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wyclif
reddit.com
Part of the fun is <i>not</i> having instructions.
1
1,135,313,660
2005-12-23T04:54:20
62
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mattknox
reddit.com
entirely fair, if the site is solely intended to be a feed of the web. I thought, though, that reddit is also about rating well-known bits of the web, eg. Norvig's programming-in-10-years essay, and all of the other stuff of graham's, etc..
1
1,135,313,844
2005-12-23T04:57:24
241
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mattknox
reddit.com
It seems that arguments isomorphic to this come up all over the place. Google's focus on customer benefit, Joel Spolsky's on having managers "move the furniture" so that coders can be maximally productive, your hypothetical smart government's on letting the very best hackers keep a larger percentage of the profit fro...
6
1,135,314,602
2005-12-23T05:10:02
511
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mattknox
reddit.com
I can assure you that the worst lawyers do not get $200/hour. A friend of mine worked with a few that made rather less than that per working day. Pre tax. And on the other side, trial lawyers who get paid out of settlements must surely do better than $800/hr if they get a big win. That said, what sort of thing wou...
4
1,135,315,057
2005-12-23T05:17:37
471
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1,135,315,851
2005-12-23T05:30:51
9
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ntoshev
reddit.com
Sorry it sounded like bragging, my point was that it has been available on that site from a long time, and Paul apparently didn't know that.
2
1,135,321,057
2005-12-23T06:57:37
140
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swwoodruff
reddit.com
Read his manifesto. Follow his links.
1
1,135,322,381
2005-12-23T07:19:41
38
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t3_9025
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swwoodruff
reddit.com
It's always easier to get forgiveness than permission
1
1,135,322,597
2005-12-23T07:23:17
53
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t3_9025
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c1783
nezzerball
reddit.com
Hilarious.
-1
1,135,325,717
2005-12-23T08:15:17
10
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c1784
kamen
reddit.com
http://kamentomov.blogspot.com/2005/12/sciant-considers-vietnam-better-place.html
1
1,135,327,362
2005-12-23T08:42:42
81
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reddit.com
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1,135,327,492
2005-12-23T08:44:52
9
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c1786
[deleted]
reddit.com
http://reddit.com/info?id=20776 dupe dupe dupe
-4
1,135,327,647
2005-12-23T08:47:27
49
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c1787
[deleted]
reddit.com
these guy sure are paying for shit-tons of 'press releases'
-2
1,135,327,866
2005-12-23T08:51:06
59
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1
1,135,328,110
2005-12-23T08:55:10
9
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t3_20836
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bagman101
reddit.com
The top blogging blogs
0
1,135,328,507
2005-12-23T09:01:47
22
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1,135,328,732
2005-12-23T09:05:32
9
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adnam
reddit.com
Ok, here's one that actually happened to me. This was a field-sales agent for a large multinational company trying to dial in and establish a VPN connection. We got to the point where he had to enter his token code. **Me:** "Ok, now you have to press the Enter key" **User:** "Which key is that?" **Me:** "The...
3
1,135,328,838
2005-12-23T09:07:18
1,006
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christmasgorilla
reddit.com
Victor Davis Hanson does an interesting job chewing out modern day academia for losing its edge on free (ie the classical definition of liberal) thinking. Luckily, many computer science departments are immune from this type of thing.
1
1,135,334,068
2005-12-23T10:34:28
233
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davidw
reddit.com
One nitpick: "We would have much preferred a 100% chance of $1 million to a 20% chance of $10 million, even though theoretically the second is worth twice as much." This reasoning holds for a lottery, say, where all you have to do is scratch the numbers, but in terms of something where you sink countless hours an...
2
1,135,335,805
2005-12-23T11:03:25
746
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beza1e1
reddit.com
reddit is "what's new online" not "rate the web" So i for my part will demote anything old like this article.
2
1,135,336,925
2005-12-23T11:22:05
112
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bosk
reddit.com
Interesting read. I wonder how well this whole do-what-users-want-not-what-you-are-good-at/interested-in strategy applies to startups that develop high-tech products (e.g., sw development tools, etc.) rather than use high-tech products to develop for consumers (e.g., web stores, etc.). I seriously doubt one can succeed...
4
1,135,338,560
2005-12-23T11:49:20
408
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paulgraham
reddit.com
I wouldn't advocate doing stuff you're not at all interested in. If there are several things you could do that users want, do the one you'll like most. Just don't lie to yourself about whether users want it. For example, the main reason Viaweb ended up being server-based was that we didn't want to have to write ...
