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by charlysl 9y ago
I find the use of the word "scapegoat" interesting. From the little I know about anthropology, when some calamity befell the village/horde/tribe (disease/drought/crime etc) the shaman would magically point out
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How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook ‘likes’ into a lucrative political tool(theguardian.com)
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How Much Is Your Data Worth? At Least $240 per Year. Likely Much More.(medium.com)
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by charlysl 9y ago
And it's not only that they can do this at all as if this wan't already bad enough; on top of that neither the media, nor anyone else for that matter, can discuss/critizice this in public other than to admire it. Harmony.
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'I haven't achieved much recently': Einstein's private fears revealed in archive(theguardian.com)
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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2018(technologyreview.com)
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Muslim Cyber Army: a 'fake news' operation designed to derail Indonesia's leader(theguardian.com)
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The autonomous “selfie drone”(news.mit.edu)
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SXSW 2018: A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by charlysl 9y ago
I this this is possibly the most interesting paragraph: If the program’s verifiable predictions about dark matter, galaxy formation, and magnetic fields continue to prove accurate, we’ll be able to put greater stock in the insights it prov
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The Most Detailed Simulation of the Cosmos Ever Made(futurism.com)
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by charlysl 9y ago
They have limited resources precisely so that they can't go after everyone. Add revolving doors to this and everything makes sense. On top of this, Shkreli brought a seedy but commonplace practice in the mighty pharma industry to the f
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Settling payments fast and private: efficient decentralized routing(blog.acolyer.org)
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Scientists gain new visibility into quantum information transfer(news.mit.edu)
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Zeus: Analyzing safety of smart contracts(blog.acolyer.org)
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by charlysl 9y ago
My fav quotes in the article: Multimedia then was like the Internet of Things is today. It is different things to different people; there is no standard, but someday it will all work together and it will be great. The fact that you could
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Can the U.S. Military Combat the Coming Swarm of Weaponized Drones?(spectrum.ieee.org)
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QuickTime’s Developers Reflect on Doing Digital Video in Software(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Invisible Engines:How Software Platforms Drive Innovation, Transform Industries [pdf](mitpress.mit.edu)
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AdAnalyst: A tool to help you make sense of the ads you receive on Facebook(adanalyst.mpi-sws.org)
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by charlysl 9y ago
TLDR: Facebook have started giving ad explanations to improve transparency. The key finding is that explanations are often incomplete, and sometimes misleading . I found that the article is also interesting as a good intro to how advertisi
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by charlysl 9y ago
This is true. Betteridge's law of headlines is one name for an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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Autonomous cars could peep around corners via bouncing laser(techcrunch.com)
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Should You Remove the Dates from Your Blog Posts?(mackcollier.com)
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Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 Adds 5G and Deep Learning(forbes.com)
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Is Google Going Underground with Hypersonic Tech?(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Apps, trackers, privacy, and regulators: a global study of mobile tracking(blog.acolyer.org)
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Cryptocurrency Miners Bought 3M Graphics Cards Worth $776M in 2017(interestingengineering.com)
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What was the first Wikipedia entry?(npr.org)
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Fsync Performance on Storage Devices(percona.com)
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