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Bluestein
11,097karma·5,744submissions·June 10, 2020
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So, after decades of lurking, I decided to join. Please be gentle :)
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"This is not the first time that new technologies have disrupted established communicative practices and standards. Plato tells us that Socrates was so worried by the written word’s disruption of…
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"Is this heightened suspicion of experts an inevitable effect of digital communications technologies? I suspect that the problem may lie not with the technologies themselves but with the disrupti…
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"'Well, in our country,' said Alice, still panting a little, 'you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.' '…
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Nice catch!
There's probably an interesting story behind the evolution of input too ...
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"The GRiDPad 1910 is basically an extremely portable PC-XT. It has a 640x400 backlit Monochrome touchscreen CGA display. It has 2MB of system memory, and often came equipped with a 20 MB 2.5"…
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"Each edition of the local paper packaged news, opinions, sports, and entertainment. The fun and widely read sections in the back half of the newspaper funded the important but less profitable ve…
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"Marketers promoted the benefits of cereal with slogans like 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day.' Similarly, news organizations position themselves as an irreplaceable dai…
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> Late-20th-century style "real journalism" seems either to be a historical aberration I had never considered that possibility. Horrifying thought.
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"The future of journalism is more partisan and supported by more diverse revenue streams—in other words, like the journalism of 200 years ago."
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"I see lots of startups talk about how they are making a positive change in the world. 'Democratising finance!', 'letting you into the property market in spite of the boomers!'…
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"It may be possible to generate high power / high frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) by high frequency accelerated axial rotation (spin) and/or accelerated high frequency vibration o…
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She would be on point, actually ...
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You bet :)
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"A camera slowly stalks a woman walking to her SUV in a desolate, empty parking garage. 'If question 1 passes in Massachusetts, anyone could access the most personal data stored in your vehi…
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"The auto industry is running a highly misleading and fearmongering ad campaign in Massachusetts in an attempt to hinder independent car repair."
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"In 2020 over half of all new cars sold in Norway were EVs. More market demand and easy availability to many EV choices created the "perfect storm" for early adoption."
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"Navy officials claim their radical electromagnetic and superconductor technologies aren't theoretical, they’re already operable in some form."
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"In news shared on Twitter, 2021 has seen the whale community - investors that hold more than 1,000 Bitcoin - grow aggressively. More than 200 new HODLers have appeared, lending more weight to th…
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"Large Bitcoin investors continue their move into cryptocurrencies as global market cap surpasses $1.18 trillion for the first time."