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by sjcsjc 11y ago
"As if painters produced nothing but white canvases that only they could see with special glasses" Great analogy.
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Why the Bitcoin Blockchain Could Make Gift Cards Even More Beloved(forbes.com)
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Cambridge University professor of Lego proposed(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 11y ago
Since we're on the subject, there's a film about them which I'm pretty sure I saw on Netflix (in the UK). Fascinating and rather depressing story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baader_Meinhof_Complex
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Nuts 'protect against early death'(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 11y ago
The full Mencken quote is superb: "The state—or, to make the matter more concrete, the government—consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government;
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Why the Future of Virtual Reality Is Not the Oculus(forbes.com)
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by sjcsjc 11y ago
"Watch thi'sens." = "Watch yourselves"
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How I became a drug cheat athlete to test the system(bbc.com)
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by sjcsjc 11y ago
from the article: "[chimps share with humans...] a preference for cooked food, the ability to understand the transformation of raw food into cooked food, and even the ability to save and transport food over distance for the purposes of
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Chimps understand concept of cooking(news.harvard.edu)
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MI6 recruitment(careers.stackoverflow.com)
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New UK law would give government access to encrypted Internet messaging apps(arstechnica.co.uk)
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How would the CLRS authors fare in TopCoder vs. people like Gennady Korotkevich?(quora.com)
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Visa founder, former Citibank CEO and former Treas Sec join Xapo advisory board(blog.xapo.com)
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Suntan lotions failing protection tests, says Which?(bbc.co.uk)
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Startup entrepreneur sues Uber, claims CEO stole idea for on-demand taxis(arstechnica.com)
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Indonesian army urged to stop virginity tests for recruits(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 11y ago
Link to the original article: http://www.coindesk.com/21-intel-bitcoin-mining-strategy/ This is presumably from the same source as the recent spate of "mining from toasters" articles started by FT's Alph
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Is memory needed in a digital age?(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 11y ago
This is presumably the source of the recent spate of "mining from toasters" articles started by FT's Alphaville [1]). The Vimeo clip shows a live demo from Oct 2014 of a bandwidth auctioning protocol, (the article links to th
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Inside 21's Plans to Bring Bitcoin to the Masses(coindesk.com)
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The two aren't entirely unrelated http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023034968045793652...
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Case Is an Insanely Secure Hardware Bitcoin Wallet(techcrunch.com)
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by sjcsjc 12y ago
Maybe madaxe_again told it "to illuminate that the guy's a human being, and an entertaining one at that."
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Boston Bitcoin Startup [Circle] Adds $50M from Goldman Sachs, IDG(bizjournals.com)
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by sjcsjc 12y ago
He's fixed it now.
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by sjcsjc 12y ago
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/6/djv074.short I'd guess it was an oversight. He linked to it in his previous weekly post.
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by sjcsjc 12y ago
tl;dr - "Last week, a Danish study was published that tracked 65,000 people over 15 years. The bottom line was that telomere length robustly predicts longevity, even after factoring out the effect of age, smoking, exercise, blood chol
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Large New Survey Tracks Telomere Length and Mortality(joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com)
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