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by tacon 9y ago
>bailed out the banks In the 1930s, the bank stockholders were wiped out (equity set to zero), and they started over. In the 2008 crisis, bank stockholders were "bailed out". The value of their shares did not go to zero. The
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by tacon 9y ago
>For his 2006 book “Philosophy: The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions,” Nicholas Fearn broached the topic of artificial intelligence in an interview with Professor Dreyfus, who told him: “I don’t think about computers anymore. I fig
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EB Enterprises – Flux Capacitor(oreillyauto.com)
2 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
"Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." [1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/18/acad-politics/
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Systematic review on converting online contact into a first date(ebm.bmj.com)
1 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
When I was setting mine up, the term I saw was "unpublished primary". I did it because there were few free primary DNS services back then, but several free secondary services. So I just "forgot" to publish my primary..
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by tacon 10y ago
Thanks for that update. That article was in my weird stuff file, and I had no idea the evidence presented was controversial.
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Go Viral or Die Trying(esquire.com)
1 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
Humans can also work fine with almost no brain tissue, as has been discovered throughout history. The canonical article is from 1980, "Is Your Brain Really Necessary?"[0] "There's a young student at this university,&quo
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Visipedia: A System of People and Machines for Organizing Visual Information(youtube.com)
6 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
I've been running my own email server since... forever. In 1985 it was uucp ! paths and sendmail. I got a "for real" domain just for email in 1993, still over uucp dialup. DSL always on in 1999. But it does become harder a
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by tacon 10y ago
Eventually the second amendment right to bear arms will become irrelevant if you have no ability to move effectively. If nothing else, all the other self-driving cars will be commandeered by the network to box in a rouge car driven by a hu
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by tacon 10y ago
In the 90s I had a girlfriend from Moscow and very early on she played the film Irony of Fate[1] for me, to help explain Russian culture. It is a classic comedy based on how identical the housing blocks were at the time. A man gets drunk,
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by tacon 10y ago
I think 2000s Iraq had thieves steal the power lines, too.
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Building refuge for federal climate and environmental data(datarefuge.org)
1 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
Is there a collection of data safety tips like this somewhere? I never knew this existed. What else am I missing?
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by tacon 10y ago
Skype finally turned off a bunch of old versions of Skype just now. download.skype.com is refusing connections as a few million people try to upgrade. I suspect it is all knock on effects from that.
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by tacon 10y ago
There was a brief period at my local Microcenter, after the supply started to catch up with demand and before the "limit 1 at $5" policy. I bought five of the hundred or so in the locked plastic box. I think I could have bought
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by tacon 10y ago
At Microcenter, only the first one (per visit) is $5.00: 1 at $5.00 each, 2-5 at $9.99 each, 6+ at $12.99 each
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Hotel Thermostat Bypass(thermostatbypass.tumblr.com)
37 points by tacon 10y ago|3 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
From the preface of The Productive Programmer[0] by Neal Ford: "Many years ago, I taught training classes for experienced developers who were learning new technologies (like Java). The disparity between the productivity of the students
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The Hole That Dlmalloc Can’t Fill(gameangst.com)
2 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
I can't remember the company, but there was a Mixergy interview about a product to manage contracts that are in force, and he was getting little to no uptake in the legal market. And then 2008 hit, and lots of big companies pulled the
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How to Learn React (and what to build along the way)(daveceddia.com)
4 points by tacon 10y ago|1 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
Some time ago Rob Walling, on Startups for the Rest of Us, mentioned that Datanyze is closer to real time than BuiltWith. So real time, in fact, that you can get a list of sites that have just (yesterday?) started a trial of your competito
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The Most Important Design Jobs of the Future(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
As Alan Kay mentions in one of his videos, da Vinci had no access to an engine. All his designs were on paper. If he had an engine available, he might have made a lot of narrow progress, instead of being so broad. In fact, in that video K
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by tacon 10y ago
Where are those social app systems that process your grocery receipts and show where the savings on things you buy are at the moment? I remember a Mixergy interview from years ago where a Techstars team was working on processing receipts t
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by tacon 10y ago
You are confusing monopsony and monopoly. Monopsony is often a government buyer, say of prisons or aircraft carriers, and the monospony puts the buyer in a stronger position. In a monopoly, the power is with the seller.
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Learning a Probabilistic Latent Space of Object Shapes via 3D GAN(3dgan.csail.mit.edu)
58 points by tacon 10y ago|8 comments

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