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Rampant cheating hurts China's research ambitions(news.yahoo.com)
24 points by theoneill 17y ago|2 comments
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by theoneill 17y ago
So what percentage of the variance do they account for?
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by theoneill 17y ago
Tactlessness ≠ balls.
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by theoneill 17y ago
An instance of additive identity.
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by theoneill 17y ago
"How can anyone really judge the value of an article in under 10 seconds without reading any of it? The obvious answer, they can’t." I was curious about this so I clicked on the link. The actual answer is that you can tell a lot about a si
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Amino Acid Recipe Could be Life-Extending(usnews.com)
1 points by theoneill 17y ago|0 comments
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A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity (nytimes.com)
32 points by theoneill 17y ago|11 comments
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by theoneill 17y ago
The 37signals guys like it when they're angry. It causes them to write blog posts that get them lots of attention.
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by theoneill 17y ago
http://www.out-law.com/page-10510
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by theoneill 17y ago
Einstein was a great physicist. But try this test: if you saw this posted, without attribution, as a comment on Reddit about an article on Veterans' Day, would it seem out of place? (Except for the Edwardian idiom, obviously.)
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Fast Food Is Why You’re Fat(good.is)
7 points by theoneill 17y ago|19 comments
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by theoneill 17y ago
I believe the word you want is "yonic."
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by theoneill 17y ago
"Look, my house of card, you Cretans let it collapse" It sounds like you're talking about Knossos.
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by theoneill 17y ago
That particular list, yes.
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by theoneill 17y ago
But (a) that would then be a different list, the 100 best bargains, not the 100 best universities, and (b) if you really want to measure what it costs, you have to factor in European taxes, since you have to pay more unless you are an EU re
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by theoneill 17y ago
http://apple.com (Steve was medium-technical, back in the day, though IIRC he never designed any of Apple's hardware or wrote any of their software.)
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by theoneill 17y ago
That would actually be higher caliber.
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Cash for Clunkers Fails to Help Economy or Environment(online.wsj.com)
2 points by theoneill 17y ago|2 comments
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Microsoft Bing Loses Search Share(informationweek.com)
25 points by theoneill 17y ago|5 comments
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by theoneill 17y ago
It would probably be better. It wouldn't hurt any of our egos, because only a few people would be able to program well, just as, despite near universal literacy, only a few people can write well. But people would at least give us precise
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by theoneill 17y ago
When I try that thought experiment, this is what happens: 1. The mother of all PR/lobbying campaigns successfully preserves US support. Especially since it would already be underway before the attack. 2. Nothing changes, except there's now
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by theoneill 17y ago
But you can be root.
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by theoneill 17y ago
Not likely. Note the following rather more informed subthread further down the page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=753825
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by theoneill 17y ago
Oh dear.
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by theoneill 17y ago
The most surprising sentence: "Mr Kumar is guarded around the clock by three policemen carrying AK-47 rifles."
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by theoneill 17y ago
Somebody tell me it was the VCs Happy to oblige: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719049
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by theoneill 17y ago
Doesn't seem to in Europe.
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by theoneill 17y ago
It's not The Register that has an obsession with TechCrunch, but this particular writer.
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by theoneill 17y ago
Misleading comparisons + empty truisms, rendered in Jakob Nielsen's sales-letter page style. The combination makes my head spin.
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Swap Spreads Essentially Back to Normal(seekingalpha.com)
3 points by theoneill 17y ago|0 comments

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