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by debugunit 10y ago
Public speaking. I joined Toastmasters [1] at the start of the year and highly recommend it. Friendly, supportive atmosphere. Challenging, assuming you're not currently comfortable speaking in front of groups. Lots of people who'
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by debugunit 11y ago
"...Lynch Mobs - if enough of the players agree, they can send someone to prison, remove their assets, or even eject them from the game" AKA democracy ;-)
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Tesla: Bonfire of the Money Printers’ Vanities(davidstockmanscontracorner.com)
2 points by debugunit 12y ago|0 comments
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by debugunit 12y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949183
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Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by debugunit 12y ago|1 comments
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Schoolboy, 13, creates nuclear fusion(bbc.co.uk)
17 points by debugunit 13y ago|6 comments
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by debugunit 13y ago
Douglas Adams satirised precisely this point with his Zaphod Beeblebrox character in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. To quote wikipedia[1], his was "a role that involves no power whatsoever, and merely requires the incumbent to
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Responding to senator’s bid to ban Bitcoin, congressman calls for cash ban(arstechnica.com)
9 points by debugunit 13y ago|3 comments
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The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary(bbc.co.uk)
835 points by debugunit 13y ago|261 comments
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Bitcoin has theory and history on its side(detlevschlichter.com)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Watch out for this Netflix “tech support” scam(arstechnica.com)
42 points by debugunit 13y ago|9 comments
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EU takes on “misleading” free-to-play games(arstechnica.com)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Crackdown on fake shares fraudsters(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Moazzam Begg Arrest: Part of the Effort to Criminalize Muslim Political Dissent(firstlook.org)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Internet guffaws at senator’s quixotic proposal to ban Bitcoin(arstechnica.com)
3 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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DOJ Still Ducking Scrutiny After Misleading Supreme Court on Surveillance(firstlook.org)
9 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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The Greenlid Solves The Age-Old Problem Of Gross Compost Buckets(techcrunch.com)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Lobbying To Block Distracted Driving Laws Against Glass(techcrunch.com)
5 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Which country has the highest tax rate?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by debugunit 13y ago|1 comments
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by debugunit 13y ago
I had one of these as a teenager and loved it. Learned Pascal with it, and did a lot of assembly language programming with it (Z80 apparently - I'd forgotten if it was that or 6502). It finally gave up the ghost a few years ago. Makes
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Telegram Saw 8M Downloads After WhatsApp Got Acquired(techcrunch.com)
4 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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What are the chances of a third world war?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Judge Tosses Muslim Spying Suit Against NYPD(firstlook.org)
14 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Latent toxoplasma infection correlates with risk of car accident(biomedcentral.com)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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The First Bitcoin ATM In The US Is Opening In Austin, Texas(techcrunch.com)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Ukraine police storm main Kiev protest camp(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Apple Patents Headphones With Integrated Activity, Health And Fitness Tracking(techcrunch.com)
3 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Missouri gun murders 'rose after law repeal'(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Shutting Down Blurtt(techcrunch.com)
2 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments
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Humans And Monkeys Share Machiavellian Intelligence (2007)(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by debugunit 13y ago|0 comments

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