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by my_first_acct 8y ago
This is a review of the new book by George Gilder, "Life after Google", which came out in July.
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
It looks like Canada is moving in this direction. Here is a PR piece (by a telecom technology vendor) that explains that the Canadian telecom regulator will require non-spoofable caller id by March 2019 [1]. The technology is called STIR a
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
An alternate view of the Microsoft antitrust case, suggesting that government action was necessary, and did have a positive effect: "Some limitations were placed on Microsoft’s behavior, such as a requirement that it share certain prog
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Could a new US law [to limit whois privacy] make GDPR irrelevant?(domainincite.com)
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/how-to-go-back-t...
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Not exactly an answer to your question, but there is a Kaggle competition currently in progress in this area, sponsored by CERN: https://www.kaggle.com/c/trackml-particle-identification .
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Just a reminder that Taiwan, a country deeply steeped in traditional Chinese culture, is a functioning multi-party democracy. Perhaps Mainland China is too big, or too poor, to become a stable democracy at this time, but Chinese culture sho
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
A variation on the password algorithm: Generate half of your password by using the algorithm. Create the other half, one per site, using a random algorithm, and write it on a piece of paper (if the site has stupid "security" requ
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
This article discusses the food culture in Schleswig, a region which was the subject of the famous 19th century diplomatic tangle, the Schleswig-Holstein Question [1]. Which brings me to a quote. Per Wikipedia: The British statesman Lord P
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Keyboard Monument in Russian Host City Is Unusual Landmark(nytimes.com)
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
US raw sugar prices are 40% higher than world market prices, due to a complex system of tariffs, subsidies, quotas, and price supports [1]. The leading importer of steel to the US is Canada, with a 20% share [2]. I'm not quite sure ho
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." --Samuel Johnson http://www.samueljohnson.com/writing.html
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Or perhaps "A Child's Garden of Verses" [1] by Robert Louis Stevenson. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Child%27s_Garden_of_Verses
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
When you find yourself surrounded by enemies, you might ask yourself how it came to be that all your neighbors turned against you. An Anglo-French alliance was not inevitable; as late as 1894 it was possible to publish a novel in which Engl
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Interesting paper from 2002. Nowadays, a popular method for imaging and viewing cuneiform tablets is Reflection Transformation Imaging (RTI) [1], developed at HP, and used among other things to image the Antikythera Mechanism [2]. You can v
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Here [1] is a list (extracted from volume 50 apparently) of suggested excerpts. Supposedly, if you spend just 15 minutes a day reading these, you will become well educated in just a year. Note: I have not tried this. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
> Ask about a famous Serbian scientist, and everyone can mention Tesla. Ask for the next one, and observe. I was going to mention Mohorovičić [1], but it turns out he was Croatian (which to me means that Milanković and Mohorovičić were b
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Sounds like you are sensitive to tyramine (google tyramine migraine for more info).
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Silicon Valley Faces Regulatory Fight on Its Home Turf(nytimes.com)
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
> My parents bought me the TI SR-52 when it came out and it was the coolest thing I could imagine. > I wore the numbers off the keycaps on that thing. Wouldn't happen on the HP-35. The keys were double-injected, meaning that the
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
A couple of comments on the article: 1) The article doesn't mention the latinization scheme that was initially proposed last year by the committee of linguists that was tasked to study this issue. Their proposal used only the 26 lette
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
As I understand it, other auto manufacturers provide similar capability, though they may call it "lane keeping" instead of "autopilot". What I haven't seen discussed: Are these cars from other manufacturers having s
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
A couple of problems with the idea of "incentivizing" individuals to keep the cost down, by forcing them to pay more of the cost out-of-pocket (ignoring the moral question of whether people with less money should in fact receive i
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
The Twilio SIM card is not as useful as you might expect. Unfortunately, Twilio cannot receive SMS messages from short codes [1], which are often used used by the kinds of places (banks etc) that rely on SMS for 2FA. Also, keep in mind tha
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
The author of the Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand, also participated in the Mother of All Demos [1], whose 50th anniversary is coming up this December. A busy year for him. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moth
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
According to someone on Stack Exchange, quoting the NY Times, quoting the Chief Editor of the OED [1], 'there are for the verb-form alone of “run” no fewer than 645 meanings'. Other common words with huge numbers of meanings incl
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
An example of polite behavior, starring Ronald Reagan: https://www.salon.com/2003/11/24/korda [From the Salon article]: Korda's eye for detail really shines a couple of hundred pages later, when he and s
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Not completely off-topic, a 6-minute video from 2010: Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8
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US football cryptowars imagined by a 1970s NSA employee(slate.com)
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Also confirmed by Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-5g/trump-securi... First sentence of the Reuters article: "President Donald Trump’s national security team is looking at options to coun

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