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by aazaa 6y ago
> The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at
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by aazaa 6y ago
The absolute beginner technical guide may be the most difficult kind of writing there is. You have to know what's already in the head of the absolute beginner. If it's garbage, you need to set that straight before anything else ca
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New coronavirus strain spreading in UK has key mutations, scientists say(reuters.com)
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> has more capable leadership Have you considered the possibility that this is a bug, not a feature?
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Bitcoin's exchange rate has advanced in regular four-year cycles going back to about 2010. The peaks are phase-shifted from the four-year halving period. Each cycle is punctuated by a media hype deluge. Nonstop coverage of Bitcoin in t
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Subscribed, and looking forward to starting. Amazing idea. I will admit that I didn't get the idea on the first fast skim of the article. I completely missed the part about Black Mirror. It sounded like just another podcast from the re
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> Why the negative [stock price] reaction? Because this time the Bitcoin would be bought with other people's money, instead of the cash reserves already on MicroStrategy's balance sheet. How about a correction after a face-ripp
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The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Just Print More Money(newyorker.com)
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> More troublesome, the inherent flaw of having the global reserve currency, in a theme that goes back to economist Robert Triffin from over half a century ago, is that in order to maintain the global reserve currency, the country must s
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The Overview page doesn't describe the problem to be solved. If it did that, I'd at least know whether I have that problem and could decided whether to continue reading. This is an extremely common failing in technical writing. Wi
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Shadertoy(shadertoy.com)
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> Instead, when users attempted to react to or share the tweet, a message popped up from the platform reading, “we try to prevent a Tweet like this that otherwise breaks the Twitter Rules from reaching more people, so we have disabled mo
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The problem with this question is that there are likely to be multiple vaccines. Each will have its quirks. The first round of vaccines will require two doses a few weeks apart. Each one of those requires a visit. Failure to get the secon
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> Yesterday we launched Typefully, a write-only interface for Twitter, after weeks of work and refinement. I told the whole story on Twitter @frankdilo. The idea of a write-only interface is interesting in itself. I was expecting to see
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by aazaa 6y ago
Congrats! From the Why I Built page: > Years later, and I've taken a job in software at a large media company. I'll name no names but this company had music brands that were (and are) known globally. How have you navigated inte
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Texas joined by 17 states in Supreme Court lawsuit to overturn election defeat(independent.co.uk)
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Copper and boron, according to Wikipedia, will give green flame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_fire But given the extreme conditions, a number of other factors could be at work.
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Could it be that, rather than the death of a particular variety of open source ("Open Core"), that the author has in fact described yet another open source business model? One that specifically extends Open Core? Consider: - Compa
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The article makes some good points about the contradictions in state policy, for example: > That the State considers pro sports a critical infrastructure (essential) activity undermines this whole rubric in my mind. Pro sports is very ni
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Mystery illness puts 450 in hospital in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh(theguardian.com)
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> Among the people who resigned this fall - to protest new internal policies - were 4 of the 7 people on the most critical security team, the "key management team," sources told me. > The "key management team" is r
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> One of the hubs of the cooperation is a base on Mars — where, by the way, Eshed claims American astronauts have already set foot. Lots of claims like this. Zero evidence. Grist for the UFO mill. The entire alien visitation narrative ha
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Two explanations, both in the article near the end. The first is the standard: > In a Quora thread that asked the question “Why did Digital Equipment Corporation fail?” it was interesting to see so many previous DEC employees and members
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To summarize: 1. "...only two-thirds of DeepMind’s solutions were comparable to the experimentally determined structure of the protein. ..." 2. "... the average or root-mean-squared difference (RMSD) in atomic positions betwe
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I suspect this move will provide new motivation to approve an ETF that tracks the index. The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF, years in the making, appears to be stalled as do the other Bitcoin ETFs.
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Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo(bbc.com)
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> Computer Science Degree - Is it worthy it? Should You Get it? The title seems to have an error ("worth it" is the expression). I bring this up not to be that person, but rather to note that a lot about how you'll be perc
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It's not clear whether the predictions were for the solution or solid phase. Can anyone speak to that?
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> Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that hasn’t roamed South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also images of the palaeo
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House to make historic vote to end marijuana prohibition this week(m.metrotimes.com)
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