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by karzeem 16y ago
Why do people get fat?
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by karzeem 16y ago
I think it's more that when faced with a) a site where the stuff you want is surrounded by other things to wade through, and b) a site that contains only things you want, people prefer the latter.
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by karzeem 16y ago
Surprising that it's taken them this long to leave. What company enjoys being listed alongside vastly superior and less expensive competitors?
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by karzeem 16y ago
I was a freshman at Columbia at the time. CUcommunity's interface was MySpace-esque. The first version of Facebook was very spartan. No photos other than your profile pic, no wall, no messages. Basically nothing other than your info page. T
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by karzeem 16y ago
The point is that tablets are themselves making the market a lot bigger than it is now and that the iPad will get a disproportionately big chunk of the new pieces of pie.
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Profile of Shigeru Miyamoto(newyorker.com)
44 points by karzeem 16y ago|2 comments
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by karzeem 16y ago
It's disconcerting that this — the most thorough public study of the machines' effectiveness — is a simulation . In a sane environment, we'd be allowed to know what happens when you actually, you know, test the machines.
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by karzeem 16y ago
True, though for a lot of state policies, people seem to generally agree that they're bad, just not on whether they're bad enough to justify the pain of changing them. The policies, good or bad, coexist with the country's strongest private
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by karzeem 16y ago
Most criticisms of California target public sector backwardness, so it's not a refutation of that to point to the strength of the state's private sector. And "CA's private sector is strong, ergo it hasn't been harmed by the government" is a
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by karzeem 16y ago
If enough Netflix customers live in Comcast-only areas, Netflix would have had little choice but to lean on Level 3 to capitulate. Even if the customers are willing to switch ISPs just to get Netflix, they wouldn't have had the option. Tha
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by karzeem 16y ago
PG, when you read this did you remember them as the guys who met you after your talk in Cambridge?
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by karzeem 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception You're required to present proof of citizenship and allow a "routine" search of your belongings for contraband. A "non-routine" search requires them to have a reasonable suspicion about
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by karzeem 16y ago
Milton Friedman advocated an interesting, soft version of the minimum income called the negative income tax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
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by karzeem 16y ago
Doctors aren't used to being reviewed in this way, so some are only going to go into this new world kicking and screaming. The good news is that it's very hard to win a libel judgement against somebody in the U.S. — as far as I know, you ha
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by karzeem 16y ago
One of the great things about this backlash is that it springs mostly from just a handful of small, mostly web-based efforts. Jonah Goldberg's post arguably kicked off this latest, biggest anti-body-scanner outcry. Among web sites: http:/
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by karzeem 16y ago
Thanks. The main goal is just to keep people from feeling like they're alone when they opt out, and to encourage more opting out. You're right that it's a little information-deficient. Some of that was on purpose, but I just added an "about
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Review my one-night project: I Made the TSA Feel My Resistance(imadethetsafeelmyresistance.com)
15 points by karzeem 16y ago|6 comments
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by karzeem 16y ago
Apple had two choices: release iOS4 for 3G and let it run slowly, or require 3GS+ to run iOS4. They went with the first option. My bet is that if they'd gone with the second, she would have sued them for obsoleting her 3G too quickly.
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by karzeem 16y ago
I have a prosthetic leg, so I've been getting the secondary screening (i.e. pat-downs, bomb wipes, and wanding) for years. It's invasive, but the TSA agents don't grope your genitals. They don't even touch them. In fact, they're usually shy
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by karzeem 16y ago
I know it's fashionable to beat up on Ballmer's buzzword-filled, meaning-deficient prose, but man, the guy sure doesn't make it hard for people.
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by karzeem 16y ago
It's a private school, so it's relatively free to set salaries as it pleases.
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by karzeem 16y ago
My high school, a few years before I got there, once decided to post the teachers' salaries in the lounge for all the teachers to see. The salaries had no names next to them, but since they did list the length of each person's tenure, the t
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by karzeem 16y ago
It might be more appropriate to use the older couples as a baseline and say that young couples pay an abnormally high amount of attention to one another's preferences. Same findings, just a different way of putting it. The level of attenti
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by karzeem 16y ago
This reminds me a little of the kid who "hacked" into Sarah Palin's email by guessing her easily guessable security questions. One on hand, if someone is sufficiently careless or stupid, it's unfair to punish you for helping yourself to th
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by karzeem 16y ago
I've only had one cup of tea today, so maybe I wrote the opposite of what I think I wrote, but it might also be that your pseudoscientist detector is catching false positives today. I'm not asserting that cell phones cause cancer, and I'm n
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by karzeem 16y ago
Does this kind of reductionism pass for science journalism? I have no idea if cell phones cause cancer. But if I have a model of carcinogenesis and cell phones happen not to fit the model, that's nothing like proof that they cannot cause
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by karzeem 16y ago
I've never bought a car, but why do dealers keep inventory at all? Seems like it's the cause of all their headaches. Just have one of each model for test drives, then let people custom-order. I know people like to be able to drive off th
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by karzeem 16y ago
That's how I meant it.
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by karzeem 16y ago
Neat, this is like a reverse shibboleth. This sort of stuff has been around for a while. One of the big Supreme Court rulings on the copyrightability of datasets ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural ) concerned a company that got s
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by karzeem 16y ago
You're correct, but that says more about the definition of "person of interest" than it does about the kid's dangerousness. For example, my parents came to the US from Lebanon. Aside from the fact that my family isn't Muslim, the profile

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