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c0ur7n3yon A Simple Fix for Our Massive Inequality Problem

Until campaign finance and lobbying reform occur, no other meaningful changes could be made. This might be a good step 2.

c0ur7n3yon A Simple Fix for Our Massive Inequality Problem

That may be true for some physical objects, but not for things like a secure retirement, protection from crippling health-care bills, and secure (non-bank-owned, non-landlord-owned) housing. There are vast and real inequalities there.

c0ur7n3yon Amazon Prime Strikes Deal for Most PBS Children’s Shows

"Apple iWater. Drink it for life."

c0ur7n3yon Antarctic CO2 Hit 400 PPM for First Time in 4M Years

Here's an excellent presentation about that from a psychology perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnEO2ysnO6Q

Half of us are in denial, half of us are doing ineffective things, and half of us are in China.

c0ur7n3yon Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro

This might be what you're looking for, or at least point you in the right direction:

http://www.skepticaldoctor.com/2010/01/15/classic-dalrymple-...

c0ur7n3yon TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Dismantled in Secret

What is international legislation?

c0ur7n3yon Electron lifetime is at least 66,000 yottayears

The Tau[1] as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_%28particle%29

c0ur7n3yon Lobbyists Win Right to Bombard Student Borrowers with Robocalls

You can always setup an Asterix box and put Lenny on the case:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nO...

"Lenny" is a hilarious set of recorded messages designed to waste telemarketers' time."

On a personal note, I have to say that there is something so satisfying about a robot answering these calls. A caller normally has the advantage that you can't see them, have no idea who they are, and they can do it at scale. Lenny turns those very advantages against them.

c0ur7n3yon Buzzword Ipsum

"Ethically touching base about monetizing enterprises will make us leaders in the world-class core competency industry."

My sides!

c0ur7n3yon Announcing the Acquisition of Surreal Vision

I wonder if they've been busy trying to build an "App Store" or something else to avoid just selling hardware.

c0ur7n3yon Your Life on Earth: How you and the world have changed since you were born

I wonder why they decided not to ask for weight:

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		    </div> !-->

c0ur7n3yon The days are long but the decades are short

Your life will have a demise regardless.

c0ur7n3yon TV maker Vizio may finally get paid after beating 17th patent troll

The poor can access the legal system?

c0ur7n3yon Quorum: The world's first evidence-oriented programming language

A quick look through the docs didn't tell me what is special about this.

c0ur7n3yon Curated free-to-use space photography

I don't think that this is a photo:

http://peek.space/art/peek-space-img-24/

c0ur7n3yon WikiLeaks publishes 30,000 leaked Sony documents

Are you suggesting they didn't expect anything in return for their money?

c0ur7n3yon I Quit: What really goes on at Apple

The scripting and rehearsing seems to happen when employees pick up on the signals, from the decisions that management makes around them, that appearance and self-marketing influence promotions more than performance.

It's not a on/off thing - it's a continuum from fact-based decision making to perception-based decision making. The difference is how good are the managers at seeing what's really going on and how much they care about it.

c0ur7n3yon Why Coca-Cola wants to sell the world expensive “science milk”

Placebo Water™ - Imagine the difference!™

c0ur7n3yon One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

That mistake was intentional. My point was that language isn't programming, it's not exact. You understood the sentence and we successfully communicated. I'm a fan of correct grammar and I try to use it. But this article documents a very extreme reaction to a non-problem in my opinion.

c0ur7n3yon One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

Language is comprised of rules that change over time. If everyone understands a sentence, how can it be incorrect? I suppose I'm just confused by crusades like this.

c0ur7n3yon Space Shuttle Mission Archives – Challenger, January 28, 1986

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Boisjol

How can we, as engineers, learn from this so that similar things don't happen on our watch?

http://www.webcitation.org/651nnfKDv

c0ur7n3yon The torus is the product of two circles, cubically

I don't understand any of that. I feel like what I imagine a marketing guy feels like when he reads an engineering document.

c0ur7n3yon Larry Lessig’s Long Walk

Those are great ideas. You can't accomplish any of those things until campaign finance reform is enacted.

c0ur7n3yon Nature makes all articles free to view

Does the in-browser viewer use the new W3C-blessed DRM extensions?

c0ur7n3yon Nature makes all articles free to view

Does the browser viewer use the new W3C DRM extensions?

c0ur7n3yon What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be Launching?

Rent seeking at it's most obvious.

c0ur7n3yon Is your connected car spying on you?

A "promise" by a CEO about what his company will or won't do in the future is completely worthless.

c0ur7n3yon Terms of Service; Didn't Read

The irony is that they have to say this:

"Nothing here should be considered legal advice. We express our opinion with no guarantee and we do not endorse any service in any way. Please refer to a qualified attorney for legal advice. Reading ToS;DR is in no way a replacement for reading the full terms to which you are bound."

Even criticism of legalese requires legalese.