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The Revolt Against Urban Gentry(joelkotkin.com)
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by clarkm 13y ago
That argument proves too much [1]. The same can be said for almost all stock, e.g. Bill Gates could sell of his shares of Microsoft and crash the stock price. [1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Proving_too_much
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by clarkm 13y ago
He probably just confused it with Poe's Law. There should be a law that concerns the confusion of the two.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Ok, even though I think the singular they is awkward, I can understand the fight for removing gendered pronouns. However, something I've been wondering for a while now is: how does this issue manifest itself in other languages? Are the
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by clarkm 13y ago
Plato is an amazing resource. Its articles strike the perfect balance between intellectual rigour and general accessibility. It combines the traditional encyclopedic format with the authorship of academic experts. And if that wasn't en
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by clarkm 13y ago
> complete lack of basic humanity from HNers Does that actually mean anything? Or is it just another way of expressing vague, general disapproval?
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by clarkm 13y ago
A little backstory: On the site where these were uploaded (whatCD), users can post torrent requests. These stories were some of the most requested items on the site, and they had huge ratio bounties. So when this torrent was uploaded it att
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by clarkm 13y ago
Sounds like you need a hard drive futures market. :)
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by clarkm 13y ago
Do you have any examples of specific topics?
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The New Human Wilderness(ribbonfarm.com)
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by clarkm 13y ago
A bad reputation among who? Maybe in your insular circle, but certainly not for the majority of middle-class Americans. It has the highest in migration rate for a reason.
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by clarkm 13y ago
And you think this because?
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The (Off-Campus) Future of MIT(insidehighered.com)
2 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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Spam-Friendly Registrar 'Dynamic Dolphin' Shuttered(krebsonsecurity.com)
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Silicon Chasm: The class divide on America’s cutting edge(weeklystandard.com)
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by clarkm 13y ago
For anyone curious about the Rube Goldberg machine in the video, here's a behind-the-scenes video with its inventor Brett Doar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrzCrXRpI4k
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by clarkm 13y ago
According to her Businessweek profile [1], she's the President of The Hillcrest Group, Inc. Anyone have any idea what the hell this company does? I can't find anything on Google. [1] http://investing.businessweek.com&#x
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by clarkm 13y ago
It's very unlikely that it's Neal King. He doesn't fit the profile at all, and his patent doesn't have anything to do with Bitcoin.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Yep - the default client won't let you send to an invalid address. And even if you used client software that was broken and performed the check incorrectly, the transaction would still be rejected by the other nodes in the network.
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by clarkm 13y ago
Luckily Bitcoin addresses use Base58 encoding [1] and have built-in checksums, so any typo you make likely won't be a valid address. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
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What is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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CRISPR: A breakthrough gene editing technique(independent.co.uk)
1 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Practice(eprint.iacr.org)
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by clarkm 13y ago
Agreed. Many people in cubicle farms won't think twice about taking a phone call at their desk. But this is frowned upon in an open office plan, where it is usually expected that you step into the hallway or a phone room.
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by clarkm 13y ago
You don't know very many techies, do you?
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by clarkm 13y ago
What? No one said anything about taking away breaks. People work Saturday and Sunday and take their breaks during the week.
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Isowall: an isolating firewall(blog.erratasec.com)
3 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
Then how was Facebook able to force the extension FacebookFixer to rename itself to FFixer?
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Judging the Health Care Olympics(arnoldkling.com)
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by clarkm 13y ago
But they can always just run them through mixing services.

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