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He didn't exactly say he's leaving Twitter. He said he disagrees with the moderation policy and gives a link to his Mastodon account. That part about this being "the last straw" implies some change of view. Read in a cer
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One thing that's interesting here is how Jobs doesn't answer the specific technical question: How does Java address the ideas embodied in OpenDoc? Instead, Jobs answers the question behind the question: What role should new techno
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Twitter bans accounts of CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists(cnn.com)
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Massachusetts recount flips state house election to Democrat by one vote(theguardian.com)
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Autopsy-based characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination(link.springer.com)
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For those wondering how the Fed can possibly be so aggressive in light of the recent CPI miss, go back to Powell's Jackson Hole speech: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20220... It ran a
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> A run on the bank forced immediate liquid delivery from FTX. Which bank? FTX? FTX was in his own words an "exchange." An exchange holds customer funds in custody for immediate redemption. A bank lends customer funds out and
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Summary: a private key associated with the very first non-coinbase transaction in Bitcoin appears to have signed a message making the claim in the title. For those downplaying the claim based on the source, this is irrelevant. The signature
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> The world's biggest crypto exchange will freeze all withdrawals of USD Coin while it conducts a "token swap" to boost its holdings of the dollar-pegged cryptocurrency, the crypto group's CEO Changpeng Zhao said Tues
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E = mc^2 Consume a small amount of mass, release a very large amount of energy due to the huge conversion factor. The first law isn't violated because the energy being released is coming from the annihilation of matter. Mass and energy
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Some perspective from cnet: > But, as with all science, it's good to be cautious and not overhype results yet to be fully analyzed. We have been here before, after all. In 2013, reports swirled the NIF had achieved this exact feat.
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This article has some context, including this part about possible penalties if found guilty: > Legal experts told CNBC that if the federal government pursues wire or bank fraud charges, Bankman-Fried could face life in prison without the
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Is floating point math broken?(stackoverflow.com)
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> But the storytelling technique encourages fluff, the sort of padding people think novelists use, but which they don’t. When Elizabeth Bowen describes a character or sets a scene she is contributing to the overall mood but also pointing
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The central issue is whether FTX user funds were used in violation of the terms of service. Whenever that question comes up, the open and honest SBF rolls over and plays dumb. He doesn't have the details. His dashboard didn't show
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Californians reluctant to cash in their inflation-relief debit cards: Here's why(abc7news.com)
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I'd consider James Bond to lie more toward the genre of "action" rather than "thriller." An action story has three obligatory elements: - a hero (James Bond) - a victim (humanity, or maybe a damsel) - a villain (rot
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> Money: the first and still most important app Money is also the thing that will continue to be problematic for Ethereum going forward. Two technical problems drive this: 1. Scalability issues related to a very large block chain size an
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Using Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon(huggingface.co)
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> This matches the expectations published in our blog post 2 years ago about the age of memory safety vulnerabilities and why our focus should be on new code, not rewriting existing components. and > As we noted in the original announ
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Interesting (I think), but the page lacks a problem statement that the project seeks to solve. As others have noted, "make all software programmable" seems a bit vague. And it's vague because there's no problem in there.
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The True Story Behind ‘Cocaine Bear’ (2021)(rollingstone.com)
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A lot of people mistake activity for productivity, and you can capitalize on that. If you send one or two emails a day, summarizing what’s going on with a project in excruciating detail, people will start to think of you as that vaguely an