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Commented on How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist
Hey, that's my old CS prof! I already knew Alvarado was the nicest prof in the world, but now that I know she got into math via My Little Pony that just makes her 100x cooler. :)...
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Commented on Evoke: alternate reality game to help young people solve poverty, hunger, disaster relief
Clearly the first three commenters aren't familiar with McGonigal's other work--e.g. World Without Oil or Superstruct. Alternate reality games don't have hand-holding or strategy guides--that's kind of the point. Evoke looks to be very similar to those two games, especially...
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Commented on Google will stop filtering Google.cn, after dissident Gmail accounts targeted by China
Arguably, Google could do more for human rights of China by taking a stand and possibly leaving than it ever could by staying under China's rules. Imagine what resources Google could harness to improve TOR and other anonymization and encryption...
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Commented on Daily Show visits the New York Times
Hey, it's Bill Keller! He came to speak at a media studies event at my school a couple years back. Contrary to what someone else said, he does understand the value of the NYTimes website and has been pushing to...
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Commented on How are you coping with collapse-anxiety?
After graduating in May, I managed to get a real job in October, just before the shit really started hitting the fan. I'm at a small ( I've got some student debt, but nothing too bad; no credit card debt;...
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Commented on Senate approves warrantless wiretapping and telco immunity, throws out the Fourth Amendment
*weeps* Barack Obama, you broke my goddamn heart. He's turned into another goddamn authoritarian. Who'm I gonna vote for now?...
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Commented on Google making a network neutrality detector
@#5: "This is exactly why you don't need to use government force to protect net neutrality. Market forces can spread information for better-informed consumers." Yeah, a competitive ISP market is great for consumers! Too bad most consumers don't live in...
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Commented on Little Brother goes into its fourth week on the New York Times bestseller list!
I read the free .pdf and soon realized that this was the book I wish I'd had when I was in high school. So I plonked down the money for a meatspace copy and gave it to my high school-age...
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Commented on Honor payment system problems at unmanned produce stands in Japan
I like how it's being framed that they're "only" making 80-90% of their manned sales. That *still* means they make more than they'd make if they paid someone to sit there and watch. All this means is that humans aren't...
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Commented on Draft Larry Lessig for Congress!
While I would prefer a Justice Lessig or Attorney General Lessig, if a Congress seat is the opportunity of the moment I'm more than in favor of it. If Lessig can walk the anti-corruption walk that he talks about (or...