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Who Will Buy A $500 Steam Machine? (forbes.com)
2 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|0 comments
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Deciding Who Sees Students’ Data (nytimes.com)
4 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|0 comments
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London police use super recognizers to fight crime (phys.org)
5 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|2 comments
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How long can the Communist party survive in China? (ft.com)
3 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|0 comments
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The NSA’s global spying operation in one map (washingtonpost.com)
2 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|0 comments
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The Cult of Busy(cityshul.com)
3 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|1 comments
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Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler (io9.com)
12 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|29 comments
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
The article quotes someone as saying: "Selfish, greedy, untrustworthy: That is the image of the entrepreneur in Japan since around 2000"...I don't think Startup culture in America avoided that image after the dotcom bubble an
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
Why? Every project has inherent incentive to use Kickstarter to hype themselves and other projects have had matching-fund promises too.
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Project-Tyson: faking the UI of iOS 7 in HTML, CSS and Javascript(github.com)
1 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|0 comments
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
Youtube to Myspace does not seem like the same as the other comparisons. Myspace is/was a social network and better in-page videos -- no matter where they are served from - would only make Myspace more appealing because of how they cat
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
AOLs and content farms are nothing new: http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/02/02/you-may-not-like-it-b... Here's more context about Findthebest with someone from there trying to claim that they have a
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Differences between an academic and an intellectual(crosscurrents.org)
4 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|0 comments
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
I'm glad he's at least not trying to claim it was "satire" because that's an insult to satire. He wrote complaints that lots of SF people share and that's probably why he thought it was a great thing to publish
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
The NYT is doing alot of coverage about him with the elections coming up and all: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/nyregion/what-new-yorkers-... I think jobs and the economy matter most to people and si
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
From the article: "Using data from the March Supplements of the U.S. Census Bureau‘s Current Population Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, they look at the cognitive, noncognitive and family traits of self-employed i
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
In the current gold rush, there are so many hokey startups with buzzwordy derivative missions ("we're the Airbnb for Big Data ROI!") that a great satire site could be made from copying their mission statements and change a fe
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Massive, first-of-its-kind cat DNA database helps convict killer in the U.K. (news.nationalpost.com)
1 points by belowlightsblue 13y ago|0 comments
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by belowlightsblue 13y ago
Sanity, or the appearance of, is your friend here. If this coworker is lashing out wildly, then the problem of him being bad for the team will become clear to the people who can take care of it. But it sounds like you're spending too m