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Can this algorithm detect serial killers?(bloomberg.com)
2 points by surlyadopter 10y ago|0 comments
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The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Roots of Mycenae(smithsonianmag.com)
80 points by surlyadopter 10y ago|41 comments
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by surlyadopter 10y ago
" In the past month alone, people have casted more than 38 million times from Chrome, watching and listening to more than 50 million hours of content." Apologies for the stupid question, but how exactly does Google know this? Is t
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by surlyadopter 10y ago
Drew Magary beat you to it. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673576-the-postmortal (It's a good read)
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Broken windows, threats, and detention: Is whistleblowing worth it?(retractionwatch.com)
2 points by surlyadopter 10y ago|0 comments
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by surlyadopter 10y ago
It's a game-changer.
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With access to the Amazon API cut off, comparison tool PriceZombie is shut down(reddit.com)
5 points by surlyadopter 11y ago|0 comments
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by surlyadopter 11y ago
"He eventually convinced the owner to leave the braces in place by using an engineer’s most powerful rhetorical device: purposefully indecipherable technical jargon intended to confuse the other party into submission. Khan got his way,
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by surlyadopter 11y ago
Articles like these always remind me of this fantastic essay by James Mickens and his "Mossad/Not Mossad" concept. http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/mickens-usenix/thiswor... "“But Jam
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by surlyadopter 12y ago
Someone has been reading too much Neal Stephenson...
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by surlyadopter 13y ago
I don't want to detract from the incredible skill of the pilot, but the success of this event is also partly due to John Boyd, Pierre Sprey, and the rest of the "Fighter Mafia" who shaped the AF policy that produced the F-15
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by surlyadopter 13y ago
Rope.
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The Truth About the Luxury of Qatar Airways(expressen.se)
3 points by surlyadopter 13y ago|1 comments
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by surlyadopter 13y ago
I find Ardbeg (at least the Uigeadail) to be far smokier than Laphroig. The Lagavulin as well. To me the Talisker is quite bland, the sherry flavor really drowned out any peatiness.
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by surlyadopter 13y ago
At a certain point I suppose taste is subjective, but Laphroig is definitely not the smokiest or peatiest of the Islay malts.
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by surlyadopter 13y ago
The viral reservoir of the Berlin patient has been examined and it is competent for X4 tropism. The fact that the virus has not re-infected cells (via the CXCR4 receptor) is some combination of factors/luck that we do not understand fu
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How Crowdfunding Will Change The World, Part 4: Entrepreneurship(tuckermax.me)
1 points by surlyadopter 13y ago|0 comments
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The Most Surprising Things About America, According To An Indian Student(businessinsider.com)
8 points by surlyadopter 13y ago|4 comments
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by surlyadopter 13y ago
The purfuit of happineff?
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by surlyadopter 14y ago
Narcissists don't feel guilt, only shame From TLP: "But I want to change, I want to get better." Narcissism says: I, me. Never you, them. No one ever asks me, ever, "I think I'm a narcissist, and I'm worried I'm hurting my family." No one
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Crowdfunding the next generation of Israeli startups(ourcrowd.com)
1 points by surlyadopter 14y ago|0 comments
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A False Sense of Entitlement(kernelmag.com)
1 points by surlyadopter 14y ago|0 comments
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by surlyadopter 15y ago
Yup.
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by surlyadopter 15y ago
This is perfect for me because the large institution where I work blocks dropbox. Now if you could write an app that retrieves dropbox files via email... (or I could just remember to make sure my usb drive has the files mirrored, effort++)
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Down with the Research Works Act(pipeline.corante.com)
6 points by surlyadopter 15y ago|1 comments
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by surlyadopter 15y ago
The absolute worst is when before a commercial break they "tease" the result of the experiment, by showing the results!
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by surlyadopter 15y ago
For a few years, the thing that bugged me the most about the show was the editing. It was being cut and presented like the target demo was a bunch of hyperactive 8 year olds who couldn't be trusted to remember what happened on screen 3 minu
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by surlyadopter 15y ago
Just yesterday Kari (one of the Mythbusters) posted pictures on twitter of her standing next to the cannon. They appear to have been removed now though. This isn't the first time one of their tests has accidentally damaged property, there w
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by surlyadopter 15y ago
That's Hedley.
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by surlyadopter 15y ago
This was originally from the Something Awful forums. Lots more videos and info here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=343...

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