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Today Is the 20th Anniversary of Bill Gates' “Internet Tidal Wave” Memo(wired.com)
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by kahirsch 11y ago
If a tree grows in the middle of a forest and there's no one around to see it, does it make a color?
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> From what I've read, the memristors may not be working at scale. Where have you read this? That sounds interesting.
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No, it's just that Intel won, mostly because of IBM choosing it.
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He was vice president of the Sterling Salt company at the time[1] and later president[2]. He was also a "prominent yachtsman" and the son of Vernon H. Brown, the head of Cunard Lines' New York office. [1] https://b
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For those curious about what "Hi-Res" meant at the time, there are some screenshots: http://www.apple2games.com/wiki/Hi-Res_Soccer http://www.apple2games.com/wiki/Hi-Res_Football There&#
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by kahirsch 12y ago
On December 10, 1989, two of these 2,000 towers collapsed near Raleigh, NC. It was as the ice was melting after a really bad ice storm. Pictures of the aftermath: http://www.oldradio.com/archives/warstories/WRAL.ht
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> He makes a convincing argument that the long-term downward trend in the U.S. murder rate is a function of faster trips to the hospital (due to better first responder protocols), and better care once in hospital. There was a disconnect
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by kahirsch 12y ago
According to the author of Dirty Old London , these urine deflectors in Clifford's Inn Passage[1] are among the last of what was once a very common feature. [1] http://catsmeatshop.blogspot.com/2013/07/urine-
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by kahirsch 12y ago
The letter was sent about a month before King went to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, so it's probably a reference to that.
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Apple didn't give Xerox $1 million in shares, they gave Xerox the opportunity to buy $1 million in stock, which Xerox did.[1] There was no agreement that Apple was allowed to use the technology. Ten years later, Xerox tried unsucce
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Those statistics are surprising.
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> Most of the violence committed against innocent civilians is perpetrated by the police. That sentence is completely different from "no criminal organization kills as many people as the police." While it is shockingly high, 3
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The first sentence of the article is "Under the current rules prisoners are prevented from receiving parcels unless they have 'exceptional circumstances', such as a medical condition."
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In the United States, most prisons will accept books only when they are shipped directly from the publisher.
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> Then imagine a ninja comes in and slices the pole up, perpendicular to its axis, so you've got 20 short poles. Why would you expect the ninja to do this? Why would you expect large-scale structures of the universe to form parallel
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It certainly wasn't the FBI's intention to undermine the AP's credibility. They tried to keep it a secret that they had used this tactic. Only the user of the MySpace account "timberlinebombinfo" saw the fake news s
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Crow documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-murder-of-crows/fu...
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I think the example that you linked[1] is quite strange. If you are going to write a form letter — "Dear Sir or Madam" — then, yes, you don't want a font that makes things look personal, like Comic Sans. Also "this not
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by kahirsch 12y ago
It looks like the research on this is mixed. See The Legalization of Recreational Marijuana: How Likely is the Worst-Case Scenario?, with Daniel Rees. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33 (2014) 221-232.[1] and Williams, Jenny, R
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It doesn't appear to be a quote from Schopenhauer, but a quote from an essay "Schopenhauer and Buddhism" by Peter Abelson.[1] [1] http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/peter2.htm
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But it wouldn't work on a cloudy day, presumably.
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I think the sentence is pretty clear. It's using a limited-time monopoly in order to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. There is nothing here about promoting "disclosure of how to make things". That notion d
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> If you understand even the basics of trademark law, you know that if IKEA were to do nothing at all in this case, that they would risk losing their IKEA trademark. What do you base this statement on? The only cases that I've heard
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A slanted fence can be much shorter and can be cheaper, but it uses a bit more area. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRRgIbYKgw [2] http://anr.ext.wvu.edu/r/download/51668 (PDF)
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The different land-use on the two sides of the fence lead to differences in weather. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/earth/14fenc.html
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by kahirsch 12y ago
Is the story about the Laufenburg bridge accurate? I would never have thought that bridge builders would have used altitude above sea level as a basis for building, instead of some local, direct measurement.
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/07/110207fa_fact_...
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Bloomberg has a staff of more than 2,400 journalists and editors.[1] This is the same Bloomberg that sued the Federal Reserve to make them release the names of the recipients of the Fed's emergency loans.[2] [1] http://jobs.b
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by kahirsch 12y ago
Thanks, that's a very good video.

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