montrose

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by montrose 8y ago
This quote "We're feeding it to the public in bite-sized chunks." from a non-paywalled article https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/dozens-heard-amel... makes it clear that this story is part
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Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid(nytimes.com)
3 points by montrose 8y ago|0 comments
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Why are Americans so loud?(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by montrose 8y ago|0 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
Does this make these worms the oldest living things?
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How a German city changed how we read(bbc.com)
39 points by montrose 8y ago|8 comments
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A Fear of Lawsuits Really Does Seem to Result in Extra Medical Tests(nytimes.com)
105 points by montrose 8y ago|124 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
Privacy nightmare perhaps, but actual threat to SV cos, no.
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by montrose 8y ago
Reading this, I was reminded of Hardy's Mathematician's Apology. He mentions several of these points.
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by montrose 8y ago
Though this article sounds plausible, I became more skeptical when I noticed he put the word "facility" in scare quotes.
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Optimising a Trebuchet [video](youtube.com)
128 points by montrose 8y ago|22 comments
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Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color(thevalemagazine.com)
46 points by montrose 8y ago|30 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
I've worked at home for decades. In the beginning when I had small apartments, I used to put a table with my computer on it inside a closet. I'd open up the closet door, pull up a chair, and voila, office. In those days, monitors
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by montrose 8y ago
Ask them what they would pay for.
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Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools Outside Africa(nytimes.com)
52 points by montrose 8y ago|24 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
If this trend is real it will be really good for social mobility.
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by montrose 8y ago
Than the general population possibly, but not than the applicant pool, which is the comparison that matters. It seems more likely that in the applicant pool the non-legacy kids would be smarter. Imagine how confident of your ability you&#
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by montrose 8y ago
"Legacy applicants, or students with a parent who attended Harvard, were accepted to the school at the rate of about 34%, according to data from six admissions cycles analyzed by an economist hired by the group suing the school. That’s
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by montrose 8y ago
How could they be moving faster than the speed of light?
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Human life spans may not be limited(upi.com)
1 points by montrose 8y ago|0 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
Do you think the state of the art in quantum computing is already more advanced than we realize, in the same way that the state of the art in cryptography was when R, S, and A thought they had discovered RSA?
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by montrose 8y ago
Blaming the "startup mentality" makes a good linkbait title, but Occam's razor suggests that when the latest cool-sounding attempt to reform public schools in cities fails, it's probably for the same reasons that previou
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We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air(nytimes.com)
129 points by montrose 8y ago|111 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
Ah, thank you.
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by montrose 8y ago
I notice that although Zuse's patent applications are mentioned in the Wikipedia article on stored-program computers, the Z3 is not included in the list of candidates for first working hardware. Can anyone explain to me why it would ha
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by montrose 8y ago
"Founders rank speed as their 3rd most important criteria and VCs, in fact, ranked it as the least important one." This disconnect represents a significant opportunity for new VC firms.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electric Scooters(nytimes.com)
72 points by montrose 8y ago|83 comments
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Abel's Theorem in Problems and Solutions (2004) [pdf](maths.ed.ac.uk)
32 points by montrose 8y ago|7 comments
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Sudden Neolithic population drop was the result of brutal warfare: study(express.co.uk)
105 points by montrose 8y ago|80 comments
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Thanksgiving Got Shorter After the 2016 Election, Study Says(nytimes.com)
30 points by montrose 8y ago|73 comments
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Every 202,500 Years, Earth Wanders in a New Direction(nytimes.com)
130 points by montrose 8y ago|51 comments

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