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Angus Barbieri's Fast(en.wikipedia.org)
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In Albania, the Number of Abandoned Bunkers Is Kind of a Problem(messynessychic.com)
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by apo 7y ago
Paywalled, but the original post from the Warren campaign is here: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/im-calling-for-something-trul... Warren lays out the main cause of the student debt problem here: > The enormous stud
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by apo 7y ago
> Roberts saw an opportunity not just to re-create those bygone red sauce joints, but to present the most exaggerated, over-the-top version of them, to create an environment where people could feel totally comfortable—as he describes it,
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The baffling thing about this is the vast oil wealth the country controls. Its oil reserves are the largest in the word, yet its economy lies in shambles. That takes some serious mismanagement.
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Disappointing to see that this is one of the first tools a government reaches for in a crisis. It's one of the worst possible responses because of how well censorship plays into the hands of skilled extremists.
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The Chinese are innovating totalitarianism faster than any other country. Take this, for example: > ... When undergraduate students at Peking University, which was at the center of the incident, were shown copies of the iconic photograph
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> Joe wrote amazingly simple programs and he did so in a peculiar way. First he wrote down the program any old way just to get it out of his head. Then once it worked he would then immediately create a new directory program2 and write it
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> ... Their aim was to reinvigorate enthusiasm for their cultural and linguistic roots and keep money within the French-Basque region by supporting local businesses. ... Adding friction to financial transactions for the sake of cultural
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In the [Browser Event] Loop(youtube.com)
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FinCEN Penalizes Cryptocurrency Trader for Breaking Anti-Money Laundering Laws(fincen.gov)
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> The agency’s projection that the system will “no longer provide [required] risk reduction as early as 2023” illustrates the rapidly changing conditions being experienced both globally as sea levels rise faster than expected and locally
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> Helium hydride (HeH), a combination of helium and hydrogen, was spotted some 3000 light-years from Earth by an instrument aboard the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a telescope built into a converted
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Bank of Japan to be top shareholder of Japan stocks(asia.nikkei.com)
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Site down. What's the gist?
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by apo 8y ago
> “Without any major change in entitlements, entitlements are going to rise. Why? Because the population is aging. There’s no way to reverse that, and the politics of it are awful, as you well know,” Greenspan added. Funny that he'd
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by apo 8y ago
> First deliveries of the $349,000 eFlyer 2 (the original price was $289,000) are anticipated in 2021. There's a lot going on with DIY electric flying craft as well. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ykW
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by apo 8y ago
Read the fine print, for example: > Crypto Liquidation Fees: 2.49% https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/296991...
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Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (2015)(washingtonpost.com)
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Ironically, the link only works with Javascript enabled.
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The emergence of these extinct human species from the fossil record raises a nagging question: what happened to them all? Across the animal kingdom, single-species genera are somewhat uncommon. Why is there only one species of the genus Hom
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It's great that the popular press still runs science articles. What's not so great: 1. There is no link to the original paper. 2. The description of the phenomenon has been so contorted that it's impossible to understand exac
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There's no need to create a cryptocurrency around this tired old idea. In fact, doing so makes the entire system worse for users. The last thing Joe or Jane Sixpack wants to do is manage cryptographic keys. S/he's going to ke
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> “If FamilyTreeDNA can help prevent violent crimes, save lives, or bring closure to families, then we feel the company has a moral responsibility to do so.” The FBI (and a variety of other organizations) can and will use the information
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I'm going to throw this out there not knowing much about the specifics in this case. Academic biologists suffer from tunnel vision when it comes to developing drugs. Here's a script I've seen play out way too often. Molecule
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> There a people though, who create mirrors of Sci-Hub articles database. I run a few mirrors and other mirrors are run independently, and Sci-Hub also uses accounts to access library resources provided by others. I haven't found an
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The article refers to Klotho as a "hormone." It appears to be an enzyme instead, and a membrane-bound enzyme to boot: > Klotho is a transmembrane protein that, in addition to other effects, provides some control over the sensit
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> Though altogether unremarkable as far as flora goes, Dudleya farinosa has captured the hearts of Chinese, Korean and Japanese collectors, some of whom are willing to pay upwards of $50 for a single plant, officials said. The article do
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> That is not a sustainable Vision because it is defined in negative terms rather than positive sentiment, and it doesn’t provide a reason to remain in the Rebel Alliance after the Empire is defeated. This is also the main problem with t
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This article is a great idea, but I think it relies too much on the headings to convey information and it could use much better examples. The result is a vague article that could be vastly improved by driving home the point after each examp

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