jakewalker

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Opening Brief in Weev's Appeal (United States v. Auernheimer)(volokh.com)
3 points by jakewalker 13y ago|0 comments
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by jakewalker 13y ago
Excerpt from a book by Radley Balko, The Rise of the Warrior Cop (link: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americ... )
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How did America’s police become a military force on the streets?(abajournal.com)
14 points by jakewalker 13y ago|10 comments
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Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synthetic DNA Is [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
372 points by jakewalker 13y ago|165 comments
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by jakewalker 14y ago
A video introduction to the excellent book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwsLAqjqnxo Excerpts: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20864115/Champion-TFDexcerpt-Sept-... http://www.scribd.com/doc/34289636/ThreeFelonies-ZeheExcerpt...
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Three Felonies A Day - How The Feds Target The Innocent(harveysilverglate.com)
178 points by jakewalker 14y ago|48 comments
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Posthumously pardon Aaron Swartz(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
307 points by jakewalker 14y ago|37 comments
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The Final Episode of Hypercritical with John Siracusa(5by5.tv)
1 points by jakewalker 14y ago|0 comments
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by jakewalker 14y ago
Looks fantastic. One thing that is confusing is how to add additional social accounts. The startup process lets you link one (e.g., Facebook), but it is not evident how to add another (e.g., Twitter).
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The New TBR Business Model(brooksreview.net)
2 points by jakewalker 14y ago|0 comments
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by jakewalker 14y ago
I highly recommend Orin Kerr's article, The Case For The Third Party Doctrine, on this issue (available here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138128 ). A much different constitutional analysis when the data is requested
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Promotional Memo Book Archive(fieldnotesbrand.com)
1 points by jakewalker 14y ago|0 comments
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Ira Glass on Storytelling at the Gel Conference [Youtube Video](youtube.com)
2 points by jakewalker 15y ago|0 comments
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Slippery Slopes(marco.org)
4 points by jakewalker 15y ago|0 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
It's funny because the way I play Sudoku is often through sheer brute force as well.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Why not buy a few high quality microphones and have kits and instructions that you send out to interviewees with return shipping (or direct shipping to the next interviewee)?
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by jakewalker 15y ago
It's obvious that Dan puts a ton of care and time into the quality of his broadcasts, and it shows. The 5by5 shows, both in sound quality and in content, make you feel like you are sitting in a room with Dan and Host, and could join the co
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A Business Insider retrospective(marco.org)
142 points by jakewalker 15y ago|26 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
More: "I can no longer post comments that are visible to anyone else from my account. This happened silently and without explanation" https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/111336923422928896
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Pinboard founder idlewords no longer able to post on HN?(twitter.com)
10 points by jakewalker 15y ago|2 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Honored as I am to be mentioned in the same breath as Marco, I'm pretty sure you meant idlewords, who runs pinboard, and not me. I haven't leased a private server since about 2004! I just posted the story.
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by jakewalker 15y ago
I particularly like this nugget: > Quick quiz: can your entire sales staff be replaced by a nicely formatted HTML table? If the answer is 'yes', then you are subtracting value and wasting my time.
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A Short Rant About Hosting (blog.pinboard.in)
214 points by jakewalker 15y ago|62 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Apple has also said that they operate close to breakeven on iTunes / the App store. See http://allthingsd.com/20100225/apple-billions-of-songs-billi...
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by jakewalker 15y ago
This times 1,000. Mom's don't use alt+tab. The thing people aren't appreciating is that when you reopen the app (which is available via Mission Control, via Spotlight, via the Finder or perhaps via the Dock), it restores to the place it wa
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Sorry about that, I missed it.
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FBI May Not Have Had Access To Instapaper Hard Drive Data After All(blog.instapaper.com)
32 points by jakewalker 15y ago|29 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
Insightful read: "Even though today’s opinion is about regulations prohibiting speech rather than regulations requiring speech, it’s likely that the carriers will be able to frame the debate their way: We’d like to speak, to use all of our
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Law prof: What violent video game decision means for net neutrality(scrawford.net)
1 points by jakewalker 15y ago|1 comments
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by jakewalker 15y ago
I posted a link a PDF of the opinion, but I wanted to highlight this quote from Scalia, writing for the majority: "Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat. But these cultural and

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