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The Most Precious Resource Is Agency
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The Map is Mostly Water
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
The world is a very malleable place. When I read biographies, early lives leap out the most. Leonardo da Vinci was a studio apprentice to Verrocchio at 14. Walt Disney took on a number of jobs, chiefly delivering papers, from 11 years old. Vladimir Nabokov…
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Success in Reversing Dementia in Mice Sets the Stage for Human Clinical Trials
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Success in Reversing Dementia in Mice Sets the Stage for Human Clinical Trials
A new treatment candidate appears to not only halt neurodegenerative symptoms, but also reverse the effects of the disorders.
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Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)
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The Public Domain Review
Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)
The illustrations from catalogues for Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks, published by C. T. Brock and Company, the oldest fireworks manufacturer in the United Kingdom.
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Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency
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Bloomberg.com
Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency
His startup Worldcoin is developing an orb-shaped device that can read a person’s iris.
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Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps
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Android Authority
Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps
Starting in August 2021, there will no longer be new Android APKs. Instead, Google has mandated App Bundles as the new format.
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Is Facebook's “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy?
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Microprediction
Is Facebook's "Prophet" the Time-Series Messiah, or Just a Very Naughty Boy?
Facebook prophet offers "automatic" time series prediction. But does it work?
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Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media
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Axios
Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media
Outlets most dependent on controversy have struggled to find a foothold in the Biden era.
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Show HN: A fun way to check Bitcoin’s price
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Bitcointemp
BitcoinTemp - A Fun Way To Check Bitcoin's Price
BitcoinTemp is a fun way to check the price of bitcoin, with the price dictating storms, sunny days, and more!
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Otter Browser
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Otter Browser
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Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'
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Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire' | CBC News
A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed in flames Wednesday night and residents were forced to flee, many without their belongings.
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At least 486 dead in British Columbia amid historic heat wave
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Axios
At least 486 dead in British Columbia amid historic heat wave
The deaths represent a "195% increase over the approximately 165 deaths that would normally occur in the province over a five-day period."
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Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors
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Ancient weights helped create Europe’s first market more than 3k years ago
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Science
These ancient weights helped create Europe’s first free market more than 3000 years ago
Individual merchants likely enforced the standard, from Great Britain to Babylon
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Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020)
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Retroreversing
Official PlayStation 1 Development Kit (Hardware)
The home of reverse engineering enthusiasts. Learn about RetroReversing and join the community today!
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Any Encoding, Ever
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Any Encoding, Ever - ztd.text and Unicode for C++
Everything the light touches may not be yours, but by God it very well should be when it comes to text encodings.I’ve spent the overwhelming part of 2 years ...
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Gap to go completely online, closing 81 stores in UK and Ireland
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Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland
The fashion chain says it will be online-only from the end of September.
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Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
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DYNOMIGHT
Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
Why did the Asian flush evolve? What does this say about alcoholism? What does this have to do with Odysseus?
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Download Speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G Mean
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Ken's Tech Tips
Download Speeds: Comparing 2G, 3G, 4G & 5G Mobile Networks
There are four types of mobile internet connection: 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. We compare the real-world impact in terms of speeds and download times.
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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time
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MIT News
Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time
Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time.
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A 1982 chess computer plays itself by mechanically moving the pieces [video]
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MILTON BRADLEY GRANDMASTER COMPUTER CHESS GAME PLAYS ITSELF TO CHECKMATE
This is Milton Bradley's Electronic chess game GRANDMASTER. This item was sold in 1982. The game was unique in that a robot arm hidden beneath the playing field magnetically moved the pieces around the board! Not only could you play against another person…
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