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by spikels 13y ago
It seems to always be acceptable to blame the US for any problem but as pointed out in the article neither sugar cane, refined sugar nor high-fructose corn syrup originated in the US. And almost every "US style food" originated so
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The NSA slide you haven’t seen(washingtonpost.com)
440 points by spikels 13y ago|188 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
Why is Jeri still whining that her job at Valve didn't work out? As best I can tell she was treated fairly but she was just not a good fit in this rather unique company. Maybe this was news in February when she was fired but now it is
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by spikels 13y ago
Why does this article call Jeri Ellsworth a "longtime" Valve employee? She was hired in in early 2012 and fired in early 2013.
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Teufelsberg: An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain"(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
How can "a lot" of a group be "purely" both "self-interested" and "idiots"? I do not think this statement can be anything more than rhetoric and schoolyard name calling. I would say people have a stro
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by spikels 13y ago
The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close. SEIU 98.5% ATU 99.9% http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-workers-vote-to-a...
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Dear Harvard Arts & Science professors, it is not MOOCs you have to fear(theconversation.com)
2 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
This article reads like a press release - completely uncritical. I wonder how much of this was independently researched by the reporter and how much was fed to them by the White House press handlers. It even quotes Jay Carney the master pro
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Ecuador's Correa says Biden asked him to deny Edward Snowden asylum(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by spikels 13y ago|1 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
College-style education is both expensive and risky. Expensive not only from tuition but also four years of lost earnings and missed actual experience. Risky because academia is only loosly connected to the working world - so much of what i
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by spikels 13y ago
Cargo Cult Education - Schools are built, students attend, teachers lecture, assignments turned in, tests taken and degrees granted. Everyone gets what they want: politicians, students, staff and parents. Yet nothing needs to be taught and
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by spikels 13y ago
Most transit systems have either a fixed or minimum fee. So it usually does not make sense to pay for public transit if you are just going a short distance. If it were free, more people would use public transit for these short trips instead
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by spikels 13y ago
The problem is that the overhyped risks of nuclear power have driven the costs way up. For decades almost all effort has gone into increasing safety not reducing costs which utilities have little incentive to control because they are passed
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by spikels 13y ago
Now Sunday's oddly worded press release makes more sense: "The statement that a SINGLE analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect" http://www.dni.gov/index
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Obama Administration Unveils Blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” [2012](whitehouse.gov)
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by spikels 13y ago
NYT columnist Maureen Dowd recently described a supposed political strategy in a recent column: “It’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true, it’s old news.” If you can delay and delay and delay until the outrage disapates you just might be
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by spikels 13y ago
Obama is almost certainly the best spoken US President in 50 years. But when asked a simple, straightforward yes or no question: "But has FISA court turned down any request?" We get this answer: "The — because — the — first o
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Giorgio Moroder vs Daft Punk(dazeddigital.com)
2 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments
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Schneier on Power, the Internet, and Security(econtalk.org)
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Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS(blog.newrelic.com)
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by spikels 13y ago
Phantomjs handles everything you mention (status codes on large numbers of resources, ajax, deferred loading monitoring and HAR output) with the possible exception of websockets - I have not tried and very little documentation today but it
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by spikels 13y ago
Yes - Unless you are parsing static HTML you will need the rest of the browser's functionality which is implemented as a JavaScript engine. You will also need the original content from the website which will be in JavaScript. In theory
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by spikels 13y ago
For scraping phantomjs or casperjs is the best way to go but you will have to use some JavaScript [1]. Both give you access to everything a WebKit browser user does with either a Node-style callback syntax (phantomjs) or a procedural/p
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by spikels 13y ago
Probably this one but there have been a few in the past few years: http://rockridge.patch.com/groups/schools/p/two-attempted-ab...
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by spikels 13y ago
Given all the misleading statements so far when you hear a statement like this: "the statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect" They are basically mean
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by spikels 13y ago
While you have personally are benefitted from SF's rent control laws be aware it has had many perverse effects: - Higher rents for everyone else, less affordability overall - Reduced new constructions (even higher rents, fewer working
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by spikels 13y ago
The Salon article has a strongly biased and is inconsistent with the Wikipedia link. Some facts from the US Census: The US median annual household income is $52,762 for the 2007-2011 period, the latest available [1]. This means half of US h
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by spikels 13y ago
Not a great place for raising a family: expensive, bad schools, disfunctional government, drugs on streets, and lots of crazies[1]. Pretty much everyone I have ever know who had kids in SF moved away within a few years. The demographics alw
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by spikels 13y ago
Why are we only hearing about this now? From the House Judiciary Committee meeting on THURSDAY where Nadler questions FBI Director Mueller: NADLER: You wanted to listen to the phone? MUELLER: Then you have to get a special — a particularize

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