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47 minutes ago
Comment ApolatiaAttacking the rule of law is fair game now?
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1 hour ago
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‘Trump Is What Happens When a Political Party Abandons Ideas’
Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for Politico endorsing Donald Trump for president. It was a tongue-in-cheek effort—I “supported” Trump only because I thought he would lose to Hillary Clinton, disastrously, and that his defeat would cleanse the Republican Party of the extremism and nuttiness that drove me out of it. I had hoped that post-2016, what remained of the moderate wing of the GOP would reassert itself as it did after the Goldwater debacle in 1964, and exorcise the crazies.
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5 hours ago
Yep! Just added a link to 2nd successful launch from today.
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5 hours ago
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SpaceX successfully launches and lands a used rocket for the second time
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1 day ago
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Far-right activists detained at UK border before Britain First rally
Prominent far-right activists from Europe who were planning to attend an anti-Muslim rally in Birmingham have been detained at airports hours before they were due to speak. Jacek Międlar, 28, an antisemitic priest, and his fellow activist Piotr Rybak were among three Polish nationals stopped on Saturday morning, according to Polish media and social media posts. They were due to speak at the rally organised by far-right group Britain First.
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2 days ago
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SpaceX successfully launches and lands a used rocket for the second time
SpaceX has successfully launched and landed a recycled Falcon 9 rocket for the second time. The rocket’s first stage — the 14-story-tall core that houses the fuel and the rocket’s main engines — touched down on one of the company’s autonomous drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from a launchpad at nearby Cape Canaveral, Florida. It’s the 12th time SpaceX has successfully landed one of these rocket stages out of 17 attempts, and the seventh time it’s performed...
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2 days ago
Expression Apolatia
Yahoo didn’t kill Tumblr but Verizon surely will
The soft touch of Yahoo versus the suspected iron fist of Verizon.
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2 days ago
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Man Accused Of Making Millions Of Robocalls Faces Biggest-Ever FCC Fine
FCC proposed a $120 million fine for a Miami resident said to be single-handedly responsible for 97 million robocalls over a three-month period. Telemarketers are prohibited from making prerecorded phone calls to people without prior consent. It's also illegal to deliberately falsify caller ID with the intent to harm or defraud consumers.
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2 days ago
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Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
Google is stopping one of the most controversial advertising formats: ads inside Gmail that scan users’ email contents. The decision didn’t come from Google’s ad team, but from its cloud unit, which is angling to sign up more corporate customers.
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2 days ago
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Foxconn narrowed US factory locations to seven states, will decide next month
Foxconn says that it is still planning to set up U.S. manufacturing plants in ‘several’ states, in a deal worth $10B. Some $7B of that investment is earmarked for display production, with the balance allocated to a mix of other products. Foxconn chairman Terry Gou initially said that the company was looking at midwest states, before later naming seven states as candidates...
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3 days ago
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Ethereum flash-crashes to $13 before bouncing back to $296
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3 days ago
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These are really good! How long does it take you to create one?
Posted in: Cardboard doodles by Venom
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3 days ago
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Mark Zuckerberg explains why he just changed Facebook's mission
Mark Zuckerberg explains why Facebook is moving on from just friendships to community building.
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4 days ago
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
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4 days ago
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Stephen Hawking is working on spacecraft that could travel to ‘Second Earth’ in 20 years
The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is working on a spacecraft that can travel at a fifth of the speed of light – meaning it could reach the nearest star and send back images of a suspected ‘Second Earth’ within 25 years – in a bid to save humanity. In a speech at the Starmus Festival, Professor Hawking warned humans must soon colonise another planet if we are to survive.
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4 days ago
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Revisiting the ice giants: NASA considers missions to Uranus and Neptune
If you look up Uranus and Neptune in an encyclopedia, there's a good chance the pictures you see will be about 30 years old. In the late 1970s, the twin Voyager spacecraft launched on a grand tour of the solar system, taking advantage of a rare planetary alignment that only happens every 175 years. Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in January 1986, and Neptune in August 1989. The probe was traveling too fast, and lacked the fuel, to slow down and enter orbit.
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4 days ago
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Ethereum flash-crashes to $13 before bouncing back to $296
Ethereum is up 3,601% so far in 2017.
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4 days ago
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Google Glass is apparently back from the dead, starts getting software updates
Google's aging face computer gets a firmware and companion app update.
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4 days ago
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
The company’s co-founder had been under increasing pressure, and several major investors demanded that he resign from the company immediately.
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5 days ago
Should be tagged NSFW honesly.
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6 days ago
Expression Apolatia
The 'Complex Systems Theorist' Who Predicted the Arab Spring
In early 2011, a few days before Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the middle of a busy street, Yaneer Bar-Yam sent his research to the US government. Bar-Yam's message was simple: If drastic measures weren't immediately taken to lower skyrocketing global food prices, widespread violence would occur. Bouazizi's act set off food riots and are widely seen as the beginning of the Arab Spring.
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7 days ago
Analysis Apolatia
Death pools can bring financial security for the long-lived
Modern-day enthusiasts hope to revive an ancient financial instrument
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7 days ago
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Atari confirms it is making a new video game console
Atari is making a new video game console, 40 years after the launch of the Video Computer System. CEO Fred Chesnais told GamesBeat: "We're back in the hardware business." Although there aren't many details available about the console, a new product called the Ataribox has been teased online. Chesnais said that Atari's revival is well under way and confirmed it would be based on PC technology.
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7 days ago
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New Dandelion Proposal Aims to Anonymize Bitcoin Transaction Broadcasts
Dandelion is a concept designed by the Zcash advisor and developer Andrew Miller and a team of University of Illinois researchers. A few months ago the team released its white paper ‘Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity.’ The project is a new type of transaction broadcasting method that aims to stop people snooping and locating Internet Protocol addresses (IP). Essentially transactions relayed to nodes go through a few hops followed by a symmetric broadcast sent to other ...
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8 days ago
Comment Apolatia
Big win for Cosby even if he has to do it all over again.
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