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The secret to my success in a field of men? All my friends. My guy friends.(stormyscorner.com)
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You mean Zawahiri. Zarkawi was the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and was killed several years ago. Zawahiri was the #2 to Bin Laden and remains at large.
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Yeah there was a TED Talk that touched on money and happiness. Apparently $60,000/year was the cognitive (or material) line necessary so that the average person could stop worrying about money. http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the
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As a student of international relations, this seems familiar to me. Liberal international relations theorists focus on economic variables as causal to a far greater degree than realists or constructivists, and have also imported a bunch of
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Windows Phone 7 looks pretty substantially different from iOS. Unlike most of the rapid followers of the iPhone, it looks like Microsoft really tried to rethink a mobile interface. It looks different and fresh, even if it's not the best m
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Off the top of my head, Mancur Olson's book 1982 The Rise and Decline of Nations is one of the better explanations. It's a formal modeling of lobbying and interest groups. The incentive structure is such that small groups capable of act
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You're right. There are some quibbles I have with the way he sets up his essay though. He begins: There is an interesting kernel here, but it's less about Apple's focus on clean aesthetics than about the seamless interoperability and use
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Of course, and part of the rivalry between Frank Lloyd Wright and the Internationalists was FLW's inspiration (among other sources of inspiration) drawn from the Arts & Crafts (which itself drew from the Pre-Raphaelites). That said, FLW
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The commenter/Economist writer gets their political art history wrong. Apple's roots lie in the Bauhaus, not in a fascist model of politics/art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus The Bauhaus was broadly socialist, persecuted by the Na
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If it had been invite only I would never have been able to join HN or make the contributions that I have (minor though they may be). I just don't run in the same circles and don't have some other web presence (a blog for example) that migh
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That enumeration has its origins in Freud, if I remember correctly.
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For a while I've been wondering if the German Tank Problem could help make comparison sorts work better on large lists. Unfortunately, I lack the background to test whether this is true. You wouldn't have to know the upper or lower bounds
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Well, in my limited experience, Reston VA is a center for a lot of smaller tech companies. But they have a different environment. While they are entrepreneurial, they are not oriented around angel investing / venture capital to the same e
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If you read Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman, makes the case that writing and copying were much more central to early Christianity than other religions of the time, including the Jewish tradition out of which it sprung. Certainly study an
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I've posted this on HN before, but I wrote a long article about the decline of online community, which includes some retrospective about k5's decline as well: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
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That will turn out poorly: http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/therobot02.jpg
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That was a feature that was supposed to be in Firefox 4, but got pushed back at some point.
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I think Mozilla is also aware of the problematic perception that this particular release generated among onlookers. They've already spun 10 betas and are going to make at least two more betas before the release candidates. It seems like th
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You're right. But they have been making a simultaneous push toward the Jetpack addons (as opposed to the traditional extensions), which are apparently less of a hassle to deal with in terms of versioning and compatibility.
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I'm not particularly pro-union either. But, the article's author attempts to distinguish between two things: U.S. manufacturing output (its productivity in terms of the value of goods made); and, the absolute number of manufacturing jobs.
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What this post also misses is the declining socio-political power of manufacturing jobs. Two more charts are necessary: 1) the declining share of the total workforce made up by industrial labor, and 2) the declining share of unionized labor
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2005? Man, I fell for this back in high school, sometime between 1996–2000. It was a site functionally identical to this one. I got an email about someone who had a crush on me, asked for either the email or the AIM screenname (I forget
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For international relations data, Correlates of War hosts a number of data sets: http://www.correlatesofwar.org/Datasets.htm
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This reminds me of how geopoliticians wrote about the closure of uncolonized spaces around the turn of the last century. The Turner thesis looked at the effect of the open frontier on America and speculated in the political and economic con
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Critiquing current practices is one thing some parts of academia should do, but it'd be sad if that were 100% of what it were doing. Precisely. And Dijkstra seems to take great offense at the critiques traveling in the opposing direction
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I was happy to see that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won for the score they composed. Reznor has been one of the most forward thinking guys in the music industry, adapting to the new environment of leaks, torrents, and social networking, w
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I submitted the idea for GarageBand to Apple. I think it was through a bug report or some other generic contact Apple form. I was a senior in college at the time. I asked for a basic music loop program with an iCal interface. I didn't re
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Aggregate statistical data can also be useful.
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Not really. If you go back and read Habermas, who coined the term "public sphere" (which was what was used in the article), the first public spheres were private salons, coffee houses, and cafes. The discourse of the public sphere was also
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> we are not headed towards totalitarianism. Far from it. We are headed towards mob rule. In Plato's Republic , he set up a cyclical theory of the progression from one form of government to the next. From aristocracy to timocracy to

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