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by apo 8y ago
I'm a fan of this blog and the way it develops the simple idea of the Growth Ponzi Scheme, which is sucking the life out of towns everywhere in the US. https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/ I also l
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Draw.io: online diagramming(draw.io)
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I'd wear "Unknown" as a badge of honor.
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Notice how this article never clearly states specifically how a block chain solves the supply chain problem, nor does it even clearly state the problem in the first place. A very common response to these block chain/supply chain stor
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California Proposition 7, Permanent Daylight Saving Time Measure (2018)(ballotpedia.org)
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I can't imagine this kind of analysis carrying much weight in 3-5 years as advances in machine learning and image manipulation turn the notion of "seeing is believing" on its head. edit: Imagine running this process in revers
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The link to Science in the article has a much more precise description of what was found: The anatomist Friedrich S. Merkel predicted in 1880 that sensory systems are composed of epithelial cells and sensory nerves, which together transfor
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... The central bank may worry that narrow banks, which lend to neither companies nor individuals, could hamper the effectiveness of monetary policy. Their business model may also risk unsettling incumbent banks, which could have large eco
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by apo 8y ago
High point: Thompson told the American troops that, if they opened fire on the Vietnamese civilians in the bunker, he and his crew would open fire on them. Talk about courage. Low point: He concluded — after a decade of research in Penta
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Sitting There for Five Hundred Million Years(blogs.sciencemag.org)
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It is neither explosive nor toxic – the byproducts are a small amount of water vapor and aluminum powder, which can be recycled. Ardica appears to be ultimately searching for a rechargeable hydrogen storage medium. Fill a cell with alumin
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by apo 8y ago
From the Wiki: A softfork is a change to the bitcoin protocol wherein only previously valid blocks/transactions are made invalid. ... https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Softfork It's not clear to me yet under what
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by apo 8y ago
From the commit that fixes the issue (CVE-2018-17144), the root cause was failure to call checkTransaction with the third (last) argument set to true: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14249/files
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by apo 8y ago
Didn't see a video on that page, but it's here: https://www.bicycling.com/news/a23281242/denise-mueller-kore... That must have taken a lot of training. One wrong move and it's game over.
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Some hard-liners want a more aggressive stance. Lou Jiwei, who retired as finance minister in 2016 but is still the head of the country’s social security fund, suggested on Sunday that China could deliberately disrupt American companies’ s
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by apo 8y ago
Future you may rue the day you ever let Facebook's tentacles down your throat. The data being collected about you is permanent. It can be combined with other data to shine spotlights into your life you thought were off limits forever.
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After all, how can officials from the Federal Reserve to the Bank of Japan even pretend to know how to reverse what they’ve done over the past decade? As I understand the US Fed plan, treasuries bought under QE would be allowed to mature
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by apo 8y ago
That's also the best way to buy bitcoin.
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by apo 8y ago
What documents did you sign prior to working on the app? The main thing to avoid is intellectual property (trademark, copyright, patent, and nondisclosure) infringement.
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by apo 8y ago
...it's just best to ride it out without selling. Maybe, but psychology will work against you. Would you be comfortable sitting on a 70% loss of your life savings with no end in sight? If so, buy and hold might work. It doesn't
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The "Business Cycle" section on page 17 is basically a blueprint for money and finance in decade-sized chunks. 1. Early Cycle. Low interest rates and lots of credit increase sales of big-ticket items. 2. Mid-Cycle. Slowing economy
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by apo 8y ago
The title seems misleading. There doesn't appear to be any new technology here, just a funding round announcement. In a press release, the company listed a bunch of advantages that they claim their technology has over current batterie
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by apo 8y ago
The alternative was to let capitalism administer its punishment to reckless speculators. Instead, they were made whole again at the cost of years worth of future demand pulled forward by easy money policies. Worse, the sense that "we m
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by apo 8y ago
It's very hard for anyone who wasn't fully aware in the months following 9-11 to understand just how much support there was for both wars. - American flags flying everywhere. - Bumper stickers everywhere. - Americans demanding t
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by apo 8y ago
That's surprising. Why do you think this kind of information diffuses so slowly?
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I'm always amazed at how readable and relevant Orwell remains. This essay is a good example. It would seem that human beings are not able to describe, nor perhaps to imagine, happiness except in terms of contrast. ... I wonder if thi
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Entrepreneur raises millions of bugs to tackle food waste problem (2017)(globaltimes.cn)
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Strange as this may sound, this reminds me of Joe Rogan's interview with Elon Musk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI Some of Asimov's predictions about the future were... off. The middle segment of Musk
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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship [video](paywallthemovie.com)
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South Portland gets a herd of hungry goats to clear park of invasive weed(pressherald.com)
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