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Outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid triggers level two alert(thenews.com.pk)
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by apo 8y ago
Facebook. Not because of a changing formula, but disregard for the importance of reputation in a fluid market.
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by apo 8y ago
Reminds me of an odd statement I recently read: the average person has one testicle and one ovary.
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Time travel claims and urban legends(en.wikipedia.org)
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by apo 8y ago
This has in fact been known for a long time; Leslie Lamport’s famous 1982 paper “The Byzantine Generals Problem” (link here) contains a description of the algorithm. The following will be my attempt to describe and reformulate the algorith
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by apo 8y ago
I'm Marcus, founder of Didyougogo and author of the software behind it. For the past ten years I've been trying to improve my programming and math skills to get to a level where I could write a proper web search engine for the wr
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by apo 8y ago
Great article, but the ending made little sense: We all chuckled at this prediction—mass extinction, by this point, having become something of a macabre inside joke. Just past the spoil, we reached the end of the road, which was lined with
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Scientific intrigue around room temperature superconductivity paper(threadreaderapp.com)
1 points by apo 8y ago|0 comments
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by apo 8y ago
That’s a real problem. I can help you with it, … and this is how much it will cost. I must be missing something. How is this a better answer than the other "flunking" responses? All the consultant has done is slap a price tag on
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by apo 8y ago
On one matter there can be no argument: The policies that sent these men and women abroad, with their emphasis on military action and their visions of reordering nations and cultures, have not succeeded. It is beyond honest dispute that th
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by apo 8y ago
Teachers don’t get social security, and unlike firefighters or police officers, most retirees earn modest pensions of about $55,000 a year. This seems like the most important sentence in the entire article. Why are California teachers pay
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by apo 8y ago
When you look at the stats, it’s hard not to conclude that the current PhD system is fundamentally broken. Mental health issues are rife: approximately one-third of PhD students are at risk of having or developing a psychiatric disorder li
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An Invasive New Tick Is Spreading in the U.S(nytimes.com)
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UnDraw: MIT licensed illustrations for every project you can imagine and create(undraw.co)
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by apo 8y ago
At some point it will become painfully obvious that flooding the world with cheap money has just been the setup for the next crisis, not a solution.
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by apo 8y ago
Odd question I know, but does this mean that LE certs can be used to sign Java applets?
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by apo 8y ago
Many fond memories of watching these shows as a kid during the 80s on Channel 60.
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by apo 8y ago
I thought about it. So what if I’ll present the BASIC Engine to the public, and some kid comes along and says, "WTF, one GPIO? My dad’s Arduino Uno has more than that!" And instead of joining the peaceful forces of the BASIC Salv
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by apo 8y ago
The handle implied that the anonymous poster held Q clearance,[17][18] a United States Department of Energy security clearance with access to classified information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
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by apo 8y ago
... “This generation right now and maybe the next 15 years or so, there’s going to be a lot of shocking results coming out. I’d say in 20 years’ time it’s going to dissipate,” she predicted. By then, our expectations of privacy will have
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by apo 8y ago
Chatting between sips of stale coffee, I collected enough data points to discover he too had no great expertise in cryptography or fintech more broadly. I've run into way too many people like this to count. Fortunately, they're
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by apo 8y ago
This article is unfortunately typical of the low quality of reporting on Bitcoin in the popular media. It provides no independently-verifiable evidence of the claim in the title, nor does it even make a small effort to explain the analysis
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by apo 8y ago
Here's the original paper (no paywall, and apparently not linked in the BBC article): http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/07/24/scien... A couple of highlights: My first thought wa
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by apo 8y ago
Default keyboard symbol mapping is surprising: = -> ↑ ' -> : : -> + and so on. Why? Tried the entries on the Keyboard menu, which didn't seem to change much.
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by apo 8y ago
Photosynthesis produces oxygen at a rate faster than the rate of depletion due to oxidation of the Earth's crust (think rust). Without plants there's nothing left to spew oxygen back into the atmosphere. Photosynthesis converts CO
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by apo 8y ago
An example of when Title Case would be most misleading.
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A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora's Box for DIY Guns(wired.com)
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Why Russia calls a limited nuclear strike “de-escalation” (2014)(thebulletin.org)
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by apo 8y ago
...Through the 1950’s and ’60’s Chester Southam, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, experimentally injected cancer cells into more than 300 people, often without properly informing them. Some subjects, which included
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by apo 8y ago
Not all of the blasts were supposed to be big. This one yielded about 80 times less energy than the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima. https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/possibleinborndogwoodclubgall That may be the

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