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Colossal Wants to bring back woolly mammoths, and other extinct species(colossal.com)
3 points by razzaj 1y ago|0 comments
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How to use “Solomon’s paradox” to give yourself good life advice(bigthink.com)
2 points by razzaj 4y ago|0 comments
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2 Pi or not 2 Pi? (2015)(blog.wolfram.com)
1 points by razzaj 9y ago|0 comments
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by razzaj 9y ago
Is raising money from the companies willing to buy you an option? Instead if taking the $12M, you could take the $2M you need and dilute accordingly.
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WhatsApp announces free Business app, will charge big enterprises(techcrunch.com)
16 points by razzaj 9y ago|1 comments
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by razzaj 9y ago
"charged customers 19 yuan ($2.90 USD) per umbrella deposit and an additional half yuan ($0.07 USD) per 30 minutes" So customers holding on to their umbrellas are bring charged 3.36$/day? I've paid that much to buy umbre
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by razzaj 9y ago
You are right. It is difficult for me to remember and remove those when sharing.
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Inside the Vatican-blessed tech accelerator that's tackling climate change(fastcompany.com)
3 points by razzaj 9y ago|3 comments
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by razzaj 9y ago
The upside of irrationality. Ariely Germs guns and steel. Jared Diamond Influence, the psychology of persuasion. Cialdini Justice: what's the right thing to do. Sandel QED. Fyenman All of Feynman lectures on physics The hard thing abou
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by razzaj 9y ago
What is really worrying though is the normalization of privacy devaluation. Soon the uk will follow suite and then others. And sooner than later we ll be "back" to 1984
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Amazon clinches deal to buy Middle East online retailer Souq.com(mobile.reuters.com)
2 points by razzaj 9y ago|0 comments
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by razzaj 9y ago
Isnt it weird that drasticly restrictive all encompassing rules are hastily pushed after attacks? Blanket Decryption of messages, and other privacy suppression rules will make intelligence agencies into super powers with too much control
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by razzaj 10y ago
Makes sense. However, how is that going to protect the US? The moment such information is public, perpetrators will not transport any digital devices with incriminating data. What you re left with are people being harrassed over a digital c
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by razzaj 10y ago
I know that thesis. But i find that the middle class usually has a propensity to buying the more expensive items (even if it ends up being only marginally better than crap) because of a different dynamic. and it always puzzled me, i see it
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by razzaj 10y ago
By the time this technology is out there, car keys would be obsolete. You would nt own a car.
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by razzaj 10y ago
Exactly. Not forgetting that radiation protection has nothing to do with the hardness of the casing. Lead is nowhere near hard and is one of the most used materials to shield from radiations.
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by razzaj 10y ago
Sure, kids complicate things. They also have the unique attibute of being non-undoable. And life is surely much simpler without them. But aren't all enriching things in life complicated? Like love, starting a company, friendship, learn
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by razzaj 10y ago
Looks like a nicer minitel, which was around at the time. Perhaps it was apple's attempt to bring the concept to the us? Or sell it in france.
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by razzaj 10y ago
failures are at least as important a dataset as successes. Most technical entrepreneurs i know are very pattern oriented people. And in a way Reducing the datasets to successes will invitably bias their patterns one way. If the goal of wri
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A short history of the O'Reilly animals(oreilly.com)
1 points by razzaj 10y ago|0 comments
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Meet Anghami, the Spotify of the Middle East(businessinsider.com)
1 points by razzaj 10y ago|0 comments
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by razzaj 10y ago
AS i look at the rendering on this plane, all i could think of is "gee, this eerily looks like the SX from black & mortimer" http://images.gibertjoseph.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1...
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“Inshalla” is good for everyone(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by razzaj 10y ago|0 comments
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How an Economy Grows, and Why It Doesn't (2011)(imgur.com)
1 points by razzaj 11y ago|1 comments
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by razzaj 11y ago
A research on how to unwind grudges after long term conflicts. Specially for large scale conflicts (as opposed to personal conflicts). A notorious example would be the Arab, Iraeli conflict. That is a conflict that affects me personally, an
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by razzaj 11y ago
something that could benefit humanity on the long term is a wider "operating temperature" range. With the planet's weather getting more extreme, and the long term possibility of finding other habitable planets with an atmosph
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by razzaj 11y ago
In fact http://www.bowyers.com/bowyery_longbowOrigins.php says the contrary to what you are claiming, and in their account of the Cercy battle they clearly mention how the longbow outranged, and out-powered the crossbow (lo
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by razzaj 11y ago
In his book Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely described loss aversion by means of a set of experiments that go something like this: A- take a person and promise her a substantial reward against completing a set of tasks. Measure stress leve
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by razzaj 11y ago
It is irrational to expect outstanding performance from an entity that does not have significant skin in your business. That's the rationale behind startups giving up shares to early employees. For contractors: more time= more profit.
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Oracle Berkeley DB SQL API vs. SQLite API – A Technical Evaluation [pdf](oracle.com)
2 points by razzaj 11y ago|0 comments

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