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by lmg643 12y ago
I've had leftover opioid painkillers from surgeries and I can see how easily this could turn into a gateway. I often feel simply lucky that oxy et al wasn't prevalent when I was 16-24yrs old, as I'm sure I would have encounte
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by lmg643 12y ago
I'm not so sure that enforcement-led mechanisms won't work, at least, if there is global coordination focused on production. The Taliban, for all its faults, was able to effectively eliminate opium production back in 2001, and Afg
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by lmg643 12y ago
thanks for sharing your story. based on your experience, what do you think can be done to address the situation?
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by lmg643 12y ago
agreed. my first thought in reading this: "Dear Mr. Kalanick - how dare you allow your staff to announce an idea to spy on the American people and use the information you learn against them? Didn't you know that privilege is exclu
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by lmg643 12y ago
I had the fortune to speak directly with people who have been through the Cisco training program, and it is pretty rigorous. Pretty impressive how they can not just answer my question about the equipment, but put it in context with how netw
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VCs Think Cleantech Is a Dirty Word(bloombergview.com)
1 points by lmg643 12y ago|0 comments
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by lmg643 12y ago
Kind of a link-bait headline from the New Yorker. "There were glaring weaknesses in America's nuclear security during the cold war, some of which were used as the basis for the movie." True. " Almost everything ... uh ..
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by lmg643 12y ago
I'm trying to reconcile this with the Keith Rabois statement: “I don’t know of a single successful CEO or entrepreneur who blogs regularly.” http://blog.asmartbear.com/ceo-blogging.html
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by lmg643 12y ago
Great guess. I was trying to imagine what sort of metaphor he was evoking with Panopticon - as though the super-founder can see every task that is required of him - works, but it's a stretch. Panoply is much better.
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by lmg643 12y ago
printing electrical circuits on something robust enough to use in a production device would be pretty killer IMHO. (Solid yet thin plastic base, enough conductive material to not get scratched off too easily).
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by lmg643 12y ago
Strange article. The article is trying to say something about collaboration and then somehow leaps to cities being good for collaboration. This claim is made despite abundant evidence that the greatest tech innovations in Silicon Valley did
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by lmg643 12y ago
TWTs are going to be around for a long time. There are only a handful of companies in the world that make them, and there are no real alternatives to producing high power microwave signals.
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by lmg643 12y ago
I like the weather channel's hourly weather forecast. clean, simple and runs on desktop and mobile. Also fairly accurate - will i need an umbrella by the time my evening commute hits? by the time i am coming home from dinner, etc? And
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by lmg643 12y ago
what a curious piece of writing. it is really interesting to read a liberal arts guy critique software interfaces like a piece of literature. unfortunately, I can't really connect with the critique - too abstract. sometimes, you just n
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by lmg643 12y ago
How does a company like this get $45 million in funding? Is that really cash in the bank, or "on paper, committed under certain circumstances, with only $1 million actually in the bank as of today?" I guess I just don't under
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by lmg643 12y ago
I wonder if there is a way to distinguish the evolution of "values" as opposed to the support of an organized religion. So while organized religion may fall from favor, the value systems aren't going anywhere. And I don'
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by lmg643 12y ago
Wow. Talk about an advertisement for the ineffectiveness of annotations. I've got comments from multiple different authors on here simultaneously - who are all these people? I was interested in Marc's annotations - talk about bait
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IBM Pulls Profit Goal, Sees Slowdown in Customer Spending(online.wsj.com)
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by lmg643 12y ago
Ed Seykota, one of the first systematic futures traders, has a whole web page up dedicated to "stopping Bernoulli abuse" and instead proposing the "Theory of Radial Momentum" as a way to explain lift: http://w
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by lmg643 12y ago
I am mostly surprised that we have an "uber for XYZ" cropping up, as opposed to a general-purpose delivery service winning out, like postmates. this makes me think - perhaps most of the value in the delivery service is the catalog
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by lmg643 12y ago
I think we're missing the joke here: this is an update on the concept of "my 2 cents", with the difference being... ...he has adjusted for inflation, with a markup. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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by lmg643 12y ago
how about google stopwatch? I was using a stopwatch the other day to time some complex GUI stuff where I couldn't quickly or easily put a software timer in.
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by lmg643 12y ago
If we put away our personal politics, and try to see Obama's actions objectively, it seems he has continued, even expanded, America's intervention in governments around the middle east. Libya was overthrown, Egypt was overthrown,
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by lmg643 12y ago
My main concern with Peter Thiel praising monopolies is that the nuance of the message will get lost - "earning monopoly through radical innovation" - but the core message remains - monopoly = profit. People will start to pat them
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by lmg643 12y ago
I was under the impression that presidents dye their hair regularly. If a politician is too old - dye out some (or all) of the gray. Reagan being an extreme example - not a single gray hair. If a politician is young - Clinton, Bush, Obama -
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by lmg643 12y ago
I've seen a lot of this data - very troubling. With some familiarity of Gary Webb's work on crack cocaine, it does make me wonder whether the CIA is also allowing exports of opium to fund additional covert ops in Afghanistan. The
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Paying for Likes? Understanding Facebook Like Fraud Using Honeypots(arxiv.org)
1 points by lmg643 12y ago|0 comments
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by lmg643 12y ago
What social functions do hedge funds provide, indeed? Renaissance Technologies avoided $6bn in taxes by using derivatives to pretend their ultra-high frequency trading profits were actually long-term capital gains. http://www.blo
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Peter Thiel Says Twitter ‘Horribly Mismanaged’(bloomberg.com)
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A Thank You Note to HuffPost Readers (Crowdsourced Journalism)(huffingtonpost.com)
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