selmnoo

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by selmnoo 13y ago
I see that you are the creator of the Social Fixer extension. Your writing mentions this interesting piece: http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-end-of-the-power-u... I am just waiting for a more powerful entity l
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Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features(socialfixer.com)
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Israel to pay students to defend it online(usatoday.com)
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China pays 2 million to monitor Internet(france24.com)
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Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult(reuters.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
It's funny to hear someone say this. I just went from a Toyota Camry (a relatively big car) to Toyota Prius-C, and I have the opposite feelings. Doing a shoulder check is very hard with the Prius, because of the weird back of the car.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
It actually was earlier removed from frontpage, only to reappear after some 10 minutes or so.
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IZZYbike - bicycle without a chain(youtube.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
A lot of these articles use abstruse acronyms. Is there perhaps a place where they're all compiled with their explanations? For instance, what is (U)? Or (S), (SI), and (REL)?
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For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little Chekhov(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The STEM Crisis Is a Myth(spectrum.ieee.org)
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US indicts 13 suspected members of Anonymous hacking collective(theguardian.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I know this horse has been already beaten to death... but, I just got a laptop with Win8 this week and I have to say this, my goodness I am just awestruck that this Metro interface actually made it to the public in its current form. What th
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by selmnoo 13y ago
It is worth noting, incidentally, that the DoD is the largest employer in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Wait, you get a free burrito by downloading the app? I don't see that being advertised anywhere on Chipotle's website. If it's true I finally have a reason to play a game.
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CEO who resisted NSA spying out of prison; feels vindicated by Snowden leaks(washingtonpost.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
(You mean 'losing' not 'loosing', please fix comment so I can delete this comment :))
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Facebook Admits Its Ads Are Too Annoying(technologyreview.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
They basically already do on loose terms. Do this experiment: make a sock Facebook account, communicate dozens of messages with keywords like "fat", "weight", "exercise", "weight loss", include simila
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by selmnoo 13y ago
In my computer engineering class of 250 students, there was only one girl (the class of one year prior had 0 girls) - and this was after aggressive affirmative action programs to attract more girls. Honestly I just felt sorry for the poor g
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Why must you compare, and get in a game of "but they're worse than the other"? Both are bad. That said, I think the threat of civil liberties being taken away by companies like Facebook and Google is very understated and ve
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Just curious, what are some questions asked beyond the point where we've asked FizzBuzz questions?
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Yes, please just say it here and share it with the greater community. :)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Oh Gosh, that was all done in Inkspace? Pretty impressive, I'll have to check that program out.
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Rage of the Privileged(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> It sets such a terrible precedent that a company like this can raise so much money. But so many precedents already exist. It's this wicked modus operandi for fast growth that a hefty amount of startups go by. You trick users in ea
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U.N. panel delivers landmark climate change report(usatoday.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Thanks for helping these folks out, you're making the world a better place by helping them in their time of misfortune.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I want to give some input from the other side here. I was born in Pakistan. I got out of there at age 12. It took my family about 8 years to get all the paperwork in order to leave the place. I vividly remember, when I was about 8, a lady c
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Okay, I'll just come out and say it. As a poor college student, I used to pirate a lot, I don't after having gotten Netflix. It just makes things too easy, that's all there is to it. Also, interestingly, because I've bas

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