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WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr(eu.techcrunch.com)
32 points by riffer 16y ago|9 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Right, but was his objective to use Benford's law, or was it to test whether the data was tampered with?
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by riffer 16y ago
Could it be that the mean number of reports in a week is in the 2.5-3.5x10^x range? Why would he look at the leading number instead of the trailing number? He really ought to provide the exact dataset that he's using to generate the graphs.
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Dubai and Saudi Arabia to Block BlackBerry Messaging(nytimes.com)
28 points by riffer 16y ago|16 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Please produce a statement that I made in which I pretend he's a journalist holding a neutral point of view.
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by riffer 16y ago
A couple of years ago Julian and his colleagues released information that swung the national election in Kenya. This must have gotten the attention of every government with something to hide (all of them). Since then, he claims to have rele
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by riffer 16y ago
What Julian appears to me to be trying to do is to reduce the ability of large bureaucratic militarized organizations to dominate innocent individuals. Secrets exist for many purposes, but their primary impact on history is to permit groups
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Idiocy and brilliance of American policy toward entrepreneurs(scobleizer.com)
6 points by riffer 16y ago|1 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
I've had plenty of flights cancelled due to bad weather, which most people would probably say is due to lack of runway landing slots. However if planes cannot get off the ground at my destination, they aren't freeing up gates for incoming f
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by riffer 16y ago
Upvoted for consistently referring to yourself in the third person.
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by riffer 16y ago
Having flown AirIndia on a few flights domestically, I understand where you're coming from. But in our experience, the AirIndia nonstop from JFK to Bombay is equivalent to the Delta nonstop, and much better than BA thru Heathrow.
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Ex-Officer Avoids Jail Time in Arrest of Times Square Bicyclist(cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Blue Zone(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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A Board of Directors is not an Advisory Board(gabrielweinberg.com)
13 points by riffer 16y ago|3 comments
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Mathematicians rival octopus in World Cup final prediction(plus.maths.org)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple drops Consumer Reports/iPhone 4 discussion threads(tuaw.com)
76 points by riffer 16y ago|65 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Was a YC W10 company
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by riffer 16y ago
It used to be 1000 uniques per 10 karma points on the submission, although that may have changed with the vote weighting that was instituted a month ago or so
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by riffer 16y ago
http://www.marginalrevolution.com is your best bet Through posts it links to all of the other good econ blogs: Krugman, Mankiw, as well as good articles in FT, NYTimes, Economist, etc. Economic texts are notoriously boring, blogs are a go
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Ticketmaster Rival Ticketfly Acquires Music Event Service Gigbot(techcrunch.com)
2 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Why does the first table have 71 clicks, but the second has 20? While the cost looks like it might be $31.88 in the second table, but only $24.83 in the first one? I ask because the re-tweet experiment got 73 clicks, and the relative perfor
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Le Monde on the Brink(mondaynote.com)
34 points by riffer 16y ago|15 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
I can't believe that Facebook is attempting to go after people through criminal law, rather than civil law. Wasn't the CTO of Facebook just saying less than a week ago that : "users have complete control over their data, and as long as [the
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by riffer 16y ago
Here is one that I was hoping it would work for: http://clerkdogs.com/movies/51923-intacto-2002/matches Obscure, but that's kind of the point with this sort of app On a sidenote: You can definitely resolve the speed issues people are tal
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by riffer 16y ago
if there are certain key technologies that aren't predicted correctly (like desktop computers, high-bandwidth cell signals, internet everywhere, etc), then it has a cascading effect of invalidating many of the other predictions Which is w
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by riffer 16y ago
Yeah, about the same as sending an email to Posterous
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by riffer 16y ago
I voted you up because you made an interesting point here about early adopters, but it would have been nice if you made it in the blog post rather than in the comments here. It would make you more credible. Along a similar vein, you might c
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by riffer 16y ago
Agreed (and upvoted), although I come to a different conclusion. When potential Zipcar customers see the marketing materials that mention comprehensive insurance, are they being mislead by that marketing? I suspect so. They don't have an ob
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by riffer 16y ago
I may not be the best example, because I am ridiculously frugal. There are very few things I pay for beyond food, rent and travel, which is another way of saying I pretty much exclusively use free tools. Incidentally, when my 30 day trial o
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by riffer 16y ago
Wait a second, if the system does in fact exist, and it works well, and the biggest problem is that doctors won't use it, I'm with amichail.

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