Facebook stock should trade for $13.80

EthicalReasoning · 2012-05-26T00:48:15.398175+00:00

You mean Slashdot. This snowclone is older than 4chan.

Barry_McCockiner · 2012-05-25T22:54:20.602509+00:00

Reminds me of some years back when AOL went to extraordinary lengths to keep customers from canceling their account. There was some comparable fraud going on then, too.

RedSolution · 2 days

I know this thread is a month old, but this seems appropriate here.

CheatasaurusRex · 2 days

A little expansion on this: A good movie doesn't necessarily copy the book verbatim into a screenplay. It's also a chance for the director to express his own artistic ability. If this weren't so, far fewer books would be adapted to movies, since the director wants to show how awesome he is, not just how awesome the author was. Dune is a good movie on its own terms, even though it's cheesy. A better example of what I'm talking about, though, would be David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch.

Liquid-innovations · 2 days

I noticed someone critiqued the color scheme of your site. If you're looking for that kind of thing, Google reveals that there's a /r/design_critiques

flashman · 4 days

Isn't the moon only half a degree in diameter? How was this picture made?

TheJungleVIP · 12 days

Then just say you don't eat any meat except fish?

emdeemcd · 13 days

First of all, I agree that breaking complex sentences into smaller simpler ones is a good idea.

Second, I'm no English major, but the use of inaugurate, apart from not being that scary a word, seems appropriate here since the author's talking about hegemony and power. "Inaugurate" paints a picture, because it's a ceremonial, official beginning.

Third, on "rearticulation": now you're being hypercorrective. There's nothing wrong with words losing their hyphenation over time; see "email". Do you insist on co-operation, rather than cooperation, because you think people will misread it as "coop-eration"? In practice no one is confused by the elimination of the hyphen.

GuyMontagz · 13 days

Or everytime he gets sleepy he'll feel the urge to read.

emdeemcd · 13 days

What did you see that could have been simplified? When my friends and I have critiqued each other's papers, I've found things that I thought could be simplified, but then realized that the terms being used had a slightly different meaning than the more straightforward substitute I had in mind.

emdeemcd · 13 days

This is where rubrics are useful.

emdeemcd · 14 days

I would not be surprised if in the near future (if not already) you would be able to hire an editor without the whole publishing institution dragged along with it. And think of Christopher Paolini's Eragon, which was first self-published, then when it was picked up by a major publisher, he worked with an editor and rewrote a lot of it and issued a new edition. This could apply to the independent editor as well. When an author make enough money, he can hire an editor and issue a new edition.

emdeemcd · 14 days

It seems what you aren't taking into account is that there would still be word-of-mouth, so books would spread entirely by that, instead of also having some gatekeepers decide what kind of things the public wants to read.

DrJulianBashir · 16 days

They were even posted by the same user; WTF?

sheldonpooper · 16 days

Can't you import the print function from future? I'm too lazy to google it.

carmenqueasy · 18 days

Has anyone ever been arrested for a PM sent on a website? Reddit's privacy policy doesn't list that as something they collect.

mepper · 25 days

The best part of that article:

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imd · 26 days

Yes to the first and no to the second.

Cessnateur · 26 days

Coffee may not originally be Italian, but it certainly isn't from America.

Cessnateur · 26 days

Same with South Korea.

imd · 26 days

Y'know, the field.

adimit · 26 days

Not OP, but I'll answer too. That scene really stayed with me, and there are times when it comes to mind as totally accurate to the current situation. But it doesn't feel universally true.

The quotes about laughter:

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much… because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

and

I had thought — I had been told — that a 'funny' thing is a thing of a goodness. It isn't. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. Like that sheriff without his pants. The goodness is in the laughing itself. I grok it is a bravery . . . and a sharing… against pain and sorrow and defeat.

Laughter is often at someone's expense, even when it's viewed as harmless by all involved. But if we could look at it objectively…maybe it wouldn't seem entirely harmless.

Ninja edit: just noticed this is 2 weeks old, even though it's on the front page of this subreddit, which I just discovered. Whatever.

metafork · 26 days

Reddit doesn't have a spellcheck, AFAIK. Your browser does. Dictionaries only include the most common words so typos that make valid but obscure and unintended words don't go unnoticed. For example, here's my personal dictionary:

CVS
Wikipedia
blog
blogs
bloodily
bugginess
cluelessly
floccinaucinihilipilification
forecasted
formulae
glycemic
inbox
legalist
mage
meme
online
overleap
shirtlessness
spam
staves
toolbar
unary
unclickable
unhide
wiki

Mindwolf · 27 days

That's a shame.

orthag · 28 days

But you can't run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely either. It's still infinite vs. finite.

imd

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