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Mathematician Eric Weinstein Launches a New Podcast, the Portal(bigthink.com)
1 points by iconjack 7y ago|0 comments
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by iconjack 7y ago
Red McCombs is turning in his grave.
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by iconjack 7y ago
Also 1978: "International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30‐Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere" [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/05/archives/international-te...
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by iconjack 8y ago
There are a few bars within two blocks of me and the site didn't find any of them. I like the minimalistic look but isn't the database the whole point of it?
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by iconjack 8y ago
Also NASA: Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum (2014) [1] NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses (2015) [2] etc etc etc [1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-
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by iconjack 9y ago
Just a few days ago, Google apparently banned shopping results for "water guns" and so forth. The urge to censor in service of one's politics is strong everywhere.
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by iconjack 9y ago
This is so 2006.
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The Case for Shunning the White House(nytimes.com)
2 points by iconjack 9y ago|0 comments
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by iconjack 9y ago
I knew a guy who made seat cushions for boats that could also be using as life savers. They were made of foam and such—no electronics at all. When he got a contract to sell a bunch of them to the Navy, he had to fill out paperwork certifyin
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by iconjack 9y ago
This is great news. Now when somebody asks to Skype with me, I can tell them "Sorry, I'm on Linux".
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by iconjack 9y ago
http://realmode.com/glaciers.html
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by iconjack 9y ago
It wasn't just that there were germ theory skeptics, it was that its detractors were the consensus (ahem) unwilling to listen. Read the wiki on germ theory and you'll see its timeline consists of one heretic after another being sh
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by iconjack 9y ago
The story I heard at the time was that the IBM team did want to go with the 68000, but Motorola couldn't guarantee enough units.
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by iconjack 10y ago
(Score:5, Insightful)
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by iconjack 10y ago
Not really, no. http://beta.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-shee...
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by iconjack 10y ago
There should be an n·log(n) column.
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by iconjack 10y ago
None of the founders (should read co-founders) of billion-dollar companies in the study came from Iran. There's a table in the report.
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by iconjack 10y ago
None from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan or Yemen.
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by iconjack 10y ago
It was a really fun time in internet history. Patrick "live blogged" his bank misadventure, and for a couple of weeks his site was the first thing I'd check every day. Very exciting. It felt downright pioneering.
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Fixing the Fibonacci sequence inside Pascal's triangle in a couniverse(siddhanathan.github.io)
5 points by iconjack 10y ago|1 comments
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by iconjack 10y ago
4) The President and his staff are correct, despite prevailing opinion of scientists and media.
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by iconjack 10y ago
Without a Ph.D?! Really?
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by iconjack 10y ago
I believe the intent of Assange's statement that a 14-year-old could have made this hack, as well as Trump's tweeting of the statement, was to emphasize the non-sophistication of the attack (commonplace phishing), contrary to the
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The U.S. Government thinks thousands of Russian hackers may be reading my blog(theintercept.com)
34 points by iconjack 10y ago|7 comments
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by iconjack 10y ago
Comes on 33 disks, 28 of which are printer drivers.
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by iconjack 10y ago
Started very strong, mediocre by the end.
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by iconjack 10y ago
The 17 is for '17, aka 2017, the year she was to become president.
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by iconjack 10y ago
Why not let wikileaks serve the emails on the MIT page? It's the way the web is supposed to work. Also, the wikileaks archive is the "official" copy in some sense.
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by iconjack 10y ago
Doesn't that mean your OS is rather broken as well?
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by iconjack 10y ago
Well of course it makes your account less secure. It's another attack vector. As shown in the post, Google doesn't say add a phone number "to make your account more secure", it says "so you don't get locked out

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