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Tin foil hat

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A tin foil hat is a piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of aluminium foil or similar material. Alternatively it may be a conventional hat lined with foil. One may wear the hat in the belief that it acts to shield the brain from such influences as electromagnetic fields, or against mind control and/or mind reading; or attempt to limit the transmission of voices directly into the brain.

The concept of wearing a tin foil hat for protection from such threats has become a popular stereotype and term of derision; the phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and persecutory delusions, and is associated with conspiracy theorists.

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Sega goes old-school with Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1

Great! I've been a huge Sonic fan as kid :-)

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To say that Sega has treated Sonic

fans poorly over the last decade is a bit of an understatement. Most people will agree that Sonic games of late have been less than great and forays into 3D a major misstep for the most part. But Sega might be about to redeem itself with its latest Sonic game.

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False Majorities

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If a majority of experts agree on an issue, a rationalist should be prepared to defer to their judgment. It is reasonable to expect that the experts have superior knowledge and have considered many more arguments than a lay person would be able to. However, if experts are split into camps that reject each other's arguments, then it is rational to take their expert rejections into account. This is the case even among experts that support the same conclusion.

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Facebook’s PHP overhaul, HipHop, cut CPU usage by around 50 percent

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Facebook HipHop for PHPFacebook's PHP overhaul, HipHop, reportedly cut CPU usage on the company's servers by around 50 percent. You don't have to be a programmer to understand that kind of result.

MS: Facebook calls HipHop a "source code transformer." In plain terms, what is that?

KT: It takes the PHP code written by PHP programmers and converts it to C++ code, which is then compiled by g++ into machine code.

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