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I take it you don't think there's much of a connection between language and thought. Changing something at the most basic level can have important repercussion. Some prefer this kind of intervention, rather than deal with a political power structure.

It's not really a retraction. Because they had stuff in parentheses. Because they were after headlines.

This is the amazing "Sunday" research paper. It's OK if you stop at the giant red typo, but you may eventually get the point: "The short path we found (which is depicted in Figure 6) suggests (but does not prove) the existence of a surprising link between the two mysterious figures of the Bitcoin community, Satoshi Nakamoto and DPR. It is reasonable to assume that all the accounts described along the top of Figure 6 belong to the same person, but to be on the safe side we refer to him as a “Founder” rather than as Satoshi Nakamoto. We are sure that analyzing this figure will start a very vigorous debate in the Bitcoin community."

In other words, "we're covering our asses so we don't have to retract, but we're expert and relevant to this bitcoin thing."

The paper referenced: http://www.scribd.com/doc/187227818/Bitcoin-Silk-Road-Pirate...

Text-only versions, even straight from dumps, have had some bad formatting and truncation problems over the years, can't wait to try this. And here's a use case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6676661

This is namecheap's problem, plenty of decimal places left there.

You have to appreciate the fortitude it took not to mention gmail once.

This is not unique to China by any means, and it's one of the reasons I stop reading comments where "the U.S." (drones, genocide, just as bad, etc,.) isn't followed by "government".

It doesn't have to be spatter, there are lots of possible scenarios where the liquid is being spilled on her from some other source (a small incidental pool), it doesn't make it staged. But maybe we just have different types of imagination :)

Reminds me of this, only not as funny : http://gradientsmotherfucker.com/

The swearing has no connection to being unfunny, it's just unfunny writing. Language is a way to select your audience, consider yourself out of this particular range. I'm out of range because it's not funny.

The link in the article has more detail[0], which includes an expanded "critical thinking" section. Also from the comments on that page, from one of the authors: "...separate articles focused on each of the outcomes described here are currently under review at journals. This is a summary of the combined results".

[0] http://educationnext.org/the-educational-value-of-field-trip...

There's no implicit claim the blood was her own.

There's a conveniently placed disclaimer to how he got the "arterial" part (projected image, hardly color correct). From that follows "spray" - so it doesn't really hold water.

Edit: missed the part where you were agreeing with the article, apologies for assuming. He does indeed address that, poorly!

It's likely not her own blood, could have been from the probably crowded ambulance, so you can ignore some things relying on that, swelling, pain, cuts.

It's possible she wiped her own eyebrow, and she may have tried to clean her chin while the blood was partially dry (maybe with saliva, diluting the blood a little).

It's possible the blood dried at different rates, considering sweat.

Either way, it would make a lot more sense to stage this with animal blood rather than acrylics.

Edit: posting this here because I agree. Also needs more clear proof on why the blood color is true to camera.

In my experience, coding usually starts out for two main reasons: curiosity/fascination, and need. Over time, that ratio has changed, which I guess is the main gripe of the article.

Thanks, pretty sweet.

Edit: probably a niche issue for most, but this is worth a read... http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/09/27/dear-internet-we-need-b...

This is a pretty misleading title. As to its actual subject, best of luck with the book.

edit: Just pointing out the clickbait aspect. It's hyperbole, not the technical usage.

This is completely dishonest, from the "What can I do with it?" section:

"Build... A computer, powered by Raspberry Pi"

I understand what you mean, but these two conflicts are nowhere near the same scale. Social rights issues have a lot of work done by lots of dedicated people over decades, until they reach a tipping point. A for-profit corporation, no matter how good at marketing, will not stake their financial health by going against massive consensus, they just don't have the political/financial freedom to do that. If they had to pick between India and Pakistan in an actual war, they would take sides according to their interest or get out of both, but that's about it.

Mainly though, the scale here is way off. Apologies for the sarcastic reply before.

What magical action did you have in mind?

You seem to be saying: enjoy it for what it appears to be, exclude the actual purpose of the ad.

Some of their questions are there to gauge your response, not get information, but I still have a hard time believing they would call him "a Jew" instead of a version of "Jewish".

(I feel strangely outsmarted again by them.)

What would be interesting to know is if India is basically virgin territory as far as Google (marketing) ideology. In other words, is Google free to start from scratch there, without (some clearly outlined) lofty promises?

"Yes I was suitably manipulated. Good job, mass emotional manipulation team!" - thrownaway2424

Just agreeing with your sentiment, might as well share the downvotes.

Initially it was just the best at what it did, pretty much leaving all others behind. I didn't hate yahoo, but they got smoked. And remember the "AOL keyword"? I think we romanticize here a little bit, I don't remember Microsoft being the enemy early on, as disliked as they were.

Back when I was showing off my Google T-shirt, this is what they were (archive.org): https://web.archive.org/web/20001203022500/http://www.google...

A lot more's changed than just a CEO.

Keywords wouldn't be a maintainer's problem, assuming the code works. Calling functions that are misspelled can get you into trouble fast though.

There's a reasonably narrow definition of the term "genocide". Since it started with Lemkin, I recommend starting here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin

It's become a little more complicated since, but intent was pretty much a constant condition, so I doubt this would qualify.

Also wanna add that scale is important to all things society, though I appreciate the humanity of your argument.

I'd add to this that it's pretty evil in code too, just more insidious.