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by jere 13y ago
Posted mostly for the ridiculous quotes by officials: >“Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,” said a former U.S. official with knowledge of the case. “This is why you don’t hire brilliant people for jobs like this. Y
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Snowden impersonated NSA officials, sources say(investigations.nbcnews.com)
2 points by jere 13y ago|2 comments
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by jere 13y ago
>you can't split a blog post in half and mix it. Hmmm. You must have never used Twitter.
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by jere 13y ago
How is "Dalton Caldwell express[ing] his distaste for Twitter's decision to restrict its API" a product?
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by jere 13y ago
>The official - who refused to give his name but would only identify himself by his number: 203654 Yup, looks like we are officially living in some sort of Orwellian dystopia.
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by jere 13y ago
Direct link to game: http://shambles.notch.net/ I thought it was kind of interesting. It seems procedurally generated. There even appear to be caves! No surprise there coming from Notch. The big problem I have is, even for
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A Sucker Born Every Semester(jere.in)
3 points by jere 13y ago|0 comments
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by jere 13y ago
>"Oh, you lived in Africa--did you know So-and-so?" Wow. That question is annoying enough when the subject is a large university. I can't believe you were asked that.
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by jere 13y ago
>The Peters Projection World Map is one of the most stimulating, and controversial, images of the world. When this map was first introduced by historian and cartographer Dr. Arno Peters at a Press Conference in Germany in 1974 it generat
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by jere 13y ago
Drunk. They're still drunk by Monday morning? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sozzled
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by jere 13y ago
Wow. I turned 27 last week. It wasn't always about drinking because of stress (I happen to really like trying different craft brews), but lately it has been. My wife is going through some serious medical issues and depression, which in
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by jere 13y ago
Yea, I exercise. Probably less than I should. In 2011 I was running about 30 miles a month but that dried up around the same time my diet went to crap and I started drinking more. I'm trying to get back into it anyway.
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by jere 13y ago
I've slipped into the habit of drinking almost every single night over the past few months and I'm currently trying to cut it out. It's harder than I thought it would be. Like the author said, I've never noticed any phys
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by jere 13y ago
>Not at all, paranoia is simply a mistrust without justification. So does he or doesn't he have justification to be mistrustful? The quoted sentence claims the former. >many words have informal definitions that complement their f
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by jere 13y ago
>If Roberts is paranoid, it’s because very powerful people really are out to get him. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by jere 13y ago
I immediately imagined drones in FTL. Some shoot lasers, others shoot beams, and a few can repair your own ship while orbiting around it.
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by jere 13y ago
It's a sign of how spoiled we are that we complain when people try to find us employment.
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by jere 13y ago
Just because you're being altruistic doesn't mean everyone else is. >No doubt there are some who see tipping as a sexual power trip but probably in no higher percentage than any other endeavor. I don't follow you. In what
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Gaunt - A beautiful, minimalist, versatile templating markup language.(tinysubversions.com)
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by jere 13y ago
I have to agree with the other posters. Ask people to pick a random number 1-20 and they will tend to pick prime numbers such as 17. http://prasoondiwakar.com/wordpress/trivia/17-is-the-random-... >The most ran
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by jere 13y ago
$0/$0 The return is undefined actually.
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by jere 13y ago
>There is a few counter examples like the blue Gatorade, but it's 100% liquid, I can't think of any soup-texture food that is blue. Blue smoothies are pretty visually attractive.
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by jere 13y ago
As someone who compulsively throws things in the air when bored, this sounds amazing.
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by jere 13y ago
If you want a steady stream of this kind of thing, check out the following twitter bot: https://twitter.com/ilikelikeilike Darius Kazemi writes a lot of twitter bots and I find @AmIRiteBot pretty funny (if only in a it&#x27
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by jere 13y ago
That article came up recently and someone linked to your service in the comments. I think it's clearly relevant.
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by jere 13y ago
Thought I should point something out. Followgen seems to be a favorite-spam service. Someone posted an article a few days ago about how to do this yourself and was slammed pretty hard for the technique (though I tried to defend it a bit):
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by jere 13y ago
Dumb, general question: should it really be a surprise that an Introduction course doesn't use all the recent techniques?
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by jere 13y ago
>An independent study found that lab-grown beef uses 45% less energy than the average global representative figure for farming cattle. It also produces 96% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires 99% less land. I'd really like t
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by jere 13y ago
It does seem kind of spammy, but to play devil's advocate: 1) At least the favorites are related to the account. I get favorites from spam bots all the time with seemingly no connection to anything. 2) I might be wrong, but I believe
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by jere 13y ago
Is there a corollary to Betteridge's law of headlines that talks about completely self evident and obvious headlines?

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