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The lesson of the story? Don't have kids.

What the hell is going on in that graph? The West Bank is "High-income"? Yemen is "High-income"?

I was under the assumption that uncooked beans contain enzyme inhibitors (which make digestion more difficult), and germinating the beans before cooking reduces the effectiveness of these inhibitors.

This article isn't nearly as scientific as I hoped it would be.

Static linking OpenSSL is probably not a good idea

I had mine removed about 4 years ago, haven't ever felt healthier than I do now.

Conditionals without braces? Have we learned nothing from heartbleed?

Exactly my feelings.

I think a little bit of wisdom from one of my favorite writers might be appreciated here:

"""We have created a lifestyle that makes injustice permanent and inescapable.

We have created a world where robots produce robots. Where capital breeds capital with very little need for the Eastenders of the world.

Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous.

At the same time rebellious with hunger and economically unimportant.

What will then stop a final solution of the world problem?

In People of the Abyss the Eastenders already saw it coming.

They are, Jack London wrote, “encumbrances”, of no use to anyone, not even to themselves. “They clutter the earth with their presence and are better out of the way”."""

Taken from http://www.svenlindqvist.net/text_only.asp?cat=1&lang=2&id=2...

I don't find this interesting or cool; it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work.

If you don't want the IRS in your online business, I think there's an easier solution: Pay your taxes.

Good luck getting through the bay area when everyone is driving

Why not have the federal government have an actual organization of software developers (with possibly a standards committee) that do it themselves instead of contracting it out to private companies?

Something like a NASA for non-space software development?

When will we finally hold contractors that build shit products for the public accountable for wasting a huge amount of tax dollars?

The actual socialist/anarchist crowd are going ape shit over it. (For example, Democracy Now! and NSFWCorp, two superb news organizations, are incredibly critical of the Obama administration over this, and many other issues that Obama has been far-right on)

"Weird twitter" is the closest thing I know to "hipster socialist"s, and most that I follow are very critical of the president.

Can you name a "hipster socialist" group that isn't critical of Obama? There are hundreds of Democratic-party affiliated organizations that haven't said a peep about this, but that's because they toe the party line.

>The award’s real name is the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” It was not established by Nobel, but supposedly in memory of Nobel. It’s a ruse and a PR trick, and I mean that literally. And it was done completely against the wishes of the Nobel family.

>Members of the Nobel family are among the harshest, most persistent critics of the economics prize, and members of the family have repeatedly called for the prize to be abolished or renamed. In 2001, on the 100th anniversery of the Nobel Prizes, four family members published a letter in the Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet, arguing that the economics prize degrades and cheapens the real Nobel Prizes.

>Most recently, in 2004, three prominent Swedish scientists and members of the Nobel committee published an open letter in a Swedish newspaper savaging the fraudulent “scientific” credentials of the Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economics. “The economics prize diminishes the value of the other Nobel prizes. If the prize is to be kept, it must be broadened in scope and be disassociated with Nobel,” they wrote in the letter, arguing that achievements of most of the economists who win the prize are so abstract and disconnected from the real world as to utterly meaningless.

If you'd like to read about the history of the scam that is the "Nobel Prize in Economics", there's plenty more in this article: http://www.alternet.org/economy/there-no-nobel-prize-economi...

Everything Adam Curtis does is amazing. The ending to this article sums up western perspectives on the middle east very well, in my opinion.

It is getting worse in my lifetime. I'd like to live in a time when it gets better.

>And, finally, don't be extreme in any way: politically, socially, culturally.

I strongly disagree with this, not just on principle, but also practically. There is always an extreme.

Although this is off topic, I'd argue that there are indeed literal slave masters in the United States today, and they are the private prison owners that profit off convict laborers that are forced to work and earn orders of magnitude less wages than minimum wage.