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by b_emery 12y ago
Can you summarize for us how to avoid this kind of tracking? Is there much we can do besides Ghostery?
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> The explanation for this phenomenon is usually that authors have lazily, sloppily, or fraudulently employed sources, and peer reviewers and editors have not discovered these weaknesses in the manuscripts during evaluation. I've se
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by b_emery 12y ago
Unbelievable. Way cooler than any toy ever! I take it this dad doesn't have a job?
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Indeed. I'm not surprised. A colleague of mine found that oil production platforms near the coast likely increase the retention of juvenile fish, adding habitat and thus increasing fish stock. The result was unpopular with some environ
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by b_emery 12y ago
Hadn't heard about this but found this link. Great story: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/25/1124164/-Neil-Armst...
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by b_emery 12y ago
This is so awesome. I'd like to see similar for golf, cycling, baseball ...
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Dominant players over time(xkcd.com)
6 points by b_emery 12y ago|1 comments
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by b_emery 12y ago
Bit of a repost but this quote from Bruce is new: "And, since Cory said it, I do not believe that this came from the Snowden documents. I also don't believe the TAO catalog came from the Snowden documents. I think there's a s
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NSA Targets Privacy Conscious for Surveillance(schneier.com)
7 points by b_emery 12y ago|2 comments
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by b_emery 12y ago
>Reason and logic, empathy, trust--all these seem suppressed with particular vigor I'm pretty sure that empathy and trust are removed as part of the training process.
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I dont believe we know enough facts to assess the competence of the officers - but I'm not defending their actions nor was I trying to legitimize them. The purpose of my comment was to make people aware that in general they see the wor
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by b_emery 12y ago
>We spoke two totally different languages. Mine, the language of reasoned hope and optimism. Theirs, the language of suspicious cynicism, fear and ignorance. Another word for their language would be the language of security, threat asses
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by b_emery 12y ago
There is something haunting about Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death. The text mentions one of the quotes, the other is "What I cannot create, I do not understand" which I assume refers to his ability to create the
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by b_emery 12y ago
Good question. According to webster, it has to be 'relatively small' to be a cult. From the article, it seems that the cults have a higher relative level of exploitation. My guess is that there is a continuum that runs between the
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by b_emery 12y ago
From: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/sim-card "T-Mobile’s network currently only supports GSM-compatible phones. Only 3G phones that support the 1700-MHz band are compatible (not all 3G phones support it). If you o
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41-year-olds and the labor force participation rate(calculatedriskblog.com)
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by b_emery 12y ago
Really glad to see that Santa Barbara made the top 20, but the restaurant that made it (Los Agaves) is definitely not the best burrito in town! Maybe top 4, but alas, my opinion is not the consensus. (For the record Los Arroyos, El Sitio, R
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Ways of Thinking About Google(ben-evans.com)
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by b_emery 12y ago
It's from good will hunting: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/quotes
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I'm guessing this is not from 'Brief History of Time' Stephen Hawking.
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Christopher Michael-Martinez’s Father Gets It Right(newyorker.com)
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Why cant doctors identify killers?(nytimes.com)
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by b_emery 12y ago
> When interest rates are low, prices are high, and when rates are high, prices are low. The data says otherwise: "“There’s no strong correlation between interest rates and home prices,” ... The bottom line is other factors (like a
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by b_emery 12y ago
I read this book two months ago and can still recall most of his 'to do list' from the example. Was inspired by it to use the techniques to memorize collections of facts for a recent exam and they work wonderfully. I'm not sa
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by b_emery 12y ago
I was thinking it would be more like readability, but instead of reformatting the html, inserting curse words. How much more fun would cnn.com be?! But a good start!
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by b_emery 12y ago
Gives me an idea for a new kind of Turing test ...
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by b_emery 12y ago
Your suggestion "write three pieces and polish them to a mirror shine" has a long and substantiated precedence: scientific publishing. The fact is, you're judged by the quality of your work. Better to produce something of la
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by b_emery 12y ago
I guess they couldn't back-fill it? Which makes you wonder, what did they do with all the drill cuttings?
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by b_emery 12y ago
Much more at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
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In this order: theonion.com, news.yc, then if time, nytimes.com. I also check on my HF radar sites (shameless plug): http://www.sccoos.org/data/hfrnet/fullpage.php?ll=33.922851,... The first is by far the most imp

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