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Is it food? How energy drink companies tapped taxpayers(kirotv.com)
1 points by joelgrus 13y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Here's an argument that it's protectionism for the wealthy: http://undergroundeconomist.com/post/22847068021
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Bad snippet aside, "most relevant Wikipedia article as the #1 search result" is probably my most-desired search engine feature.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
The "Upworthyization" of the Internet proceeds apace.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
It took me a minute to figure out what a "Que. boy" was.
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How to Eavesdrop on a Former NSA Chief on a Train(onthemedia.org)
10 points by joelgrus 13y ago|3 comments
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by joelgrus 13y ago
One of the few TED talks I really like is very similar: http://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_herold_let_s_raise_kids_to_...
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An army of robot baristas could mean the end of Starbucks as we know it(qz.com)
12 points by joelgrus 13y ago|0 comments
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A Vindication of Juggalo Society(theumlaut.com)
2 points by joelgrus 13y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Agreed, it seems like the root problem here is that mugshot data is being made publicly available for people who haven't been convicted of crimes. Being arrested is a far cry from being guilty of something. It's very unclear what
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by joelgrus 13y ago
I'm totally willing to buy that talking to kids is good for them ("massively positively" strikes me as overstating the case) and that screen time rots their brains and their ability to ... um ... I forget. But, as a parent, I
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by joelgrus 13y ago
"Amazon's discounting policies" are the same as every other bookstore, they pay the publisher ~45% of the cover price for each book. Generally speaking, the publisher gets the same $$ whether you buy the book from Amazon or
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by joelgrus 13y ago
I dropped out of my PhD program when I realized that 1. I didn't want to be an academic, and 2. Having a PhD wasn't going to help me get a non-academic job, and 3. Grad school kind of sucks. But, as a result, I have a lot of frien
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by joelgrus 13y ago
This. It doesn't surprise me at all that someone with this attitude has trouble getting job offers.
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Thinking Spreadsheet: An Opinionated Guide to Problem Solving and Data Analysis(joelgrus.github.io)
2 points by joelgrus 13y ago|1 comments
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Constructive Mathematics in F# (and Clojure)(joelgrus.com)
2 points by joelgrus 13y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Like everyone else, I don't think this should result in a felony. But (apparently) unlike everyone else, I don't think it's particularly appropriate to build a small bomb at school, and I am pretty skeptical of the "I was just doing a scie
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Should you get a Ph.D.?(joelgrus.com)
1 points by joelgrus 13y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 14y ago
Finally, a way to combine the elegance of functional programming with the unwieldy, verbose syntax of Java!
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by joelgrus 14y ago
You really shouldn't be allowed to write articles about patents if you don't even know the different between a patent and a copyright.
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Chain-py: fluent sequence operations in Python(github.com)
3 points by joelgrus 14y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 15y ago
This article reads like it was written by the CEO's mom.
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by joelgrus 15y ago
I got an email today claiming the Coursera SaaS course is starting on Monday, and it had a link to the first several videos.
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by joelgrus 15y ago
Hey everyone, thanks for the comments. There's too much to respond to everyone, but a lot of people have brought up an "echo chamber" concern. As other people have pointed out, the naive Bayes model works topically, so it will learn that I
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Hyphen Class Post-Mortem(joelgrus.com)
1 points by joelgrus 15y ago|0 comments
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by joelgrus 15y ago
Either that or that they wouldn't have to go through life burdened by the stigma of never having graduated college.
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by joelgrus 15y ago
"Your funds will be contributed to have a lobbying group talk to Congress." That's a pretty vague commitment. Why should I believe the money will be used effectively ? What makes this a better use of my funds than writing a check to th
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by joelgrus 15y ago
That's a nice sound bite, but "piracy" means "copying things". I've yet to see a plan that both prevents people from copying things and preserves liberty.
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by joelgrus 15y ago
It's sort of hard to take seriously an article that lists the "benefits" of Kickstarter without including "the ability to solicit and collect pledges".
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by joelgrus 15y ago
I don't see anywhere in the statement where they say they're "against" the bills. They express some concerns, but they leave themselves a ton of room to support slightly modified versions.

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