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How San Francisco Progressives Betrayed the City They Lovecitylab.com
The city’s devastating affordability crisis has an unlikely villain—its famed liberal politics. - github.com
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Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank – M M Owen – Aeonaeon.co
Just when you crave one more sensual hit, the void of the float tank stops time, strips ego and unleashes the mind - usenix.org
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The Rise of Computer-Aided Explanation | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
Computers can translate French and prove mathematical theorems. But can they make deep conceptual insights into the way the world works? -
Amazon’s Cloud Makes the Cutblogs.wsj.com
Amazon showed Thursday that huge price cuts for its AWS cloud business last year paid off quickly. - freehaven.net
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Meet The Woman Who Flew Us To Plutohighline.huffingtonpost.com
Alice Bowman Flew 3 billion miles over nine years from a cubicle in Baltimore. -
Quantum Honeybees | DiscoverMagazine.comdiscovermagazine.com
How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? -
Y Combinator Backs An All-In-One, Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys To Take on Starbuckstechcrunch.com
Nuclear fusion. Soylent. And now coffee stands?! Y Combinator is backing Wheelys, a European startup that has built an entire, compact cafe contained upon.. - web.stanford.edu
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Google services on iOS now work natively with beaconsblog.estimote.com
Last week Google surprised the mobile world with the introduction of Eddystone: a new, open Bluetooth-based beacon format. The promise of a multi-platform beacon protocol supporting Google services on iOS was one reason the news made waves. And they’re... -
1985: Oil Prices Will Go Up Forever - Feld Thoughtsfeld.com
This is not a post about a bubble, real or imagined. It’s a lesson from when I was 20 years old. I showed up at MIT as an eager freshman. I was 17, from Dallas, with a nice pair of cowboy boots and long hair. On my first day, at the freshman picnic, I ... - tirania.org
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Human intelligence and the environmentchomsky.info
Human intelligence and the environment, by Noam Chomsky (UNC Chapel Hill, September 30, 2011) - excelpanel.com
- cis.upenn.edu
- homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk