04:28
43
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zimba
reddit.com
cool. i love a good font.
-9
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2005-12-12T12:08:20
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2005-12-12T12:15:20
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hellfire
reddit.com
Comments? About time, I want to see what other people think about some articles.
-1
1,134,390,964
2005-12-12T12:36:04
80
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bugbear
reddit.com
As Aaronsw points out, there's a big difference between Reddit comments and Slashdot comments. Reddit comments are ranked. Which means not only that the lame stuff gets pushed to the bottom where you can ignore it, but that, because the order can change, users won't be tempted into the kind of it-is-so, it-is-not, it-is-so kind of interchange that makes Slashdot comments so tedious. And of course there's no "frist post!" phenomenon, because the (graphically) first post is the one voted the best, not the first chronologically. Plus you can take a real karma hit if you post something dumb that a lot of people mod down. That should make people think twice. Put all these together and I think comments on Reddit will end up being a lot better than on Slashdot.
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2005-12-12T12:42:38
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charlieb
reddit.com
There's nothing like simplicity and not following the crowd. I for one welcome our new comment spam overlords. Oh and by the way; 1) Come up with a great simple idea 2) Wait for a degree of popularity and media attention 3) Add unnecessary features 4) Profit. Is this what you want?
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1,134,391,604
2005-12-12T12:46:44
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qwerty
reddit.com
This would be interesting discussion.
1
1,134,392,292
2005-12-12T12:58:12
37
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spez
reddit.com
still looks like a death trap to me...
4
1,134,392,748
2005-12-12T13:05:48
38
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mrevelle
reddit.com
Ok, so I'm curious... Why the -3 rating?
1
1,134,393,079
2005-12-12T13:11:19
41
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bugbear
reddit.com
This story was already posted. Don't you even check before submitting stuff? http://reddit.com/info?id=17942
-1
1,134,393,687
2005-12-12T13:21:27
110
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bugbear
reddit.com
I wonder how many more years we'll see lists like this (badly) assembled by human editors instead of by voting. It already feels old-fashioned, at least to a reddit user.
2
1,134,394,359
2005-12-12T13:32:39
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mckirkus
reddit.com
What's it to you, it's not like you have to look at them on the main page.
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1,134,394,442
2005-12-12T13:34:02
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dylanm
reddit.com
Wonderful! And it supports a limited amount of markup. I hope that the discussions will be respectful and edifying. It would be nice if the number of comments an entry had were displayed in the list view, and if the comment entry box were a bit larger (or resizeable). Oh, and does comment activity make something "hotter"? Personally, I thought about leaving the site because the interaction that karma offers is pretty cold -- I certainly don't like seeing (-2) next to my name, and I feel like the negative ratings on legitimate articles are going to discourage some people. How are you guys rating articles? I tend to promote articles that I find interesting, leave alone things which are not of interest to me, and only demote articles which are old or obviously spam.
3
1,134,394,551
2005-12-12T13:35:51
776
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theycallmemorty
reddit.com
I would like it better if I could 'open and close' the list of comments on an article without leaving the main page. Or atleast the 4-5 highest rated comments.
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1,134,395,180
2005-12-12T13:46:20
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vibz
reddit.com
Chinese youths are taking outsourcing to a new level by playing early levels of games for affluents gamers in America.
2
1,134,395,381
2005-12-12T13:49:41
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dylanm
reddit.com
I'm not sure what the point in the body of this article is. The question in the title is somewhat interesting. I think that if we're talking about "Web 2.0" companies, none of them are going to become the next Microsoft. The whole point seems to be releasing simple applications often -- there isn't a suite that's going to dominate the entire productivity market. Google -- with its reach and accumulated loyalty -- has the best chance of becoming the next Microsoft.
1
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2005-12-12T13:50:35
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charlieb
reddit.com
Have you read slashdot lately? There are no comments on the front-page there either but their tone and idocy seeps through so even the real news stories are presented to a 4th grade reading level. And yes, I am a snob. I like reddit's emphasis on technical matters and programming but it not going to last long now. I guess it's the price of popularity. I wonder how long it'll be before there's some social networking options, "mckirkus has submitted links similar yours would you like to ask this person on a date?"
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1,134,395,509
2005-12-12T13:51:49
517
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swwoodruff
reddit.com
don't listen if you don't want to have a song stuck in your head all day (though maybe a tinfoil hat would prevent that...)
1
1,134,395,580
2005-12-12T13:53:00
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tcervl
reddit.com
noooooooooooooo
2
1,134,395,764
2005-12-12T13:56:04
15
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reddit.com
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2005-12-12T13:56:53
9
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1,134,395,836
2005-12-12T13:57:16
9
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senzei
reddit.com
Evidently the "post something by paul graham and watch your karma skyrocket" trick no longer works.
1
1,134,395,905
2005-12-12T13:58:25
99
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theycallmemorty
reddit.com
Why Didn't I think of this?
1
1,134,396,014
2005-12-12T14:00:14
27
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1,134,396,309
2005-12-12T14:05:09
9
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c74
[deleted]
reddit.com
Now I want feature that lets me see all of a particular user's comments. :D
3
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2005-12-12T14:08:34
75
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2005-12-12T14:10:48
9
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reddit.com
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1,134,397,412
2005-12-12T14:23:32
9
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dylanm
reddit.com
Agreed. And I'd like for reddit to keep track of things I've commented on and alert me when new comments (especially replies) have been made.
3
1,134,397,443
2005-12-12T14:24:03
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saugerties
reddit.com
This site is a great place to find out what's happening in local music. Discover bands and clubs, whos playing where, and useful classified ads for musicians.
1
1,134,398,659
2005-12-12T14:44:19
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2005-12-12T14:45:29
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dylanm
reddit.com
An interesting argument. That the church was keeping intellectualism alive during the middle ages is surprising to some people. Many can only think of the church as hindering science as in the case of Intelligent Design and the condemnation of Galileo. Also worth reading is Jared Diamond's book *Guns, Germs, and Steel*, to which the article alludes in the beginning. Both works probably ignore contradictory evidence for the sake of clarity.
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1,134,398,933
2005-12-12T14:48:53
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spez
reddit.com
[try here](http://reddit.com/user/mattvonb/comments)
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1,134,399,035
2005-12-12T14:50:35
52
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AaronSw
reddit.com
It is a standard: [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/markdown).
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1,134,399,093
2005-12-12T14:51:33
65
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spez
reddit.com
choose flat in the upper right?
0
1,134,399,179
2005-12-12T14:52:59
31
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alecb
reddit.com
First off, you spelled idiocy wrong. Second, this site has always been as world oriented as it has been technical/programming oriented. Take this mix or leave it because this site doesn't revolve around your needs.
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1,134,399,254
2005-12-12T14:54:14
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JimThome
reddit.com
What is "(nudge nudge) Scribe"?
3
1,134,399,276
2005-12-12T14:54:36
31
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dylanm
reddit.com
Of course, that makes replies made by users in the nested view look completely out of context.
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1,134,399,404
2005-12-12T14:56:44
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[deleted]
reddit.com
will comments dissapear if ranked low enough? I can just see the pages with 5000 comments now..
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1,134,399,540
2005-12-12T14:59:00
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[deleted]
reddit.com
On a few occasions, I've voted down highly-ranked junk science articles portraying correlation as causation (http://cr.yp.to/postpropter.html). I've wanted to explain, but of course, I couldn't. Reddit now has more opportunity to become something like a self-aware community. I have also wondered sometimes why articles have a high rank, and wondered what others were thinking about it. The web brings you the world, and I can't think of anything better than people thinking about it, writing about it, and having a dialog. It engages the mind, shares insights, and people like "talking."
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2005-12-12T15:00:20
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spez
reddit.com
> Of course, that makes replies made by users in the nested view look completely out of context. I think we'll add the ability to "show context" soon
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1,134,399,655
2005-12-12T15:00:55
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radikal
reddit.com
He shouldn't have to.
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1,134,399,688
2005-12-12T15:01:28
21
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kn0thing
reddit.com
This is one of the advantages of having a mascot from the future.
1
1,134,399,688
2005-12-12T15:01:28
65
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fergie
reddit.com
is this the first ever reddit flame ;-)
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1,134,399,759
2005-12-12T15:02:39
39
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dylanm
reddit.com
[Scribe User Manual](http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Scribe) If the Scribe I'm thinking of is the same as sstern's.
1
1,134,399,781
2005-12-12T15:03:01
120
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spez
reddit.com
not yet, but we'll play around with it
6
1,134,399,823
2005-12-12T15:03:43
38
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theycallmemorty
reddit.com
Ummm.... you're a stupid head. :\
-4
1,134,399,972
2005-12-12T15:06:12
36
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JimThome
reddit.com
First, your claim that Slashdot presents stories to a fourth grade reading level is simply irrelevant. As opposed to Slashdot, all Reddit has no front page commentary whatsoever. If you don't want to see the "idocy" of all of the unwashed masses far beneath your pedestal, just don't click on "comments". Second, this site is quite clearly not intended as a programming/tech specific site. It's quite clearly not intended as an *anything* specific site. If you love its degree of emphasis on programming and so forth, it should be quite simple for you to implement a similar site with a specific emphasis. Reddit's functionality is not complicated, and as you are a programming and tech "snob" far above our "idocy", you should have no trouble duplicating it.
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1,134,400,078
2005-12-12T15:07:58
767
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theycallmemorty
reddit.com
Oh Man the Virtua Boy. What were they thinking?
0
1,134,400,136
2005-12-12T15:08:56
48
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hopper
reddit.com
So the car survived. Too bad the internal organs of the body smash into the rib cage at 70 mph, too. And the shower of crushed glass? That's just like confetti? This was a terrible writeup.
3
1,134,400,167
2005-12-12T15:09:27
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kanagawa
reddit.com
The author, has a great web site at http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ ... He's pretty much really great to read and listen to. I try to get all the application developers that I work with to go to his seminars. :-)
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2005-12-18T11:17:39
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fnord123
reddit.com
It was broken for years. I suspect you simply weren't paying attention.
-1
1,134,907,690
2005-12-18T12:08:10
71
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kopikat
reddit.com
I couldn't agree more with the author. I'm tired of all my college proffesors using and abusing this tool. Chalkboards gives you time to think what's being taught, time to copy(with also gives you more time to process the new data) and tend to be much more explicative.
6
1,134,908,427
2005-12-18T12:20:27
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1,134,910,751
2005-12-18T12:59:11
9
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singollo
reddit.com
Original link was broken.
1
1,134,913,443
2005-12-18T13:44:03
25
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kn0thing
reddit.com
I think the most intriguing part of Mao's story started post mortem. Every day hundreds of Chinese line up in Beijing to file past his waxy, slightly bloated corpse (I know, I was one of them…and it’s hard to preserve a corpse) and pay their respects. Despite killing millions of his fellow Chinese with his programs, he is still regarded by many with a great deal of admiration. The Cult of Mao is quite penetrating. Weighing in with the “official Party stance” on Mao, Deng Xiaoping called him “seven parts right and three parts wrong.” Kinda makes you wonder what it would take for someone to be “ten parts wrong.” Also, it should also be noted that Mao insisted on subordinates who acquiesced to his every request, regularly falsifying production quantities, orchestrating false demonstrations of ‘model’ work communes, etc. all elaborately manufactured to appease Mao. Over the years, he became so ignorant to the realities of China’s plight that much of the destruction he caused was not intentional, but rather a by-product of his own insularity. Not that this excuses it, but it may broaden the perspective from which we view it. Mao was also a great lover of Chinese Opera, but unbeknownst to him, the production being put on for him was set on the stage of China.
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1,134,918,332
2005-12-18T15:05:32
1,310
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tealeg
reddit.com
I've got to agree with the sentiment here. I've been trying to find evidence of this for ages, but I remember reading years ago that a large software company (I believe it was Sun Microsystems in the days before they bought Star Division) did some research on office software . They found that so called "productivity" software was the single biggest productivity killer in their organisation. Instead of developing clear, concise messages staff spend hours worrying about fonts and clip-art. The result of this study was that the company banned the use of office software without express permission. Everyone had to use plain-text e-mail for all communication. Does anyone else remember that study? Anyone have any links? I'd love to see it again as it is the missing lynch-pin from my anti-office software arguement (a pet topic of mine).
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1,134,918,931
2005-12-18T15:15:31
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Hexren
reddit.com
got a Christmas gift :D Positive things do come of the internet ;)
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1,134,919,085
2005-12-18T15:18:05
67
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willis3000
reddit.com
"*...and adult videos have realistic plots.*" No wonder I can't get laid with my current tactics.
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1,134,919,637
2005-12-18T15:27:17
100
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hartshorne
reddit.com
This interface is begging for XHR...
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1,134,924,851
2005-12-18T16:54:11
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e40
reddit.com
Yes, the title link's comment is subjective. However, what you and the hawks fail to see: the war in Iraq made us less safe. If you dig under the facade the mainstream media presents, you will see that the Arab world hates us more than they ever did before the war. We turned an event (9/11) for which we could have gotten tremendous support worldwide, even in the Arab world, into the most stupid debacle in the last 100 years.
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1,134,925,483
2005-12-18T17:04:43
431
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e40
reddit.com
With firefox 1.5 I get: > Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
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1,134,926,002
2005-12-18T17:13:22
145
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e40
reddit.com
Women in the porn industry have had the upper hand (in terms of amount paid, compared to their male counterparts) for some time. It follows that the balance of power and the creative control would follow them. Thought experiment: count how many multi-millionaire male performers you can name? I can't name one and have never heard mention of one. Now the female? Well, I can't remember their names, but I remember reading about them, and seeing referenes to them in various documentaries (HBO had one called something like "Sex in the Valley"). There are lots of them. Lastly, in the days before the internet, the porn was controlled by a few powerful distributors, who were, yes, male (and sometimes affiliated with the mafia). The 'net has removed the power over distribution and created a level porn playing field. Some say this exact thing is occuring right now regarding non-porn movies. ifilm.com is certainly trying. It's not clear anyone is listening, though.
