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Planet discovered with 4 suns(upi.com)
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Don't blame lean startups for unemployment(technologyreview.com)
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by troyastorino 14y ago
While the article starts out very interesting, towards the end the author starts to sound almost delusional. He implies that although the introduction of capitalist reforms seemed to help the Chinese at first, it has ultimately been an inst
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Boson outside standard model potentially discovered(gizmag.com)
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by troyastorino 14y ago
Ultimately there are going to have to be shifts in what skills people learn. There will be high unemployment during the adjustment period, but as long as demand for low-skill jobs shrinks, people will adjust and learn new skills. You don'
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by troyastorino 14y ago
I'm somewhat confused about B. The monetary base is indeed expanded through the issuance of debt in fractional reserve banking, but when the Fed pursues expansionary monetary policies to keep the interest rates low doesn't that increase th
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by troyastorino 14y ago
Additionally, I think Bitcoin advocates argue that since the money growth rate of Bitcoin is subject to a open and known process, deflationary trends will be known and expected as well. Because the deflation will be expected, there won't b
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by troyastorino 14y ago
I think the idea behind this is to make people think the total amount of water on Earth is scarce.
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Big Data won't be as effective as we all expect(technologyreview.com)
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by troyastorino 14y ago
There are also only 26 likes on the video; if someone was motivated enough by the video to go vote, there's at least a decent chance that he would like the video as well.
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Ask PG: How much time do you spend on HN daily?
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Celebrate Human Achievement Hour during Earth Hour(cei.org)
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by troyastorino 15y ago
If you just type in the expression as Mathematica code, doesn't Wolfram Alpha evaluate it just as Mathematica would?
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by troyastorino 15y ago
Studies published in Nature typically don't have bad science...
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by troyastorino 15y ago
The laser can't be aimed at an individual neuron; it is aimed at a cluster of neurons. Besides, activating a single neuron will strongly activate the neurons it has strong synaptic connections to. The key here is that an individual cluste
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PCL spam filter in Clojure(github.com)
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3-D printed jawbone(technologyreview.com)
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Open Source RTS game(wildfiregames.com)
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by troyastorino 15y ago
General sales taxes are state taxes, not federal taxes. Changing the incentive structure to any extent will change behavior.
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by troyastorino 15y ago
Agreed. Although there are many videos online of using the device successfully, the people who tried it in our lab found it/themselves very difficult to train. And it was due to lack of trying...we very much wanted to control things with
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MITx positions to offer certification for completing courses online(web.mit.edu)
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by troyastorino 15y ago
It's hard to argue that they've forgone more profitable business models, as they are in the top 10 most profitable companies in the US, and are the most valuable company.
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by troyastorino 15y ago
Hypothesizing that a trend could be explained by cultural differences is different than discriminating on race.
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Household robots: Willow Garage's PR2 folds clothes, sets table, bakes cookies(latimes.com)
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Entrepreneurship as a model for leadership(forbes.com)
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by troyastorino 15y ago
> Yeah online privacy is nearly non existent. Especially so when you are reckless and use connected identity systems. That doesn't mean the message should be "give up." I don't think the question is over whether it is worth it to fight
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Goldilocks zone planet discovered 36 light-years from Earth(nytimes.com)
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by troyastorino 15y ago
While I think her comparison of the hobbyist nature of early computing to the current state of energy technologies ignores the massive amounts of research and money poured into energy, her assertion that personal computing is "solved" is in
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The Next Steve Jobs will be in Energy, not Computers(technologyreview.com)
1 points by troyastorino 15y ago|3 comments
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What made Steve Jobs a giant among the world's greatest communicators?(guardian.co.uk)
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