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12 hours ago
There's also stone money.
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14 hours ago
Analysis kxh
Mind-reading technology should not be used to solve crime
Most people would agree they have a right to privacy, a right not to incriminate themselves, and a right to freedom of thought. Brain fingerprinting threatens all three.
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14 hours ago
Paper money is really just paper. Money, currency, are just imaginary ideas we humans agree to. We can apply them to metal, paper, plastic or electronic bits.
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19 hours ago
Comment kxh
How much cannabis would they have had to take to be unable to walk? Story seems sus to me. Something doesn't add up.
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1 day ago
Analysis kxh
Trump's latest spat isn't about sport or patriotism, it's about race
American football is essentially a game played by black men for the entertainment of white men, but fans are switching off.
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1 day ago
Analysis kxh
Bitcoin investors should be taxed like any other investor
Despite its name, cryptocurrency isn't just money. It could also be debt or equity and so it should be regulated and taxed in the same way as other finance.
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2 days ago
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NSFW Listen to 'My Girl's Pussy,' a not-so-innocent song from 1931
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2 days ago
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NSFW Listen to 'My Girl's Pussy,' a not-so-innocent song from 1931
Listen to 'My Girl's Pussy,' a not-so-innocent song from 1931
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2 days ago
Comment kxh
Don't leave your party for a whizz when you're in a cave. It's disgusting anyway.
Also what kind of caving club worth it's name doesn't do a basic count on entering and leaving a cave? Is this negligence or maliciousness?
Posted in: Student left in cave for three days
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3 days ago
Comment kxh
Well, that was obvious.
Of course it doesn't address the problem of all that work that goes into bad movies and how to pay all those creative people. Which apparently is a problem when movies are pirated, but when they're just bad and no-one wants to watch them? Movie studios are owed profits by everyone.
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3 days ago
Analysis kxh
Explainer: what are mitochondria and how did we come to have them?
To explain why we have a mitochondria, we have to go back about two billion years to a time when none of the complexity of life as we see it today existed.
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4 days ago
Comment kxh
People with a vested interest in controlling exchange of money want to stop any exchanges out of their control.
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4 days ago
Or a paid vacation.
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4 days ago
Current Event kxh
Oklahoma cops yell orders at deaf man, then kill him
Oklahoma City police shot dead a deaf man who refused to obey shouted orders to put down a metal pipe.
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4 days ago
Analysis kxh
Experts find 60 preserved ancient shipwrecks at the bottom of the Black Sea
Dozens of perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks have been found at the bottom of the Black Sea. A total of 60 wrecks were discovered dating back as far as 2,500 years, including galleys from the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
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4 days ago
Analysis kxh
ISO Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms - Schneier on Security
The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It's because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance:
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6 days ago
Review kxh
Sci-Fi novel envisions corporatocracy in a climate-changed future
In Tal Klein’s new novel, The Punch Escrow, humans have successfully tackled disease and climate change, but powerful corporations control everything.
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6 days ago
Analysis kxh
China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency trading – a sign of things to come
The recent crackdown on cryptocurrencies in China is a prelude to the assertion of control over this area by the Chinese authorities.
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6 days ago
Video/Audio kxh
How Big Oil Conquered the World
The story of oil is the story of those who helped shape the modern world, and how the oil-igarchy they created is on the verge of monopolizing life itself.
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6 days ago
Comment kxh
I remember reading that derivatives are worth some massive multiple of all the world's current currency. How are derivatives not a bubble?
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8 days ago
Analysis kxh
Mystery Fossil Finally Confirmed to Be an Animal After 70 Years of Research
How animals evolved on Earth is somewhat murky. We know that most major animal phyla we see today appeared during the Cambrian explosion 541 million years ago - but before that, the fossil record is patchy.
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8 days ago
Review kxh
If you read one sci-fi series this year, it should be The Broken Earth
The haunting trilogy by N.K. Jemisin won Hugo Awards two years running and changed sci-fi.
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8 days ago
Analysis kxh
Trump Administration Says It's Classified If They Can Let The NSA Spy On Americans
Senator Ron Wyden, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, spent half a decade trying to get President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, to answer some fairly straightforward questions about NSA surveillance on...
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9 days ago
Comment kxh
They must be doing something right then.
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9 days ago
Analysis kxh
Why did Hurricane Irma leave so many in the dark?
Extreme weather presents many threats to electricity systems – particularly on centralised grids, where outages can ripple down the line. But can we do better?
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