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We should try to lower this number as much as possible!

>It took me less than a minute to google "social mobility in the US today" (non-leading query) to find the following examples with data (and there are many more from other respectf…

YMail also lets you sign in with GMail. Obv, we're all aware of the Mayer connection, but it's still a curious move. What's Yahoo's play here? "Users." Okay, but what's the play? C…

>the fact that we should Can't have a factual should. Shoulds are normative. >What is kind of useless is a word that can mean some thing or its opposite Is the word really useless …

What do you call predictions whose sum is not predictive?

A noble thought, but given the way TechCrunch, et al. scour the site for something, anything to blow out of proportion, a policy section could be asking for trouble. Nothing worse …

Only forums on which there is no point in activism, of either sort(1), can survive their own prosperity. Forums are conversational; activism is the antithesis thereof. PG is trying…

>BREAKING: In a surprise belated April Fool's joke, Google revives Reader, according to former CEO Eric Schmidt, "just to fuck with everyone who spent money developing a shitty alt…

When writers get on soapboxes, they open themselves up to this category of response. Mere question-asking ("Is there a disparity? If so, why?") on Brad's part would be one thing, b…

Ah, and were he not to have done so, are we so sure the NSA bits and pieces would be dominating the headlines, or might those have drifted into the background regardless? Wovon man…

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Apparently WaPo's key demo is imbeciles. >You can play around with the graph here, and the trends don’t change substantially if you try “NSA” instead of “National Security Agency” …

Ohhh I get it. Very clever, Wikileaks! Certain countries, I believe Switzerland is one, require for asylum some proof that your home country/maybe certain other countries can't pro…

A man after my own heart. Do programming textbooks/tutorials pain you as well?

BREAKING: In a surprise belated April Fool's joke, Google revives Reader, according to former CEO Eric Schmidt, "just to fuck with everyone who spent money developing a shitty alte…

>Why We Spy on Our Allies (2000) >>your economic patron saint is still Jean Baptiste Colbert, whereas ours is Adam Smith. We Are All Mercantilists Now (2008) http://thelastpsychiat…

>I doubt this would be able to shift it. This is cheating on my part, but I agree and disagree. a) Yes, it's unlikely any one event has the necessary inertia to shift a continent's…

Perhaps biased, being something of a Germanophile, but Germany could be the uniquely positioned party here. If the UK loses its continental influence, the willingness of Euro-based…

>reactionary In certain contexts, that word means 'counter-revolutionary', so be careful when using it to describe WikiLeaks. It's good that you had the presence of mind to include…

No I don't. I mean there's no point in extending a protection if you're just going to take it right back. > To clarify... I recommend not doing this again.

Too bad the Royal Wedding already happened. Friday night that weekend would've been perfect.

"Traffic collision"

Literally nobody has ever done that. Try understanding his comment a different way. Like, say, that the human protections against violence preclude humans who chose to act violentl…

a) Honesty costs money. If somebody wants to tell you something for free, they also want to do something else with/to you. b) Networking events are for networking.

All non-mathematical/non-logical/etc. equivocations are false if you're enough of a dick about it. The dude is trying to make a legitimate point about disc-based vs. cloud-based st…