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If you crave further confirmation that Silicon Valley is a magical place where magical thinking reigns, consider the tale of Roku, the video streaming company that filed to go public Friday, when alert people everywhere were headed out for a long weekend.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Alert Company Confirmation Consider Crave Everywhere Friday Further Go Headed Long Magical Out People Place Public Reigns Silicon Silicon Valley Streaming Tale Thinking Valley Video Weekend Were Where You

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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

~Al Franken

Topics: Confirmation Court First Had Hearing Judge Participating Privilege Senator Supreme Supreme Court Week

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When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Away Bikes Confirmation Dust Existential Fall Full Go Humans Just Nowhere Pedal People Riding Room See Spiral Stationary Universe I See 1970S

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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Al Believes Confirmation Islam Many Nothing Old Prophets Scriptures

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Brave browsers block everything: initial signaling/analytics scripts that start the programmatic advertising 'dirty pipe', impression-tracking pixels, and ad-click confirmation signals.

~Brendan Eich

Topics: Advertising Block Brave Confirmation Dirty Everything Initial Pipe Scripts Signals Start

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A missile attack is federal. A missile attack is not a local responsibility. Confirmation and notification of something like a missile attack should reside with the agency that knows first and knows for sure: in other words, the people who know should be the people who tell us.

~Brian Schatz

Topics: Agency Attack Confirmation Federal First In Other Words Know Knows Like Local Missile Other People Reside Responsibility Should Something Sure Tell Us Who Words

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Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Any Confirmation Constitution Court Full Needs Powers Process Respect Separation Supreme Supreme Court Thoughtful

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My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her name was Lily Mark, but she sometimes wrote under her confirmation name, Margaret Mark. That was how she met my father.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: China Column Confirmation Father Growing Growing Up Her Hong Kong How Kong Lily Margaret Mark Met Morning Mother Name Post She Sometimes South Teen Up Wrote 1950S

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Bitcoin solved the double-spend problem. The key problem was payment confirmation without central clearing. Bitcoin's solution was ingenious but wasteful - it's fairly slow, and you can't put other things on it.

~Chris Larsen

Topics: Bitcoin Central Clearing Confirmation Fairly Ingenious Key Other Payment Problem Put Slow Solution Solved Things Wasteful Without You

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There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.

~Christopher Voss

Topics: Because Been Commitment Confirmation Counterfeit Giving Happens Kinds Many Master Most People Protection Really Says Somebody Three Times Trapped Understanding Used Way Yes You

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