MaysonL

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901.
by MaysonL 9y ago
The term is "group mind", not "collective consciousness" <g-d-r>
902.
Can you predict a recession by looking at pregnancy rates?(bbc.com)
41 points by MaysonL 9y ago|28 comments
903.
by MaysonL 9y ago
Cf. Sturgeon's Law, and its genesis.
904.
by MaysonL 9y ago
We never had any spam classification problems with customers who used Google or Microsoft free email services, so have no idea if similar things work there, or if they keep a stronger separation between the ad network and the mail services
905.
The Ignorance Project(gapminder.org)
1 points by MaysonL 9y ago|0 comments
906.
by MaysonL 9y ago
See: Earned Income Tax Credit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit
907.
by MaysonL 9y ago
I wonder what would happen if Apple bought Elsevier, and made all of its journals available on any Apple device for $100/yr? A reasonable thing to do with its cash hoard, no? Amazon, or Bezos, could probably raise the money to swing a
908.
Why the Drinking Bird Toy Is a Brilliant Piece of Thermodynamic Engineering(sploid.gizmodo.com)
1 points by MaysonL 9y ago|0 comments
909.
The Computational Propaganda Project(comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk)
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910.
Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly(youtube.com)
1 points by MaysonL 9y ago|0 comments
911.
U.S. Watersheds, a map(assets.atlasobscura.com)
4 points by MaysonL 9y ago|1 comments
912.
by MaysonL 9y ago
"All Social Security and Medicare need to become totally solvent for the next century is one good flu epidemic." /s
913.
by MaysonL 9y ago
How many entities have recently stopped taking bitcoin, and how many have started? Are the growing transaction cost and latency going to kill usage?
914.
U.S. Soldiers Accidentally Reveal Secret Bases with Jogging App(chicago.cbslocal.com)
3 points by MaysonL 9y ago|1 comments
915.
Books from a Library that many HNers will envy (I just bought 2)(twitter.com)
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916.
by MaysonL 9y ago
Over the years I've done a fair amount of good work as a programmer. These days, I get as much joy as I ever got programming by cooking some vegetable soup and sharing it with friends. (And it's cheap: $10 makes about 2 gallons [~
917.
by MaysonL 9y ago
True, but not hierarchies of control over people's lives.
918.
by MaysonL 9y ago
And yet there seems to be a fair amount of support here for guaranteed basic income / guaranteed employment.
919.
Harvard's milliDelta Robot Is Tiny and Scary Fast(spectrum.ieee.org)
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920.
by MaysonL 9y ago
Jane Jacobs pointed this out in 1961: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...
921.
‘Studies in Power’: An Interview with Robert Caro(nybooks.com)
1 points by MaysonL 9y ago|0 comments
922.
The Ellipse and the Atom (2013)(gregegan.net)
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923.
Explorable Explanations(explorabl.es)
1 points by MaysonL 9y ago|0 comments
924.
by MaysonL 9y ago
PDF of the book: http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn...
925.
Apple’s Indirect Presence Fades from CES(techpinions.com)
5 points by MaysonL 9y ago|0 comments
926.
Japanese Pop Group: 'Virtual Currency Girls'(cointelegraph.com)
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927.
by MaysonL 9y ago
"Advertising technology firm Criteo, one of the largest in the industry, says that the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature for Safari, which holds 15% of the global browser market, is likely to cut its 2018 revenue by more t
928.
Patent Monopolies, the Root of All Evil?: Purdue Pharma and OxyContin(newyorker.com)
1 points by MaysonL 9y ago|0 comments
929.
by MaysonL 9y ago
A friend of mine had a plotter in which he substituted an Exacto type knife blade for the pen, and plotted into vinyl (with adhesive backing) which allowed for some amazing stuff. He did some wild murals with it (varied colors).
930.
by MaysonL 9y ago
And DARPA is nowhere near as good as ARPA was.

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