mtowle

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by mtowle 13y ago
We should try to lower this number as much as possible!
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by mtowle 13y ago
>It took me less than a minute to google "social mobility in the US today" (non-leading query) to find the following examples with data (and there are many more from other respectful sources): Non-leading query. Hahahaha. As if
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by mtowle 13y ago
YMail also lets you sign in with GMail. Obv, we're all aware of the Mayer connection, but it's still a curious move. What's Yahoo's play here? "Users." Okay, but what's the play? Cast aside all notions o
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by mtowle 13y ago
>the fact that we should Can't have a factual should. Shoulds are normative. >What is kind of useless is a word that can mean some thing or its opposite Is the word really useless or indeed useful if no one can provide a 're
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by mtowle 13y ago
What do you call predictions whose sum is not predictive?
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by mtowle 13y ago
A noble thought, but given the way TechCrunch, et al. scour the site for something, anything to blow out of proportion, a policy section could be asking for trouble. Nothing worse than bloggers conflating your personal politics with would-b
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by mtowle 13y ago
Only forums on which there is no point in activism, of either sort(1), can survive their own prosperity. Forums are conversational; activism is the antithesis thereof. PG is trying, and you have to tip your hat, if the 4-hours-per-day stori
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by mtowle 13y ago
>BREAKING: In a surprise belated April Fool's joke, Google revives Reader, according to former CEO Eric Schmidt, "just to fuck with everyone who spent money developing a shitty alternative." https://news.ycombin
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by mtowle 13y ago
When writers get on soapboxes, they open themselves up to this category of response. Mere question-asking ("Is there a disparity? If so, why?") on Brad's part would be one thing, but his article is accusatory; he condescends
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by mtowle 13y ago
Ah, and were he not to have done so, are we so sure the NSA bits and pieces would be dominating the headlines, or might those have drifted into the background regardless? Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen.
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by mtowle 13y ago
Litotes
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by mtowle 13y ago
Apparently WaPo's key demo is imbeciles. >You can play around with the graph here, and the trends don’t change substantially if you try “NSA” instead of “National Security Agency” or look at how the whole world is searching rather t
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by mtowle 13y ago
Ohhh I get it. Very clever, Wikileaks! Certain countries, I believe Switzerland is one, require for asylum some proof that your home country/maybe certain other countries can't protect you. This was a show of proof. They knew so
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by mtowle 13y ago
A man after my own heart. Do programming textbooks/tutorials pain you as well?
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by mtowle 13y ago
BREAKING: In a surprise belated April Fool's joke, Google revives Reader, according to former CEO Eric Schmidt, "just to fuck with everyone who spent money developing a shitty alternative."
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by mtowle 13y ago
>Why We Spy on Our Allies (2000) >>your economic patron saint is still Jean Baptiste Colbert, whereas ours is Adam Smith. We Are All Mercantilists Now (2008) http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/09/we_are_a
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by mtowle 13y ago
>I doubt this would be able to shift it. This is cheating on my part, but I agree and disagree. a) Yes, it's unlikely any one event has the necessary inertia to shift a continent's finance capital from one city to another. b) E
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by mtowle 13y ago
Perhaps biased, being something of a Germanophile, but Germany could be the uniquely positioned party here. If the UK loses its continental influence, the willingness of Euro-based business to respect the Pound (in trade, I mean - their acc
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by mtowle 13y ago
>reactionary In certain contexts, that word means 'counter-revolutionary', so be careful when using it to describe WikiLeaks. It's good that you had the presence of mind to include that i.e.! ;)
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by mtowle 13y ago
No I don't. I mean there's no point in extending a protection if you're just going to take it right back. > To clarify... I recommend not doing this again.
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by mtowle 13y ago
Too bad the Royal Wedding already happened. Friday night that weekend would've been perfect.
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by mtowle 13y ago
"Traffic collision"
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by mtowle 13y ago
Literally nobody has ever done that. Try understanding his comment a different way. Like, say, that the human protections against violence preclude humans who chose to act violently, ergo if we extend that protection to animals, many of the
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by mtowle 13y ago
a) Honesty costs money. If somebody wants to tell you something for free, they also want to do something else with/to you. b) Networking events are for networking.
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by mtowle 13y ago
All non-mathematical/non-logical/etc. equivocations are false if you're enough of a dick about it. The dude is trying to make a legitimate point about disc-based vs. cloud-based storage, and there's exactly one player in
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by mtowle 13y ago
>Sometimes being the one guy who does want to do public service makes the difference, because all the other 'good hackers' are more concerned with one solution that will solve all the world's problems (which never happens)
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by mtowle 13y ago
It took me a while to understand your point, I think because I assumed you were challenging my comments. Once I understood, though, I found this to be a very well-positioned anecdote. And having belonged to a Mormon Boy Scout troop, I don&#
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by mtowle 13y ago
Fact: Nobody has ever conspired to do anything, ever.
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by mtowle 13y ago
Lol. It's not like you're going to tell the cogs what the machine is up to. >The one thing about conspiracies I always consider is the number of complicit persons involved. Yeah, this is like the ground level of thought on thes
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by mtowle 13y ago
If you read the Assange-Schmidt transcript, you will recall a section wherein Assange calls it unwise to encrypt your email, presumably because you stick out like a sore thumb. It's like telling anyone monitoring the network, "Hey! Look at

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