January 2011
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[T]he Census Bureau modifies or removes the characteristics that put confidential information at risk for disclosure. Although it may appear that a table shows information about a specific individual or business, the Census Bureau has taken steps to disguise or suppress the original data while making sure the results are still useful. The techniques used by the Census Bureau to protect...
“Issa has tried to draw a line separating events that he considers appropriate...”
– The last line is perhaps the most important; from a rather good article in the New Yorker on Representative Darrell Issa — the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
tl;dr — the new guy in charge of ethics investigations may not be so ethical himself.
“With the Republican legislative agenda increasingly focused on repealing health...”
– It feels strange saying this, but I kind of respect the few people who are both for repeal and actually elect not to receive government healthcare coverage. I’d respect them all the more if they weren’t for repeal at all, but…
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The Most Emailed NY Times Article Ever →
“A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare...”
– Can’t make this stuff up.
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“Well-known, well-studied opening strategies are popular in the StarCraft...”
– An interesting article about teaching a computer to play StarCraft; they end up with something that’s better than what the game developers designed.
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Current US law extends copyright protections for 70 years from the date of the author’s death. (Corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years.) But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years (an initial term of 28 years, renewable for another 28 years). Under those laws, works published in 1954 would be passing into the...
The Last Roll of Kodachrome →
