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iOS: Gmail account will not connect to Gmail server
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Wolff: What next for Yahoo and Marissa Mayer?
LOT OF TYPICALLY CRUEL (HONEST) OBSERVATIONS BY WOLFF
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BBS
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NYC Subway Poster - Urban Outfitters
PRINTED IN BROOKLYN, NO DOUBT ... OMG THIS IS BEING HAWKED BY URBAN OUTFITTERS
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Extracurriculars Don’t Matter in Elite Admissions : EphBlog
Outside of academics (grades/scores), sports (that the college plays and recruits for), race (mostly black but also Hispanic) and wealth (mostly being poor but also some super-wealthy), virtually nothing else matters to elite college admissions.
LEGACY DOESN'T JUST MEAN THE SUPER-WEALTHY
"Hsu admits in the comments that his “simple calculation” is off by an order of magnitude! This is the nice thing about being a theoretical, rather than experimental, physicist! Getting the answer within one or two orders of magnitude is close enough! ;-)"
HEE HEE
"It is 5% that is selected on something other than academic merit, once we control for race/wealth/athletics."
NO ONE DISPUTES THIS, DO THEY?
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Haze over Eastern China : Natural Hazards
A thick layer of haze blanketed the North China Plain on October 9, 2014, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image at 2:50 Coordinated Universal Time (10:50 a.m. local time). The haze obscured many features usually visible in MODIS imagery of the area, including China’s largest city, Beijing.
TOXIC STEW
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TWITTER LIST OF MUSEUM BOTS THAT AUTO-POST PICS
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Jen Cogliantry Handmade / Brooklyn, NY
HANDMADE IN BROOKLYN LOL
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Los Angeles | MM Travel Guide | 14 — Minimally Minimal
"dirty, erratic and has an unwelcoming hipster atmosphere which I’m increasingly growing tired of"
LOL THIS FUSSY KOREAN KID TAKES GREAT WASHED OUT PICS AND RECORDS *EVERYTHING* ... HOW HATED CAN HE BE IN THE NEW NORMAL? DRIVING HIS WHITE CONVERTIBLE MERCEDES AROUND, DRINKING $10 COCKTAILS AND LATTES AND TAKING ARTFUL PICS WITH HIS $3000 CAMERA
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LumDimSum » Blog Archive LumDimSummary: Hatsune's 13 Year Anniversary » LumDimSum
HARD TO GAUGE HOW RICH ALAN WONG IS NOW BUT HE MUST HAVE TENS OF MILLIONS OF USD
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The Death of Adulthood in American Culture
"What all of these shows grasp at, in one way or another, is that nobody knows how to be a grown-up anymore. Adulthood as we have known it has become conceptually untenable."
NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS BUT I DO KNOW A LOT OF MAN-CHILDREN
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TO BUY ... SAME GUYS WHO MAKE THE BILIBO
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Who likes whom in the Middle East? Key players & relationships | Information Is Beautiful
OVERLAY WITH BIG OIL PLAYERS
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swissmiss | 2 Essential Rules in Sales
1. Never answer a question that the customer hasn’t asked.
2. Never provide information that the customer hasn’t requested.
IN OTHER WORDS, BE A SCUMBAG
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LumDimSum » Blog Archive Obentos: 3rd Year Anniversary Discount Deals! » LumDimSum
STUNNED THAT THEY'RE STILL IN BUSINESS GIVEN CENTRAL PARK RENTS
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Jumbo Clear Confetti Ballon by knotandbow on Etsy
COOL, SOLD OUT OF COURSE (via swissmiss, who else?)
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Central Europe: Prague! - what shi eats
"This restaurant happened to be right outside our Airbnb"
CHINESE AMERICAN RICH KIDS AND THEIR FOOD BLOGS
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"Americans making the national median income should expect to pay nearly 30 percent of their income on rent, an all-time high."
HOW'S THAT FOR A NEW NORMAL HEADLINE? WHY RENT WITH 30 YR FIXED MORTGAGES AT 4% ?!?
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Scientists find lung cancer can lie hidden for 20 years | Reuters
after an initial disease-causing genetic fault -- often due to smoking -- tumour cells quietly develop numerous new mutations, making different parts of the same tumour genetically unique. ... "Previously, we didn't know how heterogeneous these early-stage lung cancers were."
OH, I DON'T KNOW, THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT LUNG CANCERS
"What they found was an extremely long latency period between early mutations and clinical symptoms, which finally appeared after new, additional faults triggered rapid disease growth."
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NQ Mobile Has Bulls Back on Its Side Before Key Deadline at Bloomberg
OCT 10
"Missing the next deadline, set for Nov. 15, would be more dire: It could trigger the company’s delisting from the New York Stock Exchange, according to the bourse’s regulations. ... “MBP is working to complete their work and we continue to expect to file the Form 20-F for 2013 within the time frame granted by the NYSE,” he wrote in an Oct. 8 e-mail."
"“NQ didn’t take the acquisition offer, that gives investors some confidence,” Zhang said. “It’s a smart move to change auditors. It takes less time for a small auditing firm like MBP to do the work.”"
LOL, JUN ZHANG SHAMELESS LIKE THE REST OF THEM
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Kid tapes cop smashing car window, dragging man away after tasering him | Ars Technica
NICE ... THINK HOW MANY TIMES A DAY THIS HAPPENS AND GOES UNTAPED ... RODNEY KING WAS EARLY DAYS
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ANONYMOUS WEB, LOTS OF UGLINESS OUT THERE
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SPARE ME, A CAMO CONTROLLER SMALL CHANGE WHEN THE GAMES ALL REVOLVE AROUND SHOOTING "SAND NIGGERS" IN THE HEAD
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What makes for a stable marriage? | Randal S. Olson
3+ YEARS, $125K+, NEVER, NEITHER LOOKS NOR WEALTH, 1-10, $0-1K, NO HONEYMOON ... MARRIED 20 YEARS HERE, BLISSFUL DESPITE OCCASIONAL SMASHED OBJECT (many many toasters lol)
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Three Tasks You Should Do Every Day to Stay Happy and Productive
First thing in the morning when you create your to-do list, start with these three entries:
I must __DRINK A GLASS OF SCOTCH____________ (a high-priority task that will have an immediate impact)
I should _SMOKE A CIGAR___________ (a task that will contribute to your long-term goals)
I want ___TO GET LAID___________ (something you genuinely want to do)
I USUALLY GO THREE FOR THREE
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Apple’s Jony Ive Is Not Flattered By Xiaomi | TechCrunch
“I’ll stand a little bit harsh, I don’t see it as flattery. When you’re doing something for the first time, you don’t know it’s gonna work, you spend 7 or 8 years working on something, and then it’s copied. I think it is really straightforward. It is theft and it is lazy. I don’t think it is ok at all.”
OF COURSE IT'S THE WORST KIND OF THEFT, XIAOMI IS SHAMELESS
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"You don’t read about it in the American press because the American press is controlled by the State Department and by American propaganda. ... In America you have no clue as to what is going on. There are forces at work that prosper from, thrive on this state of affairs"
FRIENDS TALKING WITH JIMMY ABOUT DOING BIZ IN N KOREA
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PEOPLE DON'T COUNT FOR MUCH IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC