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The Importance of Career Laddering(css-tricks.com)
1 points by pmastela 6y ago|0 comments
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Robot-woven sneaker with 3D-printed soles(spectrum.ieee.org)
159 points by pmastela 6y ago|77 comments
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by pmastela 6y ago
Here's a specific example of your slime mold hypothesis [1] in which a slime mold grew a network just like Tokyo's rail system. Slime mold doesn't have the same ring as "rail network planning AI", but it seems that&
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by pmastela 6y ago
Agreed, there were bright spots, one of them was South East Asia. Perhaps the people there will manage better but that's all they'll be able to do is manage and not prosper. Rising sea levels won't spare those that manage to
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by pmastela 6y ago
And 10X investment in fusion… Declaring a war on bitcoin would be as futile as War on Drugs and the Prohibition. Might as well embrace it, try to tax and regulate it, and move the revenue from it to worthwhile initiatives that can buy human
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by pmastela 6y ago
I feel the same. The coronavirus pandemic pandemic felt like the final nail in the coffin of my optimism. Humanity’s collective response or lack thereof was on full display and if that was the best we could do when faced with an immediate a
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The Muon g–2 Anomaly Explained(physics.aps.org)
3 points by pmastela 6y ago|0 comments
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NASA revises its low Earth orbit commercialization plans(thespacereview.com)
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Transit Agencies Build Slicker Trip Navigation Tools to Boost Ridership(wsj.com)
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Why Sahil Lavingia is betting his company on the rise of the creator economy(businessofbusiness.com)
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by pmastela 6y ago
Plenty of other democracies that do just fine without all the bells and whistles of technology. Maybe having society pin its hope on technology instead of focusing on the fundamentals of democracy and society is what got us into this situat
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by pmastela 6y ago
> For calendar 2021, just the companies in the Cloud Wars Top 10 will generate cloud revenue in the range of $235 billion, with most of those companies having cloud businesses that are growing at or above 20% per year. 235B/.05 = 4.
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The First Smartphone to Use a Liquid Lens Is the Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold(petapixel.com)
1 points by pmastela 6y ago|0 comments
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High-Frequency Traders Eye Satellites for Ultimate Speed Boost(wsj.com)
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by pmastela 6y ago
> The question is not _whether_ humans will become extinct, but rather _when_ they will. If the anti-natalist arguments are correct, it would be better, all things being equal, if this happened sooner rather than later for, the sooner it
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Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity(theguardian.com)
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by pmastela 6y ago
Hmm, the "slow burn theme" reminds me of Hemingway's take on how one goes bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly.
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by pmastela 6y ago
With it being so close to April Fools' Day, color me skeptical.
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5 Years After the Oculus Rift, Where Do VR and AR Go Next?(wired.com)
14 points by pmastela 6y ago|4 comments
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A Cautionary Tale for China's Ambitious Chipmakers(npr.org)
8 points by pmastela 6y ago|0 comments
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by pmastela 6y ago
Nifty. Now if only this was the required homepage on all major browsers starting up for the first time then folks at home would quickly become aware of just how well tracked they all are.
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by pmastela 6y ago
> open nature of the blockchain Only some are open. Take a look at Monero. There's a bounty out to make transactions on it traceable [1]. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25752042
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by pmastela 6y ago
> This means Bitcoin's value is based on completely ephemeral feelings, and the size of its network -- both things that can disappear overnight. Yet here we are in 2021. The ephemeral feelings to me are the memes that keep things li
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by pmastela 6y ago
> The real benefit that reluctant young lawyers like Otlet get from their career is boredom. Their minds wander. This reminds me of Einstein's stint as a patent clerk where he "hatched the most beautiful ideas [1]". Someti
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by pmastela 6y ago
I don’t know a whole lot about professional investing, but if watching The Big Short has taught me anything it’s that the pros will say one thing publicly but do the opposite in private until it’s to their advantage to do a 180 and make the
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by pmastela 6y ago
For posterity, I wish all this information would make its way to a public repo as to not be lost in the sands of time.
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by pmastela 6y ago
What’s the overlap between Atomwise and DeepBAR? Seems like behind the scenes Atomwise might have a proprietary version of something similar to it.
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Faster drug discovery through machine learning(news.mit.edu)
1 points by pmastela 6y ago|1 comments
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Early SpaceX engineer crawled inside an imploding rocket on a jet(businessinsider.com)
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In First, Uber Agrees to Classify British Drivers as ‘Workers’(nytimes.com)
2 points by pmastela 6y ago|0 comments

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