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If they change the algorithm to filter out fake or biased news, they might alienate their user base.


I asked a girl to coffee once and she ran off. She literally sprinted away. I had to append my list of worst outcomes.


I asked a girl out, once, and she said yes, then I never heard from her or saw her again. I can't read people worth a damn, so that basically taught me to stop trying.


That's the wrong lesson to take from it.


That is just rude. See Mattm


Rule 1: Be attractive; Rule 2: Don't be unattractive.


Not really an objective standard.


That depends on your target market demographic and size, certainly enough to be statistically relevant.


This is pretty non-standard. However, if it wasn't a deliberate joke on her part (maybe she wasn't interested in a coffee, but saw this as a chance to do something someone would never forget), her behavior suggests that she may have been more nervous than you. A more painful outcome could be, for example, if she laughed at you and then walked away indignantly.


Look at it his way: it can't get any worse[1], so you've nothing to lose the next time opportunity presents itself.

1. Probably


Well the same thing could happen again. I'm imagining that it wasn't particularly pleasant the first time, and just because it (probably) can't get worse, doesn't mean the same outcome won't hurt less. So it seems that one thing he has to lose is some amount of happiness (at least in the short term).

That being said, go get 'em, it probably won't happen again :)


Pepper spray and then run off.


> I had to append my list of worst outcomes.

This sentence you just wrote should make it very clear why she ran away from you....


> linked most highly to success in therapy is the strength of the relationship between therapist and client

Have there been many studies looking at how the client-therapist relationship itself effects the client? Wouldn't having a non-judgmental person with whom you can comfortably confide it, whom you know is making a concerted effort to help you improve your well being, have some noticeable improvement on your condition, regardless of whether they were a trained professional?

Or put another way, is there anyone who finds themselves in therapy largely because they have no close friends?


Polemical headlines doesn't make an argument more persuasive; Silicon Valley companies don't have a say in police use-of-force, but the author knows and is only trying to tie the two topics together for popularity points.


> A senior administration official told CNN, "... The administration remains committed to enhancing our national cybersecurity by raising our cyber defenses"

I hope you can see my eyes because I'm rolling them as hard as I can.

This does raise the question of whether the US government is foolish enough to use insecure US made electronics. And I suppose answers it.


> the free market is what brought us Dialup, DSL, Cable, FiOS, WiFi and whatever's after WiFi

Government research and subsidies brought us these. The market only sold them.


> Government research and subsidies brought us these. The market only sold them.

You do realize that the government pays (with private company tax dollars) other private companies to do things for them, don't you?


Either that or it hires private individuals and pays them to do it. What is your point? In either case, the govt is making the resource-allocation choice.


Your point is well taken, but if memory serves, the specific technologies listed were developed by private corporations and industry consortiums. Would be interested to see a fact checked history on this, however.


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Will they be selling it at the subsidized rate California farmers are accustomed to? Farmers in Central California paid $17.00/acre-foot last year. I'll do the maths:

472.6 acre-feet X $17.00/acre-feet = $8,095.40

Not bad for 300 railcars.


I doubt it --- but then again that great water rate is multiplied by 0 acre/feet; which is how many acre-feet the farmers are getting from the state.

There is no water to hand out at such cheap rates ( or any rates ).

This is the great failure of a market economy. Water is not fungible. If water is not available, there is no replacement.


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