3
1,135,340,355
2005-12-23T12:19:15
416
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t1_c1801
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c1803
aurele
reddit.com
GreenZap is a known scam
1
1,135,341,709
2005-12-23T12:41:49
24
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t3_20997
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c1804
bwringer
reddit.com
I want the bit about the "Pie Fallacy" to be taught to children as soon as they can tell nickels from pennies. And then repeated daily until they start CREATING their own kind of wealth. The "Pie Fallacy" is hopeless and idiotic, but it's by far the most common economic thinking.
6
1,135,344,044
2005-12-23T13:20:44
283
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bosk
reddit.com
I don't think you were at all interested in web stores as a domain (would you work on one if there were no money involved?). You could keep yourself interested and motivated because you got to hack it using Lisp (a tool). In other words you were using your favorite tool while working on something that you weren't truly...
7
1,135,344,486
2005-12-23T13:28:06
658
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alv
reddit.com
Could somebody loop over these files and put them somewhere more publicly accesible?
2
1,135,345,054
2005-12-23T13:37:34
84
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pdxmph
reddit.com
Moronic.
0
1,135,345,678
2005-12-23T13:47:58
8
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t3_21004
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1
1,135,346,305
2005-12-23T13:58:25
9
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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0
1,135,346,768
2005-12-23T14:06:08
9
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bstard
reddit.com
I fail to see what is so interesting about a robots.txt file. After taking some random samples, it looks to me like it is meant to keep search engines from coughing up the bare-bones html version of nicely formatted pages. E.g. /government/fbci/guidance/text is a rather raw version of /government/fbci/guidance. I supp...
11
1,135,346,808
2005-12-23T14:06:48
487
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paulgraham
reddit.com
Actually only about 20% of the functionality had to do with e-commerce. Most of the work consisted of creating a good web-based site builder, and that was reasonably interesting.
5
1,135,347,753
2005-12-23T14:22:33
179
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billym
reddit.com
Okay, now that is amazing. Is it a timing issue? I think I've heard our eye captures at like 15 frames/sec or something?
2
1,135,348,373
2005-12-23T14:32:53
120
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null
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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2
1,135,348,486
2005-12-23T14:34:46
9
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t3_20798
null
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c1814
batkins
reddit.com
How is this interesting?
0
1,135,350,493
2005-12-23T15:08:13
24
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t3_21054
null
null
c1815
amegan
reddit.com
Catch up the new trend
1
1,135,350,494
2005-12-23T15:08:14
22
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c1816
xamdam
reddit.com
Maybe I missed something, but every other restricted page is .*/iraq, and why would this not be interesting to search engines? Also, they do do not treat their own bot, 'whsearch' (in the end) the same way. Your logic does not explain this.
4
1,135,354,342
2005-12-23T16:12:22
243
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flaxeater
reddit.com
I didn't finish this because it was making my eyes glaze over but I did write a python quine. print open(__ file __).read() This is messing up my formating but it's two undersocres on eaither side of file.
0
1,135,354,664
2005-12-23T16:17:44
211
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1
1,135,354,773
2005-12-23T16:19:33
9
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t3_21072
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c1819
muiker
reddit.com
Maddox rip-off. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule
0
1,135,355,824
2005-12-23T16:37:04
70
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c1820
GiM
reddit.com
Great essay. It concisely sums up how the economic world works in a way anyone could understand. Except for one side argument. It seems to me the article claims that for an economy to be successful it must let their wealth generators keep what they make. That without this component the talented will have no i...
2
1,135,357,159
2005-12-23T16:59:19
1,746
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dextr0us
reddit.com
The DV Guru Vodcast covers the latest in digital video technology. This week, we take a look at After Effects for beginners, as well as the latest news from DV Expo.
1
1,135,357,979
2005-12-23T17:12:59
166
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null
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c1823
fnord123
reddit.com
What Google doesn't want you to see! http://www.google.com/robots.txt What do they know about Katrina that they didn't release? Conspiracy! [/sarcasm]
3
1,135,358,608
2005-12-23T17:23:28
155
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c1824
zolo
reddit.com
whoops! sorry.
1
1,135,358,980
2005-12-23T17:29:40
14
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c1825
cg84
reddit.com
Ok, this one was real good. This sem at college(engineering UG) two of the subjects I studied were economics and entreprenuership. But really, this one essay said more than a five months course for both these subjects at college. Great work. And btw, can entrepreneurship really be taught?
