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Cyber Pearl Harbor doesn't worry me nearly as much as Cyber Gulf of Tonkin. The article takes the Russian "attack" in 2016 as given. The evidence is shaky at best that the Russians were in any way involved in leaking emails r
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Countdown to Calving at Brunt Ice Shelf(earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
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The Joule Machine was originally conceived as a measuring apparatus. James Joule built it in the 1840s for his famous measurement of the mechanical equivalent of heat: one Joule equals the amount of energy required to raise the temperature
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Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript(gpu.rocks)
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Impact isn't the same thing as solving problems, which is what I'm interested in. Yes, I have read none of the annual reports. I did pop over to the site and found this for 2017: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who
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Can anyone point to a list of problems the Gates foundation has solved through program(s) it has funded? Edit: took out some things about Gates and the dual nature of his work at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation.
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This is one of the reasons I will never use a tax preparation product online. Nor will I file online through the IRS's "secure" system. Even the downloadables are open to shenanigans behind the scenes, so it's not the be
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> Today was the tipping when I was trying to explain some basic mathematics to my daughter, and managed to lost here, making her more confused than before. How many questions do you ask during your explanations? I ask because it's v
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I did a double-take on seeing "Journalist, 12" so I checked out her site: https://orangestreetnews.com Impressive for an independent journalist at any age. To pick a beat and stick with it takes guts and grit. And she&
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The Big Money(topic.com)
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Blood testing has emerged as a sticking point. Specifically, a growing movement of veterans and others, united in advocacy groups with names like Fountain Valley Clean Water Coalition and Need Our Water, are asking the military test their
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The article uses the term "Rashomon effect" without defining it. I hadn't heard of it before, and here's what I found: The Rashomon effect occurs when an event is given contradictory interpretations by the individuals i
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Reminds me of a HN story awhile back from a guy who built a business with eye-popping revenue. The article was cagey about what the product was - some kind of imported good. Turns out it was counterfeit watches. Ugh.
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...Naranjo's partner, Alexander Shulgin, synthesized the more commonly known MDMA, which proved to be less hallucinogenic and less toxic than its original formation. Shulgin synthesized a variety of phenethylamines (of which MDMA is
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List of National Emergencies in the United States(en.wikipedia.org)
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Why Tesla's Model X was the first SUV to receive a perfect crash test rating(businessinsider.com)
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A record number of Americans are 90 days behind on their car payments(uk.finance.yahoo.com)
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California Governor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday the state will not complete a $77.3 billion planned high-speed rail project, but will finish a smaller section of the line. Is this really the Governor's call? Doesn't the legislatur
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When that trust turns out to be misplaced, there is no recourse. If your bitcoin exchange gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If your bitcoin wallet gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If you forget your login credentials, you lo
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Here’s a piece of context: My ownership of the Washington Post is a complexifier for me. It’s unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience Washington Post news coverage will wrongly conclude I am their enemy. President Trump is
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Funny how you can be right about future facts (world population) but wrong about the consequences. Make Room! Make Room! [1966] The world is overpopulated at 7 billion people, with 35 million people in New York City alone. The inspiratio
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You wrote: "The name of the game is to increase and decrease confidence in hypotheses by any legitimate statistical method, not to follow "the" method." The definition I cited says nothing about the particulars - it just
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Debunked here: As for the story of the postmortem experiment with Lagrange, no mention is made of it in any of the reputable biographies of Lavoisier. ... https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed081p629
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I'm all for making it quick, but the article doesn't inspire confidence that this process is quick. By the time this procedure is carried out, the fish has been hooked, drawn up and out of the water, dropped on the ground, and wre
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Wikipedia captures the essence of the Scientific Method: "...It involves formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental and measurement-based testing of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinem
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Start with No by Jim Camp. Maybe it didn't change my mind about "everything," but it did change my mind about everything related to negotiating. The premise is that "no," is not an answer to be feared and avoided
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Really well done. I especially like that there's a "pricing" tab, although I missed that at first. From the tab: One low-resolution logo file as inspiration for your designer. Some commenters didn't like the service b&
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Obtaining the hash value of a video, then embedding that hash value into a secure block chain is one approach that gives evidence that a specific video (or any other document) existed before some point in time. See, for example: https:&#
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Rust and WebAssembly(rustwasm.github.io)
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What happened was we failed to consider the consequences of centralization: - Google with its search - Tumblr (or Medium) with its blogging platform - Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram with their connection to friends, family, and news - Sta

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