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by Barrera 4y ago
Stagnation of scientific fields is normal and can last many years. In that time, little anomalies pile up, are swept under the rug, and largely forgotten. To admit anomalies can ruin careers, after all. Eventually someone (often very young&
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Redfin and Compass lay off a combined 900 as mortgage interest rates climb(techcrunch.com)
21 points by Barrera 4y ago|1 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
> A total of 23 types of amino acids were found in asteroid samples brought back by Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe, according to new studies published in the journal Science and elsewhere, shedding further light on the origins of lif
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by Barrera 4y ago
Cognitive dissonance. PT Barnum. Charles Darwin. > "It started just over a year ago. I noticed an ad that was endorsed by two well-known celebrities showing you could earn more money than you could earn in a bank," he said.
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by Barrera 4y ago
> If you are affected, you will receive this notification in your personal email, because we made the decision to cut access to Coinbase systems for affected employees. I realize that removal of access will feel sudden and unexpected, an
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Japan 10-year yields breach Bank of Japan's upper limit(financialpost.com)
13 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
Bottom line from the interview: false sense of security.
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Most of “what everyone knows” is true. Most of our knowledge as modern human beings is shared with many others. Everyone knows the capital of France is Paris, and it is true. Everyone knows how many letters in the alphabet, the color o
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by Barrera 4y ago
> The simplest problem with this approach is that budgeting, like dieting, doesn’t work. Restriction and deprivation are unsustainable; accurately tracking spending is hard; income fluctuates, and costs don’t operate on a perfect monthly
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Linux Mark Institute(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
Short answer, I doubt it. Titles, domain names, and musical group names are all examples of things that explicitly can not be copyrighted. Here's the source: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
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by Barrera 4y ago
I clicked the link expecting to find evidence of great things that resulted from discomfort. Stopped reading midway when it became clear it wasn't that kind of article. Also, who is behind this conspiracy of essays written with one-sen
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Yet, we know with near certainty that an engineer, or even a trained repairman could fix the radio. What makes the differ- ence? I think it is the languages that these two groups use (Figure 3). Biologists summarize their results with
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by Barrera 4y ago
> One of the ideas I played with in The Knowledge was what would you most want to whisper in someone’s ear — like 2,000 years ago, or if someone’s having to go through this process again — that once you’ve told someone, it kind of makes
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Inflation rises at fastest pace since 1981, pushed up by record gas prices(lite.cnn.com)
4 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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SEC investigates Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs for possibly breaking securities laws(fortune.com)
2 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
Not so much offloaded as augmented. I remember a tweet from PG to the effect that he could compile his parenting advice by collecting his tweets about his kids. That works for things you're ok sharing on Twitter, but no so much for eve
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by Barrera 4y ago
Similar thoughts, but using an electronic journal. Unexpected side-effect is searchability. I have found myself on multiple occasions searching for information I knew I had written about - and then actually finding it. When I started, I did
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by Barrera 4y ago
A single video of the device in operation appears to be on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoZ389Rs5s8
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Don’t quote. Make it yours and say it yourself(sive.rs)
35 points by Barrera 4y ago|15 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
> During an earnings call last month, BJ's CEO Bob Eddy said the store has kept the low price "just because it's such a meaningful thing to our members." He said the chain makes similar investments in other "key
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by Barrera 4y ago
These are gorgeous and the idea of physical tokens has a rich history in Bitcoin. Some users love them but others not so much. There are two problems to solve: (1) securing the cryptographic material (aka "private key(s)") stored
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What We Can Learn from the Dramatic Dip in Divorce Among Millennials (2019)(psmag.com)
1 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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Was the Queen's Virtual Carriage Ride a Real Hologram?(gizmodo.com)
1 points by Barrera 4y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
> “I just think the idea is terrifically ridiculous,” said Mr. Friedman, the founder and faculty director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law. “Drones can’t fly through doors. Shooters wear body armor.” Forgettin
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Elon Musk has 'super bad feeling' about economy, wants to slash Tesla jobs(lite.cnn.com)
2 points by Barrera 4y ago|1 comments
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by Barrera 4y ago
> ... we will extend our hiring pause for both new and backfill roles for the foreseeable future and rescind a number of accepted offers. and later: > We will also rescind a number of outstanding offers for people who have not started
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by Barrera 4y ago
> ... After much thought and consideration, we have made the difficult but necessary decision to part ways with approximately 10% of our workforce. Burying this at the end of paragraph #4 seems odd. It's not like given the timing an
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Statewide precipitation for the water year to date is 73 percent of average. Sierra-Cascades snowpack for the water year to date is 10 percent of average, down from 18 percent last week. Statewide reservoir storage is 71 percent of ave
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by Barrera 4y ago
> Pathfinder 3 will initially be powered by batteries, Weston said. But the goal is to have the helium-filled airship powered by hydrogen fuel cells, he said. This is worth expanding on. There is a worldwide shortage of helium [1]. It&#x

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