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by xefer 15y ago
From "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72", p. 247: The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent's life-long habit of enjoying carnal k
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by xefer 15y ago
I first heard it from Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72", so I would take it with a grain of salt... (and it was a pig not a donkey.)
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by xefer 15y ago
Disqus creeps me out anyway. I don't like any site that tracks you where ever you go.
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Well that's more or less what tese things are. Instead of investing in a startup, your effectively betting that a group of money managers will hit pay-dirt with a unique investment strategy. For te most part only people with so much money
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by xefer 15y ago
That's what the name "hedge" originally meant but for the most part they are pure investment vehicles now.
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'"Discipulus tuus hunc tractatum non scripsit." Loosely translated to: “No taxation without representation.”' It actually means: "Your student did not write this essay"
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Do you really care if people actually see they ad - or do you really only care that the provider thinks people see the ad? In other words, would it be okay if the ad blocker was set up to download the ad but simply not show it? Where ar
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by xefer 15y ago
If nothing else, this story ought to trigger a small bump in te price of a bit coin. The price seems to be directly collated to the amount of press it gets.
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How much to the underwriting banks stand to make out of taking this public? Does it matter to them at all if the price falls?
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The grotesque experiment on the dog by Hooke described in the book is outlined here: http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/23-32/539 The Royal Society had open up their complete archives a few years ago for a period and I fishe
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by xefer 15y ago
I will be shorting this stock
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Razors and blades. They'd give them away if they had guarantees people would purchase enough stuff through them.
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I found That editing my Reddit subscriptions to remove the front page and anything to do with politics or religion makes it much more tolerable.
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This is what got him kicked out of Yale: http://abahlali.org/files/Graeber.pdf :)
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Vaclav Smil worked out the specific numbers and they can be found here: http://www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii/bgc/Smil_SciAm_N2cycle.pdf The tipping point was around 1915 when the world had slightly less than 2 billion people, with the introd
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by xefer 15y ago
Gruber is part of an interesting phenomenon that has emerged over the past few years: supporting companies (and reviling their 'opponents') with the same passion that people normally reserve for sports teams.
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The amount of calories we burn does not contribute to the net carbon excess per se; after all, we're part of the natural carbon cycle. The number that matters is the amount of energy used to acquire the calories we do consume. The carbon
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No
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I'm reminded of this: "Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who had served on the bench into the nineteen-thirties, had in his long lifetime shaken hands with John Quincy Adams and also our new incumbent, John F. Kennedy." "Old
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I'd say it's closer to the Hindenburg moment. These services are great as long as it's part of a small, insular community of like-minded people. Once the criminal element sees it for the opportunity it is, it's over. There's an obvious ana
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by xefer 15y ago
A more apt comparison would be to the U.S. reaction to the Oklahoma City bombing.
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I don't care what Anonymous "targets". Frankly, I don't care about Anonymous at all.
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I wish these quests for prior art didn't always happen after the damage was done. The Patent Office itself should crowd-source the software community looking for prior art before a patent is issued in the first place.
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Most public libraries have relationships with JSTOR that allow members to access the articles online. I use the Boston Public Library and look up articles via Google Scholar. All free.
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Anybody with a library card to a major public library can get this stuff for free over the web.
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