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by xefer 11y ago
My wife and I brought my son to a rock band camp in the Boston area. My son loved it and maybe helped encourage him to still be an amateur musician all these years later. At the same time it felt very weird to be seeing rock-n'-roll p
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by xefer 11y ago
I always knew this day would eventually come. It's kind of sad. I had created this years ago to display Twitter data using Pipes, YQL and Google Charts. I haven't had to touch it in years but it's always just quietly worked,
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by xefer 11y ago
The reminds me of the dryly satiric, darkly comic Magnus Mills novel "The Scheme for Full Employment"[1]. It concerns "UniVan" drivers delivering loads to different UniVan depots around the country. It eventually become
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by xefer 11y ago
I understand that everyone has their own needs and desires. But personally, if I found the need to appeal to some product like this, I'd view it as an indication of a problem rather than a solution to one.
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by xefer 11y ago
Meiosis http://rhetoric.byu.edu/figures/M/meiosis.htm
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Bar graphs criticized for misrepresenting data(nature.com)
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by xefer 12y ago
At Petsi Pies[1] in Cambridge, MA if you can recite 314 digits of pi you get a free large pie (the contest started at 9:26AM) [1] http://petsipies.com
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by xefer 12y ago
I'm always amused that every bitcoin story seems to include a stock photo of a shiny physical coin with a big "B" on it.
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by xefer 12y ago
I'm curious: what is considered "London" in this context? Wikipedia breaks down the demographics into Inner, Outer and Greater London. In each case the population has been growing rapidly, so who exactly is moving in and who
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by xefer 12y ago
Well, I'm still waiting for the fellowship of LSD-fueled Übermenschen to emerge. Until then I'll just try to eat well, exercise more and get enough sleep. That seems to be the key for most elite developers I've encountered.
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by xefer 12y ago
I've always wondered if the average human lifespan is somehow implicitly factored into interest rates. If people lived to 1000+ years old, a small investment made early in life could potentially balloon into incredible wealth given ev
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by xefer 12y ago
Yes. This was the only German land operation on the North American continent during WWII
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by xefer 12y ago
One of my favorite, end-of-WWII stories is that of Operation Zitronella [1]. Several German troops stationed at a weather station on Spitsbergen weren't able to formally surrender until they were picked up by Norwegians in September 19
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by xefer 12y ago
People were saying similar things about USA Today when it debuted in 1982. They were castigated for simplifying the news, relying on bullet points, etc.; but from the perspective of 2014 it looks like they were well ahead of their time (for
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by xefer 12y ago
She had written an account of the onset of her illness in The New Yorker back in 2003. [1] Full text. [2] I had never heard of her before but found it one of the stranger, more haunting pieces I'd read. If you enjoy OPs piece you may a
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by xefer 12y ago
In an awesome paper [1] published in 2007, it was shown that irregular English verbs have been dying out (i.e., "regularized") at an incredibly precise and measurable rate. The paper shows "how the rate of regularization depe
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by xefer 12y ago
"After the verdict, Neij moved to Laos" Strange timing. He was just arrested: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pirate-bays-fredrik-neij-caught-tha...
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by xefer 12y ago
Yes, but Kesey himself hints that damage that was done in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Egz_ex3d_s (~6:00)
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by xefer 12y ago
Everything in moderation. Ken Kesey wrote two of my favorite books "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) and "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964), but basically produced nothing of much merit after that. I'm co
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by xefer 12y ago
The point is, by installing an ad blocker, the ads that do get through are ultimately seen by those to whom they are move effective. Ad servers get a somewhat smaller but receptive audience.
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by xefer 12y ago
I honestly feel that blocking ads is a win for both the audience and those serving the ads. I don't mean this to sound insulting but if you're not (let's say) "wise" enough to block ads, then you're exactly the
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by xefer 12y ago
If I read the abstract and introduction correctly, it doesn't say that black holes per se don't exist, only that they can't form as the result of a collapsing star or supernova. The linked-to article seems to be jumping to co
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by xefer 12y ago
Interesting info, but I feel like these studies serve to reenforce the contemporary attitudes of certain foods being "magical" and food as "medicine".
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by xefer 12y ago
It will be interesting to see @gruber's behavior with regards to the watch. He seems more or less condemned to buy and wear one all the time given who he is. Will he find it actually useful or more of a pain? I could see an over&#x2
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by xefer 12y ago
Balzac's galley proofs seem like a testament to a life of dedicated heavy coffee drinking: http://www.themorgan.org/collections/collections.asp?id=365
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I remember this article when if first came out. Of all the weirdness outlined, one item, which wasn't even part of the main story and added as a bit of color detail, stated: "Sullivan first worked with Singer in the early Ninetie
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by xefer 12y ago
This immediately brought to mind: "The Man Who Planted Trees" the book which was adapted into an animated film that won the Acadamy Award for Best Animated Short Film and Short Film Palme d'Or in 1987 https://www.y
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by xefer 12y ago
This is interesting because I actually have the exact opposite setup. I only wanted to see the news feed, not anything on either side. I added these custom filters to AdBlock+: ##*#leftCol ##*#rightCol And it's just want I
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by xefer 13y ago
What am I missing...? The top bracket is still perfect, currently 30/30 and their pick is leading in the other two games
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by xefer 13y ago
All the stories seem to be quoting the same source, which seems a bit shaky. "Satellite data suggests that the last “ping” was recieved from the flight somwhere close to the Maldives and the US naval base on Diego Garcia." Where i

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