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If you want to make a difference, quit trying to cash out as a 25 year old millionaire. Get a PhD and do research. That's the real risk in life, that you might work your ass off fo…

> I think the idea is that instead of using the current journal system...professors will post straight to Academia and bypass publishers altogether This might work in fields where …

The cost of hosting someone for a year is pretty high. If you become a yacht salesman, are you expected to sell one on the first day? Are you a failure because someone else sold a …

It's important to point out that he wasn't arrested merely because he posted a message on Facebook. That was just a tip that lead to concrete evidence of the crime, namely his dama…

Do you have an email address?

Depends on the filter list. EasyPrivacy is designed to block trackers, and if you look at the list https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt you'll see that Demand…

G+ has 135 million "stream active" users. Those are people who really meant to go to plus.google.com, not click something in Gmail.

It certainly isn't trademarked. :)

One way to look at is that there were only about 6 states that could go either way, so he picked 6/6.

I saw one that said, "I would have voted for Obama if he had accepted my Farmville request", and it ticked up for Obama.

It may be different for different cohorts, but for my social circle, SMS is the de facto communication medium. I deleted my Facebook account over a year ago and still keep up with …

Reminds me of the Mac Mini colocation, but more extreme. Just want to throw in that I have a KVM with Edis and they are a solid hosting company in that price range.

No, I had several options on the page linked by OP. When I went to the locationmanagement.vzw.com page, it says, "There are no services available. A location service must be downlo…

> Simply choose multiple choice questions and stack the answers in the right order (people usually click in certain pattern when doing it at "random"). Ideally, you could randomize…

It should be noted that Mike Elgan is a prolific user and advocate of G+ with a big following. https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts

That last point is interesting. There's already a burgeoning industry for companies that protect privacy, keep you off Zaba Search-type sites, etc. There are a few "reputation mana…

I'm guessing it's because a culture and expectation of using real names had already been established on Facebook by the time the masses arrived, while privacy-conscious techies wer…

I think judges have more to fear than prison guards.

I going to guess that referring to inmates by numbers would be widely criticized as inhumane by many human rights groups. It would be an uphill battle to keep something like that g…

"This is my eye, captured by a mini TV camera mounted inside the machine. This camera isn't a normal fixture but was installed by the TV production company filming the experiment f…

They have much better granularity than simple domain blacklisting. Take a look at a filter list. https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt

It seems to me that things like "intuition" and "instinct" are just subconscious algorithms that you can't articulate (example instinct: I pull my hand away from a fire; I can't te…

Proper care of the elderly is another problem that society should address without racking up insane health care costs just so a little old lady has someone to chit chat with. There…

Linux from Scratch. Build it for the ones you love.

You know what's interesting? The immediate follow up to that first message, by Richard Chimera, mentions Randy Pausch. Does anybody remember him? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5…