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by TDL 13y ago
"A child on a U.S. street with an actual handgun wouldn't surprise me one bit." It probably should, since that is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. Furthermore, painting such a broad stroke of a nation with ~314 million people
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21-Year-Old Raises Largest Seed Round In Silicon Valley History — $25 Million(businessinsider.com)
17 points by TDL 13y ago|6 comments
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Firm: Facebook 'bug' worse than reported; non-users also affected(zdnet.com)
2 points by TDL 13y ago|0 comments
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A Guardian guide to your metadata(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by TDL 13y ago|0 comments
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by TDL 13y ago
I wasn't understanding the outrage either.
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Ad-Blocking Extension Ghostery Actually Sells Data to Advertisers(lifehacker.com)
2 points by TDL 13y ago|2 comments
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How CyanogenMod’s founder is giving Android users their privacy back(arstechnica.com)
3 points by TDL 13y ago|0 comments
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Video: "Father of Video Games" Nolan Bushnell on Learning through Gaming(reason.com)
1 points by TDL 13y ago|0 comments
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by TDL 13y ago
"Mass literacy is very much the result of concerted efforts by the state to provide universal education..." This isn't necessarily accurate. The U.S. was a highly literate society before the advent of state sponsored, public
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by TDL 13y ago
Reforming laws & tactics are not the equivalent of "everything" being thrown out.
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by TDL 13y ago
A quibble, the individual in the article did not have child pornography on his computer. It was a case of the police in this instance classifying pictures of his grand children as child pornography.
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Patent Alchemy: The Market for Technology in U.S. History [pdf](econ.yale.edu)
2 points by TDL 13y ago|0 comments
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by TDL 13y ago
How does China "not need America"? The U.S. is China's largest trading partner.
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by TDL 13y ago
The U.S. is the second largest manufacturer in the world. China only surpassed the U.S. in 2010. Furthermore, manufacturing is growing in the U.S. Chinese labor is (or at least was) so cheap because the standard of living is considerably
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by TDL 13y ago
"we just build things that are superior to what they can come up with..." Disintermediation is the best long term strategy here, I agree entirely on this point.
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by TDL 13y ago
I wouldn't be so critical about your peers, but that comes with your age. Also, you seem to be fairly good with words. Look at the next several years as an opportunity and attempt to extract as much value as you can (but do so in the most
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by TDL 13y ago
"You have just paid about three times as much for your degree as did someone graduating 30 years ago." Aren't more people going to college these days than people were 30 years ago? The "conspiracy" doesn't exist, the fetishizing of higher
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Larry Page's reality distortion field(news.cnet.com)
1 points by TDL 13y ago|0 comments
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The Filter Bubble — What the Internet is Hiding From You(farnamstreetblog.com)
4 points by TDL 13y ago|0 comments
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by TDL 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or in-person (Austin, TX). We are looking to ramp up for June-September. We currently have bandwidth of 190-225 hours/month. We specialize in Django web development (web sites & web applications.) We help non-techn
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A Net Skeptic's Conservative Manifesto(reason.com)
32 points by TDL 13y ago|4 comments
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The Paleo Diet Delusion: Marlene Zuk on Evolutionary and Dietary Myths(reason.com)
1 points by TDL 13y ago|0 comments
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by TDL 14y ago
"You can’t separate your work from your rhetoric these days..." How exactly is this a new thing? We are free to say what we want, it does not mean we are free from the consequences of our statements.
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by TDL 14y ago
If the FED is private why does turn it's profits over to the US Treasury every year? Why is the Chairman & members of the Board of Governors nominated by the President & confirmed by the U.S. Senate. I don't like the Federal Reserve
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by TDL 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or in-person (Austin, TX). We have some bandwidth, ~100 hours/mo, for web application development as well as testing/QA work. We specialize in Django web development and Selenium/Django testing. Our goal is to build a
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by TDL 14y ago
If you had said he was a MD at Morgan I would have raised an eyebrow, as is, VPs are a dime a dozen. Furthermore, it seems as though his father is on one of Morgan's commodity desks. If he is in fact a trader, this means he has no influen
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Five myths about Chinese hackers(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by TDL 14y ago|1 comments
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by TDL 14y ago
Right (I forgot,) thanks for the link.
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by TDL 14y ago
I remember a while back that Target had to back of a similar approach when it began sending out coupons to women that they suspected (w/ apparently a high degree of accuracy) were pregnant. The main anecdote was about a father who found ou
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Apple ID password reset exploit reportedly in the wild(news.cnet.com)
61 points by TDL 14y ago|22 comments

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