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Post is a total fail at semantics, because the following two statements differ in meaning. "All x is not y" "Not all x is y".

..reminds me of https://xkcd.com/927/

Tom Wheeler for president

>> The tank filled with hydraulic fluid that powered the fins enabling them to rotate and steer, ran out of fluid before landing. Nit, but this is the most difficult sentence I've …

Guys aren't really hitting it on the head. It's about the level of behavior that companies release analysis on. See, there's another company that occasionally releases interesting …

>>CryptoLog: The reason is simple: I took along some interesting reading material and ignored the speakers. That technique served to advantage again for three more snoozers, Thursd…

This was really touching. Not only a physicist, but a poet as well.

We're all missing the most important point here: >> Bike helmets discourage cycling. Yes! We should require all CAR drivers to wear helmets. Imagine how less likely drivers are to …

lol @ 5k a year depreciation, 3.5k maintenance, and 3.6k parking, i.e. the majority of this analysis. In conclusion, paying someone to take you in their Toyota Prius is less expens…

You must have missed the main point of this essay, so I'll reiterate here. "take a deep breath, count to ten"

This is why no one wants to work at [Your Stupid Hedge Fund Here]. A while ago there was an article about how Wall Street was bemoaning the difficulty of recruiting top talent from…

Yes, exactly this. If they lose, then there's going to be precedent for when the stakes are high. And I can't see how they can totally escape culpability, since they can't even tur…

>> Suing a revenge porn site. Fair, next. Oh wait there's more. From https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en >> Tor aims to provide protection for ordinary people who wan…

>>But the people that had to carry out the scheduled work took a while to get used to the idea, as they didn't like not knowing why they were doing certain things. There's some rea…

>>"I am told that the courts are trying to make a distinction between mathematical algorithms and nonmathematical algorithms." As Knuth implies, this is a fool's errand, and this i…

>>Is this right or wrong? Only if rent-seeking is right or wrong. The patent system is working exactly as it should be. This is a fatal oversimplification hiding in economist jargo…

"Optimism is often dismissed as false hope. But there is also false hopelessness." A poetic touch from a tech genius of our generation.

1) web design is an engineering discipline because you have to make things fast and fault-tolerant on top of making it look good. there's a lot more moving parts to a website than …

No. Neither the old design nor the design dcurtis mentioned are current. But the current design is more similar to the old design.

Well, you took a swing at it and you missed. You can give yourself credit for that at least. Everything else is managing your expectations. There's something about being 22 that's …

arent these guys supposed to know a thing about valuation?

Isn't this "Bridgegate" Christie?