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   by nefitty 11y ago

   I'm sorry you had to go through that. Those are "superficial" social issues compared to the deep underlying ideas she had: an obsession with limited government and unfettered capitalism, individual selfishness and a conscious
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   by nefitty 11y ago

   A blog post explaining this visualization here: http://www.periscopic.com/news/2013/02/thoughts-on-visualizi... I am also interested in the code behind the visualization. Anyone out there have any ideas?
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   Startling Visualization of US Gun Deaths(guns.periscopic.com)

   2 points by nefitty 11y ago|2 comments
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   by nefitty 11y ago

   Ayn Rand? Really? There's a reason her "objectivism" isn't discussed in philosophy courses. It's nonsense conservative rhetoric that has nothing to do with the academic discipline. John Oliver summed it up nicely:
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   Chumel Torres, Mexico's Answer to John Oliver(globalvoicesonline.org)

   2 points by nefitty 11y ago|0 comments
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   by nefitty 11y ago

   Well, there's an android app I used called SleepBot that graphs movements made in bed, can record sounds made at night (to learn about snoring, or sleep talking, etc) and then graphs all this stuff out over several days. It shows you a
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   by nefitty 11y ago

   Imagine all the data points a body generates at any moment. This maybe the first step toward a cyborg future. When you have that much information about yourself the chances for experimentation are endless. I get excited just tracking my sle