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The Pacific barreleye fish has a has a see-through head(grist.org)
1 points by kevbin 13y ago|0 comments
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Emacs Live(github.com)
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Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument(philosophybites.com)
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Not all big federal IT deployments are disasters(volokh.com)
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by kevbin 13y ago
Funny---intentionally or not---From the comments: "Articles like this are akin to fake profiles on myspace or bad link results from altavista." -- 28 September 2013
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by kevbin 13y ago
I don't get the appeal to those of us w/ easy access to a wide variety of inexpensive, high-quality foods stuffs. Eating a varied diet is one of life's great joys, not a problem that needs to be solved. Even if you want to av
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by kevbin 13y ago
I like the JSF plug at the bottom that ends (kills?) the thread. If JSRs were people, JSF would be in Pelican Bay.
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Burdened By Legacy Platforms, GM Fights Off The Kits(thetruthaboutcars.com)
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"A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics(nutritionj.com)
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Malware Infection Leads Government to Destroy $170,000 of Computing Hardware(volokh.com)
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by kevbin 13y ago
"...For treason turns out to be unique in American law. It is the only crime that the Constitution forbids Congress from defining. It is the only crime to which a court may never accept a confession given to the police. It is the only
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A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked(mobile.businessweek.com)
82 points by kevbin 14y ago|45 comments
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by kevbin 14y ago
> Computers won’t be replacing humans for writing the great American novel or entertaining the masses on TV Want to bet? Of course they will.
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The Intersection Between Humanity And The Future(thetruthaboutcars.com)
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Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense(theatlantic.com)
110 points by kevbin 14y ago|80 comments
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AP Classes Are a Scam(m.theatlantic.com)
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Switzerland's 'Dementiaville'(independent.co.uk)
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by kevbin 15y ago
Is there something like this available for software patents?
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Why Weak AI Is Interesting Enough(concurringopinions.com)
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The overwhelming need to be liked(insidemovies.ew.com)
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by kevbin 15y ago
Singer's is a utilitarian framework for arguments about vegetarianism and other animal-rights issues; not an argument for vegetarianism, per se. Animal Liberation is a great, mind-opening read. > Most people agree that killing primate
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by kevbin 15y ago
Whether killing animals is comparable to murder is a different question than whether animals are people. Peter Singer argues against the species-ist argument that they're incomparable. Or that killing any human is worse than killing any (or
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by kevbin 15y ago
Agreed, males capable of differentiating between Choo and Ferragamo do not—to a first approximation—figure into the first-order reproductive strategy of the subject. However, Choo and Ferragamo provide both offensive first-order and defensi
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by kevbin 15y ago
My life-long, unscientific, uncontrolled observation of the sample space shows a strong inverse correlation between heel-height and years of formal education. A crude approximation of initial results shows a curious trifurcation at 16 years
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by kevbin 15y ago
A good shoe-picker impresses both men & women: Few men are capable of the mental gymnastics required to overcome the effect of Salvatore Ferragamo or Jimmy Choo on observed leg-body proportionality. Many women are aware of this inabilit
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by kevbin 15y ago
> Men tend to prefer shorter women, aesthetically. Is there evidence to support this? Short women have numerical and biological advantages (e.g., earlier puberty) wrt to pairing and reproduction; but aesthetic preferences seem tied to r
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Who's hiring? We, the people, are. (jobsearch.usajobs.gov)
1 points by kevbin 16y ago|0 comments
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by kevbin 16y ago
"The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence." -M. Kundera “[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We al
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by kevbin 16y ago
I read that as "Adblock Freemium", i.e. Ad-supported ad-blocking.
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by kevbin 16y ago
The old testament: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Inside-Macintosh-Volumes-III/dp/... The new testament: http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Macintosh-Apple-Computer-Inc/dp... The book of common prayer: http://www.amazon.com/Macintosh-Human-Inte

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