UpshotKnothole

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Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con(theatlantic.com)
1 points by UpshotKnothole 8y ago|0 comments
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To Battle Floods, Cities Revive Their Long-Forgotten Alleyways(daily.jstor.org)
2 points by UpshotKnothole 8y ago|0 comments
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Anti-Algorithm Fashion(nytimes.com)
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The Ketchup Conundrum (2004)(newyorker.com)
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
The Firewall as spelled out in the original paper is widely considered to be unlikely, not in the least because it violates the equivalence principle. There are weaker versions of the firewall based in M-Theory which exist because there is
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
My lord, who wrote this article? Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light - a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. They didn’t discover it, as they say in the sa
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New Printer Can Use Honey or Liquid Metal as Ink(physicsworld.com)
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The Most Controversial Comic Strip(daily.jstor.org)
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
I, and I suspect many other people, often have online profiles and existences and we simply don’t care about the government seeing it. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like a high security option for some things, but most of what I do online is fr
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Can Facebook Really Drive Violence?(theatlantic.com)
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Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review(theatlantic.com)
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
Maybe efficiency shouldn’t be the highest goal of the criminal justice system, and maybe innovation and profit shouldn’t be either. There is plenty of room for reform of the current system without destroying it in favor of some dystopian pr
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
Even if Facebook actually wanted to change, intended to change and put time, money, and talent to the task this would still be a serious uphill climb. The idea that anyone could rehabilitate their image when they have no such commitment is
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
Dissonance carefully cultivated by decades of lobbying, and ideological indoctrination of the, “better dead than Red,” variety. Look at how little effort it takes to convince people to go to war, lock up their fellow humans for using drugs,
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War and Pest Control(daily.jstor.org)
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In 1900, Photographing an Entire Train Required the World’s Biggest Camera(atlasobscura.com)
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“Telling the Bees”(daily.jstor.org)
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
Also to what extent does “beginning and end” apply to a photon, which exists on a null geodesic? I realize that a photon can have no perspective, so I won’t try to talk about what a photon “sees,” and from our perspective a photon is emitte
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
Earlier NYT article explicitly supports your point: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/us/placebo-buttons-elevat... Given that the estimated useful life of an elevator is 25 years, it is likely that mos
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
That’s Hanlon’s Razor, Heinlein’s is, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.” In both an element people often overlook is the keyword adequately . Sure anything can be attribu
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Some Books Can Kill(daily.jstor.org)
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How Escaped Pets Took Over Florida(atlasobscura.com)
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Where Are the Biodegradable Alternatives to Plastic?(daily.jstor.org)
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The Communist Cookbook That Defined Prague’s Cuisine(atlasobscura.com)
69 points by UpshotKnothole 8y ago|25 comments
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
Original, uneditorialized title: The Online Gig Economy’s ‘Race to the Bottom’
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by UpshotKnothole 8y ago
Once it’s flashed to a plasma and turned into sub-micron dust? Probably not. The danger if there is any would be if the remaining particulates (assuming it wasn’t mostly reduced to heat, light and some basic elements) are friable.
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How Misinfodemics Spread Disease(theatlantic.com)
1 points by UpshotKnothole 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Technology Favors Tyranny(theatlantic.com)
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Why Google Doesn't Rank Right-Wing Outlets Highly(theatlantic.com)
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Why Civilizations End(daily.jstor.org)
3 points by UpshotKnothole 8y ago|1 comments

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