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by aazaa 5y ago
Great idea. What about the worst books of all time? I sometimes find myself disagreeing about highly-recommended books, which makes me wonder about the value of reading books that are widely disliked.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The book nicely separates out the useful tech part from the political propaganda, and deflates the entire hype around it (Hint: Most people want Merkle trees and a trusted institution, but think they need a Blockchain - they will end u
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by aazaa 5y ago
There are many. A simple example is solubility. Molecules with amines generally are soluble in acid. Molecules with carboxylic acid groups are usually soluble in base. Molecules with flexible hydrocarbon chains tend to be soluble in oils. M
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The best argument against the billionaire space race is how little impact it will have on the lives of most of Earth’s inhabitants. It will inaugurate a new era of ultra-expensive stunt tourism, perhaps, but it will do nothing for the
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by aazaa 5y ago
The chemical structure is the clue to the explosive potential. The N-N-N triad is a strange beast that shows up in a lot of explosive materials. They're explosive for similar reasons that ammonia nitrate is explosive. https:/&#x2
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Branson, in remarks from his Virgin Galactic flight on Sunday, said the spaceflight was the “complete experience of a lifetime” shortly after the spacecraft successfully took off over New Mexico. The most striking thing about this is n
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by aazaa 5y ago
> In simple words, it’s a slow database. A better way to put it is: "it's a log file composed of blocks." > A blockchain “validates” and permanently stores the data after a consensus is reached. Not so. The whole point
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Experts do still have their theories. And one of them links the disease with the arrival of Brood-X cicadas that made their appearance around late April to early May — the same time people started to notice the dead birds. A different
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by aazaa 5y ago
> According to a report by Bloomberg, Flex drivers, who are Amazon contract workers and not granted the protections reserved for full-time employees, are being hired and fired via an app. A software program monitors each worker to determ
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The granddaddy of all consensus mechanisms—behind Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, and (for the time being at least) Ethereum—is called proof of work. Essentially, PoW makes adding transactions to the blockchain computationally—and therefore
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by aazaa 5y ago
This is a joke, right? The authors report conducting two "intelligence" tests: "Wordsum task"; and "Raven’s progressive matrices". The first is a verbal test. Correlation should be expected.. The second is a ki
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by aazaa 5y ago
Have a look at Passengers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_(2016_film) And here's an alternative take that might work better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU
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El Salvador Is Printing Money with Bitcoin(foreignpolicy.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
From the linked Gizmodo article: > The air temperature in Verkhojansk was 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius)—still anomalously hot, but not Arizona hot. https://gizmodo.com/ground-temperatures-hit-118-degrees-in-t
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by aazaa 5y ago
Shorting deep into a double-digit correction sounds just as likely to lose money as buying deep into a double-digit expansion. The author is talking about a short-term trade, not an investment. There's a lot less room for error on the
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Settlement reached in Flintstone House case(mercurynews.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
That's an interesting way to phrase it. I get that this is a play off of the "This X doesn't exist.", where X is a machine-generated entity such as a picture of a cat or the bio for a person. If by "chemical" y
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by aazaa 5y ago
You've said nothing about goals. I'd say start there and work your way down.
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by aazaa 5y ago
This article is a mishmash of criticisms that have already been voiced countless times already. It's a medley of mediocre critiques. A better approach would have been to tackle one of these "myths" and explain the misconcepti
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by aazaa 5y ago
Odd. I found a better link: https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/CME-LBS1%21/
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by aazaa 5y ago
The article is from May. A lot has happened since then. This chart of lumber futures gives an idea of the recent past (zoom out 1-5 years for perspective): < https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=CME%3ALBS1! >
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by aazaa 5y ago
> According to the state-run biotech corporation, BioCubaFarma, Abdala has proven about 92.28% effective against COVID-19 in clinical trials, which would put it the same league as the most effective vaccines BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> A startling percentage of their compound backbones consisted of three- and four-membered rings concatenated into structures that no one can be sure are even stable, and are certainly beyond the current powers of organic synthesis. Addi
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by aazaa 5y ago
He never made good on this promise: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7qawy/john-mcafee-no-longer... Kind of undermines his credibility.
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by aazaa 5y ago
The update is telling: > Update 3/17/2021: Our original article stated "Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Energy for 299 Days." It was pointed out to us that while Costa Rica's electric grid does run primarily
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by aazaa 5y ago
Script is restricted, but it permits everything outlined by Nick Szabo's definition. As Wikipedia notes: > Smart contracts were first proposed in the early 1990s by Nick Szabo, who coined the term, using it to refer to "a set o
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by aazaa 5y ago
It redirects to Google. So the effect (including tracking) is identical to just doing a Google search.
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by aazaa 5y ago
You can think of the Bitcoin block chain as the state of a globally-accessible machine. The state is updated through the publication of valid blocks, each of which builds on a previous block. A block is composed of transactions, each of whi
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by aazaa 5y ago
> California has $5.2 billion to pay off people’s rent, money from multiple aid packages approved by Congress. That appears to be more than enough to cover all of the unpaid rent in the state, according to Jason Elliott, senior counselor

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