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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
At my high school, and at my college as well, the sports players are generally looked down upon by the 'gifted' or 'AP' students. I don't know how sports players compare to the average student, but the average GPA on our cross country and t
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I can relate to this based on my experiences from high school. I don't think that things are structured like this intentionally. (I think that few teachers and principal's would intentionally hold back the lower class students) But, if you
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
To me, this link is broken.
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
One of the first things I thought of while reading this article was Heroin. I read recently that heroin is most addicting in people who don't experience trustworthy environments often. One of the major effects of heroin is the feeling of ev
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Google's Fiber Makes MPAA Skittish.(techdirt.com)
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
For me, being able to avoid TV ads, forced movie ads, and ads on services like Pandora are some of the greatest advantages to piracy. Furthermore, you know things like Bitrate before you download. On Netflix, you don't know how a movie has
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I think a lot of it depends on which ISP you have, how much you trust your ISP, and how much you trust your VPN. Many VPNs claim to keep no data at all, which means that government intervention cannot reveal your Internet activities, becaus
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
The Kopime Vector is an interesting idea, but I don't think that we will see a widespread use of this technology over the next decade. $1200 is still a large amount of money, and I think that trading files from a single physical location wi
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
Expanding on that idea, our entire economy is based off of people profiting from the works of others. Sales places like Wal-Mart profit off of the products produced by factories (assume for a moment that Wal-Mart doesn't own these factories
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
Sorry that's not how I meant to state it. It's not the child pornography that is important to society. It's the freedom of speech, and the security that speech has against regulation from the government. Tor is a place where a person can se
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I think that to give the responsibility of security to the government is a fallacy, not only because the government is very capable of abusing the power and screwing up in a huge way, but also because it will make private companies less lik
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
This is one of the big problems that most people have with anonymity, but I believe that the freedom of speech is important. If the government has the capability to shut down the scary stuff like child porn, it also has the ability to shut
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
To me Drive feels like another part of Google's push to get everything integrated into one easy environment. The end goal is (potentially) noble, but I feel like they are trying too hard to push products out too fast, and a lot of the relea
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I think these triggers are an important insight into human behavior, not just because of the profit that can be had by activating them, but because of the great potential for abuse/utility. On one hand, we see potentially dangerous abuse of
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I am predicting that eventually Facebook is going to go the way of MySpace and AOL, but I don't think that this quarter is indicative of the trend. Both the number of daily and monthly active users jumped by more than 100 million, and Faceb
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
It depends on what they are looking for. For example, a company could gather information about your browsing habits using advertising. If a company like Google distributes ads across a wide variety of sites, they can use your fingerprint to
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
Even for things like formal communication I've found that phone calls and face-to-face conversations are more productive, creative, complex, but most importantly I've found that people are more willing to change their opinions in face-to-fa
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by PaperclipTaken 15y ago
I think this is an important point in analyzing advertising. The core of advertising is generally not to match a user to a product that fits them well and will be genuinely a good use of time/money. The end goal of most advertisements is to
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by PaperclipTaken 15y ago
Every April first I am afraid to go on the internet, because some people are so effective at making their April Fool's Day jokes subtle that I'm quite afraid I'll read some great or horrible story that's a joke and not understand it's a jok
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by PaperclipTaken 15y ago
In some cases, you are correct. For instance, if I am hiring someone to sell cars, I need a person who I can expect to be liked even by the most racist people. But say that I am only slightly racist. If I knew you were Black, I probably wou
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by PaperclipTaken 15y ago
Fluid/continuous education. For the first two weeks of my junior year of high school, I was learning the same version of the scientific method in 3 classes. I learned it again in two different classes my senior year of high school. I would
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by PaperclipTaken 15y ago
I have had the same experiences. After a given amount of hard studying (anywhere from an hour to a few hours), I find that I cannot maintain focus anymore. A short nap always fixes the problem, and when I come back to it things usually stic
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by PaperclipTaken 15y ago
This doesn't refer to dropbox in general, but I've wanted for a while now to see more products that charge you prices that fit tighter to your actual usage. My biggest example here is internet bandwidth. Whether I am a grandmother checking