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Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine(blog.asmartbear.com)
61 points by baha_man 16y ago|28 comments
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by baha_man 16y ago
"Every unhappy person that commits suicide raises the average happiness." I doubt it. "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 28,322 American deaths as suicides in the year 2000. Conservative estimates are that 6-10 peopl
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by baha_man 16y ago
The 'cyberstalker' in the article called the woman on the restaurant's telphone, not her telephone. Also, the default privacy settings on Foursquare allow users who aren't your 'friends' to discover when you've checked in somewhere via the
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Software Identifies Social Cliques You Didn't Even Know You Had(technologyreview.com)
18 points by baha_man 16y ago|1 comments
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They’re Going To Do It Anyway(intermittentintelligence.com)
7 points by baha_man 16y ago|1 comments
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The caveat in paragraph number 19(badscience.net)
8 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Wiffler lets smartphones use free WiFi from moving vehicles(networkworld.com)
2 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 16y ago
"I bet they could find a Basque, Lapp, or Chukchi speaker if they needed one quicker than most universities." That's probably where they get them.
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Ghostwriters in the sky(badscience.net)
2 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 16y ago
Yes, partly because it's distracting and partly because it reminds me of an Ishihara test.
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Blind prejudice(badscience.net)
3 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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Sapir-Whorf 70 years on(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
4 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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The price of being single(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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Research: Weird Works When It Comes to Passwords(threatpost.com)
1 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 16y ago
Sorry to be a pedant, but it's the United Kingdom which is a member of the EU. Also, London is probably one of the parts of England you're most likely to find people who either don't speak English well or don't speak it at all.
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by baha_man 16y ago
> In the UK, being a Member of Parliament, you get around £65k. Yes, but until recently their salaries were being supplemented by very generous expenses. They were also allowed to take on other work, subject to certain rules. > Even
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by baha_man 16y ago
"However, I would like to maintain good terms with this company and get good references in the future." Don't many companies now have a policy that they never give references, just confirm job title and dates of employment, to avoid being
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by baha_man 16y ago
"Here was a book in a pastel-green cover about a loony dude in the 1970′s cycling across the midwest to the west coast..." Motor cycling, surely?
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by baha_man 16y ago
"Putting paint on your face isn't always practical," he said. "This is just the way that I wanted to test this. But if you wanted to be covert, you could try wearing different styles of make-up or accessories. You could position a Band-aid
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by baha_man 16y ago
From the article: "Harvey said he got his idea from studying camouflage methods use during World War I and World War II. His project, CV Dazzle, is based on the original dazzle camouflage used by the military to hide ships in the 1940s."
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Festering Code Bases and Budding Code Bases(michaelfeathers.typepad.com)
1 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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Why Are You Single? Perhaps It’s The Choice Effect(fourhourworkweek.com)
1 points by baha_man 16y ago|1 comments
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by baha_man 16y ago
Well, the article is pretty useless, as pointed out by philk above, so here's some advice for everyone who's not a millionaire: http://www.banking.state.ny.us/brblc.htm "Leasing can be beneficial if you want the newest model car, plan on
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by baha_man 16y ago
I know that, what I don't understand is the connection to the article, which is about cars. If you're very rich, joining a supercar club rather than buying a supercar probably makes great financial sense. If you're on an average income and
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by baha_man 16y ago
So which of those three does a car do?
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by baha_man 16y ago
"...while expecting me to simultaneously navigating to our destination." I guess he was doing something else when he wrote that. "It is generally agreed that playing soccer is a good crossover skill for playing tennis, because of the footwo
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by baha_man 16y ago
"Well, but that's per capita. That doesn't say anything about the average hours per worker..." True, but presumably the author's claim is based on reports such as this one, where the figures are also per capita: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
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by baha_man 16y ago
"Americans already put in more hours than workers in any country in the world..." ORLY? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Differences_among_... "By far, workers in South Korea have the longest work hours among OECD countries. The
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The real political nerds(badscience.net)
1 points by baha_man 16y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 16y ago
http://tafkac.org/faq2k/animal_618.html "At this writing, the Jargon File claims the incident actually happened, at Toronto in 1979 or 1980, and that the sysadmin on duty was actually interviewed. The account doesn't provide enough detail

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