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Stop unaccountable, censor-friendly ITU from taking control of the Internet(boingboing.net)
10 points by jalanco 14y ago|3 comments
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Asteroid impact simulator(boingboing.net)
3 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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The Best Teachers in the World: Why we don’t have them and how we could get them(hoover.org)
2 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple paid only 1.9 pct tax on earnings outside US(msnbc.msn.com)
4 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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by jalanco 14y ago
I've hired hundreds of IT services salespeople in my life, through multiple recessions and boom times. So believe me when I say that a $32K base is not going cut it. Especially in a poor economy like now. Even now it is easy to find a te
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by jalanco 14y ago
Thanks for your kind comment. I've thought of Mr. Treese often during my life. Here's an anecdote about him that's always cracked me up: One time he called on a student who wasn't, as usual, paying attention, asked him a math question, an
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by jalanco 14y ago
I was raised in an abusive middle class household. My parents were not well educated. When I took the ACT test in 1975, neither my parents nor I even knew what the hell it was. I made a 23. I went to a unremarkable Tier 4 college because
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by jalanco 14y ago
Your reply is yet another "Tu quoque America!" post that is becoming far too predictable and common on HN. The US is not the subject of the OP's comment. Clarification: My comment probably appears to be a knee-jerk defense of America. I'm
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University of Texas Joins Harvard-MIT EdX Online Venture(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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$5.8 Mil “Text Against Terror” Fails To Provide Any Tips(judicialwatch.org)
1 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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by jalanco 14y ago
This would be a more interesting article if the author understood that the real reason for the increasing cost of both education and healthcare is the decoupling of the buyer and the seller. With healthcare, the decoupler is health insuran
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by jalanco 14y ago
It took me about 5 seconds to find John Graham-Cumming's bio: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/03/my-bio.html "As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France and currently works at CloudFlare."
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by jalanco 14y ago
"The law is aimed at businesses with five or more employees that don’t offer pensions or 401(k) savings programs. The law requires companies to contribute 3 percent of a worker’s salary to a retirement account. Workers will be enrolled in t
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California companies with 5+ employees must now provide pensions?(bloomberg.com)
3 points by jalanco 14y ago|6 comments
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Paypal suspends domestic transactions in Argentina(bbc.com)
6 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple adds straitjacket mode to iOS(wired.com)
1 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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Junk DNA — Not So Useless After All(healthland.time.com)
16 points by jalanco 14y ago|7 comments
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by jalanco 14y ago
The likelihood of the Teamster's union allowing (i.e., not obstructing) driverless cargo hauling to succeed in the US would be close to zero.
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Emory University misrepresented student data for over a decade(ajc.com)
3 points by jalanco 14y ago|1 comments
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Google Appeases Hollywood But Rankles Internet Freedom Watchers(pcworld.com)
3 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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by jalanco 14y ago
I definitely agree that he was a huge part of it. I learned the other day that he actually played (at Lennon's request) the piano solo in "In My Life". Never knew he played anything.
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by jalanco 14y ago
Steve Jobs/Jonathan Ives ==> John Lennon/Paul McCartney. John and Paul were both geniuses, but John vetoed (or encouraged) when needed and so did Paul: hence the genius of the Beatles vs the non-genius of The Wings.
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CNBC: America's Top States for Business: Texas #1; California #40(cnbc.com)
2 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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by jalanco 14y ago
An interesting article that discusses this finding: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uoc--tao07021...
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People tend to prefer first option when given sequential choices(plosone.org)
3 points by jalanco 14y ago|1 comments
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by jalanco 14y ago
From the article: In 2012, Kickstarter has provided over $150 million in arts funding, more than the NEA.
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With Kickstarter, Who Needs the National Endowment for the Arts?(theatlantic.com)
22 points by jalanco 14y ago|34 comments
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by jalanco 14y ago
All I want out of it is an anti-gravity device.
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Google’s One-Gender-Fits-All T-Shirts Don’t Fit(wired.com)
3 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments
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Why the United States Can’t Win a Cyberwar(slate.com)
2 points by jalanco 14y ago|0 comments

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