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Edit: I would also be interested if anyone knows of an automatic (mechanical) watch with a pedometer complication. Seems like it wouldn't be too far off from the power-reserve dials that some fancy automatics have.
I think if you had a very customized emacs setup, you'd have to put some effort organizing it into custom "layers", which is how spacemacs organizes its config and making sure you don't have big conflicts in mapped keys.
Beyond this, managers and policy makers listen when Buffett talks/writes; an outcome of his 50-year track record in investing and managing at Berkshire. I personally don't think there's anything sinister going on.
You can get a really good overview of Berkshire as a company, including its operating companies, investment philosophy, and current investment holdings from the annual letters that Buffett writes: http://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
If you want to see exactly what securities Berkshire owns, you can look up the 13F filings on http://edgar.sec.gov
Edit: Falcon Launch Control on "We are trying to correlate timelines and compare data with what they were able to see with down range cameras and put together what happened. We stopped receiving data at 2 min 19 sec from the vehicle. It is still not clear exactly what happened and why... At this point we don't have additional information we can provide on NASA Television until the contingency Press Conference, no earlier than 12:30? ET."
This is aimed at the average computer user, who doesn't know what third-party cookies are, who doesn't know what retargeting means, who doesn't realize what giving facebook their email password does. It's a way to give that person tools to pick the degree to which they expose themselves, when the default is 100% exposure.
Basically, a family member asked me this question, and I thought it would be useful to write up for them. I figure folks on HN have the tools to figure out how they want to deal with FB and other services, but they may also want a resource to help friends and family who aren't so tech savvy.
If you are interested in the rationale for my objecting to 100% buy-in on facebook and have 40 minutes, I can highly recommend Maciej Ceglowski's talk at Beyond Tellerand 2014, the internet with a human face: http://vimeo.com/102717446
As an aside, I joined facebook to write this, and I was blown away by how good facebook's recommendations for friends were, presumably just based on other people's uploaded contacts (Facebook made me confirm a phone number).
In the Q&A "What do you use for configuration management?" "<slight laugh> `make`", going on to say they don't have enough node types or a large enough cluster to do automation yet.