1
1,135,359,815
2005-12-23T17:43:35
290
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c1826
[deleted]
reddit.com
And the restriced pages also include gems such as: "/holiday/thanksgiving/2003/text" I bet Bush is finally getting back at that turkey that got him a few years ago, eh? Who cares if they don't treat their bot the same? How many millions of pages disallow search engine bots but I don't see any of you guys dumpi...
-1
1,135,361,675
2005-12-23T18:14:35
393
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c1827
[deleted]
reddit.com
My dumb homepage is a quine. http://www.littleblur.com It's not, you know, brief.
2
1,135,363,279
2005-12-23T18:41:19
87
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keithb
reddit.com
Plenty of products come in "tamper evidenent" packaging which would allow just the action desired with the confidence of knowing that the tube had been sealed until opened the first time.
1
1,135,363,318
2005-12-23T18:41:58
187
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1
1,135,363,609
2005-12-23T18:46:49
9
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schmave
reddit.com
This is quite naive. First, all he shows is that more incumbents are getting elected now than they were over the last 50 years, generally speaking. He *assumes* that this is because the "citizenry" are worse informed now, but shows no evidence to support that claim. Finally, the word redistricting is not contained in e...
4
1,135,363,610
2005-12-23T18:46:50
552
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c1831
lambert_strether
reddit.com
Long story short: (1) Internet surveillance is Bush’s goal, not voice calls; (2) the Republican “wiretap” talking point is a diversion, to voice, away from from Internet surveillance; (3) Bush’s domestic surveillance system would pose no engineering challenges whatever to NSA. No rocket science—or tinfoil hat...
1
1,135,365,293
2005-12-23T19:14:53
333
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c1832
markxx
reddit.com
Did you ever had an amazing idea on mobile phone design? like you there are others that have these visions in this evolving age of mobile phone design and the need to improve the old ways or to come up with a fresh new idea or stylish design. Mobile phone producing companies are always looking for new ideas, the next t...
1
1,135,365,300
2005-12-23T19:15:00
452
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1
1,135,365,604
2005-12-23T19:20:04
9
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c1834
paulgraham
reddit.com
Yes, I think entrepreneurship can be taught, just like anything else. We teach it at Y Combinator. The problem is just that most of the people teaching it at universities don't have any first-hand experience of it. How well a university can teach a subject depends on whether the teachers are the leading practition...
7
1,135,365,735
2005-12-23T19:22:15
701
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markxx
reddit.com
Interesting to see how this site is going to develop
1
1,135,365,819
2005-12-23T19:23:39
52
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null
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1
1,135,366,395
2005-12-23T19:33:15
9
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t3_21157
null
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c1837
paulgraham
reddit.com
People are certainly motivated by more than money. I don't need more and I keep working. The motivations I know of are pleasure in the work, fame, benevolence, and money. I think a lot of the most tedious stuff will only be done for money. For example, keeping a web server up and running. That's not going to make y...
4
1,135,366,405
2005-12-23T19:33:25
738
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bathow
reddit.com
Interesting site. Its sort of the Wikipedia of factoids
1
1,135,368,778
2005-12-23T20:12:58
55
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1
1,135,368,788
2005-12-23T20:13:08
9
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mattknox
reddit.com
What is it about academia that makes the writers and founders want to stay away? The benefit to universities of having either around is so great that I would think any obstacle would get smoothed out by trustees looking for the next google/yahoo/whatever, and many parts of the academic life seem to be a close fit with...
4
1,135,369,120
2005-12-23T20:18:40
338
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dstowell
reddit.com
The author's conclusion, that "we'll be [unable] to influence the progression of internet communities" through technology alone, is contradicted by the contrast between various social sites. For example, the different posting mechanisms on Slashdot, Reddit, and Joel Spolsky's forums encourage different behavior. One co...
3
1,135,369,358
2005-12-23T20:22:38
652
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cyeh
reddit.com
While it may seem self-evident that you create wealth by providing something people want, many business people forget this fact. Some years ago, I turned to the dark side and got an MBA from Harvard Business School. In my classes, I learned a lot about creating and capturing value. Essentially, we're told that val...
5
1,135,370,537
2005-12-23T20:42:17
998
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George
reddit.com
This doesn't work.
1
1,135,371,633
2005-12-23T21:00:33
18
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goodgoblin
reddit.com
There is an interesting phenomenon occurring at reddit whereby the majority left-leaning denizens of the sight are slowly alienating the minority right-leaning ones like myself. The only question I have is why do I care? I'm not sure why I care if a story about some idiotic Italian magistrates gets voted up to the to...
-1
1,135,373,560
2005-12-23T21:32:40
445
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mschroebel
reddit.com
Delicous sounding crab cakes!
