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How Middle Eastern States Consolidate Power (2016)(stratfor.com)
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
Reminds me of Dickens' portrayal of Sydney Carton in Tale of Two Cities. Dickens' ability to peer into the soul of Carton moved me in ways no longer work has before. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever
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How the New Science of Computational History Is Changing the Study of the Past(technologyreview.com)
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The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took a Big Step(wired.com)
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The world’s oldest computer is still revealing its secrets(washingtonpost.com)
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
> LIDAR: An airborne laser scanner (ALS) is mounted to a helicopter skid pad. Flying with pre-determined guidelines, including altitude, flight path and airspeed, the ALS pulses the terrain with more than 16 laser beams per square metre
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
The recent move of Adidas back to Germany seems to contradict your assertion: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-...
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
This begs the question: as human productivity is increasingly usurped by machines, what will happen to the human manufacturing population? Will we finally figure out a way to distribute wealth in a agreeable way (through, for example, basic
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
One of the interviewees mentioned that meditating was very difficult because he kept having thoughts that were not supposed to come up emerge. My immediate thought was to what I learned in Buddhist teaching to have compassion for oneself. I
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
The first half seemed to be about fear mongering but I found the last half more balanced. And discussing the Three Marks of Existence as the full breadth of what meditators are supposed to achieve was quite refreshing to read from a mainstr
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
There was stuff dropping away … [and] electric shocks through my body. [My] core sense of self, a persistent consciousness, the thoughts and stuff, were not me." This sounds to me like the beginnings of psychosis. I don't doubt
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
100 people involved? That's a lot of people who could potentially slip up.
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Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter(nytimes.com)
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
I went to a conference recently where an MD/researcher in this field discussed the latest state of the art findings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83u-i73ppr8 Long story short, the gut-brain axis is a compelling area
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
Agreed. This is why origin of life scenarios are so fascinating!
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
If you are at all interested in the origin of life and the role of energy therein, I cannot recommend any single source of knowledge more than the following paper as it has literally changed my life: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.co
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The Problem with Artificial Willpower (2015)(scientificamerican.com)
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Wireless, Super-Fast Internet Access Is Coming to Your Home(technologyreview.com)
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
> The U.S. Justice Dept. launched a criminal investigation, and in 2007 the company and three top executives pleaded guilty to fraud for downplaying OxyContin’s risk of addiction. Purdue and the executives were ordered to pay $635 milli
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
His claim is hyperbolic, but only from the perspective of the way that scientific research has been conducted for the last 10-15 years. Prior to this, many researchers were forced to tell "a story" because the sheer volume of data
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Are Google, Uber, and Digital Companies Trapped by Colonial Economics?(bigthink.com)
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
As a company that has a huge grip on higher end hardware sales, I definitely think they will stay in the space. That being said, product innovation certainly needs to happen for them to retain their dominance.
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
Product innovation I would think
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
When Apple Pay came out I was astonished. It's a brilliant move to act as a middleman between a device that almost everyone possesses and currency. After all, what is more profitable than a financial institution?
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
Why do you think the era is over? Are people buying less cellphones and laptops?
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
"Apple may be reaching the saturation point (of the products it currently sells) among potential customers in some countries"
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
Because what is a story really but condensed data?
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
I imagine this complexity comes from his combination of economic and religious values. Interestingly, it was not uncommon for Protestants to have this kind of dilemma - they were encouraged to work very hard (see "The Protestant Work E
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You Pay to Read Research You Fund. That’s Ludicrous(wired.com)
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by allisthemoist 10y ago
> “Any attempt to arrest me will be treated as a hostile act,” he wrote to Mr. Reising. By then, agents had been informed by the Delaware State Police that Mr. Lopez’s mother, Joyce Lopez, had told them that her son had a shotgun and was

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