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13y ago
persevere
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13y ago
Well, it would be redundant to send a user back to the page he or she just came from, i.e. back to the Google home page. DDG is similarly self-effacing: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search
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14y ago
btilly has come full circle! It's still a great post. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850485 Coincidence that I should see this; I'm not really active on HN anymore, and just happened to click.
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With Cyber Fast Track, Pentagon funds hacker research
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15y ago
VaporEdu?
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15y ago
Sounds like someone always wanted a big brother.
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15y ago
A relentless addiction to indignation Those are exactly the words I've been looking for to describe my boss.
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15y ago
For those of us using NoScript, it's 00 days, 00 hours, 00 minutes, and 00 seconds. We get it first. Win!
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15y ago
So Mike Tyson, the boxer, with his crazy facial tattoo, was just way ahead of facial recognition technology.
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15y ago
I'm going to be that guy: "as a compliment to this paper" --> complement "no higher complement." --> compliment Thanks for a cool post.
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In 1994, it Was Easier to Imagine the iPad Than Gawker
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I started using Bing recently and I noticed that I was getting error pages intermittently, and then pretty frequently. phpbb and topic view are returning error pages for me (on latest ff, cookies enabled). Another way I'm reliably getting a
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I'm sure there's some perfectly good explanation for "Gravity on the island", but I don't know what it is.
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World Bank Is Opening Its Treasure Chest of Data
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I want to love electric cars, but I see two big issues: (1) if they go mass market, all that electricity will still have to be generated somewhere. Coal? Nuclear? (2) The batteries need rare-earth minerals, which are brought to market thro
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It's been a year already, and still I don't think I've ever visited a non-Latin-script URL. You would think the web would be the end of parochialism.
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Interesting. Do you now see yourself as deeply engrossed in history and doing the real work necessary to become a competent historian? If so, then your example is a counterpoint to my argument. If not, then we're talking about two differ
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Yes, good point. Now that I look over the comments, everyone seems to say the same thing. That's enough to lead me to believe it should be re-examined. Truth is, I once watched half a video but got bored.
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+1 for the idea that history is more than an "incoherent torrent of factoids" I heard Khan say recently on the Colbert Report that he read the Wikipedia article on the French Revolution as his source before making his video on the subject.
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15y ago
I'm still trying to make a go of it on vworker, but have no ratings. However, this guy seems to be successful with it: http://tbbuck.com/winning-your-first-freelance-job-on-vworke...
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When you've activated the Hidden app, and the computer is taking pictures, does the little green light turn on when the camera is on?
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This reminds me of part of Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man , which talks about "trained" employees at Staten Island (or other points of entry for immigrants) in the nineteenth century, who could spot mental deficiency by looking
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Enjoyed this article. A similar theme (modern communication technology prefigured in earlier practices) can be found in Victorian Internet , by Tom Standage.
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Similar site (loosely similar): http://brand.site.co.il/riddles/usingyourhead.html
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Similar theme: http://discovermagazine.com/2001/dec/featglad
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I recently watched The Judge and the General , a documentary about the bloody rise of the Pinochet regime in Chile (link below), and the recent legal action against it. I recall a particularly chilling moment when Pinochet declared (parap
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If you like this (as I do), you'll love Nacirema. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema
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A Replica of an 18th-Century Organ Rings Clear and True
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That's the same idea as in this David Brooks' editorial, in case anyone's interested: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/opinion/28brooks.html
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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
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