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lastmod: "2021-09-12T22:47:44.0000000+01:00"
author: patrick
categories:
- stumbled_across
comments: true
date: "2013-07-29T00:00:00Z"
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- /stumbled_across/stumbled-across-2/
- /stumbled-across-29-july-2013/
- /wordpress/archives/241/
title: Stumbled across 29th July 2013
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*   Hehe: <http://www.pixartheory.com/>
*   Wow - light trapped for a full minute: <http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23925-light-completely-stopped-for-a-recordbreaking-minute.html>
*   The importance of a consistent utility function: <http://lesswrong.com/lw/my/the_allais_paradox/>
*   Obama promised to be friendly to whistleblowers, and has quietly removed said promise: <http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/07/25/obama-promises-disappear-from-web/>
*   I wholeheartedly agree with this site: <https://abandonmatlab.wordpress.com/>
*   Good post on belief-in-belief: <http://web.archive.org/web/20120629012114/http://stairs.umd.edu/236/meta-atheism.html>
*   Huh. A strange system, the US medical system: <http://stallman.org/articles/asked_to_lie.html>
*   Very much this - about how the media has lost the plot about PRISMgate: <http://m.guardiannews.com/technology/2013/jul/28/edward-snowden-death-of-internet>
*   Aaand my faith in humanity is once again shattered: <http://i.imgur.com/mdfvFA6.jpg>