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by tsax 13y ago
Urbit?
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by tsax 13y ago
Worldwide global drug market is estimated to be around $350B/year. SR did around 1.2B over 2.5 years. So yeah a tiny amount, but a huge amount considering it just started couple years back and needed technical sophistication of bitcoin
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by tsax 13y ago
I guess people who use the "they would just do something else" argument for cartels and prohibition mafias would be the ones to say that if the iPhone business goes bust within a year, Apple would just do something else anyway! I
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Brainfuck
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Nice! Thought so.
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by tsax 13y ago
Lame qn but does the name Albert Jay Nock have anything to do with 'Nock'?
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Urbit: A clean-slate functional OS(urbit.org)
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Listening != Learning(tomandgeriscrum.com)
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by tsax 13y ago
More studies will definitely help. I have a 10X engineer in my larger group and there's no question that he is one. Since I've seen this 'mythical' creature, I would not agree with the piece. Of course memetic transmissi
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Maybe a few more buzz words and I may have clicked the link.
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Seems to me (I'm no expert in science history) that most of the huge breakthroughs came before the age of Official Science, i.e. Science(TM) being run through bureaucratic grant administrations in publicly-funded research universities
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Similar thoughts : http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-navr... CTRL+F for "computer science" and start reading from there. Till then it's filler.
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There is no 'fixation.' PG noted stuff in his data that was screaming to be retold. That was one thing he found. A correlation between strong foreign accents and lack of success. Blame reality, not him.
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All The World’s A Stage, And All The Men And Women Merely Players(medium.com)
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Look, it's the online click-generating, culture-destroying media firms' business model to generate politically correct controversies especially on the words of famous or successful people. ValleyWag is the latest monster to grow o
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Tesla Cars Hackable : Dell Engineer(theregister.co.uk)
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Ah yes, "dog eat dog economic liberalism." And then people say Ayn Rand wrote caricatures. Infact, this phrase has been in decline, as it was used to buttress the industrial monopolization of the National Industrial Recovery Act i
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Some contrary thinking from the great Cal Newport: 1) http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-passion-trap-how-t... 2) The book : http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp
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by tsax 13y ago
Competence in pattern detection is pretty much an IQ test. When you go higher on the scale, the number of non-whites, non-asians, and non-jews drops precipitously. I wouldn't bet my house on this prediction, but I would bet a few hund
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Problem is affirmative action rentacops that the TSA has become. Israeli security personnel are highly trained, intelligent folks. The ethnic profile of such a TSA would be > 90% white. Cry racism, and there goes your competent force.
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Yeah no meat! That makes me so healthy! Oh look at me!
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19 True Things Generals Can't Say About the Afghan War(ricks.foreignpolicy.com)
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Would you like to respond to Bloomberg's argument for stop-and-frisk?
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No. No war was declared. AUMF is NOT a Declaration of War.
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Except no one is being lynched.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351342/Bloomberg-re...
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The author is a doctor with decades of experience and is explicitly detailing the perils of standardization from the top-down. I think it's very relevant.
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MSNBC Contributor: Debate over NSA is a 'Privileged' Discussion(mediaite.com)
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Evolutionary history probably plays a role here. Science has given evidence that our faculties of reason are probably meant to persuade and not to reason about the world in an abstract manner. We probably evolved in hunter-gatherer tribes
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Carrier pigeons

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