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I can only take so many wireless items. I absolutely hate charging things.

nolepointeron FSU research team makes Zika drug breakthrough

Yep, surprisingly, research is done here. We don't just have a football team.

nolepointeron A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China

I don't understand this meme. If this were true, SV would not be deep blue.

I don't live in SV, but I'm an admirer of Rand and her ideas. "Narcissist" is the probably the last word someone would use to describe me.

nolepointeron Police had woman’s Facebook deactivated during standoff

Considering her followers were encouraging her to not give in to police demands, this was entirely justified.

nolepointeron The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikely Supporter

Wanting to halt immigration from countries with radical Islamic ties != deporting Muslims

nolepointeron My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land

But this isn't real socialism ... obviously.

nolepointeron 23andMe Is Monetizing Your DNA the Way Facebook Monetizes 'Likes'

Yeah, and that article was published last year ...

nolepointeron Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

Pied ... Piper?

nolepointeron How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First”

Consider the turtle ...

nolepointeron CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist

Isn't this guy whose AOL account (yep, AOL) was breached?

nolepointeron Trump

I feel like Sam really misrepresented Trump's views, but that's expected from someone who's opposed to him.

At this point, nothing will convince me to not vote for Trump. I'm too concerned about national security and my fellow (legal) Americans losing their jobs.

nolepointeron Trump

Silencing other points of view. Safe spaces. Refusing to call radical Islam what it is.

Just a few examples.

nolepointeron Trump

I think Terry should stick with math.

nolepointeron Estonia's Tech-Savviness

I was really enthusiastic (especially about Estonia's flat tax) until this bit:

>The country is plagued by another issue that is all too familiar to the Silicon Valley: diversity. "We are still dominantly white and male," said Sten Tamkivi, co-founder and CEO of Teleport and a former early executive at Skype. "Estonia has a lot of work to do."

This isn't an issue unless you constantly try to make it one.

nolepointeron Amazon's express delivery service rattles Paris authorities

I'm not really familiar with the service, but from where does Amazon get the groceries they deliver? Could they not enter into an agreement with Parisian stores to deliver their products?

nolepointeron My Dinner with Peter Thiel

Well, I disagree. I already voted for him in the primary and I'll be voting for him in the general.

nolepointeron My Dinner with Peter Thiel

Electing Trump is about disrupting the system.

nolepointeron Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence

I can't really blame residents for wanting to keep the status quo. Living in a neighborhood of single-family homes has always been the image of the American dream. Why would they want to relinquish that?

nolepointeron Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World

"As I left town, I cast one final glance back at Greebo. One of his friends playfully tossed him to the ground and thumbed his eyes as the others snatched all the money I had given him. I couldn’t help but smile. It felt good to make a difference in the lives of these simple people."

I'm ashamed to admit I didn't recognize this as satire until I reached this point and burst out laughing. I failed to notice the URL, too. This kind of article is so common, I just figured it was yet another. I hate the apparent trend of titling articles "Why I [insert activity here]," which made this all the more amusing.

nolepointeron Curbs on free speech are growing tighter. It is time to speak out

>My campus leans a bit right compared to the usual, and I'm actually glad for that. We haven't lost intellectual diversity and free speech is alive and well. Haven't seen anyone in favor of censorship, but if there was they'd be laughed right out of the room.

Which university is this, if I may ask?

nolepointeron 65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal

Wow, whoever is responsible for this is a real shitlord!

nolepointeron Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub

Jesus Christ, I never want to work on the Left Coast.

nolepointeron Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub

I moved all my code over to BitBucket when this nonsense started.

nolepointeron A Venture Fund with Plenty of Virtual Capital, but No Capitalist

"Olivier Stern, a 31-year-old French socialist ..."

I stopped reading there.

nolepointeron Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley

Make America great again.

nolepointeron Data Saved in Quartz Glass Might Last 300M Years

This article is from 2012.

nolepointeron How Healthcare.gov Botched $600M Worth of Contracts

I expect nothing less from the federal government.

nolepointeron The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men

*Jack Kilby

Sorry, but until I did further searching, you had me believing that a comic book artist was also responsible for the development of the integrated circuit!

nolepointeron Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?

These are probably the same students who asked to be excused from exams because they were too shaken by the verdicts of certain cases vigorously reported by the media.

nolepointeron The MIT Gang

It's not evident by the article, but his blog [0], in which this article appears, is titled "The Conscience of a Liberal." Make of that what you will.

[0] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/