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Is Amazon Building a Superkindle?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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The Next Leg Of The Housing Crisis In Five Simple Charts(zerohedge.com)
66 points by limist 17y ago|19 comments
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by limist 17y ago
Don't you find it telling that critics of Mises and Austrian economics rely on ad hominem (personal attacks), appeal to the majority, and appeal to authority as their main argument forms - all of which are fallacious? Considering that the t
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by limist 17y ago
Except that the Mises Institute and (I believe) most Austrian economists are anti-war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute#Miss... The Institute characterizes itself as libertarian and expresses antiwar and non-interv
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The War on the Young(mises.org)
48 points by limist 17y ago|97 comments
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Single page version is here: http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gadgets/201002/warning-...
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Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health(gq.com)
2 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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A Majority Of States Are Now Insolvent: the Disastrous Unemployment Situation(zerohedge.com)
3 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones(guardian.co.uk)
10 points by limist 17y ago|3 comments
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by limist 17y ago
This course seems to be newly shared at MIT's OpenCourseWare; the calendar and its lecture notes are particularly interesting for new to mid-level developers: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
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Elements of Software Construction, Course 6.005 at MIT(ocw.mit.edu)
3 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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by limist 17y ago
One of the best high-level but still applied and applicable books on marketing I've found is "Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands" by Marty Neumeier. The author writes well, gives usable structure and advice, and walks y
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Why Did We Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians?(slate.com)
6 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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Cory Doctorow's Makers Tile Game(tor.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Ten Things the US Can and Should Do for Haiti(commondreams.org)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Biologists merge different disciplines to find new meaning in old data(physorg.com)
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by limist 17y ago
This is an ~10 minute interview with Sharkey, with some fascinating video clips of current robotics technology interspersed among some of his sage observations.
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Video: Artificial intelligence: Noel Sharkey on the inexorable rise of robots(silicon.com)
2 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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An irreverent review of the naughts decade for IT - and some of their graphics are hilarious art/culture hacks.
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How Google became Microsoft: A decade of hits, misses and gaffes(theregister.co.uk)
8 points by limist 17y ago|5 comments
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From this thought-provoking article: "The near-total lack of useful information about teaching and learning has three main effects, all bad for students. First, it creates distortions in the higher-education market that drive up prices. Sec
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That Old College Lie(democracyjournal.org)
2 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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This article's closing text also references the intriguing term describing our emotional/psychological response range to humanoid robots, the Uncanny Valley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley I'm now curious of my own reaction i
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The video of the Quattro s650, claimed as the world's fastest packing/sorting robot, is particularly impressive as it handles a surprisingly large variety of objects.
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A review of the best robots of 2009(singularityhub.com)
26 points by limist 17y ago|5 comments
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We should change tack on climate after Copenhagen(ft.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft settles with EU—browser balloting arrives in March(arstechnica.com)
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Is the physics within the Solar system really understood?(arxiv.org)
4 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children(physorg.com)
2 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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H+ Winter 2009 issue: Kurzweil interview, the Chinese singularity, etc.(hplusmagazine.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments

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