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George Rosenkranz, chemist who changed the world with ‘the pill,’ dies at 102(latimes.com)
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by apo 7y ago
That's a good study, but I'm not sure it disentangles income from education: > Moreover, the “divorce gap” between college graduates and those with less education was larger in the NLSY79 cohort than it was for the 1950–1955 bi
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by apo 7y ago
Seems plausible - got a reference?
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by apo 7y ago
> I work in a wealthy, mostly-white college town consistently ranked one of the best places to live in the country. I wonder to what extent the setting in which the author works selects for people who will feel isolated/regretful an
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by apo 7y ago
> "This is absolutely terrifying," Katelyn Bowden, founder and CEO of revenge porn activism organization Badass, told Motherboard. "Now anyone could find themselves a victim of revenge porn, without ever having taken a nud
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by apo 7y ago
> It all stems from a year-long lawsuit initiated by the estate of Dave Kleiman, a computer scientist who, according to the complaint, helped Wright “invent” Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The lawsuit claims that when Klei
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by apo 7y ago
> In practice, it is much more complicated: while a limited set of “validators” — aka miners — share a history of transactions in (individual) blocks that are chained together (i.e. a blockchain), what Libra actually exposes is the curre
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by apo 7y ago
> It is simply the original bitcoin protocol, ie. with all the stupid things that were added to "BTC" since 2009 removed. Bitcoin SV clearly introduced many changes. But those changes are backward-incompatible for Bitcoin nodes
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What If You Built Hundreds of Miles of Roads and Nobody Came?(strongtowns.org)
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by apo 7y ago
Imagine how much more sane tuitions would be if these people had just done something else with their lives. Unintended consequences of federal loan guarantees: education becomes more expensive, leaving young graduates who should be finding
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by apo 7y ago
Highly misleading. This runs on an alternative network called Bitcoin SV. It's most definitely not Bitcoin, but a fork of a fork of a fork. Amusing really, because the "SV" stands for Satoshi's vision. The founder, Craig
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by apo 7y ago
> You know, in the software world, in particular for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So, you know, the greatest mistake ever is the whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is, [meani
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by apo 7y ago
> In its "unavoidable" final conclusion, the China Tribunal found forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale, primarily sourcing body parts from detained Falun Gong practitioner
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by apo 7y ago
> That’s almost our public key, but not quite. We now encode (x, y) coordinates of our public point in hex ... Bitcoin supports "compressed" public keys in which only the x-coordinate and the sign of the y- coordinate are prese
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Low-Background Steel(en.wikipedia.org)
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by apo 7y ago
For some thought-provoking insights into the scale of the changes ancient American civilizations brought on the landscape, see the book 1491 by Charles Mann. Maybe the most intriguing idea in the entire book is that the Americas were ten
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by apo 7y ago
> The information includes names, addresses, birth dates, social insurance numbers, email addresses and information about transaction habits. It's starting to look downright irresponsible to regard such information as private these
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US Steel is idling plants, despite tariffs designed to save them(cnn.com)
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by apo 7y ago
Too bad this piece doesn't link to the article containing hard evidence of numerous frauds: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-how-many-wrongs-m... Imagine how easy it would be to prove his claim of being
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by apo 7y ago
> Interest on the reserve assets will be used to cover the costs of the system, ensure low transaction fees, pay dividends to investors who provided capital to jumpstart the ecosystem (read “The Libra Association” here), and support furt
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by apo 7y ago
> This was only made possible by enormous federal subsidies for returning soldiers and huge investments in public infrastructure by the federal government. ... Today's government subsidies are creating artificial booms of their own.
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Tehran’s Desert Ghost Towers(messynessychic.com)
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The surprising thing here is that after all of those videos showing astounding robotic feats after all of these years, this is the first product release from the company. From the article: > Spot is currently being tested in a number of
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by apo 7y ago
> In two separate studies, researchers found the prototype consistently boosted memory 15% to 18%. No mention of controls or error bars. Until then, this is all placebo effect.
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by apo 7y ago
> Consider refactoring before taking a step to code rewriting: Refactoring is only an option for anything but a trivial code base if a suite of automated tests have already been written. The article makes no mention of tests. I suspect t
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by apo 7y ago
This event led to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which granted the president sweeping military powers in southeast Asia. It amounted to a declaration of war on North Vietnam It passed the senate with flying colors; only two votes against: >
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by apo 7y ago
tl;dr: Sodium chloride was found using visible spectroscopy (literally, yellow patches), a technique that has been available for 20 years, but nobody thought to look: > Meanwhile, JPL scientist Kevin Hand had used sample ocean salts, bom
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by apo 7y ago
> Unlike some other "driverless" truck companies, Starsky isn't building a completely autonomous solution. Instead, it uses teleoperation to remotely drive the truck between freight depots and the freeway where a highway-o
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Better Schools Won’t Fix America(theatlantic.com)
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> Instead of the sage life-saving advice I was sure she [Suze Orman] would offer on how to manage an amount of student debt the size of a home mortgage, she quickly brushed me aside with a breezily uttered, “student debt doesn’t count be

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