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by applecore 10y ago
I just read through the research paper[1] and activity in frontoparietal network looks eerily similar to the reticular activating system[2] that heightens alertness and directs attention. [1]: http://www.cell.com/neuron&#x2F
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Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier(nytimes.com)
5 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Launches Credit Card for Prime Members(wsj.com)
3 points by applecore 10y ago|2 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
Ugh. "social_links": [ { "type": "facebook", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/XXXX" } ] Who needs this information? Why do
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by applecore 10y ago
What makes a top-ranked institution better than a "second-tier" school? The kind of applicant who would do well in the former will certainly do well in the latter.
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The Starter Savings Account(interfluidity.com)
2 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments
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This Winemaker Is Pulling Back the Curtain on the Price of Wine(bloomberg.com)
3 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
If you've ever enjoyed an ice cold Coca-Cola on a hot summer day, you'd know the world needs refreshment.
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by applecore 10y ago
Best hardware, really?
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by applecore 10y ago
Nine of the top ten leading causes of death[1] in the United States can be directly attributed to meat consumption, so there's already a perfectly "selfish" motive to go vegan or vegetarian. [1]: https://www.cdc.go
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Casper and Saatva: A Tale of Two Mattress Companies(fortune.com)
2 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
What does "low key" mean? Is "low key" a good or a bad thing? Does it mean we should conceal this information?
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by applecore 10y ago
I'm not sure All Seasons is such a great portfolio... It's way overweight U.S. Treasury bonds (55%) and underweight stocks (30%). And what's with 15% in gold and commodities (which produces no interest or dividend income)?
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by applecore 10y ago
Empirically, selling 7% of your company to join YC improves your average outcome so much that the remaining 93% is worth more than the entire company before to the transaction. If anything, YC is too cheap.
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Harvard University's Entrance Exam (1869) [pdf](graphics8.nytimes.com)
3 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
> Everyone will receive the difference between what they make and what UBI guarantees. This isn't UBI either. UBI would simply give everyone the same income without subtracting the difference for extra earned income. You could ear
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by applecore 10y ago
How is it "universal" if recipients are required to be jobless?
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by applecore 10y ago
What's the conclusion? Pretax incomes have stopped growing for anyone except the top 1–10%. (It's been forty years of income stagnation for the bottom 50% and twenty years for the next 40%.) It's actually not so bad when you
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by applecore 10y ago
Immortals will still die occasionally due to accidents and other non-age related causes. Unless risk is totally eliminated from the world, there will always be a positive replacement fertility rate.
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Our Automated Future(newyorker.com)
2 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
From the article: "The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river," [Andreessen] messaged Zuckerberg. "Does that mean the cat's dead?" Zuckerberg texted back, not understanding the spy speak.
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Facebook Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest(bloomberg.com)
252 points by applecore 10y ago|117 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
The Northeast Boswash megalopolis[1] is a narrow 400-mile strip of land that encompasses a population of over 50 million people. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
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by applecore 10y ago
Taleb may have repeated it, but the expression "the map is not the territory"[1] first appeared decades earlier in a paper by Alfred Korzybski[2], developer of the self-improvement movement known as general semantics [3]. [1]: h
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A Message from Apple about  iPhone and Unexpected Shutdowns(support.apple.com)
1 points by applecore 10y ago|0 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
Supply and demand.
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by applecore 10y ago
Fun fact: 1517 is the year Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. Presumably, college degrees are as worthless as the indulgences sold by the church.
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Peter Thiel's 1517 Fund Is Searching for the next Mark Zuckerberg(bloomberg.com)
3 points by applecore 10y ago|1 comments
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by applecore 10y ago
> There's no 'should' with technology. This is a common belief but it isn't true. Actually, government plays a huge role in deciding how technology is developed and broadly adopted by society. There is a should wi
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by applecore 10y ago
> Eventually the scientists went so far as to develop an in-house programming language for their models rather than settle for a numbercentric option such as ASCII, which was popular at the time. I have fond memories of the late 1980s.

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