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by ableal 11y ago
http://pando.com/2015/06/19/pierre-omidyars-corporate-spying... """ Pierre Omidyar’s corporate spying scandal buried for good as eBay sells Craigslist stake BY MARK AMES ON JUNE 19, 2015 It did
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'Beginning in his late twenties, he kept a register of “Letters Received and Sent,” along with a précis of each letter. The final tally was 98,721.' http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/08&#x2
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Sheesh. Thanks for digging that up. I thought Carrol was simply referring to something I've seen done in postcards (and maybe a couple of old letters): having left a generous left margin, and running out of space at the bottom, the wri
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Synthetic fuel is not exactly new, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer–Tropsch_process
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> It turns out winner-take-all doesn’t apply just to [...] I'd like to see someone knowledgeable look at Vilfredo Pareto's 80-20 ratio and do a modern update. Did anyone do it sort of recently?
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Not-too-informative notice at Wired: http://www.wired.com/2015/06/kindle-paperwhite-upgrade/
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The New Kindle Paperwhite Is Perfect for Picky Readers(wired.com)
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P.S. A piece titled 'Go Ask Alice' could use a nod to Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl89g2SwMh4
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Filched from http://www.aldaily.com , which tags it with "The story of Lewis Carroll: 98,721 letters sent or received, 3,000 photographs taken, a revolutionary imagination, an unknowable man..." As I gather from some
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Go Ask Alice – What Really Went on in Wonderland(newyorker.com)
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It's kind of terrifying. Perhaps the no-death guys would be up for it: "Here you go - eternal life. But first you have to read all 140 volumes of Henry James letters. There will be a quiz."
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I'll cop to pulling your leg on the last two items.
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Just as a note, I submitted this as 'But who will visit it? – The Complete Letters of Henry James', because that question, taken from the tail end of the piece, is actually more interesting than James himself. Embarking on the pub
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A sufferable snob – The Complete Letters of Henry James(newcriterion.com)
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> email Jeff Bezos with a streaming video problem. He'd add a single '?' in the body "A good driver should know what's wrong." P.S. not accurately quoted. Better: http://mtchndrn.blogspot.pt&#x2
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Many moons ago, in an SF anthology such as I used to consume in those days, there was this little story about these three astronauts who travelled for 500 years in a sub-lightspeed ship. They arrived at an inhabited star system - which had
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> if your device functions fine with low voltage batteries Probably not a good idea. Really spent batteries tend to leak and damage the device. Not working makes the owner change the batteries.
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Walker's excerpts highlighting the impact of accounting rules are very much worth reading.
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> So do I add the photo upload feature [...] to the existing app or put it in the paid only app??? Give it for free to all your existing users. Going forward, any user who has the feature can also gift it (at zero cost) to new users. Oth
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> the benefits of meritocracy over feudalism China had meritocracy long before Europe, with public exams open to anyone for civil service in the empire.
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Thanks, I did not know that the phrase had originated with Lippmann. The bibliography looks interesting, I'm aware of the broad outline, but not the details.
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Anyone knows what's up with foreign translations? If the music is in the public domain and it is the English lyrics that are copyrighted, perhaps the Klingon - for instance - version is not subject to enforcement, due to lack of intere
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by ableal 11y ago
If anyone is unaware, the title of Chomsky's book refers to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed
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Missing in action: Goethe's Farbenlehre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours and Schopenhaeur's physiological approach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Vision_and_Colors
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> trade freely (currently 4 quid per IP) Sorry, best I can do is 2 proquo per IP. Bad jokes aside, I think the IPv6 thing is for the prospective benefit of sundry bits of hardware hippity-hopping around, which would be price sensitive.
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Nicely documented. I wanted to be reminded of what a bitmap picture for a PRNG bitstream looks like, and found this example: https://www.random.org/analysis/randbitmap-wamp.png (bad due to visible patterns, compared to
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A substancial and informative piece.
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The Contempt Page(schnada.de)
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(Quoted from the very end of the piece, split in two because I have very important comments to make ;-) Keller’s praise of her friend Twain was no less lofty. “I have been in Eden three days and I saw a King,” she wrote in his guestbook du
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> more dystopian socio-tech stories Jack Williamson's 1947 With Folded Hands, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands (I trot this one out semi-regularly, it deserves more recognition than it currently

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