MaysonL

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811.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Scoops are usually considered first reports of true stories.
812.
by MaysonL 8y ago
And heck, it would be very easy to make this a setting: yes or no, this user wants as many street names as possible.
813.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Of course, you don't have to pay $1K for a new iphone: you can buy a new iPhone SE 32GB for $140 from Walmart (locked to their captive cellular provider for a year, but still). Or refurbed for $70!
814.
by MaysonL 8y ago
I wish they would take the touch bar idea, and apply it to the trackpad instead of the function keys…
815.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Video available here: https://www.ped30.com/2018/10/24/tim-cook-brussels-data-secu...
816.
Attack of the Clones – New disease mechanism identified(notes.kateva.org)
1 points by MaysonL 8y ago|0 comments
817.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Gruber's theory that someone in the administration wants to turn up the heat on China and is feeding Bloomberg disinformation, while wild, makes the most sense.
818.
Computational Propaganda(yalereview.yale.edu)
1 points by MaysonL 8y ago|0 comments
819.
by MaysonL 8y ago
People outside of Planned Parenthood screaming "murderer" aren't try to convince, they're trying to intimidate. Howard Dean's scream wasn't. The scream was no louder than the audience: it was merely isolated by
820.
by MaysonL 8y ago
>Would this have been such a bad thing? It could well have been: see the French and Russian Revolutions, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot. There were both Nazis and Communists busy in the US in the '30s, and either taking power would have been
821.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Also, a great episode of Ezra Klein's podcast with Anand Giridharadas, the referenced author and speaker. EDIT: the link: https://art19.com/shows/the-ezra-klein-show/episodes/ebd9109...
822.
by MaysonL 8y ago
See K. C. Constantine's Rocksburg series of murder mysteries. They're set in a small city in the western Rust Belt of Pennsylvania, featuring a police chief who has many runins with the rest of the municapal government. Then again
823.
Tyler Cowen talks with Paul Krugman [audio and transcript](medium.com)
2 points by MaysonL 8y ago|0 comments
824.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Reminds me of a consulting company I did some work for a few decades ago. Reportedly, they had many engineers filling out two 40hr/wk timecards: one for defense contracts, the other for non-government corporate clients.
825.
by MaysonL 8y ago
The disrespect he showed to numerous Senators, and the numver of questions he refused to answer, should alone be enough to disqualify him.
826.
by MaysonL 8y ago
I assume that the barcode is encrypted using a private key, and decrypted by Amazon or the app using a public key.
827.
by MaysonL 8y ago
The "Semmelweiss reflex" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex
828.
by MaysonL 8y ago
And that bar is: approval by the prosecutorial authority and judiciary. If the right judges are chosen, the executive branch can prosecute and convict a ham sandwich.
829.
Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images(heritage.stsci.edu)
1 points by MaysonL 8y ago|0 comments
830.
Saving Capitalism from Economics 101(project-syndicate.org)
2 points by MaysonL 8y ago|0 comments
831.
Ezra Klein builds a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin [podcast](art19.com)
1 points by MaysonL 8y ago|0 comments
832.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Compare the size to Mac System 7…
833.
Robert Mueller “Iron Triangles” Speech (2011)(archives.fbi.gov)
2 points by MaysonL 8y ago|0 comments
834.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Here's a statement of the research: places where the Facebook usage was one standard deviation higher than median had a 50% higher than average rate of anti-refugee violence. Based on studying all 3,335 attacks over 2 years. See cstros
835.
John R. Boyd (1995): The Essence of Winning and Losing:(bradford-delong.com)
3 points by MaysonL 8y ago|0 comments
836.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Lobbying + campaign contributions. + the knowledge that as long as they don't change the situation, they'll be able to expect future campaign contributions.
837.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Best definition of cult I've heard of: a religion the majority of whose members weren't born into the religion.
838.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Copyright infringement isn't theft: it's copyright infringement.
839.
by MaysonL 8y ago
When a journal agrees to terms of an interview before it takes place, they have an ethical obligation to follow through. If they break the agreement, they're shit.
840.
by MaysonL 8y ago
Last year I bought an iPhone SE from Walmart to replace my obsolete iPod touch. $140, tax included. Checking their site, it seems they still have it for a bit more, locked to their own prepaid brands.

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