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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Is this a joke or is this really just a legal pad for $99? (Serious question.)
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When Irish Eyes Are Crying(vanityfair.com)
91 points by dsplittgerber 16y ago|71 comments
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
You're welcome.
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Wondering about the timing, since Forbes just did a cover story on Thiel: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0214/features-peter-thiel-...
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Please keep these idiotic allegations off Hacker News, especially if you apparently haven't read the original Cato post, where it's obvious what Thiel meant and what he didn't mean. Gawker has been hating Thiel for some time. I have seen th
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
The EFF needs a more professional copy-writer.
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How hackers ruin everything with computers(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
19 points by dsplittgerber 16y ago|10 comments
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U.S. officials privately say WikiLeaks damage limited(reuters.com)
2 points by dsplittgerber 16y ago|0 comments
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Time and time again, people fall for marketing stunts. Before getting your knickers in a twist, read the book in question and magically find out that (place author name here) is actually making a quite different argument. Don't believe what
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
It's a mirror for http://letterfromanonymous.webs.com , which was frozen due to bandwidth issues. Edit: Spelling.
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A Letter from Anonymous - Our Message, Intentions, and Potential Targets(rorr.im)
19 points by dsplittgerber 16y ago|17 comments
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
For companies who provide basic functionalities (hosting, payments, etc.) it's just not feasible to check out a potential customer ex ante - they have far too many customers for up-front checks. "Censorship costs" refer to ex-post checks on
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Personally, I thank whatever higher power there is for those people and their actions. Their actions raise the "censorship costs" those private enterprises (seem to have to) pay from now on upon deciding it is in their best business interes
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Julian Assange Defense Fund (30K EUR) frozen(twitlonger.com)
13 points by dsplittgerber 16y ago|0 comments
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
How have merchants, who participated in a Groupon deal, reacted? I hear merchants are doing quite badly in Groupon deals and it's not what it's made out to be in terms of immediate and/or future revenue. Any data available?
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
I'm having a hard time reconciling people's viewpoints over here. Most people are intellectually inconsistent over Wikileaks. If a leak fits with people's opinion on wars or something similar, it's supposedly alright to leak; if it doesn't
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
From what I've read so far, it boils down to this: the two women in question only accuse him of not using a condom when allegedly they only consented to sex with a condom. There was no "forcing them to sexual actions" involved, as the sex w
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Thanks for sharing your insights! Mind another question? How useful is that data really? I see the point in Amazon revenue #s of specific products etc, but "sentiment analysis".. really? Can one actually get actionable data from mining soci
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
I think you mean the SEC and/or the "feds" (FBI), not the federal reserve bank? The problem with insider trading is that a verdict hinges on proving intent to defraud, which is very difficult to ascertain. Also, IMHO, insider trading is mos
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Please elaborate, this sounds extremely interesting. Which firms are doing that with which data and what are the results one can get from that?
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Am I the only one finding no personal need for a universal inbox? I like the fact that having to login to facebook to read a message makes it harder to waste your time there. I like that there is no single point of failure for my e-communic
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
For context: Press release from Assange's lawyer: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/71lsqt Quote: "Despite his right to silence, my client has repeatedly offered to be interviewed, first in Sweden before he left, and then subsequently in the
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
I would recommend you affiliate yourself with some kind of institution - like a University, a hospital or something like that. They may be able to provide you with an unused room or a landline. I don't know about perceptions in Pakistan, bu
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
Have you actually clicked through to boutiques.com? It looks just like many other online fashion shops do.
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
The source says that 33% of withdrawn papers by US first authors were attributed to fraud, while only 25% of withdrawn papers by Asian first authors were attributed to it. So, US first authors are - comparing race cohorts - more likely to p
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
It's different when you're outside the US, though. A lot of magazines don't seem to cater to customers outside the US, which seems crazy to me, especially in the age of Kindle et al. I tend to read a lot and it always bugs me to find out th
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
That's the whole point I was making. When it doesn't register username or any kind of identifiable information, it just counts 'votes', which doesn't amount to anything, as in the end it's just an arbitrary number open to manipulations. Wha
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
It allegedly registered my complaint without me being logged-in, so whatever they do, it's for show only? This reeks of a cheap shot.
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
There is still so much to be done in the newspaper/magazine business.. Great idea and I hope it succeeds. I recently bought a Kindle and find it convenient to read a NYT on it despite having a small screen and not being able to scan whole p
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by dsplittgerber 16y ago
If you follow a few people closely and read every article you can find about them, some characterizations in the press tend to be a bit dubious. I don't know Levchin personally, but every indication goes to him being a workaholic, and not e

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