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34,548karma·5,422submissions·July 2, 2018
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Performances by Marcel Marceau.
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There was a scathing Scott Galloway piece on OYO in January: https://www.profgalloway.com/oyomfg "WeWork was an opportunistic infection highlighting the poor judgment of SoftBank…
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> Tiny messages get beaconed out and the phone that is listening has a hardware filter so it only wakes the phone in the background if a beacon with the matching ID comes in. Can anyone explain w…
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This calls to mind the concept of The Street in Neal Stevenson's Snowcrash: "That's why the damn place is so overdeveloped. Put in a sign or a building on the Street and the hundred mi…
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Anyone know whether the name was derived from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
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> For many EM countries, this pandemic will quickly escalate from a health crisis to a humanitarian crisis, and ultimately to a solvency crisis. Political stability will be the last domino to fall…
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The incentive is to help and inform other people, to allow for targeted testing and so, one hopes, mitigate disease spread. Altruism is the bottom line.
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> The great unwritten story of Trump’s presidency is the extent to which it’s dominated by End-Times Christians. Like Secretary of State Pompeo, the vice president — along with at least four other…
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> “Do not let the virus prevent you from seeking shelter in a tornado,” - American Meteorological Society.
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> Almost no college is considering a tuition rebate, which implies that online learning should be valued at the same rate as an on-campus class. Students and their parents may start to ask why the…
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Asked what metrics he would use to make his judgment, he pointed at his forehead: “The metrics right here, that’s my metrics.” It is comforting to be so reassured.
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There's a good piece in today's FT on the extent to which Son is leveraged: https://www.ft.com/content/bd8ed81a-4d62-4b10-a41c-2efa8dea0... …
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Archived two days ago - https://archive.is/kVhuN
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De-paywalled: https://archive.is/VlrBP
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"Amazon and others will be delivering groceries via drone to your doorstep, and in a similar way we will reach a time when drug dealers are delivering your daily, weekly, or monthly hit via a dro…
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De-paywalled: https://archive.is/18vnO