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by apo 7y ago
The problem with fighting cancer is selectively destroying cancer cells while leaving normal cells alone. This article unfortunately says nothing about how this device does so (or even whether it does). Without some handle on this aspect, s
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Smartphones rob users of the ability to communicate person-to-person. Visit any restaurant and you'll find example after example of people worshiping at their private electronic altars despite the presence of friends and family. Or try
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It wasn't immediately clear what sewage sludge was doing on farm fields. It turns out this has been standard practice for many years: > In March, the state announced that it would temporarily halt the land application of sludge and
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The takeaway appears to be that the modern mortgage in the US places several intermediaries between borrower and lender. The opportunity would be to develop the software that can replace the unnecessary entities, driving down costs and prof
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Not saying he's been successful, but he has tried repeatedly. I'm also trying to set aside whether I agree with these policies. Failure to do so is part of the reason so many Democrats have been so utterly ineffective against this
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> ... @MikeGravel had already established that Mike Gravel was not just an individual but also a kind of group project. Strangely enough, this had opened up a loophole that allowed him to talk like an actual person — and somehow it seeme
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At some point the "blockchain not Bitcoin" crowd will wake up to the fact that Bitcoin's value proposition is censorship resistance. Nobody can block you from making a payment. The idea is still revolutionary, as evidenced by
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> Which leads to a caveat. Miranda is a very talented fellow; so are most of the other “high fliers” who crop up in “Range.” What worries me is that this emphasis — what social scientists call “restriction of range” — might skew Epstein’
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Yet they fail to put their money where their votes are by simply selling Facebook shares. Regardless of what happens with Zuckerberg, Facebook's best days are behind it. The notion that a change in leadership can right this sinking shi
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> From nit +‎ pick, originally referring to literally removing invisibly tiny louse eggs by hand. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nitpick
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Slavery's Legacy: The Troubling History of Tipping in the US(time.com)
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All sides have won in a way. Those who wanted to take Bitcoin in a direction most users didn't want to go now have their own network and block chain to make with what they will. The split has also highlighted the complex tangle of fact
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Crypto Pioneer Pays $4.57M for Lunch with Buffett(bloomberg.com)
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TV Pickup(en.wikipedia.org)
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The groundwork for domestic implementation is already in place: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-la...
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> Without cash, depositors would have to pay the negative interest rate to keep their money with the bank, making consumption and investment more attractive. This would jolt lending, boost demand, and stimulate the economy. Or... it woul
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Very discouraging to see this, especially because the overreach appears to have no limit. Today it's visa applications. Tomorrow it could be US citizens trying to get passports, driver licenses, or collect social security/medicare
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I noticed the article appears to contain a single point of evidence supporting its main claim: > Don't take this advice just from me. Take it from others, like employee #8 and now SVP of engineering at Google, Urs Hölzle who also sa
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Here's the gist of the original piece (from 2014): > Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of everyone’s secrets. The trut
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One candidate wanted to repeal the ACA and replace it with something else TBD, the other wanted to keep it. Unfortunately, the ACA is not going to solve this country's health care problems. So a candidate's position on it largely
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The chumbox ( https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern... ) used to be a good barometer of the spamminess of a site's content. It appears that recently Wordpress rolled out the chumbox on fr
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These stories are hard to process because there appears to be such blatant abuse, exploitation, and stupidity. > A couple of years later, the Federal Communications Commission reportedly came close to introducing a "truth-in-adverti
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> Needs a (2008)... Maybe the differences in the 2016 election were more of style than substance. Both candidates pointed the finger at powerful (but opposing) foreign-policy enemies (China and Russia). Both made statements in line with
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The article doesn't actually show what the new syntax looks like. Nor does the article linked in the first paragraph. What's a simple example of the new syntax?
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The first graph ("External factors explain nearly all global temperature change") shows what appears to be temperature precisions of less than 0.1 degree C, yet reports no error bars. How is it that a graph like this is even accep
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>Q: How would you describe the current state of the internet? Just in a general sense of its role in our daily lives, and where that concept of the Miasma came from for you. > Neal Stephenson: I ended up having a pretty dark view of i
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Is “Star Trek” Is a Communist Space Tyranny’s Idealized Vision of Itself? (2012)(jonathanmoeller.com)
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Colonization of the Moon(en.wikipedia.org)
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> Writing in Nature, Drozdov et al.1 report several key results that confirm that, when compressed to pressures of more than one million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure, lanthanum hydride compounds become superconducting at 250 K — a
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> He sprayed a cleaning solvent on it and started to push the dissolving crystal with his finger as he attempted to dislodge the residue and clean the area. > About 45 minutes later, Curtis began to feel a little strange. He described

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