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Social Anxiety: A Day in the Life(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The process of having a feeding tube inserted into one's nose is extremely painful, much more so than you'd expect. Out of all the injuries I've had (e.g. broken collar bone, 4 concussions, etc), none reached the immediate p
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It's worth noting that this article by David Simon was written on June 7th, purely in reaction to the leaked information about Verizon metadata being collected. As more information about PRISM became available, Simon acknowledge that
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I like how the post reflects the excitement of discovering something for yourself, even if only to find out later that it's commonly known in certain domains. Sometimes in this day and age with search engines it seems useless to sit a
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by mcphilip 13y ago
In 2006, during my senior year of college, I worked nights at the Postal Encoding Center in Beaumont, Texas. The starting pay was $15/hr and encoding is a 24/7 operation, making it a highly pursued job by college students. It&#x2
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Winklevoss Twins Confront Skeptics to SEC on Bitcoin ETP(bloomberg.com)
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Portugal is a mess recently with several cabinet members resigning, including a key figure overseeing the implementation of terms agreed to in its bailout by the EU. I can see Portugal being in a particularly compliant mood at the moment i
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Agreed. A few years ago there were a lot of complaints about Firefox starting very slowly, especially on Windows machines [1]. For those of us that obsessively close apps that aren't being used, the startup time was a big turn off. [
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Lets assume everything said in the interview is true. This would only serve to reassure the public that the state is not proactively looking for threats among U.S. citizens. That's a good thing. However, as my only other comment on t
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>I think the focus shouldn't be on the unavoidable "information radiation wake" you give off as you move through the world living your life, but on the ways people utilize this information. The government, and private enti
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by mcphilip 13y ago
The report [1] the original article was based on listed accusations which don't make the incident sound nearly as trivial (i.e. BS) as you are claiming: >Within the existing privately run public campground, unpermitted development inclu
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by mcphilip 13y ago
As an example of why Nanex is worth listening to, here is an article [1] describing how Nanex claimed Monday's ISM manufacturing data was leaked 15 milliseconds early, leading ultimately to an admission by Reuters that it caused the leak.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here. What is wrong with the Sun-Times making this decision if it is shown that having a staff trained in 'iPhone photography basics' allows the ST to cut costs without hurting revenue? An iconic photo (e.g.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I really struggle to get in the 'zone' where I can do the creative aspects of software engineering (e.g. researching graph databases like neo4j and determining if our startup can benefit from it) when I'm in an open environment. I have bee
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by mcphilip 13y ago
One key thing you're brushing over is that the OP link is to a blog post on the economist web site. The print edition gives no credit to its writers and tries to speak with a single editorial voice for consistency's sake. The blog section
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The Story of an Eyewitness [SF 1906 Earthquake](london.sonoma.edu)
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by mcphilip 14y ago
I get your point and think it's well stated, I just don't see that it's valid for all types of breaking news. My usage of breaking news is mostly related to participation in the stock market. Sometimes there is breaking news that will imm
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by mcphilip 14y ago
I agree with your placing blame on traditional media displaying unverified information as facts, for sure. I guess the point I was trying to make is more that much of the incorrect info spread last week was a result of a chain reaction of
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by mcphilip 14y ago
Ridiculous article, IMHO. Breaking news isn't 'broken', it's just that there's an immaturity in the consumers of breaking news when trying to interpret the info. For instance, a couple of years ago when I first joined Twitter after realizi
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by mcphilip 14y ago
It looks like a crop of an image in a park where a bride and her bridal party are having their picture taken while the groomsmen wait off to the side.
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by mcphilip 14y ago
Last time I checked, the find Boston bombers subreddit had ~5K subscribers. r/humor currently has ~3.6 million. Please check your facts before making any more claims...
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by mcphilip 14y ago
Yes and no, I think. The government building evacuations and suspicious package stories on Tuesday got a lot more attention than normal, but the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion was extremely dramatic and probably not hyped up by sim
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by mcphilip 14y ago
[NSFW] That's really disturbing...
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by mcphilip 14y ago
"Cablegate" has been used for at least the last 2.5 years. It's unclear after a good 15 minutes of googling who first started calling the leaked cables Cablegate, but here's an example from pbs back in Nov, 2010: http://www.pbs.org/newsho
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by mcphilip 14y ago
Considering how many adult websites are adding social features (i.e. Like buttons), I assume 'Big Data' already has much more accurate information on a person's sexual interests than most people realize.
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by mcphilip 14y ago
I found the references to "personalized newspaper" most interesting. Using the newspaper comparison, I imagine a front page with a promoted gizmodo story surrounded by ads for things facebook thinks I care about with a whole bunch of quick
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by mcphilip 14y ago
I can see the Photos feed being an interesting Instagram like view of the Facebook feed assuming it only includes photos uploaded by friends and not all links to photos shared by friends (e.g. quick memes).
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As a counter point, there are many who ascribe the Arab Spring to a substantial spike in commodity price inflation leading to the self immolation of the peasant in Tunisia which is widely recognized as the key first event leading up to Arab
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by mcphilip 14y ago
The NES Battletoads reference made me smile. Great inside joke to anyone who knows the pure torture of trying to get through the fiendishly hard first 8 levels without dying. Level 9, Terra Tubes, IMHO, is one of the hardest levels in any
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by mcphilip 14y ago
I doubt you can attribute any dramatic rise in after hours stock price to actual 'investors' deciding to place buy orders seconds after hearing the news. The after hours action is most likely driven by the many algorithmic trading systems m

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