July 2012
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Jul 12th
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The Republicans’ Crazy Party Platforms →
“mandating a polio vaccine: tyranny. Mandating invasive ultrasound: freedom” makes sense, doesn’t it?
Jul 12th
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Jul 11th
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GOP to the uninsured: Drop dead →
“In every other advanced nation, the idea that government has a central role in assuring basic health security was settled decades ago — a consensus that conservatives abroad embrace. Always remember: conservative icon Margaret Thatcher would have been chased from office if she had proposed anything as radically conservative as Obamacare — which relies on private docs to deliver the...
Jul 11th
February 2012
7 posts
Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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If you pay your coffee with cash, you might be a... →
What a nonsense…
Feb 15th
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The Berlusconization of American politics... →
Feb 13th
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Dating is not a science, not even if you do it... →
Feb 8th
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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court... →
Good news. It’s sad that something like that will never happen in Italy though
Feb 7th
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Towards a 21th century immigration system
As foreign students, we come to the US, we study hard, and we get our degrees. If we are lucky, at the end of our studies we can find a job, and stay in the country. One thing we cannot do for sure is founding a company. We might be brilliant PhDs, but our immigration status forbids us to put our ideas in practice and create jobs. This sounds like nonsense to many of us (probably not to the GOP,...
Feb 7th
January 2012
8 posts
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USA border paranoia →
Really? Now one cannot even state that their willingness of crazy partying without fearing being blocked at the border?
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative that every family...”
– “Economic imperative” sounds weird. Saying that education is a basic right was too hard, or is that a too revolutionary thought for the United States?
Jan 28th
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Tips for grad school interviews
jtotheizzoe: (Made rebloggable by request) Joe’s Tips on Grad School Interviews … for the Natural Sciences Hi Joe! I’ve been following your blog for a while now and I really enjoy all of your posts. I actually had a couple of questions regarding grad school since I have a couple of interviews scheduled in February. How would you prepare for an interview? Up until now I have only read a couple...
Jan 28th
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"Obama wants everyone's kids to go to college so... →
Now this is a good one. Wait, it’s not a joke?
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Knowing a bot's true name, or how to find...
Folklore tells us that by knowing a creature’s true name one obtains great power over her. This is the reason why daemons and such usually don’t tell you their true name, and popstars often times go under pseudonyms. In a lot more prosaic fashion, security researchers often times struggle in finding malware samples to run for their experiments. The reason is that, most of the time,...
Jan 26th