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True, it seems far-fetched at first. We should keep in mind that a even few short years ago theorizing about the US Government operating a widespread domestic electronic surveillan…

Dozens of times in the past few years I've been served relevant ads on some topic instantly after discussing it in person in proximity to a smartphone. I've encountered countless o…

Interesting to see the dramatic rise in deaths related to substance abuse from 1996 onwards, the year Purdue Pharma introduced Oxycontin. It's especially glaring in the most impove…

What did they honestly think was going to happen when they introduced internet terminals across the city? I struggle to understand the city's response to this issue, aggressive fil…

Very awkward day to make this claim.

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It doesn't seem to me like he has an agenda. Keep in mind that the "duck boats" are pretty much universally reviled by natives in Philadelphia; they are loud, feel out of place in …

Location: New York City (NYC) Remote: No Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Front End Developer & Designer (CSS3, HTML5, jQuery/JavaScript, MySQL, Unix, Git, Photoshop) Po…

> Spiegel also said he believes there is a tech bubble that will eventually burst. My cynical reading of this is that Snapchat wants to grab as much of retail investors' money befo…

I hope you're right, there _must_ be other components to their business model to warrant $116m in investment capital. At face value this all appears beyond foolish, though I'm root…

MBTI has always struck me as something akin to Astrology for the triple-digit IQ set.

Sometime in the last year I started to find myself exclusively using the reviews and filtering within Google Maps to search for restaurants, bars and other businesses. I can't say …

I'm not at all suggesting that young people shouldn't be investing, just that the interface and experience of Robinhood makes investing seem more like a toy or game than a discipli…

I agree that a mobile-only interface is just not enough when you're dealing with something as intricate as investing. They've tried to abstract away the many layers of paperwork fr…

There probably wouldn't have been a ruling at all. The court itself states that Snowden was the principle catalyst for this case to ever go to court in the first place. From the ju…

Likewise, I only use "Haha" for things that are truly funny. "lol" is reserved primarially to lend a degree of self-awareness to a particularly absurd or stupid statement that I sa…

> Also, in New York, the roads are often chaotic. In Berlin, I only saw chaos around construction sites, otherwise the roads were safe and orderly. One only needs to bike a couple …

I think that you could be right about this particular vision of Bitcoin as a financial platform. It's my belief that the future of Bitcoin will be analogous to something like Linux…