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Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person(bloomberg.com)
226 points by rfinney 8y ago|272 comments
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by rfinney 8y ago
good point. Vanguard has a pretty good reputation regardless of it's company structure. I'm not so trusting of some other financial firms.
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by rfinney 8y ago
Vanguard is not a corporation. It is structured as a mutual company; it is owned by funds managed by the company, and is therefore owned by its customers. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group
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Red Hat proxy shows 'opportunity' for upset bids in IBM deal(bizjournals.com)
2 points by rfinney 8y ago|0 comments
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by rfinney 8y ago
Serious question: Is there an emerging cross platform workflow language to just write stuff to run on any cloud/container hosting setup? The idea would be to be portable, avoid vendor lock-in and take advantage price differences or qui
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Vigorous exercise may help with Alzheimer's. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/vigorous-exerci... The results indicate that aerobic exercise is more effective than any currently approved medication in
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U.S. Is Net Oil Exporter for First Time in 75 Years(finance.yahoo.com)
6 points by rfinney 8y ago|1 comments
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Inflation adjusted price of gold is down almost 50% from 1980: https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...
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by rfinney 8y ago
A lot of developers want portability and retaining all revenue from their programs. Could Apple do even better by providing more for developers on these fronts?
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The adeno-associated virus serotype 1 (AAV1) viral vector delivers an intact copy of the human lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene to muscle cells. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alipogene_tiparvovec
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Russia to deploy “unstoppable” hypersonic super-nuke(metro.co.uk)
6 points by rfinney 8y ago|2 comments
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FBI reviewing Tesla's Model 3 production numbers(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by rfinney 8y ago|0 comments
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by rfinney 8y ago
Open access Nature Communications paper : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06773-2 High-performance and scalable on-chip digital Fourier transform spectroscopy Here we demonstrate a transformative on-chip d
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by rfinney 8y ago
Dwight Eisenhower's Farewell Address ... We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. .... Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should
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by rfinney 8y ago
The breakfast of champions. Ask Philadephia Eagle fans: https://nypost.com/2018/02/05/eagles-fan-thinks-eating-horse...
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X-37B Space Plane Wings Past 400 Days on Mission(space.com)
4 points by rfinney 8y ago|0 comments
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by rfinney 8y ago
Same in the U.S.: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cabrini+green+projects&t=ffsb&ia=i... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=robert+taylor+homes&t=ffsb&iar=ima...
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W3C Strategic Highlights(w3.org)
4 points by rfinney 8y ago|0 comments
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by rfinney 8y ago
fact check: Pensions in the US are only allowed to invest in the absolute worst returns options Investopedia reports : ERISA does not regulate a pension plan’s specific investments. ERISA does require plan sponsors to operate as fiduciari
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by rfinney 8y ago
fact check : Also known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, selected by the same institution as the other prizes (the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) ... "Nobel Peace Prize" is selected by Norwegian government. ( see https:&#x2
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Snap falls to new low(cnbc.com)
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Twiggy is a code size profiler for wasm binaries(rustwasm.github.io)
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W3C Invites Implementations of Web Audio API(w3.org)
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Check: In November, 1917, Vladimir Lenin rewarded Joseph Stalin for his support of the October Revolution by appointing him Commissar of Nationalities. [ source : https://spartacus-educational.com/RUSnationalities.htm ] Th
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by rfinney 8y ago
Stalin was a leader in the Russian (Soviet) Government late in World War I: "Stalin became part of an informal foursome leading the government, alongside Lenin, Trotsky, and Sverdlov;[183] of these, Sverdlov was regularly absent, and
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Web-sys: A crate for standard web platform interaction(hub.packtpub.com)
1 points by rfinney 8y ago|0 comments
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by rfinney 8y ago
Link to PNAS research paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/19/1811940115 Human Endogenous Retrovirus-K HML-2 integration within RASGRF2 is associated with intravenous drug abuse and modu
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WebAssembly Load Times and Performance(blogs.unity3d.com)
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by rfinney 8y ago
What about the contrarian view that the Pax Americana has brought the greatest era of peace, wealth and standard of living to the world? Our forefathers paid a higher price. Security and liberty are not without costs.
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by rfinney 8y ago
I'm going be a little blunt here (so , sorry for the skeptical review). I think we're still stuck with "network hairballs" dealing with large gene/gene or protein/protein interactions. The video is very pretty

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