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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> FiftyThree didn’t need to raise money People tend to believe actions more than words.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> This man is the Thomas Paine of our day: "Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry is known for that quote, not Paine.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I wonder if the whole article was written sarcastically: > so many families were being tossed onto their lawns by bailed-out banks that had bullied them into bullshit mortgages. Yes, banks put a gun to people's head and said: Bor
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
So classic damage control strategy would dictate something like the following: Make it seem like you've caved to demands, and give up meaningless things (while trumping them up to seem meaningful.) Releasing a court order to invade th
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
The title of the paper is: Optically-induced charge separation and terahertz emission in unbiased dielectrics. The news release is completely out-to-lunch (eg "Light has electric and magnetic components. Until now, scientists thought
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Concise, but wrong: It keyed off of "find", so it produced a top hit of items related to that method (which means in rails: find in the database) Now you could argue that I should have omitted "find", and there was a t
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Also, DDG's results compared to a year ago are night-and-day. Still looks 2nd rate. I replicated one of my last searches (learning rails): rails find if element is in array First hit on google is the stackexchange answer with .i
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Why would anyone believe that DuckDuckGo isn't already penetrated?
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I'm trying to figure out if this makes me (49yo) young-at-heart or just immature.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> There are significant partisan differences in views of the government's program to obtain call logs and Internet communication. Democrats are more likely to approve, by 49% to 40%. Independents (34% vs. 56%) and Republicans (32%
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> which had already attracted the best researchers. Giving the funding to second-tier places and hoping for first-tier results is certainly a strategy. Another might be to note that there is a difference between self-reinforcement of p
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> and the main sponsors (governments and governmental institutions) try to be fair in the way they distribute their money. To do so, they have to make scientific output measurable. Your first sentence is right, but the second is off-ba
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
(number of cites) / (number of pubs * number of coauthors) has been known for a long time to the best tenure/review committees. Second tier doesn't use it, the politics should make it obvious why. And the gov't grant ma
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Sorry, it might be an americanism: A lawyer working mostly for profit rather than principle. #3 definition is probably the closest to common usage: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ambulance%20c...
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I've never considered donating to the ACLU before this incident, but I've never considered them ambulance chasers either.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Fair enough, but my bigger point is: <insert smear here> could do this much damage. Well you guys hire him and you fucked up, so I'm holding your butts accountable. Clearly you can't control the surveillance monster you cr
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> The fact that he didn't have to complete high school, (he does have a GED) to get a job at Booz paying $200k/year should be speak to his intelligence. Alternatively, I'd read the smear this way: A guy who could not ev
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Make that four crowds: Those who are waiting for the comment pages to come back to life.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> it can make for a boring time. Agreed. I also doubt that we'll ever see: John Basil Barnhill: ""When governments fear the people, there is liberty. , since poor John Basil had the misfortune of not being as well kno
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> I assume it's less about argument from authority and more about just a lack of eloquence or confidence on the part of the person relying on quotations to make their point. That's probably right. Hell, it's part of the
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Relevant, started in 2002: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I think a better approach would be client-side: Something like a browser extension for identity rotation, for one example. I also suspect Tor-for-the-masses has a larger chance of becoming a reality. Presumably, VCs are now wringing the
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Thomas Jefferson: ""When governments fear the people, there is liberty. Looks like false attribution according to wikiquote. (Why do people feel the need to use proof by authority anyway? Either a thing is right, or it is
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. > ... > When governments ask Facebook for data, we review each request carefully to make sure they alwa
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> And the reason that’s not how it works is because we’ve got congressional oversight and judicial oversight. And if people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges to make s
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> and for that, let’s give credit where it is due: it is not Benioff, it is Bernanke. [applause] The only caveat I'd add: Japan has shown that monetary policy can stay bad for a looong time. While I personally think Zoho's chosen pa
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Do you really think this is news to Obama? Do you really think the NYT headline was known to Obama? So yes: The reaction of the populace is news. Again: Some people change course when presented with new data. While politicians a
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
When presented with new data, some people change course. I am hoping Obama falls into that class.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> What's the significance of this? I cannot remember (I'm 49yo) the NYT ever going from endorsing a candidate [1] to " The administration has now lost all credibility. " That's quite a fall politically. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2

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