1
1,135,373,720
2005-12-23T21:35:20
29
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binladen
reddit.com
I don't agree with the last comment. The academic life is quite structured and formulaic- publish or perish, tenure, politics, grant-writing,... I could go on. It has been falsely romanticised by Hollywood on more than one occasion. I think you can sow the seeds of a startup while at university because that is wh...
2
1,135,374,087
2005-12-23T21:41:27
536
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noahlt
reddit.com
Several of those are 404's. Perhaps they didn't want search engines to index dead pages.
1
1,135,377,062
2005-12-23T22:31:02
89
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[deleted]
reddit.com
The number of promotions this article is getting shows how much people love anything controversial, even if the controversy is unfounded.
-2
1,135,378,071
2005-12-23T22:47:51
137
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[deleted]
reddit.com
> If people use the internet to reinforce their pre-existing views, then it is only because people don't actively seek to debunk what they believe. The technology forces nothing upon them. Your proved his point exactly. People don't like to seek out stuff that will change their views. So they go to online communi...
2
1,135,378,314
2005-12-23T22:51:54
716
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c1850
steeled3
reddit.com
Google has been doing these forever.
2
1,135,379,438
2005-12-23T23:10:38
36
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t3_20659
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c1851
lambert_strether
reddit.com
You might be interested in this one: http://reddit.com/goto?id=21166 a.k.a. http://www.correntewire.com/the_network_architecture_of_treason
1
1,135,379,725
2005-12-23T23:15:25
152
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c1852
Rawkerdude
reddit.com
funny and creative stuff
-1
1,135,379,783
2005-12-23T23:16:23
24
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t3_21199
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c1854
jobicoppola
reddit.com
yesss!
0
1,135,381,644
2005-12-23T23:47:24
6
t3_21199
t3_21199
null
null
c1855
kelyse
reddit.com
Vonnegut writes: "They have had to throw away their educations, even Harvard or Yale educations, to become guessers. If they didn't do that, there is no way their uninhibited guessing could go on and on and on." An alternative: Perhaps Harvard and Yale aren't discouraging "guessing" as much as we'd like to think? ...
6
1,135,382,042
2005-12-23T23:54:02
459
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[deleted]
reddit.com
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1
1,135,382,160
2005-12-23T23:56:00
9
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c1858
mikepurvis
reddit.com
Such a poll is as much about *spreading* pubic opinion as it is about measuring it. To run a poll like this means the editorial staff of the publication is lending support to and legitimizing the impeachment effort. Whether or not you think Bush should be impeached, it's understandable for a traditional media source...
3
1,135,382,886
2005-12-24T00:08:06
360
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c1859
e40
reddit.com
Any site that has a "email this page to a friend" is likely harvesting email address for spamming. This site, on their home page, says "get paid cash to submit content to eBaum's World. We are seeking original content submissions." So they can get traffic to sucker people into giving up friends email addresses.
2
1,135,383,714
2005-12-24T00:21:54
317
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c1861
trost
reddit.com
Not to troll (I hope): Isn't the rule of law something that the right cares about? Kidnapping is against the law, no matter who does it, right? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask our allies, the Italians, to arrest suspected terrorists in accordance with Italian law instead of dragging them off to Egypt? Is terrori...
3
1,135,390,910
2005-12-24T02:21:50
388
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null
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c1863
TronXD
reddit.com
I definitely agree. However, reddit isn't quite as bad as certain other sites: we do see some good articles about economics sometimes, and recently John McCarthy's sustainability site was on the front page (although that might be just a Lisp effect, heh). Call me crazy, but I actually think there's something about L...
-6
1,135,393,152
2005-12-24T02:59:12
408
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c1864
TronXD
reddit.com
Industries should be allowed to do whatever they want to do: Bribe, wreck the environment just a little, fix prices, screw dumb customers, put a stop to competition and raid the Treasury in case they go broke. That's free enterprise. The poor have done something very wrong or they wouldn't be poor, so their children ...
-4
1,135,393,927
2005-12-24T03:12:07
596
t3_21088
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c1865
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reddit.com
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1,135,395,040
2005-12-24T03:30:40
9
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t3_20519
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c1866
lambert_strether
reddit.com
I’m with Feingold (and Patrick Henry): Give me liberty or give me death! Right after I have a slug of Victory Gin.
1
1,135,398,571
2005-12-24T04:29:31
119
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1,135,399,248
2005-12-24T04:40:48
9
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t3_20775
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c1868
neilk
reddit.com
I like the essay, but I would go further: the ethic of measurement and leverage can be applied to other sorts of firms than tech startups. The example of [Semco](http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,944138,00.html) is incredible. They were once a struggling manufacturer of machinery. And then, in P...
