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by trendia 10y ago
For anyone who thinks the leaks did not contain anything, here are the 50 most damaging Wikileaks: http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
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by trendia 10y ago
This is a bit higher-level than what you're proposing, but a good introduction is the "C++ in the Audio Industry" talk [0] given at CppCon 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boPEO2auJj4
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by trendia 10y ago
The US dollar is now worth more than Microsoft.
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by trendia 10y ago
"Nobody gets credit for fixing problems that didn't happen." [0] [0] http://www.agsm.edu.au/bobm/teaching/SimSS/Shayne/RepenningS...
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by trendia 10y ago
First step is to blame it for the world's problems. Next is to remove the ability to use or store cash. Finally, charge to save with negative interest rates. And if negative interest rates don't spur growth, it's because they
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by trendia 10y ago
Although you mention a hierarchy of benefits, the criteria to move up or down is not currently dependent on your political views or opinion. For instance, global entry is dependent on being a member of The Democratic or Republican Party, an
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by trendia 10y ago
The news reported it nearly two weeks after it happened, when reports were already saturating social media and word of mouth.
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by trendia 10y ago
Are you referring to the healthy free press that intentionally suppressed information about mass sexual assault on NYE 2016?
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by trendia 10y ago
Not only is antibacterial soap a scam (you don't need it), it also causes antibiotic resistance.
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by trendia 10y ago
To be honest, studying for 8 months isn't so bad. A lot of us studied for 4 years (to get a degree).
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by trendia 10y ago
Woudln't this reduce incentives to save among low income individuals?
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by trendia 10y ago
> Immigration and how the government can help tech with things like H-1B visas to keep and bring in more talent. Nadella pointed out that much of the company’s spending on research and development was in the U.S., even if 50 percent of t
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by trendia 10y ago
No it's not. It's a [my political enemy] regurgitation outlet. See: Hostile Media Effect [0], a perceptual theory of mass communication that refers to the tendency for individuals with a strong preexisting attitude on an issue to
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by trendia 10y ago
Not really. Suppose 1 / 100 people die at a good hospital and 3 / 100 die at a bad hospital. If you go to a bad hospital, you're 3x more likely to die. But if you go to a good hospital, you're 99 / 97 or roughly 2%
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by trendia 10y ago
I'm not sure that people are getting 'used' to it. I was talking to a non-techie over the weekend, and although they were aware about Snowden's NSA revelations, they were quite perturbed to think someone could be reading
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by trendia 10y ago
I always hear that businessmen would do a poor job with the country's budget, but the politicians don't seem to be doing a fine job, either.
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by trendia 10y ago
I thought this episode was rather funny, because they found that a right wing fake news site was actually run by a liberal who wanted to prove there was right wing fake news (and that it would be shared on social media, which they ensured b
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by trendia 10y ago
The lack of VC funding might change the incentives for startups for the better. Rather than build a startup to raise funding, they might build a startup to sell products.
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by trendia 10y ago
Yes. There was a strong stigma attached to voting for Trump, which made people to falsely claim they were undecided or voting 3rd party. Andrew Gelman (who wrote the textbook on Bayesian Data Analysis) says: > Yes, the polls were wrong,
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by trendia 10y ago
An even better plugin would block Facebook altogether.
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by trendia 10y ago
This is especially interesting, since coffee is moderately protective for Parkinson's. Does that mean the coffee may be working at the gut level rather than its caffeine working in the brain? On second thought, coffee definitely works
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by trendia 10y ago
If it's ketones, then it would be easy to train a dog to detect it.
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by trendia 10y ago
McCarythism in the digital age.
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by trendia 10y ago
> That was just some noise of literally zero importance to aything whatsoever, perpetuated because the party that lost last elections wasn't too happy about that fact. That seems eerily similar to what happened in the US.
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by trendia 10y ago
Yes. At the NYT: "By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan
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by trendia 10y ago
ronpaulinstitute.org is listed as fake news? How did they determine what was fake or not?
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by trendia 10y ago
The problem is: How do you handle cases where data appears to be encrypted but it isn't? Or, the data is encrypted but the suspect has forgotten the password?
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by trendia 10y ago
How do we know that this article isn't Russian propaganda? I just prefer to go full solipsism.
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by trendia 10y ago
If California secedes, it will no longer be in the US' best interest to give them water for free. Who knows what the price will be!
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by trendia 10y ago
And the main reason they don't consider it currency is to impose a tax that discourages its use. Without capital gains, if Bitcoin had ~0% inflation and the US got back up to 5%-10% inflation, then Bitcoin would become a better store o

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