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mankyproon Feinstein Publicly Accuses C.I.A. of Spying on Congress

Kewl. So it's ok to spy on The People, but Congress!?! Omfg you Nazis! How dare you!?!?!?!!?!!??

mankyproon What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces

It's clear that in the author's world everybody drives a Prius. I guess Amazon and Google shopping drones will deliver everything in his utopia. No need for trucks to be able to navigate the streets. Hey! I'd like to see a plow on a Nissan Leaf!

mankyproon Vinod Khosla Wants Californians To Keep Out of Martins Beach

Haha, I'm going this weekend...

mankyproon Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

Duck Duck Go.

Jus' sayin'

mankyproon Ted Nelson: It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC

Some dude once said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", and he was right.

mankyproon Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1)

Heh, let's add some gas to the fire and talk about the rampant age discrimination in the SiliValley!

mankyproon Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans

From a purely practical point of view, isn't the "community at large" worried about the "rising" sea levels? If we took the fresh water from the aquifers, then refilled them with sea water, presumably that would put a dent in the rising sea levels? I know, I know...just trying to be pragmatic.

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The Chinese government announced yesterday that it would limit Chinese bank's ability to trade in Bitcoins. Markets are fickle.

mankyproon Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity Seat for iPad device

Insanity defined. There are plenty of studies that show that having children in front of screens stunts their development.

mankyproon Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010)

Who is John Galt?

mankyproon No Girls Allowed

There's a reason most boys gravitate towards guns, monster trucks and blow-em-ups. There's a reason why most girls gravitate towards dolls, ponies and puppy dogs. It's called evolution aka 200,000 years of it. Many iterations, regression testing etc.

Put quite simply, it works for the propagation of the species.

You can argue all you want with 200k years of evolution and or civilization, isn't going to change a thing. We are first and foremost made to procreate and natural systems are all about efficiencies - White Knights and Jezebels notwithstanding.

mankyproon I found Prezi's source code

Silly PR move on their part. They should've given this guy some shush money to prevent this (now) PR nightmare. Shoddy security practices, shoddy marketing and PR. Tsk, tsk.

mankyproon Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy

I own a vertex 3, never had an issue with it going on 2 years. It is used in an osx laptop that is used aggressively for devops work. Guess I got one of the good ones...

mankyproon FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe

This is simply the result of the medical lobby. This pressure is being put on them simply because it takes power from the gods of medicine. If I order my own bloodwork, (from the same labs that my medical foundation does), somehow the same bloodwork costs me 20% of what it would otherwise. This is about taking away the ability to monitor your own health, in order to enrich the medical community.

This will simply result in this type of testing to move beyond FDA borders. Great job FDA, you're helping kill a successful and profitable US company. Un-F-ing-believable.

mankyproon Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

noooooooooooooooooo.....

mankyproon This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan

Hell, I'm just some random white guy in the US and the ad made me tear up. Yes, it was made for effect. Whether it was made by the newest evil corporation or not is irrelevant. The feelings it invokes are genuine.

mankyproon Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

The President...shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur... Constitution of the United States, Art. II, Sec. 2

mankyproon Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

Most excellent.

mankyproon Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here

You know how you can tell if someone went to Stanford? You don't have to, they'll tell you...