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by neworbit 1mo ago
The US has surveilled political factions that they've considered potentially subversive or corrupt machine politics - right and left wing - for ages. RICO prosecutions against politically motivated corruption are long overdue, and shou
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by neworbit 1y ago
Nikki Krishnamurthy - the center of this scandal - came there from Washington Mutual, one of the most famous implosions from the 2008 Big Crash along with Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers. How she's employable at all is beyond me.
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by neworbit 3y ago
When the Chinese banned opium the British went to war to reopen that market because it was so profitable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars It seems like many drugs are banned in various societies today, so I don
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by neworbit 4y ago
The abstract would seem to suggest methamphetamine is one correlation; you might also reasonably suggest toxoplasmosis and I have heard a naturopath suggest that it can be treated nutritionally(!) I'm certain there's other valid e
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by neworbit 4y ago
Bret Devereaux's writing is often cited here for his writing about warfare, logistics, and the like. But he occasionally writes also about his own profession and the difficulties in getting there, c.f. https://acoup.blog&#x2
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by neworbit 4y ago
I'm reminded of "Red Dwarf" How many of us saw this and thought "anti-drone lasers can't come soon enough"?
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by neworbit 5y ago
Would anyone be interested in organizing a class action lawsuit against Ross Teixeira and Princeton?
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by neworbit 5y ago
They bought it for data gathering and market/competitor research. I was with Amazon at the time. Was great for keeping track of what products were drawing most traction on eBay (Longaberger baskets and Beanie babies, says my vague memo
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by neworbit 5y ago
That's Mike Daisey, he did a tour called "Doing Time At Amazon.com"
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by neworbit 6y ago
Not generally, but maybe as "Borat In The Wild West"
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3D-printed noise cancelling structures(sciencedaily.com)
8 points by neworbit 8y ago|1 comments
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by neworbit 8y ago
Your username suggests an option, but I shall hope you are focused on solar at the moment
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by neworbit 9y ago
That doesn't seem to be the case per NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...
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Promising cell senescence treatment(jacksbrain.com)
2 points by neworbit 9y ago|0 comments
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by neworbit 12y ago
As a man who is safely out of the closet for quite a while now, has seen the scourge of AIDS amongst my circles of friends, and has spent a great deal of time effort and money educating and promoting safer sex... this is disheartening. And
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by neworbit 12y ago
I'm somewhat astounded to hear they have 972 employees. I would have guesstimated somewhere below 200. Even with a huge marketing push, I'm a little at a loss for what they all do.
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by neworbit 13y ago
I'm so glad I live in Palo Alto
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by neworbit 14y ago
I pay more like $200 a month for a significantly more expensive car in Palo Alto. I have a clean driving record and a mainstream insurance policy. You should get competitive bids!
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by neworbit 14y ago
I dunno, I think a lot of us love LISP :)
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by neworbit 14y ago
Walmart has circa 2.1M employees, but they are the only exception that comes to mind
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by neworbit 14y ago
Surely you don't mean "ever been"? I don't know how long it took them to get to ten million players in the first place but I'm imagining it wasn't on day one :) And semantic point aside, ten million users is still mighty impressive!
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by neworbit 15y ago
As I write this it's circa $7000 from goal and I'm tempted to put it over myself. I loved that game back in the day, and it's being produced by the same guys who made the original. I am very impressed with the prospect of how much Kickstart
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by neworbit 15y ago
People are fussing because the guys are homeless. If the mobile hotspot-wearers had been the usual crowd of imported booth babes, no one would have blinked an eye.
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by neworbit 15y ago
For better or worse, you're likely to get better results to your work requests by putting these same devices in chosen offshore locations; you're arbitraging median-skill median-lifestyle foreigners in lower cost of living areas versus lowe
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by neworbit 15y ago
I don't think I have as much screen real estate as this was designed for, and I don't tend to browse in full-screen mode. You should consider letting people use scrollbars. I can't even read the entire splash message.
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by neworbit 15y ago
I am definitely going to write a "THEY LIVE" plugin
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by neworbit 15y ago
This is the most irritating design I've seen in a while. Please link to something descriptive, not a deliberately text-blurred/obfuscated page that requires you to select between various languages that I don't actually want to use. As an as
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by neworbit 15y ago
There's a period of time which is beneficial. It's not about being secretive, it's about putting your head down and getting things done without interruption. Five years is (in virtually any case) way longer than that should be. But three mo
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by neworbit 15y ago
Maybe I'm a grumpy old codger these days, but it seems like the thesis is "increased incarceration has lowered the crime rate outside of prisons, however inmate-on-inmate violence is appalling, therefore we should reduce incarceration". My
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Teachstreet Acq-hired: Killed by Panda(seattletimes.nwsource.com)
4 points by neworbit 15y ago|0 comments

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