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“Of course it’s a bubble”: Ethereum cofounder Lubin isn’t worried about a crash(qz.com)
1 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
No, but they talk about that in the article: "According to Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown in their 2006 book Packaging Girlhood, nearly 60 percent of Neopets' visitors were girls, which is high for a computer game in the early 20
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42% of Americans under 8 have their own tablet(axios.com)
1 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|1 comments
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'Neopets': Inside Look at Early 2000s Internet Girl Culture(rollingstone.com)
3 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|2 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Cost fails to account for economic development as a result of the hurricanes and subtract that from economic damage. Letting things break so that money will be spent replacing them is not 'economic development' [0]. [0]: https:
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Afghan government Photoshopping pictures of Rex Tillerson’s visit(qz.com)
1 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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Snap reportedly stuck with ‘hundreds of thousands' of unsold Spectacles(theverge.com)
1 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
If you're right... if one billionaire describing your currency as doomed is enough to cause its value to drop by 33%... then I don't want any of your currency. Too volatile.
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Saudi Billionaire Prince Alwaleed Predicts Bitcoin Will 'Implode' Like Enron(fortune.com)
2 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|2 comments
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Archaeologists are mystified by ancient “gates” in Saudi lava fields(arstechnica.com)
10 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
More details about the site in this article: http://www.govtech.com/fs/infrastructure/Maryland-Issues-Con... . "Hogan administration officials said Thursday the state has issued a conditional utility permit to
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
The governor of Maryland seems more excited about it than Elon Musk, but this is apparently the first 10 miles of a tunnel from Baltimore to Washington DC. More details about the site in this article: http://www.govtech.com/
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Elon Musk Is Digging a Hyperloop Tunnel in Maryland(fortune.com)
2 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|1 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I know this is ripe for parody, but this sounds like a perfect blockchain problem: "...therapies must be transported on time and in pristine condition both to and from the manufacturer and ultimately to the treatment site for patient a
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The challenges gene therapies pose for logistics(medcitynews.com)
1 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|1 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Yikes! Maybe this is legal, in the same sense that I can go to the bodega and buy a newspaper of local mugshots... but how unfortunate for the people who have the worst 15 minutes of their life faithfully captured and posted on Youtube.
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
'the poem will continue “as long as the resources of the language hold out"' segues happily into an unmatched parenthesis in the last ¶. https://www.xkcd.com/859/
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
> I think it makes me more sympathetic to her case. If Harvard had not hired her, or TED not promoted her, she would not have been subject to nearly the same scrutiny or ire as she was. Ironically, she might have had a better shot at a g
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Maybe the title should be changed. The article doesn't use that phrase and in fact undermines it: "Most wealth is appropriated from others, not made."
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
At my previous shop, it was normal to silently tolerate developers breaking the rules (not locking their stations when they stepped away, browsing unapproved sites, coming in late, leaving early)... until it was decided that they needed to
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Best quote describes how Russia played groups against each other in an attempt to Balkanize the US: "Not content to impersonate African-Americans, the Russian trolls also pretended to be American Muslims. They took on the digital ident
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Russia Has Invented Social Media Blitzkrieg(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|1 comments
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Xi Jinping at China congress calls on party to tighten its grip on the country(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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Lego Is Celebrating Female Scientists with a New 'Women of NASA' Set(fortune.com)
1 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|0 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Yeah - in light of the fact that Russia isn't advocating for a particular political outcome in the United States... they don't want the US to step back from the Crimea, or stop criticizing their conduct in ex-Soviet states. They j
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I think where this article really fits this community is in the last two sentences: "We can start now by turning the buildings against attackers who would use them against innocent victim. Doing so will help prevent America’s Mumbai.&q
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
My favorite line: "“The task wasn’t to support Trump,” one of the factory’s employees told RBC. “We raised social issues and other problems that already existed in the US, and tried to shine as bright a light as possible on them.” The
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Russian troll factory paid US activists to help fund protests during election(theguardian.com)
9 points by fishcolorbrick 9y ago|4 comments
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
Here's a nice graph[0] showing the relationship between income inequality and healthcare, and a good quote: "The high-income group, with average household income greater than $70,000, is the standard to which all others are compar
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by fishcolorbrick 9y ago
I really wouldn't want to program a car that obeys speed limits in 49 states, and in one state "record[s] evidence of conditions which could show that the speed was reasonable and prudent given the conditions" From an impleme

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