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They’re so professional, and I mean that as an insult.

RIP Bookslut, 2002-2016 -- Vulture

Most calls are from telemarketers, and “they’ve learned to ignore it,” she says.

What Children Learned From the Shared Family Phone - WSJ

You don't win a Nobel prize by doing what you're told.

On Disobedience - Joi Ito's Web

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Read this, and then read this again.

http://adage.com/article/dataworks/data-partners-tie-mobile-ads-drug-refills-doc-visits/302937/

On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, I talked with GV CEO Bill Maris about a wide range of issues, including what happened with its..

There are literally hundreds of companies that [produce] greater than 5x per year returns that are not one of those 10 to 15, and if you invest in only those companies, you can be in the top 1 percent of all venture capital firms year over year over year.The reason the common wisdom is that you need to be in one of those 10 to 15 companies is because venture capitalists make so many bad investments that lose money.

"As a 19-year-old, I have coded the entirety of the robot on my own, and I think it does a reasonable job of replacing parking lawyers," he says. "I know there are thousands of programmers with decades more experience than me working on similar issues."

Joshua Browder's Bot for parking tickets - Business Insider

But the state argued that because cell phones constantly reveal their locations to carriers by pinging nearby cell towers, Andrews “voluntarily shared this information with third parties,” including the police, merely by keeping his phone on.

Maryland Attorney General: If You Don't Want To Be Tracked, Turn Off Your Phone | Motherboard

Cameron Crowe's 1975 profile of the Eagles. They sound hilariously like a startup.

CRISPR. amazing; terrifying.

“Ordering the genetic parts required to tailor DNA isn’t as easy as buying a pair of shoes from Zappos, but it seems to be headed in that direction. Yan turned on the computer at his lab station and navigated to an order form for a company called Integrated DNA Technologies, which synthesizes biological parts. “It takes orders online, so if I want a particular sequence I can have it here in a day or two,” he said. That is not unusual. Researchers can now order online almost any biological component, including DNA, RNA, and the chemicals necessary to use them.” Humans 2.0 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-gene-hackers via Instapaper

Online anonymity is crucial for students who fear retaliation for their political and social commentary. It helps many people avoid being targets of harassment in the first place.

Protecting the Choice to Speak Anonymously Is Key to Fighting Online Harassment | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Marcus says the plan is to build unique features into Messenger that users can’t get anywhere else. His goal is to make “the messaging client that’s pre-installed on your phone or that you’re already using feel old fashioned,” he said.

One Year After Facebook’s Messenger Split, It’s Time to Grow a Business | Re/code

I think it is equally naive to believe that any horizontal agent will hold all the answers to the world’s questions and the ability to do all the jobs needed.

Cut Siri Some Slack. She Wasn't Created To Do What We Think - x.ai

I think this point of view is interesting, and right. (Now boost me in the damn queue! ;-)

But now, for the first time in nearly 15 years, Americans are free from the bulk collection of their phone records under this program.

NSA, Unplugged: The Government Finally Stopped Vacuuming Up Our Phone Records | American Civil Liberties Union

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