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One of the World’s Wealthiest Oil Exporters Is Becoming Unlivable(bloomberg.com)
15 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 5y ago
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” -Kurt Vonnegut
723.
by jdkee 5y ago
The moving vehicle presents the mortal threat to the pedestrian not the other way around. Therefore it is more ethical to require the threatening agent to take more precautions or suffer more harm.
724.
Do I Really Need a Toilet?(nytimes.com)
4 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments
725.
by jdkee 5y ago
Zaid Jilani has posted an insightful piece on the controversy. See https://www.inquiremore.com/p/neil-youngs-transformation-on-...
726.
by jdkee 5y ago
“We find that newspapers from larger schools, located in wealthier, educated, and urban ZIP codes are more likely to be classified as high quality. We then demonstrate that the filter's measurement of quality is unaligned with other se
727.
by jdkee 5y ago
https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/148609659250345575...
728.
IBM 360/50 Simulator(static.righto.com)
6 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments
729.
by jdkee 5y ago
“Terminator: The man most directly responsible is Miles Bennett Dyson. Sarah Connor: Who is that? Terminator: He’s the director of special projects at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation. Sarah: Why him? Terminator: In a few months, he creates a
730.
by jdkee 5y ago
Roger Ebert on video games as art: "That a game can aspire to artistic importance as a visual experience, I accept. But for most gamers, video games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cult
731.
by jdkee 5y ago
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" was the common phrase at our company in the 1990s. At the time, that was certainly true. Which lead to adoption of truly awful tech, token-ring over type-1 cable, versus ethernet over twisted
732.
Prince of Persia Source Code(jordanmechner.com)
11 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments
733.
‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning Arctic green(theguardian.com)
6 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments
734.
by jdkee 5y ago
Nixon hated the hippies, so he started the war on drugs which included both LSD and marijuana among other drugs. https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
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by jdkee 5y ago
See also the Amish. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-01/why-the-a...
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by jdkee 5y ago
For a literary interpretation of the Abstract Expressionist movement, the novel Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut is a pretty swell treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard_(Vonnegut_novel)
737.
How A.I. Conquered Poker(nytimes.com)
248 points by jdkee 5y ago|181 comments
738.
by jdkee 5y ago
100! page ordering combinations is roughly 10^157 possibilities.
739.
SA: We Have an Obesity Problem in This Country(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
6 points by jdkee 5y ago|4 comments
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by jdkee 5y ago
Not many Barnes and Nobles were looted in the summer of 2020.
741.
by jdkee 5y ago
Reposting my comment from the E.O. Wilson thread from a couple of weeks ago, "As a reader of the magazine for the past 35 years or so, Scientific American, the print publication, has devolved into what Popular Science was about 20 year
742.
by jdkee 5y ago
What is also problematic is the gender imbalance on campuses which was further exacerbated by the pandemic. See https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/young-men-...
743.
1k-light-year wide bubble surrounding Earth is source of all nearby, young stars(phys.org)
24 points by jdkee 5y ago|1 comments
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Can a Neural Network Ace an MIT Math Exam?(cantorsparadise.com)
3 points by jdkee 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 5y ago
Or it could be that humans don't respond well to uncontrolled crime. Unless you have experienced crime directed to you, it is easy to judge other's reactions.
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by jdkee 5y ago
Had a TRS-80 Model 100, made by Kyocera. Was a wonder, exceedingly portable, good battery life and great keyboard. Screen real estate was a bit limited, but usable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
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by jdkee 5y ago
"Cyberspace Liminality In William Gibson's Neuromancer: A Decentralization From The Cybernetic To The Posthuman." https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/article/106579
748.
by jdkee 5y ago
Stardew Valley was developed by one person, if I recall correctly.
749.
by jdkee 5y ago
S&P 500 price-to-earnings about double historical average would indicate at least over valuation of stocks. https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
750.
by jdkee 5y ago
The loaded (freighted) content of the word "woke" is exactly why it has the weight it does in conversation. Similar to a curse word.

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