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Hillary Clinton, the first ‘E.T. candidate,’ has U.F.O. fans in thrall(nytimes.com)
3 points by my_first_acct 10y ago|2 comments
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This massive cloud atlas can tell us a lot about life on Earth(vox.com)
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by my_first_acct 10y ago
Other appearances by the same author in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11206649 (stealing books from a monastery via a secret passage) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11350046 (policing by he
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by my_first_acct 10y ago
For personal reasons, I was pretty interested by one of the digressions: the origins of the phrase “mathematics… is a young man’s game”, and a discussion of whether it is still (or ever was) true (focusing on the age question, not the gende
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by my_first_acct 10y ago
A vaguely simlar case in the US, a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Justice#Spirit_of_Ju...
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The lunacy of Silicon Valley is no secret (review of Lyons's Disrupted)(vox.com)
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Blockchain Land Titling Project in the Republic of Georgia(medium.com)
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Down to Lunch Founders Pursue Less-Traveled Path to App Success(nytimes.com)
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Looting of the Fox: The Story of Sabotage at ShapeShift(news.bitcoin.com)
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by my_first_acct 11y ago
The real divide in California is not between north and south, but between coastal and inland. SF and LA have a lot more in common with each other, culturally, politically, and economically, than either of them has with Bakersfield or Fresn
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by my_first_acct 11y ago
Some news on the topic: http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_27634630/uc-cap-out... Summary: Non-Californian students pay $23,000 more per year than Californian students, generating $600 million per year for t
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by my_first_acct 11y ago
A book about the period, published in 2014: "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Eric Cline. As both the book and the OP make clear, the collapse did not take place in the course of a single year, despite the catchy ti
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by my_first_acct 11y ago
Sure, Taiwan is funny that way. But I'm trying to figure out what it is that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan have in common that causes you to label all 3 of them "microstates", but that causes you to exclude, say, Belgium
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by my_first_acct 11y ago
The "microstate" of Taiwan is larger, in surface area and population, than Belgium.
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'Hack the Dinos' helps paleontologists(nytimes.com)
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by my_first_acct 11y ago
Quoting from PG's first essay on inequality: "The great concentrations of wealth I see around me in Silicon Valley don't seem to be destroying democracy." This is where I disagree. The risk of dynastic wealth is that th