2
1,135,399,491
2005-12-24T04:44:51
898
t3_20775
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c1869
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reddit.com
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1,135,399,644
2005-12-24T04:47:24
9
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t3_21129
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reddit_doe
reddit.com
Additionally, if the citizenry did achieve this 'informed' status, and since politicians still do like to get elected and re-elected, they would have to vote in a way to please this 'informed' citizenry. Unless everytime the public elected a politician this politician went ahead and ignored the will of this citizenry, ...
3
1,135,401,046
2005-12-24T05:10:46
1,160
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reddit_doe
reddit.com
How is bringing attention to this article alienating the 'minority right-leaning denizens?' It seems noteworthy that a number of warrants have been issued for CIA agents in Europe. Issuing warrants also makes their identies known and probably makes it so they can no longer freely operate as agents outside of the USA...
9
1,135,402,139
2005-12-24T05:28:59
532
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c1873
reddit_doe
reddit.com
I heard that the Mozilla Foundation might be close to adopting Opera as one of its projects.
1
1,135,406,927
2005-12-24T06:48:47
92
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c1874
altano
reddit.com
That was mildly incoherent. Anyone catch Vonnegut on the Daily Show? The man has lost it, unfortunately. Try reading Cat's Cradle, a work more worthy of Vonnegut's name than some heavily edited, senile musings.
-3
1,135,407,544
2005-12-24T06:59:04
213
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c1875
hhg
reddit.com
This issue was also covered in the BBC documentary "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution" (2005).
2
1,135,407,730
2005-12-24T07:02:10
104
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c1876
msyed
reddit.com
East London for a long while was fairly run down, cheaper [property] part of London. Recently it has slowly changed to a much safer part of town that many younger affluent professionals look to move into for the nightlife and social benefits that living in a lively part of the city provides. I’m guessing it won’t b...
2
1,135,407,792
2005-12-24T07:03:12
403
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t3_21213
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c1878
fnord123
reddit.com
It's especially apparent with the gentrification of Spitalfields market.
0
1,135,412,264
2005-12-24T08:17:44
72
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reddit.com
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1,135,412,517
2005-12-24T08:21:57
9
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robbie
reddit.com
just awful.
1
1,135,413,640
2005-12-24T08:40:40
11
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t3_21199
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msyed
reddit.com
Sites such as Reddit, Digg and Slashdot, do reflect certain tastes, and that is consciously, or not why people visit them. Compare that to your selection of daily newspaper and there are valid comparisons – everybody knows to some extent what kind of editorial to expect from certain sources, traditional media or othe...
3
1,135,415,938
2005-12-24T09:18:58
1,057
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c1883
chu
reddit.com
Libertarianism is not a political position. It is more an expression of arrested development. Children and teenagers always think that their feelings and what they want to do are the most important things in the world. Self-sacrifice and a notion of being part of a greater society that come with growing up a bit are in...
-1
1,135,419,913
2005-12-24T10:25:13
599
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Taladar
reddit.com
How do "Holy Wars" like emacs vs. vi, Windows vs. Linux, ... fit into this idea? Shouldn't the different camps in those just use different sites if his assumptions are correct?
-1
1,135,420,308
2005-12-24T10:31:48
177
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paulgraham
reddit.com
I think different things keep writers and founders away. Writers are kept away because they could not stand talking about literature in the way English professors do it. Founders are kept away because they don't need the money, and because if they were going to teach about startups, the way to do it would be out in th...
2
1,135,422,011
2005-12-24T11:00:11
419
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yaginuma
reddit.com
Guesses are decisions made without sufficient information. That's the main challenge of public policy everyday: 1) Global warming 2) Potential pandemics 3) Security threats Even budgets and economics are subject to high degrees of uncertainty. Sometimes you have to act now, and see if you were right or wrong later ...
1
1,135,422,579
2005-12-24T11:09:39
360
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t3_21088
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c1887
chu
reddit.com
> not sure why I care if a story about some idiotic Italian magistrates It's strange that this kind of head-in-the-sand dismissal of the international picture has become associated with the right. It seems to really weaken their hand. I have read that there is a belief in the US gov decision making process along ...
2
1,135,423,401
2005-12-24T11:23:21
476
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c1888
lgv
reddit.com
What country am I in again? Way to do this when nobody is looking.
1
1,135,423,910
2005-12-24T11:31:50
66
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