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A French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation's Biggest Art Heist(newyorker.com)
64 points by acdanger 8y ago|2 comments
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Managing Cyberwar with Vodka(bloomberg.com)
1 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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U.S. State Department Issues China Travel Advisory(travel.state.gov)
5 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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Inside the booming business of background music(theguardian.com)
99 points by acdanger 8y ago|47 comments
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Grand Theft Cobalt(bloomberg.com)
1 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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A transformer explosion turned the New York City skyline blue(cnn.com)
4 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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Life and Death on El Capitan(outsideonline.com)
1 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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Get Rich U(newyorker.com)
2 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr (2014)(outsideonline.com)
3 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980 (2016)?(outsideonline.com)
2 points by acdanger 8y ago|1 comments
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by acdanger 8y ago
Also anecdotally, Prime has become inconsistent and unreliable since I moved to DC a couple of months ago. It's gotten better as we've moved closed to the holidays, but for a while it was taking 3-7 days for Prime-qualified items
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Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways(techcrunch.com)
150 points by acdanger 8y ago|154 comments
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by acdanger 8y ago
I read the book Masters of Doom a few years ago and they did a good job portraying them as creative rivals with clashing personalities. I don't know if they've reconciled in recent years and I've never heard about Romero work
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Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave(newyorker.com)
126 points by acdanger 8y ago|52 comments
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Toxic Slime Is Ruining Florida’s Gulf Coast(bloomberg.com)
1 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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NPR‘s Best Books of 2018(apps.npr.org)
37 points by acdanger 8y ago|9 comments
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Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift(techcrunch.com)
182 points by acdanger 8y ago|160 comments
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by acdanger 8y ago
Here's a graph plotting the 10 vs 2 year spread: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y
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by acdanger 8y ago
I wasn't aware that Vancouver had a significant opiate problem. Is it just a supply and demand at play via close ties with China? Or are there societal issues at play?
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The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted(bloomberg.com)
388 points by acdanger 8y ago|265 comments
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A Coal Mine Is Devouring a 12,000-Year-Old Forest(bloomberg.com)
3 points by acdanger 8y ago|1 comments
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by acdanger 8y ago
A great movie I saw recently that directly deals with the author's situation is Oslo, August 31. Grant it, there's little in the movie that the author would find comforting, but overall I found it to be a very realistic, if harsh,
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Death of American missionary could put this indigenous tribe's survival at risk(nationalgeographic.com)
4 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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by acdanger 8y ago
> He is quick to add that the transition from foraging to “sedentary settlement patterns” some 10,000 years ago was a net win for humanity. Many scholars consider this transition humanity's biggest blunder. See: http://di
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by acdanger 8y ago
In an ecological sense, what are the downsides of humanity killing itself off in the very near future? It seems like nothing but a net-positive for the rest of life residing on earth.
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by acdanger 8y ago
I grew up on a small family farm in Virginia that was named after the frogs that resided in and around the small spring at the base of a hill. At the peak of summer, the ground would "hop to life" as frogs jumped out of your way.
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The Bloop mystery has been solved (2012)(wired.co.uk)
2 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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by acdanger 8y ago
Interesting. Was it just earth worms? Many breeds rub their bodies into the earth especially when there's a strong (usually bad) odor present. I've heard the theory that the behavior is intended to mask the dog's own odor whi
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GM to Cut 10,000 Jobs, Targets 5 Factories for Closing Next Year(bloomberg.com)
3 points by acdanger 8y ago|0 comments
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A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America(bloomberg.com)
450 points by acdanger 8y ago|141 comments

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