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by apo 7y ago
Worth noting that this is the blog's first post. I like the tone, the humor, and the sheer nerve of writing something like this. It's inspirational without being preachy. It's also highly actionable. Here's how to apply
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America's First (Secret) Female President(realclearhistory.com)
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by apo 7y ago
Google pulled support for its search API long before wave, leaving developers who started to build on it high and dry.
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President orders American companies to immediately look for alternative to China(cnbc.com)
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by apo 7y ago
Wave was a perfect example of leading with technology rather than the problem to be solved. Nothing I ever saw or read about it spoke to a specific user problem. Sure, Google has problems in spades that can be solved by Wave (engaging users
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by apo 7y ago
> “What Elon Musk wants to produce is a lifestyle,” Zulkifli said Wednesday when asked about the entrepreneur’s comments. “We are not interested in a lifestyle. We are interested in proper solutions that will address climate problems.” E
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by apo 7y ago
> From the point of view of the USA, this must start with a new administration. Not much happened under the old administration. Things got worse.
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by apo 7y ago
> Personal choice matters little globally. Is not the personal, voluntary choice to use Facebook a decision that matters globally? There is no compulsion or legislation there. At least not in the form that many might think.
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by apo 7y ago
How is that incompatible with what I said?
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The Median Line in the Taiwan Strait: A Dangerous Loophole(sentinel.tw)
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by apo 7y ago
Given the dwindling space for burials: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2017/11/03/urban-cemeter... and the energy/greenhouse gas emission costs of cremation, I can see this taking off. Ther
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Sooner or later, the shark gets jumped(seths.blog)
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by apo 7y ago
I'm sure the emotions are genuine, but articles like this leave me with a sense that those concerned are waiting for others (especially "leaders") to make something happen. They want electric cars to be mandated so they can c
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by apo 7y ago
> This was the sharpest downward revision in jobs totals since 2009, when the economy was just starting to emerge from the Great Recession. It's not clear what number the article is talking about. Assuming nonfarm payroll, the BLS h
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by apo 7y ago
For those wondering why anyone would buy such a thing, consider: - Many financial institutions are required to hold a certain percent of portfolio in safe assets. German bunds are among the safest in the world. - A holder of a bond earns a
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by apo 7y ago
> Some $2.5 billion worth of subprime loans, those with FICO credit scores below 690, ended up in mortgage bonds in the first quarter of 2019. That is more than double a year earlier and the highest level since the end of 2007, according
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by apo 7y ago
The draft document here: https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/G... appears to be incomplete. Specifically, pages 3-7 appear to be missing. From the article: > Suess [the state’s Spill
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by apo 7y ago
Maybe because: > You've completed your member preview for this month, but when you sign up for a free Medium account, you get one more story. Not gonna happen.
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by apo 7y ago
> ‘We thought that, in general, all of these amino acids would react similarly because they are structurally similar,’ says Leman. But while almost all the experiments did produce oligomers, the three proteinogenic amino acids reacted mo
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by apo 7y ago
Warren's blog uses the Microsoft antitrust case as a precedent: > In the 1990s, Microsoft — the tech giant of its time — was trying to parlay its dominance in computer operating systems into dominance in the new area of web browsing
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by apo 7y ago
> We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change. Two points: 1. The post presents no evidence that this is
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by apo 7y ago
> Firstly, China has devalued the yuan to offset the rising tariffs that the United States has been imposing. In fact, China has devalued the yuan significantly since the Trump administration first placed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods –
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Masquerade (Book)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by apo 7y ago
> Surprisingly, the root cause of bad software has less to do with specific engineering choices, and more to do with how development projects are managed. The worst software projects often proceed in a very particular way: > The proje
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District of Columbia vs. Heller(en.wikipedia.org)
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by apo 7y ago
> In recent years I’ve been using an open source, federated alternative to Twitter that uses a protocol called ActivityPub. I run my own server for myself and my friends. People on my server can communicate with other servers that suppor
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by apo 7y ago
It's not really a question of hard way vs easy way. It's more like the difference between having a balloon filled with helium and making a single helium atom in a collider. One you can buy at the grocery store, the other requires
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by apo 7y ago
> The U.S. has sought to derail Chinese efforts to gain an economic foothold in Greenland. The Pentagon worked successfully in 2018 to block China from financing three airports on the island. This is where the story takes a dark turn. Gl
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by apo 7y ago
> Gawel and his collaborators have now created and imaged the long-sought ring molecule carbon-18. Using standard ‘wet’ chemistry, his collaborator Lorel Scriven, an Oxford chemist, first synthesized molecules that included four-carbon s
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by apo 7y ago
Can someone just summarize the thread? No desire to scroll through to figure out what the hubbub is about. Grammar is a mess, which makes it even harder to make heads or tails of it.

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