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Were you swimming with a band that uses a magnetic clasp?

That crossed my mind, but it'd mean they'd be willing to lock out large networks behind a NAT. I was wondering if there's something more sophisticated available.

A few weeks ago I was looking up public profiles on LinkedIn and I noticed what I interpreted to be some network-side fingerprinting of some kind. The first couple profiles came up…

This is the best answer to that, that I've seen: https://twitter.com/corbettmatt/status/891003236412469248

The point of anti-trust laws is not to punish success, but to police against an entity using their dominant position in one market to take over a different market.

The exploited are being tricked into believing that there's intangible value in spending their life's work on something that they believe in and are passionate about, right? It's o…

Yes, and being passionate about your work — such as wanting to work with new developments in your chosen field or changing jobs for an opportunity where you'll be better able to ap…

I'm reminded of the Netflix slide deck that was making the rounds, last year. Adjusting pay, yearly, based on the market value of the employee seems like an ideal solution to this …

Is this someone's slide deck as article? Beginning with what symbols aren't — not logos, not emoji, not cymbals, har har — seems more suited for a cheesy in-person ice breaker.

Since when does science require public belief to sustain itself?

Not if you were born recently.

Maybe artificially grouping trends by an arbitrary ten year period is what's weird?

I just noticed that Duolingo also released Hiragana and Katakana stacks via their spaced repetition flashcard app, TinyCards.

I liked this bundle: https://appsto.re/us/u8wS2.i

Nope -- American.

My experience using Apple Pay with a checking account's debit card at Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's is that it only saves having to swipe/insert the physical card. I'm still …

He's talking about having to enter the PIN for his debit card into the POS keypad.

I've witnessed this phenomenon multiple times. 1. Person buys or is gifted a Fitbit because it's inexpensive 2. Person retrains themselves to wear something on their wrist 3. Perso…

Would you mind going into some of the specifics of the diet and how you were impaired during your recovering?

It should fit in nicely with "hispanic" which runs the gamut from white to black.

Nah, Comcast screws up my billing regularly, too.

It sounds like you weren't sufficiently brown to get media attention? "Public school bureaucracy run by bureaucrats" doesn't have the right mass appeal.

This one? http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

Moonies is not the preferred nomenclature — Mooninites, please.

It's kind of a bummer that the new keyboard ($100) doesn't have a backlight while still keeping the eject button.