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> economics (e.g. The World is Flat) Don't get me started on Thomas Friedman. As a TA, when I have to teach Friedman, I usually just instruct my students to go into it realizing that everything he says will be so wildly overstated, ba
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I took a graduate seminar in World-System Theory with one of Wallerstein's peers, Giovanni Arrighi, about a year before he passed away. We read a broad selection of WST literature, from Arrighi, Wallerstein, Braudel, Abu-Lughod, A.G. Frank
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There's evidence that Apple is considering it: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/23/apple_filing_s...
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The incentives of the waiters and the restaurant owners are almost never perfectly aligned. Most profit comes from simple items: drinks, salads, the most basic pasta dishes, coffee. It's all stuff where the ingredients cost next to nothing
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It's pretty amazing the number of things that have been smuggled into the old SoundJam: Quicktime, Webkit (occasionally Safari), the music store (expanded to video and games and apps too), Genius recommendations, and now a social network.
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Seems like they can give Last.fm a run for their money.
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moot can't really build much on the platform he adopted from 2chan. He's probably going to innovate in the web community / imageboard space with his new startup Canvas.
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Guess I'm going to die early.
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Chicago and Austrian schools are separate groups, despite both being on the side of less government intervention. They have different philosophical/methodological roots, and have different histories of their interaction with government.
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Arts & Letters Daily. Lots of great long-form stuff: http://www.aldaily.com/
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I like Starting Strength, but this study seems to contradict Rippetoe and Kilgore. They recommend 3 sets of 5 reps, whereas this study seems to indicate a higher number of reps with lower weight is just as good.
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But we did vote on individual freedoms. We voted on every single one in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights and in all the subsequent amendments. Each and every one required a vote.
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I bet a modification of PageRank would be a fun place to start. I've been participating in a website that uses directed acyclic graphs to rank NFL teams ( http://beatpaths.com ), but lately I've been thinking about PageRank after reading a
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The article doesn't really have a point. The title is really the only thing that the article is trying to demonstrate. "Privileged" is a code word in feminist discourse, and is applied to virtually any and every distinction that social be
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"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." —Charles V
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Based on my experience as a TA at a top-tier university, there's unfortunately still quite a need to teach 20-year-olds to write in complete sentences.
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You don't really need parallel connections when you have a thousand or /b/tards all running the LOIC. That's sufficient to take down medium-sized web properties for short periods of time. They certainly are script kiddies, but they're no
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> Forex speculators don't cause currency collapses George Soros played a role in the collapse of the Thai Baht, during the early stages of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. He also personally caused the sudden drop of the British Po
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When confronted with uncomfortable truths, most people will resort to the “cultural conditioning” argument. It is fear of the unchangeable that motivates them.
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Yeah, it seems like long-form pieces have just been decentralized to blogs. You can still publish quality stuff at Kuro5hin (if you introduce yourself in the Diary ghetto first). The decentralization to blogs seems like a shame to me. Pub
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Here's a link: http://www.theninhotline.net/news/permalink/1278030873
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They've landed "lazy frame construction" which improves rendering performance by an order of magnitude in some cases: http://tinikkel.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/lazy-frame-construc...
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http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... "Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probab
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http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/the-helvet...
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>Look, the real enemy is not FB but Apple The first thing I thought of when I read this news was precisely that it was targeted at matching Apple. All of a sudden Apple has come out of nowhere as a gaming force, threatening even Nint
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There's a psychological condition known as "depressive realism" which seems relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism , http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr05/realism.aspx , http://www.slate.com/id/2129377
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Yeah, the Mozilla test is Dromaeo (although you can use the Dromaeo test page to run Dromaeo+SunSpider+V8). http://dromaeo.com/
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When you say "ontologically driven", what do you mean?
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The HN Guidelines explicitly frown upon "X reasons..." titles because they're almost always linkbait. If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways
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Reports sent to Gizmodo seem to indicate that the bumpers do fix the problem: http://gizmodo.com/5571171/iphone-4-loses-reception-when-you...

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