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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 318 posts.
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Adieu google
The first thing I searched for in Google, back in 1999, was probably "linux", followed by my name.
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My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight…
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Richard Dawkins: Viruses of the Mind
Center for the Study of Complex Systems at U-M LSA offers interdisciplinary research and education in nonlinear, dynamical, and adaptive systems.
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Eric Raymond on "Hiding the Decline, Part 1"
From the CRU code file osborn-tree6/briffa_sep98_d.pro , used to prepare a graph purported to be of Northern Hemisphere temperatures and reconstructions.
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Challenging the MLS Monopoly
Personal website for Ryan McGreal
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Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds
If you allow players in an online world to penalize each other, you open the door to extortion: One of the features that supported user socialization in the game was the ability to declare that another user was a trusted friend. The feature involved a graphical display that showed the faces of users who had declared…
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Universities and Economic Growth
Value of $120,000 spent at Emerson College: I hired a summer intern, who had finished three years studying film and video production at Emerson College, to work with me on a series of videos for people learning to fly helicopters. He brought his own equipment to the first day of filming, including some "work lights"…
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James Randi: This Cruel Farce Has To Stop
James Randi Educational Foundation
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Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto
We live in a contracting world, with diminishing options to travel far from your home and meet people of unfamiliar backgrounds- if you’re a child.
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Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath
Again, the response to the Gervais Principle II seems to require a response to key themes that have emerged. There are several that I am going to touch upon in…
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Paul Buchheit: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life
"Open" is a great thing. Everyone likes it. Unfortunately, nobody agrees what open is. There are many meanings, but in general, I think "ope...
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Developers: You Are What's Wrong With the iPhone AppStore
instapaper for iphone is $5. I've bought a bunch of games for >$3. It is addicting.
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