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Black Friday is dead – and constant discounts could be to blame(businessinsider.com)
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For a comedic peek into the culture around Britain's detectorists (ties in nicely with this story), check out the series Detecorists , available on Netflix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists
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Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boB6qu5dcCw
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In the late 1980s I attended a talk at a political gathering in San Francisco. The speaker asked the audience members to think about the scores of homeless people they saw walking to the event. The speaker then made a statement that I'
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... I have spelled out many times very clearly what theoretical physicists should do differently. It’s just that they don’t like my answer. They should stop trying to solve problems that don’t exist. That a theory isn’t pretty is not a pro
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Seems like a non-apology. It was all the "rogue wave" that "capsized the boat." If a fund can't manage volatility surges, the blame isn't the rogue wave that, out of nowhere blew everything to smithereens, but
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Having seen four of these major wipeouts over the years, here's the pattern for this highly cyclical spectacle: 1. Nobody cares about Bitcoin. If you tell anyone you bought it, they either shrug or laugh. 2. Bitcoin refuses to die. The
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From the article: In 1965, California's George Murphy joined the Senate, and kept candy in his desk to offer his colleagues, and for himself, though eating is not allowed on the Senate floor. When he left the Senate after a six-year t
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''I've been in retailing 30 years and I have never seen any category of goods get on a self-destruct pattern like this,'' said Everett Purdy, senior vice president of merchandising for Service Merchandise, which se
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Glybera was never sold in North America and was available in Europe for just two years, beginning in 2015 The patent will expire within a few years, setting the stage for generic manufacturers to step in, but the article doesn't ment
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The board also decided to keep Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller in the curriculum, reversing a decision that made headlines in September. Clinton and Keller were initially removed, along with other historical figures, in an effort to &quot
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Bitcoin is Worse is Better(gwern.net)
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Nifty idea, but I'm not sure I agree with the technique used to prove effectiveness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU The narrator puts a particle counter in front of the fan and notes the 90% reduction. So
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Both the "congestion" and "storage" paradoxes fail to even mention Lightning Network (LN): http://lightning.network LN operates on a different kind of network from the Bitcoin P2P mainnet. More users with mor
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Lots of witty quotes in this article, such as: ... the true tests (such as the dissertation requirement) in graduate school are really designed to discover whether at some point one is willing to just turn the damn thing in. The willingne
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It looks like I wasn't clear - I'm suggesting an in-browser app independent of iOS and the app store.
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This might be a good time to reconsider what made iOS the best platform for this application in the first place. For example, can the app be re-packaged as an HTML5 app instead? What's the compelling advantage for building on iOS for t
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Blueprint for Armageddon(dancarlin.com)
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I interpreted the idea a little differently then: While I’ve been dithering about publishing the idea, and someone else has mentioned it first (and may also have thought of it first.) So let me quote Zbigniew Łukasiak, commenting on the Ha
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Summary: Use a "lag" license. After some period of time, a proprietary license becomes an open source license. For a twist, there can be a two-stage reveal. First, reveal the source code, but grant no additional rights. Second, li
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In the middle of this entire mess sits the federal government with its interest payments, payment deferments, and loan guarantees. Loans are made to people who not only have no business going to college, but have no business taking out a li
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Implementing a Simple Compiler on 25 Lines of JavaScript (2017)(blog.mgechev.com)
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These predictions are interesting, but spectacularly off in some respects. For example: ... The bookstore resembled, instead, an electronic laboratory. The books were crystals with recorded contents. They could be read with the aid of an o
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Beside the REPL, another impressive feat of Common Lisp is meta-programming. You can write software to write software. Say what? Yeah, that was my initial reaction too, but Common Lisp’s macro system allows you to write functions that retu
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While funds for low-income subsidized housing languish, much larger pots of money are set aside for promoting homeownership through subsidies like the mortgage interest deduction and capital gains exemption, most of which goes to upper-mid
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Looking for clues that this is parody, here's a candidate ("Big Water"): She’s been carted off in an ambulance after fainting at the gym, after suffering a panic attack and after experiencing extreme exhaustion from a minor
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"Lie detection" is probably just the beginning. Think of what could be done by combining this system with facial recognition. Deployed widely enough, this system could build a personalized profile for each individual, mapping emot
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Get the lead out of hair dyes, FDA orders(nbcnews.com)
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Superconductors come broadly in two types: conventional, in which the activity can be explained by the mainstream theory of superconductivity, and unconventional, where it can’t. The latest studies suggest that graphene’s superconducting b
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Glyphr Studio: a free, web based font designer(glyphrstudio.com)
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