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by fatjokes 12y ago
I'm certainly not a fan of Gladwell but it was never because he was wrong, but because his arguments are more of a string of cherry-picked anecdotes than rigorous studies backed by evidence and sound statistics. Granted, the former mak
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by fatjokes 12y ago
Can an audiophile comment on the actual quality of Beats' technology? Or is it just successful due to celebrity endorsements? I am not an audiophile, and I'm usually happy with sub-$10 earbuds from Amazon.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
+1 for your awesome stories. another +1 for your defense of CRUD. too many people look down on those doing the "grunt" work, despite the fact that it is usually necessary.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
This is almost true. The minimum wage laws do not apply to waiters, so they are often paid $2-3/hr.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
Starting a war that cost thousands of lives on now-proven false claims and condoning torture does seem to be a bit more evil than contributing a few thousand dollars to a piece of legislation. But no, no boycott I imagine.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
A lot of people are jumping to extremes. I don't take this to mean I should starve myself. Instead this does encourage me to stop eating until I'm full, just until I'm no longer hungry.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
> I even called out a fellow postdoc for using a line graph when he should have used a bar graph (In a moment of passion I called the incorrect usage f---ing retarded... That's an overreaction for a small error, don't you think
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by fatjokes 13y ago
I have to say, the only person that disappoints me in all of this is Sergey Brin. I guess I kind of expected everybody else to be a douche, but he's fostered this free-thinking Tony Stark/Ironman persona and this just makes him se
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by fatjokes 13y ago
> So they got a taste of their own medicine You're assuming they did it first.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
Without agreeing or disagreeing, I believe OP is simply making the point that with fame and wealth comes a bit of responsibility.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
$8 for a movie? The author is using his student's discount movie tickets.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
Dammit, can't they list the 30% or so of brands that aren't known to be adulterated?
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by fatjokes 13y ago
> Wired, which just isn't much for middle ground I imagine middle ground doesn't make for good link-bait headlines, so this is true of most media outlets (even prestigious ones).
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by fatjokes 13y ago
I thought it was the sexting?
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by fatjokes 13y ago
If only one out of 55 first dates ended up in a 3rd date, sorry buddy, sounds like he may be the problem, not his profile.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
You are wrong. They spin off the tech that they do want to commercialize. E.g., Brain use to be part of X, but now it's its own group. Same with Glass.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
May I ask what industry he went into? Was it finance?
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by fatjokes 13y ago
I'm definitely inclined to say propaganda. If it were just on its own, then I'd give the benefit of the doubt and say entertainment. However, it just happens to coincide with the revelations of America's use of torture in Ira
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by fatjokes 13y ago
I see your point but it has to be more than that. These protestors must see that it's better to share these stops than to have extra cars on the street, or more crowding on the already shitty public transit.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
Nice try AT&T rep. Seriously though, Poochie had no substance---that was the joke. This guy has brought on some real change at T-Mobile, and consequently the US wireless industry. Unlocked phones? Free roaming? I never dared hope!
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by fatjokes 13y ago
"What are editors meant to do? Ignore a story because it 'feels' wrong, but could end up later to be true? I don't know." So expecting journalists to fact-check and not just wildly speculate is now asking too much.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
Stahp. This isn't reddit.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
So now a prank is also called a hack? I know it's MIT so by association everything they do is a hack but come on. That said, awesome prank.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
Interesting work. How is it different than this, which was published in 2012 at ACM-MM, a more respected venue than IEEE-ISM? http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~yanying/socialrelation.htm...
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by fatjokes 13y ago
Moto X. The hotphrase detector + Google Now makes you feel like you're on the Enterprise.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
Appealing to extremes always make great arguments!
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by fatjokes 13y ago
In other news: profitable corporations spend money. It's rather unfair to compare them to the Wall Street firms who profited and spent lavishly and then demanded that taxpayers pick up the bill (and Goldman doesn't even belong on
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by fatjokes 13y ago
The saddest part about this is that it's the first I've heard of it. Nobody I know uses Y! Mail.
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by fatjokes 13y ago
> I live in what is arguably the most Americany of Canadian cities Calgary?
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by fatjokes 13y ago
> What makes having a B.A. in Psychology not a negative hiring signal too? It is a negative signal. The BS in Symbolic Systems on the other hand, is a pretty positive one that more than compensates.

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