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Comment · 14 years ago
It boggles my mind too. This is new to people here?
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
RCN, on the other hand, simply raised my rate without even apologizing. They pretended to give me a promotion of "increased speed" and then the promotion "expired" and my rate went up. And oops, the old speed and old rate was no longer being offered.
Comment · 14 years ago
The author seems to have forgotten that birth control is (mostly) a modern invention.
Comment · 14 years ago
I never said it was the worst. I just said there are others that are better. Please.
Comment · 14 years ago

    How much money do you think a few generations' of slavery is worth?
I don't know. How many years of race based discrimination is it worth?

    Would you like to suggest one?
As many others in this thread have suggested: actual economic disadvantages, such as poverty, single parent household, etc...
Comment · 14 years ago
Yes, they will all be flawed, but not all of them will be as flawed as skin color. Just because something is hard, doesn't mean it's OK to do something easy and bad.
Comment · 14 years ago
If the US government wants to atone for its immoral actions in the past it should pay reparations not institute a system of race based discrimination.

If, on the other hand, the US government wants to help disadvantaged people gain a level economic footing with the rest of the population they should use a much better predictor of disadvantage than skin color.

Comment · 14 years ago
You must justify it because you are advocating for race based discrimination.

We have already proposed an alternative: economics based discrimination. It is better because it captures the group of people that deserve help more accurately.

We are not whining, we are having a discussion.

Comment · 14 years ago
There does not seem to be any indication to the user of what they're supposed to do to get the next slide, or even that there is a next slide.

EDIT: Well, OK, now that I maximized there is. But there was no indication that I was missing content to the left or right either. I appreciate simplicity but you gotta give first time users something to get them going.

Comment · 14 years ago
Knowing the languages only by reputation, you could try D which is more community oriented. I kind of wish it had a backer like Google, because I like it's name better and I heard of it before Go :-) I also hate implicit semi-colons. If you don't want them, then don't have them at all, like python.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
It might be useful, but it's trivially obtainable by anyone who needs it by googling, and irrelevant to anyone who isn't looking for it at the time.

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