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by tristanj 10y ago
In their recent SEC filings, Twitter estimates around 5% of the MAUs are spammers or bots. They also estimate they have 317 million MAUs, which when you work it out gives around 16.7 million monthly spammers or bots. Numbers come from their
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by tristanj 10y ago
Judging from other comments, a lot of people did not interpret it as you did. People are asking if this is a 1st amendment violation and if this is censorship.
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by tristanj 10y ago
Title appears to be clickbait. The original AP story [1] says this restriction applies to the agency's social media accounts. It does not say this restriction applies to employee's personal social media accounts, as thehill.com im
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by tristanj 10y ago
There's a followup post that spans 2009-2014 here https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014... . Sadly I don't think there will be a 2017 version. The OkCupid blog has basically been dead e
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by tristanj 10y ago
I don't get this article. The laptop I'm reading this on has a maximum brightness of ~300 lux. Its emission spectra looks something like this [1]. In comparison, indirect sunlight from a clear sunny day is around 10,000-20,000 lux
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by tristanj 10y ago
Then you can answer in a way that doesn't violate §1001(a). Honestly though, I don't think the scheme is smart in the first place because it can put you in trouble if authorities question you. A much better method I have heard is
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by tristanj 10y ago
> tell them your laptop broke while in the airport before boarding the plane, and you are going to buy a new harddisk/get it serviced when you arrive at your final destination It's a felony to make false or deliberately misle
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by tristanj 10y ago
This sounds cool when you are the one doing all the talking, but when the border agent asks a simple question such as, Do you have personal data on this device? and you answer No (when you really do), then you're looking at 5 years i
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by tristanj 10y ago
I'm not sure what's especially revealing about this story. A lot of the content we already knew, except now there's more evidence of it. The marginalrevolution author wrongly suggests that "it has long been assumed that
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by tristanj 10y ago
> isn't "the voice of the white house" the voice of the nation? Hardly. Only two of the ~4000 people who work for the White House are actually elected. A further dozen or so need to be approved by congress. The rest are
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by tristanj 10y ago
This article has a glaring logic flaw. After COLA, Asians and Whites show roughly the same median household income. But among minorities, Asians still have higher median household incomes than their Black and Hispanic counterparts. The auth
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by tristanj 10y ago
Looks like it's a separate issue than the one found last year, where the FAA directed 787s must be powered off before 248 days of uptime to avoid an integer overflow bug. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology&#x
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by tristanj 10y ago
According to this Reuters article [0], the Swedish prosecutor didn't speak with Assange directly. She spoke with an Ecuadorian prosecutor, who (likely) relayed questions to Assange. This leaves open the question if she even spoke to As
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by tristanj 10y ago
Background: This internal memo was shared with the NYTimes and is linked in today's article "Hillary Clinton Blames F.B.I. Director for Election Loss". It's a fairly good post-mortem on how the Clinton campaign believes
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by tristanj 10y ago
I think it did work. The Clinton camp uses internal polls which are much more accurate than public ones. These don't have the 1-2 week lag that the public polls do. The Trump campaign has its own internal polls too. From what I've
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by tristanj 10y ago
I'm not sure why you're clinging to this? The motivations behind the September 11 attacks have been widely discussed, see here for a summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_a... . Yo
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by tristanj 10y ago
The thesis "Bin Laden destroyed the 9/11 towers to bankrupt America" makes very little sense when you dig into it. It would mean Bin Laden planned to: - destroy the twin towers so - the U.S. would justify an invasion of Iraq
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by tristanj 10y ago
No, he only started saying that after the US occupied Iraq. Before the invasion his justification against America had strong religious basis. It's especially clear from his earlier writings. http://www.mideastweb.org/os
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by tristanj 10y ago
Quick clarification, it's not $650 off it's "up to" $650 off based off the Apple laptop's trade in value.
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How Post-Watergate Liberals Killed Their Populist Soul(theatlantic.com)
7 points by tristanj 10y ago|1 comments
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by tristanj 10y ago
It's ok to resubmit stories after some time has passed, but this one was submitted four weeks ago with significant discussion alongside it. I'm totally ok with stories like this being resubmitted after 3-6 months, but one month is
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by tristanj 10y ago
I think you meant dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568250
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by tristanj 10y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12704150
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by tristanj 10y ago
I've been using http://hckrnews.com/ , it's a convenient site that shows every story that hits HN front page. It's a good way to small catch stories and also controversial ones before they get flagged.
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by tristanj 10y ago
Other submissions in the past 24 hrs 1 point https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690752 15 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690531 3 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by tristanj 10y ago
I've had this happen before too. Quite likely the other person searched your name on Facebook and clicked your profile but didn't send a friend request. Facebook thought you two might know each other, hence they suggested a friend
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by tristanj 10y ago
This is ancient news. Apple macbooks have had this form of copy protection since 2008. There are hundreds of anecdotes like the one submitted all over the internet. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/11/apple-b
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by tristanj 10y ago
> Humans have a blind spot because they can operate just fine while having a blind spot. However other organisms don't have a blind spot thus blind spots are not selected for. I'm not quite clear on your point of view, can yo
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by tristanj 10y ago
> I'd love to see any demonstration of a model of an intelligent organism with no sense of reality at all but that still functions properly That is a strawman argument. Hoffman's actual theory is that "under evolution by
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Persuasion tactics fit for a presidential campaign(ft.com)
3 points by tristanj 10y ago|0 comments

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