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by MaysonL 9y ago
Yes, currently watching the world blitz chess championship (started at 03:00 pt). Amazing performance by 15-year-old Andrey Esipenko, currently with 8 points in 12 rounds (6 wins and 4 draws against grand masters) tied for 9-19 places with
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Doesn't handle floating point input.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
The DDR was going down, once Hungary opened its borders. There was no wall between East bloc countries, and as many East Germans were leaving as could find cars and gas to get out with.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Podcast interview with de Soto here: https://www.acast.com/ft-alphachat/hernandodesotoontheeconom...
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Or by setting Safari preferences to open economist.com pages in Reader mode. Preferences -> Websites -> Reader
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Yesterday some Fed-Ex delivery people came by, driving a U-Haul van. Followed by a pickup truck which parked in front, and drove off after they did.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
She's a weaver, fabric artist, and teacher of fabric arts. Travels the country giving courses. Sells instructional materials and occasional tools and materials. Not a bit of shadiness involved. Your comment is inappropriate for this si
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Memory quirks – a memorable name, combining with internet search.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Mark spam as spam. Unsubscribe from content you signed up for and no longer want.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
"So I went home and immediately did a local backup, wipe and restore. And voila! Performance issues were gone."
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If Your iPhone Is Slow Try a Backup and Restore(mglenn.com)
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by MaysonL 9y ago
The author's name struck a chord. Turns out that he is likely a great-nephew (and name-sake) of a physics professor of mine many years ago. [0] [0] http://oleksabilaniuk.blogspot.com/2009/04/oleksa-myron-petr.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
My sister-in-law has a blog that sends out email notifications to subscribers (who requested them) when she posts a new article. After a few hundred subscribers had marked these notices as spam rather than unsubscribing, her blog, email acc
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Curious about the reasons for downvotes. In case I wasn't clear, those three are very critical of the current Republican party, especially the current administration
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by MaysonL 9y ago
If you want a case study of how the Republican party has sunk to extreme dunk-on-ability, read the Twitter feeds of David Frum, Bill Kristol, and Rick Wilson: three stalwart Republicans.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Newspapers have been prohibited from running discriminatory ads, Facebook should also be.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
In Peter Drucker's memoir, Adventures of a Bystander he relates the story of a contemporary, and onetime colleague of his, who rose fairly high in the Nazi regime, who mentioned, when Drucker was preparing to leave Germany in the ear
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by MaysonL 9y ago
The "culture that came out of northern Europe" is a meaningless term.
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Google Thinks I’m Dead (I know otherwise)(nytimes.com)
22 points by MaysonL 9y ago|6 comments
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Here's an uncomfortable idea to contemplate. Suppose Kary Mullis had expressed some of his more wingnut extreme ideas before he got hired, and that had caused him no to be employable? And he then failed to have the opportunity to inven
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Uber reduces ambulance usage across the country, study says(mercurynews.com)
1 points by MaysonL 9y ago|0 comments
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Well, they don't have any currently well-selling model whose sales would get ruined by the Osborne effect, and the pre-announcement may keep a few customers from defecting to Windows, Linux, or Hackintoshes.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Orrin Hatch, after voting for a trillion-dollar tax cut, said there wasn't any money for CHIP.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
The original: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior , published in 1944 by Princeton University Press, by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern the text that created the interdisciplinary research field of game theory, is still worth read
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Who Becomes an Inventor in America? [pdf](equality-of-opportunity.org)
1 points by MaysonL 9y ago|2 comments
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by MaysonL 9y ago
Was any of the solar and wind power currently being installed planned even 10 years ago? I doubt it: fossil and nuclear installations planned have been going down for quite a while.
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by MaysonL 9y ago
And California's maternal death rate was cut more than in half in 5 years, and is now one-third the rate of the US as a whole. Data analysis, and developing tools and algorithms.
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California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth(vox.com)
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Strange Fruit: Anniversary of a Lynching (2010)(npr.org)
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Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development [pdf](cepr.net)
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