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Pascal's Wager(en.wikipedia.org)
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The End of Food (2014)(newyorker.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
> The strength of the housing market has helped support the bonds for now. Home-price appreciation has slowed over the past year, but the average U.S. house value still rose more than 2% in August from a year earlier, according to S&
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by aazaa 7y ago
> ... Countries weren’t ready to give up their national currencies, but they agreed to fix their exchange rates with each other instead of “floating” their currency and letting capital markets set the rates. Since Germany had the stronge
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by aazaa 7y ago
> ... We thus attribute our light-based signal injection results to mechanical movements of the microphone’s diaphragm, which are in turn translated to output voltage by the microphone’s internal circuitry. Aside from the security aspect
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by aazaa 7y ago
> The premise behind bitcoin-the-game is that the current wave of buyers must guess when (or if) a subsequent wave of buyers will emerge, this second next wave's participation being contingent on when (or if) they believe a third wa
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by aazaa 7y ago
No link to the original paper. There's really no excuse for that kind of sloppiness.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> The dominant use case for cryptocurrency is speculation. Speculators want to put value into the system, somehow have it become greater, and then take more value out of the system than they put in. This chestnut gets trotted out pretty
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article presents evidence for a correction, but not a crash. I'd be interested in a revision that compares data around the housing crash of 2008- to housing data for previous recessions to identify the keys to a housing crash. Was
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by aazaa 7y ago
Tesla as a long term investment going forward largely depends on whether you view the electric car as a disruptive innovation (breaks established car companies' business models) or sustaining innovation (does not break established car
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by aazaa 7y ago
For a long time unsigned apps have refused to launch on macOS. The workaround is to right-click on it then choose "Open". Does this no longer work on Catalina?
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> ... The last economic crisis contributed directly to the rise of populism over the following decade, but the next crisis will come squarely within the age of populism. ... Although the article doesn't mention it, the next recessio
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by aazaa 7y ago
I think most participants in the Internet circa 1996 and personal computers in the early 1980s would understand this idea. The Internet was being widely written off as a toy that many couldn't ever imagine having practical applications
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by aazaa 7y ago
> San Francisco’s progressive self-image soon trumped common sense, and in 1996, at the urging of the Coalition on Homelessness, voters turned Jordan out of city hall in favor of former state assembly speaker Willie Brown. Brown had run
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by aazaa 7y ago
> But California’s political system is making it hard to respond to these pressures. Thanks to a 1978 ballot initiative called Proposition 13, California cities have stringent limits on raising revenue from local property taxes. That for
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by aazaa 7y ago
Can you describe the tests you have in more detail? What do they test (e.g., is view code being tested), and how do they deal with difficult cases (e.g., situations in which one might be tempted to reach for a mock or stub)? Things like tak
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by aazaa 7y ago
> They say they were driving with family members on 3 October when, to avoid an animal, they veered onto a small road. > A police officer then pulled them over, told them they were in the US state of Washington and arrested them. Horr
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Nine-Dash Line(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 7y ago
> However, Vipin Narang, a nuclear expert and political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said removing the weapons would not be straightforward. “Extracting them under these circumstances may be incredibly risky si
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by aazaa 7y ago
It is most certainly about scientific debate. The public already has a distorted view of what science is and how it works. One example: that things are "proven" rather than "disproven," as I noted in my original comment.
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> When it comes to gravity, the two theories [quantum theory and classical theory] are completely incompatible, and there is no way to escape the conclusion that one or both of them must be seriously incomplete or even flat-out wrong abo
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by aazaa 7y ago
> And yet, for some reason, the idea persists in some peoples' minds that climate change is up for debate, or that climate change is no big deal. Hold it right there. Anthropogenic climate change (not just that the earth is warming,
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by aazaa 7y ago
> On July 30, 1976, the LR returned its initial results from Mars. Amazingly, they were positive. As the experiment progressed, a total of four positive results, supported by five varied controls, streamed down from the twin Viking space
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> “The time has come to rethink wilderness,” Cronon begins his essay. He goes on to challenge the widely held and decidedly romantic notion of environmentalists that “wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilization, that
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by aazaa 7y ago
This quote is eerily prescient: > I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That's where you'll find a group powerful enough to enforce ta
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by aazaa 7y ago
> A Visa spokesperson told The Verge. “Visa has decided not to join the Libra Association at this time,” the spokesperson said. “We will continue to evaluate and our ultimate decision will be determined by a number of factors, including
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by aazaa 7y ago
The original paper, fortunately linked in the article, is quite readable: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0663-9 I was expecting it to discuss the largest species previously shown to demonstrate an interfere
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by aazaa 7y ago
The "airdrop" terminology is interesting to say the least. The closest thing I can see to a definition is in 26 CFR 1.61-1: > An airdrop is a means of distributing units of a cryptocurrency to the distributed ledger addresses o
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The Repo Market Is More Than Mere Plumbing(bloomberg.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article is light on technical details, but it looks like an "oracle" is being used to arbitrate the contract. The Bitcoin block chain (or Ethereum for that matter) knows nothing about options prices or rules. The oracle would

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