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tylerbarron.com 8y ago

Camel Up Cup

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fightland.vice.com 9y ago

Wushu Watch: Ki, Chi and Everything Between

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www.sfexaminer.com 10y ago

Married couple pioneers Uber’s wheelchair-accessible fleet

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Mexican President’s Ties to Contractor Raise Questions

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www.pcworld.com 11y ago

Coming to Firefox: Ads based on your browsing history

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ca.news.yahoo.com 11y ago

Uruguayan anti-capitalist writer Eduardo Galeano dies at 74

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www.imaging-resource.com 11y ago

This finger-mounted camera turns any book into an audiobook

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

Michel Foucault, on the Role of Prisons (1975)

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www.businessinsider.com 11y ago

We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone

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modelviewculture.com 11y ago

Mental Illness and Working in Tech

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www.shitsenders.com 11y ago

PaaS: Poop as a service

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www.mic.com 11y ago

A Woman Live Tweeted IBM Executives Discussing Why They Don't Hire Women

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nymag.com 12y ago

How Anonymous Cops Online Are Reacting to the Death of Eric Garner

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www.engadget.com 12y ago

Facial recognition software helps convict a robber

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fsrn.org 12y ago

Mexican Law expands government surveillance/censorship powers

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Japanese PSA on Public Smartphone Use

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platan.us 12y ago

Best way for developers to apply for a job

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Similar ideas – me vs. funded startup

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: How to keep focused and working

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eljournalist.tumblr.com 12y ago

Living outside the bubble

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Well, the guy claims he needs to be in a relationship to be happy. Not the healthiest thing.

If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy," he told Rolling Stone. "I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me. It's not like I don't know what that feels like: Being in a big empty house, and the footsteps echoing through the hallway, no one there -- and no one on the pillow next to you. F--. How do you make yourself happy in a situation like that?"

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/elon-musk-personal-...

This was the reason I bought a Nokia and I was very happy already participating on the beta program to get Oreo for my Nokia 5. However the poor support (and by that I mean, none at all and saying that's google's issue when on all my other Android 8 Motorola devices it worked perfectly) of Android Auto made me ditch it.

Oh there are. But we can not say if all the 13% reported earn minimum wage or not. I'm not saying there isn't. There just isn't 13% that's for sure. Even if it is at 12.9% we just really can't know.

13% are reported earning minimum wage. This is a known way for employers to avoid paying more taxes, seguro social, etc. Then they get all other part of their salary marked as 'bonus'

Using current exchange rates that's about 3850 MXN a month.

That sounds like what my friend made as a cashier here in Mexico.

Very shitty payment, even for this country. A good entry level job starts at about 10k a month.

How to Build Muscle 10 years ago

why would you need more muscles? that consumes more calories :)

That just means you get to eat more yummy food.

and are pretty useless, except for our stupidly wrong society's standards

That depends on what you want/like to do.

Primarily because the "genetically inferior" person somehow had more motivation and drive than the genetically engineered ones.

But this has nothing to do with the moral issue. Maybe it was the fact that "in-valids" had to struggle and deal with discrimination which caused the character to give his most, given that he knew where he standed while the 'valids' are in a place of comfort.

No martial art is useful against multiple opponents, despite what they may claim.

Yeah, someone's friend is going to kick you. But why wouldn't they kick you if you're standing and not facing them?

I wouldn't say that's a disadvantage of BJJ but rather one of facing multiple opponents. Like facing someone who has a gun. You're at disadvantage no matter how much knowledge you have.

Knee reaping happens a lot in Sambo. Nothing dangerous when practitioners are well educated. Also it is allowed in many of the submission grappling competitions such as EBI and so far in their few shows I haven't seen anyone had an issue with it. Same way as they allow scissor takedown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwl4Bk_ZHgc)

The problem with not being able to practice a technique in sparring, or "live" with a resisting opponent is that you don't know how good you are when time comes and you have to apply it.

Indispensable != better at their job. Indispensable != Contributes more.

If someone you work with gets hit by a bus tomorrow, can you still ssh into the server? Can you continue working with the code they wrote?

Or is that all knowledge lost? If they're not indispensable that means that's all well documented.

People who pay and attempt to cross the border from Mexico to US? Those are counted as people being human trafficked.

Well, sometimes, if they don't have the resources to pay a later charged number they'll be sold. I can not remember the name of the documentary where I saw that. But basically if you're crossing the border with the help of a 'pollero' (who most likely has a connection to the cartel), and you or your family don't have resources to pay a fee after you're across the border they take you until you pay for it with work (sexual for women) which can take years regardless of how fast they get that amount due to your work.

Well there's countries like Norways which make prison look like vacations to people in countries with less resources (except the not going out whenever you please of course)

Foucault argued that the point of prison is to create more crime though.

Good for you, nothing to do with my point that not only people getting drugs get in incidents, as proved by the article. I'm pretty sure someone could come and tell you "I've lived in LA/Washington and never got robbed", would that make your experience getting robbed in LA or statistics about Mexico City being safer than DC untrue? no.

I don't know about being relatively safer, if you have a higher income than average you definitely can become a target because, via their other business (extortion, kidnapping and asking for rescue) they can also obtain profit, so being successful can be risky.

Now, are dealers purposively endangering their clients? I don't think so, but risks do come with getting drugs (e.g the police/military comes by, a rival cartel comes by, etc). Also, most of their income comes from the drugs they sell in the states so I don't think losing customers here is such a (monetary) loss to them.

That's bullshit (about being safe every where unless doing shady business) as an example I was almost abducted while waiting for my bus in the bus terminal.

I know of people missing who's only doing was driving thru a highway to go somewhere else. This idea that only Bad People doing Bad Things™ are in risk here is dumb.

About the sixth bus, apparently the sicarios realized it wasn't who they were looking for and shouted: "we fucked up", and the leader replied: "leave no witness alive"

edit: I think it's kind of sad that there's people capable of ending other people's lives just like that, with no remorse, no second thought about it. With that said, many did survive.

edit 2: after re-reading the source I posted below I noticed that I had missed something, he ordered them to go away after shooting (I'm guessing to the sky?). Still, hearing someone order your death, can't imagine how scary that'd be.