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by augustocallejas 8y ago
About an hour ago, I received 4 messages like this over the span of two hours.
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What Good Is ‘Community’ When Someone Else Makes All the Rules?(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by augustocallejas 8y ago|0 comments
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Using Touch ID to separate bots from humans in social media(augustocallejas.com)
1 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|0 comments
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Using Touch ID to separate bots from humans in social media(augustocallejas.com)
2 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|0 comments
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
The lack of sirens going off in Honolulu this morning tipped me off that it wasn't a real alert, but it took way too long (officially) to find out it was a mistake. Twitter was the first line of defense in getting information (within 1
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
This Freakonomics podcast on forecasting may be interesting: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-be-less-terrible-at-p...
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
This is great. I had an idea similar to this, with the added concept of being able to generate animated emojis using video and either keeping the audio of the user or generating synthetic audio from text.
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Facebook Founder’s Favor Comes with Complications(nytimes.com)
93 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|42 comments
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We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself(nytimes.com)
374 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|194 comments
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
A great mini-doc overview of the same topic: https://www.retroreport.org/video/nuclear-winter/
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How 5 Tech Giants Have Become More Like Governments Than Companies(npr.org)
5 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|0 comments
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Why ancient stones explain the future of Bitcoin [video](qz.com)
2 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|0 comments
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The Case for a Taxpayer-Supported Version of Facebook(theatlantic.com)
2 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|0 comments
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Hawaii Says It's First State to Go Cashless for Pot Sales(nytimes.com)
2 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|0 comments
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
This is probably vestigial from before the interstate/numbering system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_freeways#F... > When Southern California freeways were built in the 1940s and early 1950
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
This ban affects dog food that contains kangaroo, and affects states outside of California too: https://www.royalcanin.com/products/royal-canin-veterinary-d... > This product cannot be shipped to the state of Califo
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
> By shady antics, I mean requiring a credit card for subscription renewal, so they could auto-renew you every year thereafter. I had been happy to send a check for several years' worth of the Atlantic in advance, but I'm not g
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Man spraypaints Twitter office sidewalk with abusive tweets it refuses to delete(boingboing.net)
49 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|5 comments
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The Problem with Participatory Democracy Is the Participants(nytimes.com)
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
This redesign has the look and feel of the Facebook feed plus Trending section on the upper-right hand side. With so many people consuming news from Facebook[1], this is not surprising at all. Maybe Google News is where the Google Plus feed
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
> If only facebook could be used to let strangers do stuff in their neighborhood, like organize event, meals, share hobbies, etc, making things more social instead of being exclusive to the friends you have, maybe I would use it more. Th
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by augustocallejas 9y ago
Prof. Lewis at Caltech has been working on this since at least the late 1990s, when I first learned about it as an undergraduate, and probably earlier: http://nsl.caltech.edu/research:nose
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How Hard Would It Be to Restart Civilization from Scratch?(blog.longnow.org)
2 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|0 comments
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Why Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook(nytimes.com)
2 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|0 comments
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Imitating people’s speech patterns precisely could bring trouble(economist.com)
133 points by augustocallejas 9y ago|74 comments
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Denmark's Foreign Service Will Soon Send an Ambassador to the Tech World(npr.org)
2 points by augustocallejas 10y ago|0 comments
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by augustocallejas 10y ago
Interesting related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjtioIFuNf8
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by augustocallejas 10y ago
> We keep forgetting that people tend to support policies and politicians for largely social and psychological reasons, not because of facts and ideology. The former are where the real battle is fought. Your comment was perfect as a lead
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Silicon Valley tech workers are using Stoicism as a life hack(qz.com)
2 points by augustocallejas 10y ago|0 comments
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A “men only” co-working space in Australia, recently got venture capital funding(qz.com)
2 points by augustocallejas 10y ago|1 comments

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