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    Casey Johnston just favourited Sam Biddle's tweet "Bring Back Bullying."

    Sam is a nerd himself. I work at this site called Ars Technica writing about technology and games and science, I'd be hard-pressed to find a nerdier job.
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    Flappy Bird is back... on Amazon Fire TV?

    Wow Kyle, I sent you that screenshot in confidence that you wouldn't tell everyone how bad I am at Flappy Bird. IN CONFIDENCE.
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    Some of the world’s most reknowned headphones, built in a Brooklyn townhouse

    Yeah, fun coincidence! for what it's worth, my understanding is Digg posted that spot as a "thank you" for letting the team visit Grado themselves back in March: https://twitter.com/Grado/status/491946319137615872 Grado didn't pay to put it there. Digg just likes them some Grado!
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    Tech hiring and the spectre of the “supply problem”

    Not true, diverse teams are more productive and companies with the most women in their corporate boards outperform those with few or no women.
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    Win at rock-paper-scissors by knowing thy opponent

    This appeared in editing, I will fix.
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    Win at rock-paper-scissors by knowing thy opponent

    They actually didn't address it in the study (you can double check at the link but I didn't see any reference to it). I would presume the next round happens as if the first didn't happen. For myself I usually just throw the same move again like "stupid rock, why didn't you work the first time"
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    Portland decides not toss an entire reservoir because someone peed in it

    They do. No one is drinking straight from it except, presumably, the surrounding flora and fauna. There is, ostensibly, some deer/skunk/squirrel spit in there.
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    Amazon’s new gaming controller and streaming box in photos

    I do spacebar exclusively with my left thumb. Hmm...
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    The colossal arrogance of Newsweek’s Bitcoin “scoop”

    I can't comment on editorial policy, but the issue at hand isn't whether Newsweek will turn out to be retroactively right or wrong. As I said, it's that they went too far with too little to go on, from the standpoint of their audience.
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    The colossal arrogance of Newsweek’s Bitcoin “scoop”

    Agreed that it is he said-she said, but reporting a he said-she said situation in the assured way that Newsweek did was not called for. A handful of critiques of the piece have already said this before me, but if the story had been reported with the right amount of deference and skepticism...
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    Popcorn Time reinvents the seedy process of torrenting

    You can't trick me, Rumpelstiltskin, I know your game.
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    Comcast yoinks House of Cards from Netflix because it can

    That possibility didn't even occur to me because it sounds pretty out there, but my mistake for not considering it. We're working on the title now.
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    Video of unreleased HTC One 2 earns wrath of an HTC exec

    "we'll be in touch" doesn't. "It's not going to be a good week for you" does, though.
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    Did Casey get promoted?

    I did get promoted! you'd be forgiven for missing the only press release about it which was my own tweet: https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/statu ... 7714028544 But yeah, I am doing some different stuff now! I appreciate your compliment :) I will continue to write hard for you, the reader(s).
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    Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 billion

    Yes, as I stated in the first paragraph, the initial outlay is for $16 billion in cash and stock, with an additional $3 billion that will vest over four years.
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    Facebook finally gives LGBT users the vocabulary they need

    I hesitated over that, but GLAAD used the same acronym referring to the type of users this services, so it seemed ok. http://www.glaad.org/blog/facebook-intr ... o-they-are
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    Ars is hiring a senior editor and two technology reporters/reviewers

    You guys have way more, way better stories about wet pants. I literally just stood in a shower and poured water on my person.