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by apo 7y ago
In a nutshell: > The new study suggests that life's dependence on these 20 [naturally-occurring] amino acids is no accident. The researchers show that the kinds of amino acids used in proteins are more likely to link up together bec
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The Paradox of Toil (2010)(newyorkfed.org)
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> One common metric used to investigate the effects of global warming is known as “equilibrium climate sensitivity”, defined as the full amount of global surface warming that will eventually occur in response to a doubling of atmospheric
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> In the end, just remember that fire, like most innovations, is both a blessing and a curse. Sure, it’s made our lives easier, our survival likelier, and will probably lead to the greatest evolutionary paradigm shift in human history. B
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by apo 7y ago
The article links to this video of the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8m4jYaALIA Without video of the filter in action, I'm skeptical of the claim. It seems plausible that the person on the left is using a
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by apo 7y ago
What little has been described offers plenty of attack surface. The white paper has this to say about how paper copies of votes are printed out: > When the polls close, members of each county clerk’s staff insert two cryptographically s
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by apo 7y ago
> “All these years I have been feeling like I’m doing something responsible,” said Pai, clearly dumbstruck as she walked away with a full bag. “The truth hurts.” All is not lost. Consumers can be responsible by radically cutting consumpt
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by apo 7y ago
This was only a small part of his speech. Most of the speech was an appeal to support "nature," specifically building up habitats for aquatic and terrestrial plants, which he claims represents "30% of what needs to be done to
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by apo 7y ago
This article cites foreigners and big techs as the source of money without much to back it up. We know that in its institutional panic the US Fed pumped trillions of dollars into the economy in the form of QE 1-3: https://www.fed
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by apo 7y ago
> What has also struck me about this modern fashion (which goes along with that for self-mutilation by piercing) is that it is almost free of any kind of criticism: on the contrary, there is an almost obsequious acceptance of it, as if t
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Little Ice Age(en.wikipedia.org)
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by apo 7y ago
Using https://web.archive.org/web/20190725120100/https://nesslabs.... : The article is a list of 30 items in the category "mental model" bracketed by some high-level opinions. Included on the li
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by apo 7y ago
A fascinating study that tries to solve the most difficult problem in the origin of life: bootstrapping. Nobody has been able to explain how the multitude of complex organic molecules needed to support life got there in the first place. It&
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Gold Codes(en.wikipedia.org)
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> The risk, he [Barr] said, was acceptable because “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications,” and “not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear lau
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by apo 7y ago
> This place [farmer's market/flea market] is a work horse. It grows small businesses from scratch without recourse to bank loans or government subsidies. It provides products and experiences that are genuinely needed in the co
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by apo 7y ago
> Francisco Galicia told his mother, who lives in Edinburg, that he was detained because he didn’t have his U.S. passport. But she said he did present CBP with his Texas ID. By this standard, I suspect at least half the US population cou
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by apo 7y ago
The skills cited in the article are: 1. Understanding how the language works. Additionally understanding how the language infrastructure interfaces with the computer. 2. Anticipating problems. Prefer solid foundations over veneers that appe
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by apo 7y ago
This story is very poorly organized. The structure is especially bad for scientific subjects because crucial details can be obfuscated. Take this one for example, which appears well into the article: > Part of Tippens’ treatment regimen
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by apo 7y ago
The Growth Ponzi scheme may be useful in thinking through housing issues: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme Briefly, most cities are unsustainable in their current configurations due to an unaffordable mai
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> Based on rule it should be 10k to make it interesting for the investors (buy and rent to make some profit). The only reason I didn’t sell it is the hope that prices will go up in x years, but right now I technically subsidizing people
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by apo 7y ago
Along the same lines - Project Orion: > Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (nuclear pulse propulsion). Early versions of this vehicle wer
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by apo 7y ago
> The office developed gradually over decades and centuries into one of administration of the royal finances, and under Henry VII, the Groom of the Stool became a powerful official involved in setting national fiscal policy, under the &
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> Over the past year, Malamud has — without asking publishers — teamed up with Indian researchers to build a gigantic store of text and images extracted from 73 million journal articles dating from 1847 up to the present day. Maybe I mis
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by apo 7y ago
Here are the steps to reproduce the attack from what I gather: 1. Find a vulnerable site. The author picked Revolut, a 3-year old, well-funded fintech startup. Others might be found at https://www.openbugbounty.org . 2. Inject th
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by apo 7y ago
That flaw is also the root of the "Innovator's Dilemma." The idea is that "best" business practices and especially concern over lower margins and smaller markets, prevent companies from moving downmarket, leaving a
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Project Plowshare(en.wikipedia.org)
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> The Siwa Oasis (Arabic: واحة سيوة‎, Wāḥat Sīwah, IPA: [ˈwæːħet ˈsiːwæ]; Coptic: (ϯ)ϣⲉϣⲁⲙⲟⲩ (Di)Şeşamu; Berber languages: Isiwan, ⵉⵙⵉⵡⴰⵏ ) is an urban oasis in Egypt between the Qattara Depression and the Great Sand Sea in the Western D
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by apo 7y ago
Have you seen AssemblyScript, Poetry, Walt, and Speedy: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://github.com/FantasyInternet/poetry https://github.com/ballercat&#x2F
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> In Europe, there are fears that the continent is following the path of Japan’s so-called lost decade, where policy makers struggled to revive anemic growth and inflation. ... That decade was the 1990s, and Japan has never managed to st

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