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I gave a talk once at an agency in Brooklyn. It was rife with dogs. A little shih tzu proudly trotted across the presentation area right before I started speaking.

I get anywhere from 5-20 sales calls a day (not to mention cold emails and the blind-rage-inducing cold meeting spam, which lands the salesperson on my auto-block list). I don't have the time during the day to answer these, so I don't pick up my phone unless I recognize the number. I have my email in my voice mail message - I'm happy to review any email that comes in from a cold call. I may not respond, but often I'll file away a service and if something's a good fit, I'll follow up a bit later.

Quara has been syndicating their content to several outlets. I believe Slate has a number of questions from Quara on their site as well.

This reminds me of some of the tactics suggested by the First Earth Battalion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion) which was profiled in the book/movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats." The organizers of that suggested that soldiers should parachute into conflict zones carrying baby animals to disarm (figuratively and literally) enemies.

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Seriously - there's always some attack vector. I got notified a few months ago that an old static blog on one of my personal sites that I had totally forgotten about was hacked (bad permissions + some feedback form).

Most web hosts have some form of caching available to customers so the concurrency argument doesn't hold up well either.

>> At many universities (certainly my undergrad) the mean and median students in the Education department are weaker than students in other departments. Taking the weakest to bring out the best in our students seems very odd. There is some research that suggests teacher certification can actually be counterproductive. [1] If we were in the situation of Finland (teachers are in the top 10% of their class) then we would not need this type of intervention.

To the degree to which this is accurate,this flips the cause and effect. Finland, as a society, invests in its teachers and in teaching as a profession. In the US teaching isn't a terrifically paid job and isn't respected as a profession. If we invested more in teachers and teaching then we'd see those ratios start to change, maybe generationally. As it stands, though, teachers tend to get the brunt of the blame for "failing" schools - by both the right and the left politically now.

Hydrogen Hydroxide is similarly ignored...

There's a strong correlation between the number of reviews of movies and box office performance, but not the average rating. Having a bunch of joke reviews, even bad ones, probably does more to raise awareness of products than it does to harm sales.

I found this in our codebase the other day:

    // BEGIN VALIDATION CONDITION
    // Would you like some sauce with your spaghetti?

The issue is not whether or not libertarianism would be "against" an externality like that, it's that libertarianism (at least in the author's eyes) doesn't provide workable solutions for externalities like pollution and other tragedy of the commons-like situations.

Go: "Don't share a bullet by shooting, shoot yourself by sharing a bullet."

Netflix offers a number of other options when viewing movies - languages, closed-captions, etc. Seems like this is another reasonable one to give consumers. Their DVD delivery service gave you a choice between pan-and-scan and letterboxed IIRC.

Another use case that the author doesn't go into is the proliferation of penetration/injection/other security attack scripts that allows people to throw a battery of common attacks against dictionaries of sites. That's allowed malicious people to be malicious at scale.

In the United States, rules about call recording vary a lot from state to state. Definitely check your local laws...

FTA - "He has been a regular guest on The Dr. Oz Show, The View, CNN, and Fox News, to name a few." That alone should cast doubt on the article's claims.

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