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IBM's "Watson" goes from 'Jeopardy' to medical school(inventorspot.com)
1 points by shawnee_ 15y ago|1 comments
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
The Realtor lobbying group (the National Association of Realtors) is bigger than Exxon's, number 4 on the list: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A Getting rid of the mortgage interest deduction would probably be the best th
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
It occurred to me that I had become disconnected from a lot of things that used to fascinate me. I no longer thought about where my food came from, or how my electricity worked, or who fixed my pipes, or who made my clothes. There was no r
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Society, in general, doesn't "get" that white-collar crime like the mortgage securities fraud is the engine that powers blue collar crime. The problem is that society in general spends far too much time and effort and money harassing blue c
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
After reading the story of self-publishing whizkid Amanda Hocking http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-02-09-ebooks09_... I was inspired to start writing again. Rebuilding emphastic.com, I really wanted to find an easier way to
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
The more popular and powerful YC becomes, the more it becomes evident that there's an emerging niche in the market for facilitator-type enterprises doing what YC does. Something akin to mentorprising ; PG et al are mentorprisers of I gu
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
The complete opposite is true for me. HTML should be as clean and simplistic as possible, which is why it makes sense to me write HAML instead of HTML for .rb CSS, however, is the fun where the true art of front-end design happens, so I th
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Those who don’t believe in God are widely considered to be immoral, wicked and angry. They can’t join the Boy Scouts. Atheist soldiers are rated potentially deficient when they do not score as sufficiently “spiritual” in military psycholo
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
That, sir, is a very noble answer to an issue that doesn't deserve to be treated nobly. For most people, the snowballing effect of fees on maxed-out credit cards' interest rates + fees = impossibility, and bankruptcy is the only option. F
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Fair disclosure? I looked all over the page and didn't see the "full disclosure" notice that should be there regarding the author's ownership (or lack of ownership) of AAPL stock. We get that the "contributor" is touting himself as an anal
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
And $150K is your student loan (at least for the new enrollments) If it's not a gift and you haven't earned it, it's a loan.
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
But is this another sign of a bubble, particularly on the investing side? Why would angels invest in companies that are not vetted by Y Combinator? There's a very valid reason to invest in companies that aren't YC companies. The $150K bu
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Individual comments sans karma-per-comment is superbly smart. Seems like it will encourage higher quality comment quality across the board, as a function of less-biased individual comments in aggregate. Another + side-effect: decreasing t
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Viewing a Quantum Jump in real time(physorg.com)
2 points by shawnee_ 16y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
The only reason I can find to prefer one desktop over another is ease of using / assigning custom keyboard shortcuts: http://oss.zentu.net/?q=node/27 KDE4 was a huge leap backward in that respect. 3.5 was about perfect, and I actually
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
There are earthquakes of magnitude 6 or larger quite often, probably every week. And under 6 (like the 5.8) are even more common. I'll hold my assertion that it seems to be a more active week than normal in the seismological world. Your c
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Holy cow, this is an active day for semi-large earthquakes all over the planet: 7.1 2011/04/07 14:32:42 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 5.8 2011/04/07 20:41:54 NORTH OF HONDURAS 6.5 2011/04/07 13:11:25 VERACRUZ, MEXICO
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Stealth mode is stupid for many reasons. Stealth mode is usually preceded by "overhyped". Companies that go stealth seem to think that making one big, dramatic entrance into the startup world will be their key to success. In reality, softwa
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Christopher Jones, a University of Utah neurologist and sleep scientist who oversees the recruiting, says there is one question that is more revealing than anything else: When people do have a chance to sleep longer, on weekends or vacatio
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Craigslist has done a lot LOT of harm to the plight of the renter. Realtors have incentive to spam, post bait-and-switch, or flag the FSBOs when they are significantly < "market price". Side note: http://www.realtor.com/robots.txt Pr
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Not a Republican, but I think what they are failing to recognize is that these websites are infrastructure in the same ways that highways are infrastructure. Would we bulldoze the Interstate Highway system if we couldn't afford to mainta
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Good idea. Better idea - YC news from the console: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/follow-hacker-news-from-the-con... And, for old timers, there's always lynx.
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Fighting fire with volts: How water hoses could be replaced with electric wands(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by shawnee_ 16y ago|1 comments
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Scam? Wow, that's pretty snide. The kid enrolled University classes at the age of 8: By the age of eight he had left high school and was attending Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis advanced astrophysics classes. http://
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12-yr old expands Einstein's Theory of Relativity, thinks he can prove it wrong(newsfeed.time.com)
15 points by shawnee_ 16y ago|13 comments
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
This article has a little more substance to it RE: the actual "stand" that the FCC is taking: http://www.mobiledia.com/news/85062.html
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FCC takes stand on AT&T-TMobile merge(tgdaily.com)
1 points by shawnee_ 16y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft purchases 666,642 IPv4 addresses "before they run out"(computerworld.com)
3 points by shawnee_ 16y ago|1 comments
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
I’ve got Google alerts setup for our ad, and I’m seeing it being cloned all over the place by different recruitment agencies. Basically, they copy your ad, remove all your details so candidates don’t know who you are, and then post it up a
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Flipping houses, ah yes. This is a beautiful tax loophole created and endorsed by the lobbying NAR that enables salespeople the ability to make bucketloads of commissions based on unrealistic appreciation of house values in a very short am

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