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Google update on China
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Homoglyph attacks: How to create an internet hoax
For decades, social psychologists have understood that the link between attitudes and conduct is convoluted, if not weak. Both online and offline, this is
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Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself"
I received a review copy of Steven Levy's seminal book Hackers back in the 1980s, but never read it. I did, though, keep it, because it lo...
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Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an open Internet
Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and com...
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Women in tech - Stop talking, start coding
I read Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley in the NYTimes today, which explores how and why women are under-repesented in tech startups. From the number of retweets I saw and the clicks through bit.l…
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Ageism is becoming an issue for me
By ageism, I mean people saying that my age makes me less intelligent, informed, clued, aware, whatever. It's never rational, not part of an intelligent discussion. I can't probe the people to find out what they mean. I assume they're expressing some frustration and projecting it on me.
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Boys Rules, Girls Lose - Women at Work
My two daughters are now in college and have put their toes in the working-world with summer jobs. As they’ve grown older, they’ve heard their parent’s advice about women in the workforce. Th…
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Microsoft responds to NYT story on suppressing dissent in Russia
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Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
I’m not arguing that it benefits anyone other than Apple itself. I’m just arguing that it makes sense from Apple’s perspective — and it was Apple’s decision to make.
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Why do Harvard kids head to Wall Street?
By James Kwak That’s the title of a post a couple weeks ago by Ezra Klein, in which he interviewed a friend of his who went to Wall Street after Harvard. Having seen this phenomenon from a co…
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Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers
Essays by Thomas Petersen
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Did somebody just try to buy the British government?
Hansard is the official printed transcript of the proceedings of the houses of parliament — in other words, the working log of the British government.
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Steve Jobs, circa 2020: "Thoughts on country roads"
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Let's just say it: 3D TV is a joke.
(At Panasonic's IFA booth: People using 3D glasses and monitors to watch the live women in front of their faces.) If you determine the big story here at the IFA tech show here in Berlin based on raw square footage in the booths, there's no question what it is: 3D TV is everywhere. The massive boot
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Google's mismanagement of the Android Market
Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google’s response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users’ permission to access sensitive information”. While this is technically true, one should not need a PhD in Computer Science to use a smartphone…
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