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Sort by interest and you get ones that are at least more literate. http://www.americaspeakingout.com/browse/questions/in/job-cr... …

Personally, I hope I do something important enough that someone will stand on my shoulders to do something even more important.

Do affiliate links actually increase the price of the item? I thought the kickback came out of Amazon's margins.

It didn't mention anything about this being an aggregated rate, and says throughout that this is the rate you can expect on your sites.

The most effective thing to get me off my ass and studying is to see something I should conceivably be able to create, but have no idea where I'd begin. Can someone link to a good introduction to how …

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There's a free iphone app for turn by turn directions?

We aren't doing physics here. If we can't observe the effects of something easily, it probably isn't that important.

>There can be no claims of leapfrogging until I can use an android device's touch screen to SMS someone without pulling (what little is left of) my hair out. This is almost certainly what you are …

Along those lines, I've started a new subreddit exclusively for posts that help you learn important things. http://www.reddit.com/r/learnit/ I've found the most useful time I spend online is reading…

That's the great thing about marine sanctuaries. You agree upon a region in the middle of the ocean to declare off-limits for fishing. The fish population of those regions repopulates the rest of the …

I suspect placebo effect.

I've spent more time with Cestos than any game on my pc in the last few months.

Plans get cheaper if there isn't a phone to subsidize (at least with T-mobile.) You end up spending less money over the course of the contract if you buy the phone directly.

That's a great point. We haven't been exposed to information overload long enough to develop wisdom about it and be inoculated against it.

Technology use does not distract us from political engagement: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_media_is_slowly_... …

I'm with you on the "sold, leaked, and linked" bit, but what's the problem with data-mining?

>Yes, yes, I know there are compelling reasons why HTC must protect their patents if they are applicable. I'd think the main compelling reason is that Apple has already sued them.

It's very true for some things, and not for others. There's information asymmetry in both directions, things site owners know that Google doesn't, and things that Google knows that site owners don't. …

Sorry, I'm not equipped for that sort of public discussion. Talk to Matt. ;)

I've actually seen that happen to one of the lead engineers in search quality at Google. He'd written a great guide to ultralight backpacking that until I linked to it, wasn't indexed by any major sea…

I wish I could. :) All of the fascinating things about signals are confidential for all of the reasons listed in the article, and Google has been sued so many times by sites that think they should ran…

I've seen a lot of pages where I couldn't tell if it was written by a markov-model or a human. Many of the people who get paid for $1 content don't speak English natively.

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome... …

I work on search-quality at Google. This is my life.

Give the art a transparent sky, then make the sky gradient a repeating background image.

Great concept. I've just submitted it to the gardening subreddit that I moderate. http://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/c2dz5/enter_your_... …

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