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by suprgeek 11y ago
This is the digital equivalent of America's beer laws - you cannot drink till you are 21; but hey you can vote, get married, join the army (and drive a tank or handle nukes presumably) but NO DRINKING! Every single American college per
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The Seventy-Seven-Year-Old Tech Bro Who Wants to Fix Your Hearing(newyorker.com)
1 points by suprgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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Meet the Comical Opah, the Only Truly Warm-Blooded Fish(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by suprgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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Did judge who ruled NSA phone dragnet illegal call Snowden a whistleblower?(arstechnica.com)
6 points by suprgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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So, the NSA Has an Actual Skynet Program(wired.com)
1 points by suprgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Inhabited alien city? Unimaginable changes Empty city (for some definition of empty - we may never know) Not that much in the short run
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Sen. Wyden to filibuster NSA spying authority in sec 215(arstechnica.com)
8 points by suprgeek 11y ago|2 comments
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by suprgeek 11y ago
This is a perfect example of setting up a small community open source project that helps. Dump a lot of the info on github/etc (since it is public info) Ask people's help with OCR & Digitization (as needed) Get the community i
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Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
257 points by suprgeek 11y ago|151 comments
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Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, a Very Fast NoSQL Database for the Enterprise(techcrunch.com)
4 points by suprgeek 11y ago|1 comments
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by suprgeek 11y ago
"arse technica" - Nice one!
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by suprgeek 11y ago
From their FAQ: Is Even a lender? No, Even is not a lender and Even does not provide loans. yet the Article claims that: "....On bad weeks, when users fall short, they still get their salary, thanks to past surpluses or to interest-fr
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Mods - please merge the two posts currently top trending on the front page on an identical topic with the one that makes sense
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Politically connected & Rich people do not go to Jail for White-collar crimes. Think about the revolving door between Wall street and the Obama/Bush/Clinton administrations. Would you put your "buddy" in Jail if it m
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New Blood Test Shows Promise in Cancer Fight(nytimes.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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HTTP/2 is much faster than SPDY thanks to dependency-based prioritization(blog.kazuhooku.com)
3 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Great so this is the way a good product becomes AWFUL. - Classic maps is great on all devices New Maps sucks when there is a lower power CPU? Slow and laggy - Why is there a Honking big Search box Hiding my map - AutoZoom that randomly deci
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by suprgeek 12y ago
A very important detail - these are survey studies: "Of course, these studies relied on people’s shaky recall of exercise habits and were not randomized experiments, so can’t prove that any exercise dose caused changes in mortality ris
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Can Amazon Make Machine Learning More Accessible?(datanami.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Shorter Stature May Pose Higher Risk of Heart Disease(nytimes.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Elastic File System(aws.amazon.com)
471 points by suprgeek 12y ago|213 comments
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Machine Learning at American Express: Benefits and Requirements(mapr.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Mark Russinovich:An open source Windows is 'definitely possible'(bizjournals.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
I wonder if this will result in a blanket requirement that getting ANY GPS data for an American Person would require a warrant. The significance is that this pertains to a "GPS Tracer/Tracker" being "attached". How
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Good! (Even though the article is as close as it gets to a fluff piece. No solid data beyond a couple of stories) There has been Zero meaningful change after Snowden's leaks. This means essentially that that NSA routinely spies on all
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Why India's Flipkart abandoned its mobile website(zdnet.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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To avoid NSA, Cisco gear gets delivered to strange addresses(networkworld.com)
3 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Location data embedded in Instagram pics betrays Congressman Schock(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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These are the silly URLs the NSA uses for cyber espionage(theverge.com)
6 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Tinder Users at SXSW Are Falling for This “AI Woman”(adweek.com)
4 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments

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