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by lingben 10y ago
"I can tell you this was not a purchase Warren Buffett made. It was one of his two lieutenants" @BeckyQuick on CNBC this morning
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by lingben 10y ago
Also in classical times the 'seat of power' for men was not the penis but the testicles. Today we equate masculinity and virility with a large penis, but to the Greeks and Romans a large penis had no such connotation. When you thi
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by lingben 10y ago
thoroughly disappointed in the Shriver interview, didn't ask any hard questions, didn't redirect after her answers, didn't really seem like she was at all fully informed about Theranos now if John Carreyrou had been conductin
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Startup funding is slowing in San Francisco(qz.com)
79 points by lingben 10y ago|42 comments
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The new face of Facebook: How to win friends and influence people(economist.com)
2 points by lingben 11y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 11y ago
and by 'we' you mean the Mongols who sacked and razed this version of Baghdad to the ground in 1258, right?
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by lingben 11y ago
NK is really a surreal place, no matter how much you learn about it, something new will still shock you for example, I watched a documentary about a Western eye doctor who went there pro bono to do cataract surgeries the thing was, when he
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by lingben 11y ago
here's a good counter point: http://www.pragcap.com/passive-investing-isnt-hurting-the-ec...
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NYT Archives: First Mention of Hitler in NYT November 21st 1922(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by lingben 11y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 11y ago
a friend who recently took up twitter ran into this exact thing. here's what happened, they had figured out that you just write stuff in the text box and press enter. great. simple. done! here's what happened though, they started
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by lingben 11y ago
you would think a VC - out of the average person out there - would, you know, kinda sorta pay attention to the numbers, maybe? but it seems they just throw stacks of bills at targets and hope that one of them sticks
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by lingben 11y ago
riiiiight, beyond cherry picked anecdotal evidence, I guess that explains the MAU numbers, because errrybody is on twitter twatting away incessantly twitter was an interesting novelty a few years ago but you can't sustain a worldclass
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by lingben 11y ago
please google it, there are tonnes of articles and blogs talking about it http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/20/did-twitters-orwellian-tru... http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2&#x
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by lingben 11y ago
They also constantly censor their own platform to fit the narrative of those running it. They've kicked out and muted multiple users for being conservative. They mute or remove 'problematic' hashtags like #JeSuiMilo Just rece
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by lingben 11y ago
LoL that's the most hilarious and apt way of putting it :)
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by lingben 11y ago
compare and contrast to reddit: text but extremely simple, intuitive, you can follow conversations, know who is talking to whom, respond, link, etc.
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by lingben 11y ago
Too little, too late. Twitter has the most abysmal UI/UX I've ever seen, especially when you consider its clout and popularity (although that is fast waning). Any meaningful change will be so jarring that the dyed in the wool user
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by lingben 11y ago
I love how a few years ago many people, including google and lackeys like fishkin at MozSEO, said that negative seo simply wasn't a thing ... and then google comes out with the disavow tool !
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by lingben 11y ago
posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11128535
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by lingben 11y ago
really baffled as to how this tripe can be on the front page of HN, unless... no, I don't want to go there...
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How a Reporter Pierced the Hype Behind Theranos(propublica.org)
3 points by lingben 11y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 11y ago
previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10592754
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Appalachian Miners Are Learning to Code(bloomberg.com)
5 points by lingben 11y ago|1 comments
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Yahoo Exploring Options for Some Units, Cutting 15% of Staff(bloomberg.com)
4 points by lingben 11y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 11y ago
Thanks, that's why I shared it on here. I suspected that its rational approach may not receive a warm reception since so much of today's dialogue about this topic is driven by emotions. Glad that I was wrong. I find it alarming th
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An anonymous response to dangerous FOSS Codes of Conduct(4fa6134ddde55ae0092b69e1eb287d2840301d0a.googledrive.com)
25 points by lingben 11y ago|6 comments
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by lingben 11y ago
Iran is an authoritarian country like North Korea. No foreign press is allowed in without first requesting a special permit. Among the information they have to present is who they are and what they are planning on reporting on. This is the
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by lingben 11y ago
It depends what you want to learn about specifically. For a general introduction there is an excellent 3 part BBC documentary "Iran and the West": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_the_West If you want a
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by lingben 11y ago
Actually it was human rights organizations and other NGOs which were reporting on the brutal realities of Iran and asking the US, Canada, Europe and the UN to take action about the extrajudicial assassinations, the lack of due process, the
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by lingben 11y ago
While Rick Steves is a warm and wonderful person he is no authority on Iran. He visited Iran and was carefully stage managed to present only the positive side of things and completely ignore the rest. He is not a historian, he is not a soci

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