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1,134,926,754
2005-12-18T17:25:54
984
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[deleted]
reddit.com
> Yes, the title link's comment is subjective. However, what you and the hawks fail to see: the war in Iraq made us less safe. If you dig under the facade the mainstream media presents, you will see that the Arab world hates us more than they ever did before the war. We turned an event (9/11) for which we could have gotten tremendous support worldwide, even in the Arab world, into the most stupid debacle in the last 100 years. Well, I'm not a warhawk, so that's not where I'm coming from. This most stupid debacle in the last 100 years? That's another one of those statements which isn't really supported. There have been so many ridiculous conflicts within the past 100 years, that its pretty difficult to say that this is the worst.
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1,134,926,912
2005-12-18T17:28:32
744
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e40
reddit.com
Name one ware the US was involved in in the last 100 years that was dumber than this war.
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1,134,927,358
2005-12-18T17:35:58
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Zak
reddit.com
The image works for me on Firefox 1.5 and Mozilla 1.7 though I don't have a plugin installed to handle the sound.
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1,134,927,604
2005-12-18T17:40:04
113
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e40
reddit.com
I tried it out for a couple of hours. I had to turn if off because 1) it was so annoying to see that little window popup, and 2) I never saw one comment that was worth reading!
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1,134,927,893
2005-12-18T17:44:53
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1,134,927,962
2005-12-18T17:46:02
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littlejedi
reddit.com
You could argue this is the dumbest war the US has ever been involved in (though some historians would point to some of the Indian wars or the Mexican war), but this isn't even the dumbest thing the US has done in the past 100 years. Japanese internment during WWII, anyone? And we did have a skirmish in the Philippines about a hundred years ago that wasn't too bright ...
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1,134,928,293
2005-12-18T17:51:33
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reddit.com
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1,134,928,518
2005-12-18T17:55:18
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littlejedi
reddit.com
For conferences, I heard a discussion of collaborative wiki's being extremely valuable; if a large portion of the audience has wifi access, they can follow along on a wiki and make comments and such. Sounded neat.
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2005-12-18T17:59:01
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mnemonicsloth
reddit.com
"Name one ware (sic) that the US was involved in in the last 100 years that was dumber than this war" UH, I think that would be World Ware I. An entire generation of Europe's young men gassed and machinegunned out of history because one inbred Hapsburg was assassinated in... THE BALKANS! "Politicalviolenze in der Balkans? Who knew? Ja, let's go kill off every able-bodied male between 18 and 27 in France and Britain!"
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1,134,931,249
2005-12-18T18:40:49
429
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austinb
reddit.com
If you think the assassination was the only thing that caused WWI, you are *seriously* behind on things.
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1,134,932,485
2005-12-18T19:01:25
104
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mnemonicsloth
reddit.com
Ah, interesting. I guess I must've missed the memo: "WWI was actually caused by competition to exploit colonial resources, Germany's preemption of France as the major continental industrial power, Germany's attempt to build a competitor to the Royal Navy, and the entropic degradation of Bismarck's spiderwork of treaties when the Iron Chancellor himself was no longer around to manage them." Now, let's ask an analogous question: <i>Seriously</i>, what is the US doing in Iraq? I submit that the answer is likely to be more complicated than "Chimpy McHitlerburton lied to us about weapons of mass distraction! Michael Moore told me so!" Or, for that matter, "We done gawne inter Eye-rack t' spread dumawkruhsee an' the Gospel t' th' heathen." If WWI is entitled to a <i>serious</i> causal examination, why isn't the Iraq war so entitled? Answer: attempting to write HISTORY while it's still happening is called POLITICS. The pompous toad in this article has declared Iraq a stupid war. Fine. What kind of evidence does he have to back up his reasoning? How many soldiers' memoirs has he read (and deconstructed)? How many Iraqi citizens has he interviewed? How many members of the insurgency? Or is he basing his judgements on reports from the western media (who have LESS information than the coalition's military leadership), and the Iraqi media in the run-up to a parliamentary election. Even if you try to be objective under these circumstances, you're still going to reach conclusions that support the views you already hold. Read Foulcault and Derrida if you don't believe me. And then, if you have any kind of intellectual conscience, knock a point off this assinine submission so nobody has to see it again.
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2005-12-18T19:40:16
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