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Two senators are trying to promote the use of open-source textbooks.(theatlantic.com)
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Caffeine consumption slows down brain development (snf.ch)
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Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry(marketwatch.com)
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Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry(marketwatch.com)
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Gamification is the best way to engage consumers say experts(iod.com)
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by clicks 13y ago
I suppose he's gotten slightly better at talking. He seems nervous, but isn't a complete wreck (see interviews from 2 years ago, he has improved a lot since then). As I understand it the markets responded well to Zuck's talk
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by clicks 13y ago
And my assertion wasn't that DOD has made it altogether impossible to create movies that shed America in a bad light, they've just made it really, really difficult. When your competing movie has all kinds of bells and whistles, sh
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by clicks 13y ago
I was made aware of how much propaganda there is in Western movies by a comment here on HN: "The major exception here is the Department of Defense, which has an ‘open’ but barely publicized relationship with Tinsel Town, whereby, in ex
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by clicks 13y ago
Read good books -- the classics will do (I'd say this list is pretty good, until the 75 number: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/449.Must_Read_Classics ). This is a reasonably good list of nonfiction books:
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Your Deadbeat Facebook Friends Could Cost You a Loan(motherjones.com)
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by clicks 13y ago
Those two sentences make perfect sense. People go to Facebook to socialize, to Google to search. This naturally leads to the conclusion of Facebook going with very constricted models of monetization like having intrusive ads, selling your p
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by clicks 13y ago
The casual dismissal of their sincerity is annoying ("don't know if they're telling the truth, or just saying government-friendly things because the governmental people are here right now!"). At least do the due research
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by clicks 13y ago
(Just to be clear, I wasn't knocking on you guys for writing this article -- I enjoyed reading/watching your writing and submission video, thanks!)
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by clicks 13y ago
I wonder how the YC guys feel about the abundance of "how to get accepted to YC" articles. Just as you can prepare for the SAT you can now prepare for the YC tests -- there are a lot of examples of accepted applications, videos, t
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by clicks 13y ago
What was behind China's economic success then? (not snark, genuinely interested in hearing your thoughts) As far as I know Deng did advocate a more open and free policy when it came to the markets, not in very concrete terms but certai
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YouTube Will Enable Offline Viewing On Its Mobile Apps(techcrunch.com)
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by clicks 13y ago
Your snark is unnecessary and very misplaced. This will result in a significant thought paradigm shift in all things health-related, and it's a great thing that a company with as many resources and as high of a profile as Google is l
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Why you should look at Google and not Facebook as a model to stay ahead(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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by clicks 13y ago
> pop media is a wholesome product That could not be further from the truth though, pop media is trash. Would you want your children exposed to the misogynistic, sexist, racist content being pushed by record companies these days? We have
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by clicks 13y ago
> In our economic system, those entities should either (a) progress us towards discovering the real value of those goods to their consumers or (b) be punished by the marketplace. Speaking for a moment only about the everyday man's n
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by clicks 13y ago
> Despite all the music out there, people continue to gravitate towards the big record label stars. Nobody is competing by producing something people like as much as Rihanna, except cheaper. You seem to be under the impression that peopl
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by clicks 13y ago
Why are we presupposing the market economy to be free of human behavior in any case? In practical terms a market economy will always be involved with human behavior... because it's a market where all parties involved are human .
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by clicks 13y ago
Worse than that, what about the casual racism? The truly shocking thing to me is no-one in this thread has yet commented about it. This is frustrating for two reasons: 1) It is so normalized that no-one felt the need to even comment about i
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Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy(torrentfreak.com)
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by clicks 13y ago
You're talking about martyr complex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr_complex I'm pretty sure I went through this in my teenage years, but whether this is a more common problem to the victims of bullying
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by clicks 13y ago
I think they're looking over the social aspect of this. Areas with highest birthrates tend to be the most uneducated ones, and thus you will have a greater amount of people who will more likely make irresponsible decisions for the plan
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by clicks 13y ago
Well to be fair, the scam charity industry is pretty big. My dad actually considers all calls he gets from firemen association, cancer charity foundations, etc. soliciting donations to be scams... and I think that's a good move on his
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by clicks 13y ago
A recurring problem with these articles is how emotionally charged they usually are. Indeed, this very story starts with calling the guy in question a 'dick'. Sure, he's a dick, but at least don't start out like that...
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by clicks 13y ago
But rotational harddrives probably will: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227382/60TB_disk_dri... Disc (yes, optical) media could also perhaps get in 1-6+TB range.
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by clicks 13y ago
Now that the Walton family's wealth equals the bottom 40% of America's population, I wouldn't look down upon people stealing food from Wal-mart to keep alive. http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/steal-this-ar

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