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"and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior."

That's the important part. "Using race as a classification upon which you base your actions" is not by definition racism. Just as using sex as a classification upon which to base actions is not sexism. There is a requirement that those classifications must be used to discriminate or suggest that another group is superior in order for it to be racism or sexism.

Thus your definition is wrong because you selectively ignored a key part of the actual definition.

Your definition of racism is incorrect.

"Racism is usually defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called races and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior."

Wikipedia.

It is not racist. It would be racist if it argued or presented itself in such a way to express that one race was inferior or superior. It does not.

"The result–being able to blindly trust the things you own–is intensely liberating."

It seems somewhat pathetic that psychological liberation should come from choosing the correct personal possessions. I think a better form of liberation would be to shift focus away from possessions entirely.

I did this today on a 2010 MBP with a 250gb optibay drive. Nuked everything, ran the terminal commands from the Mountain Lion on usb stick, then installed mountain Lion. Installed and works great. Fast.

Not to mention copywriting, strategy, account management, project management, user experience, and development.

"Zubovsky and Toda insist that Scoutzie is more like a traditional design agency like FJORD or Happy Cog than its most obvious competitor 99Designs, and hold that the curation of the community and emphasis on quality versus getting the cheapest possible option is what sets them apart from the aforementioned."

I don't understand how they can compare Scoutzie to an agency. Do they not realize that agencies deliver significantly more than just design? An agency delivers a package through a proven process. Scoutzie just gives you a relationship to a designer. They are not even remotely the same.

Lame. 166 points, third in rank on the front page, and shoved off. I guess the truth hurts?

I blocked the app a long time ago. Wasn't very impressed with the founders in that regard.

That comment was clearly sarcasm.

ML is noticeably faster and smoother across the board. That's a great reason.

I enjoy stories counter to the current cultural sentiment, however I found this one to be very bland.

If you have high expectations about the amount and 'quality' of your personal possessions, then sure. I'm sure most every one else can make due on that amount.

I think with wise spending and decent investments I could easily make that amount last my entire life and have quite a bit to give away at the end.

If new startups agreed that they wouldn't leave their users out to dry if they got acquired would you be more likely to trust them and use their service?

Are you serious? $6m sounds like more than enough to retire on at any point for most people.

I think it is a given that you shouldn't use boostrap in it's entirety for a startup. However, using bootstrap for parts of the library is very effective. I'm using the excellent 'Bootstrap-sass-rails' gem, which lets you include all or just parts of bootstrap easily in the Rails asset pipeline. I then get the mixins, forms, type treatments, dropdowns, css reset and more for my project. Without the generic graphical styles.

Also, all of the less is converted to SASS.

Here's the gem if anyone is interested: https://github.com/yabawock/bootstrap-sass-rails

He borrowed a great deal from NLP.

I find it interesting that the author posits that those who sell themselves as being smart therefore are.

It is very phone specific for ICS right now. When Cyanogen 9 comes out there will be more 'standardization.' For now, I'd look up the dev forum for your phone on xda-developers and see if there are any good options.

Root and install a 4.0 rom!

The design looks like a standard wordpress template. And it looks like it actually is based on your gallery images here: https://img.skitch.com/20120128-1gbrkerrmatub6d6c461xku3ht.j...

As far as the idea goes, it seems like you could come up with something that finds a better niche in the market than this.

I can't seem find a citation for the actual study, seems like link bait to me.

This would make a great blog post. Thanks for the info.

The 75GXP death star debacle was in 2000-2001.

Are they planning on making Vintage mode better? I just tried it, and there's a lot of unexpected behavior. It jumps into insert mode for commands that shouldn't and so on.

There are also these other ways to get around it:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_blacko...

I love how on HN it's not okay to complain, but it is okay to complain about complaining.

Someone ripped it off, so you are promoting it directly here?

These ideas seem reasonable to me, however when I talk about 'singularity culture' I refer to those who think that the singularity will be the end of the human race, will 'save the world', will be a new species of humans on this planet, will be the rise of machines who enslave us, is the realization of 2012 and so on. These ideas are going around non-technical circles and they believe them.

It is very interesting to me how the 'singularity culture' talks about the singularity as if it is a given for our future. This seems very un-scientific, as they are betting on something to happen, without proper evidence or even solid ideas on what will happen. Just that it will, and it's going to be great!