lingzb

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by lingzb 8y ago
Truth is stranger than fiction
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World Reaches 1,000GW of Wind and Solar, Keeps Going(about.bnef.com)
3 points by lingzb 8y ago|1 comments
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Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted to Know(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by lingzb 8y ago|0 comments
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by lingzb 8y ago
Good list but missing Polychain Capital which is pretty legit.
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by lingzb 8y ago
It'll help you live forever! (If it doesn't kill you first.)
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by lingzb 8y ago
Good to see research from the 1960s is finally paying off and now almost anyone can use simple libraries for NLP.
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Salt-infused graphene creates an infrared cloaking device(arstechnica.com)
75 points by lingzb 8y ago|7 comments
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by lingzb 8y ago
Where's the article about how to turn Emacs into a note-taking app??
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by lingzb 8y ago
My key takeaway: "The video is the most important part of your marketing strategy." That's definitely the only thing I look at when I check out a Kickstarter campaign.
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by lingzb 8y ago
I've been wondering about the safety of vaping. Glad to see it's not as bad as smoking (a low bar) but will still kill you.
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by lingzb 8y ago
Can't agree more about prioritizing personal networks over everything else.
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by lingzb 8y ago
Great cautionary tale of JS bloat in the age of mobile
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by lingzb 8y ago
Good list but I think GitHub's list matches more closely to what I see people using: https://octoverse.github.com/ In particular, GitHub's list has JavaScript as #1 and I've seen a lot of frontend and middle-
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by lingzb 8y ago
Crazy how little code it is.
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by lingzb 8y ago
Great read but I don't think this is a huge problem, yet. The US is the biggest and most vibrant economy in the world. It has the most advanced military, it spans a huge land area, and the country has massive impact on global culture.
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by lingzb 8y ago
Facebook can go real big here. The have ridiculous distribution (2B+ monthly users). If they roll out a crypto payment or stored value system to their users, the network effects / lock in will be insane. Only Google could really compet
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by lingzb 8y ago
This is a move in the right direction but I think Google has no chance in hell of establishing a serious footprint in China. They've poked China in the eye too many times on human rights issues and regardless of your moral stance here,
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by lingzb 8y ago
This is terrible. I actually like some of Trump's work in terms of negotiating better trade deals for the US. However, the unpredictability is a little nuts and threatens stalling an otherwise great US economy of late. Basically snatch
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by lingzb 8y ago
$100B will completely change landscape given the total amount of VC investment per year has only been around $100B to date. Exact figure depends on what source you look at but here's one: https://www.statista.com/statis