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Why the 'Best Places to Work' Often Aren'tdealbook.nytimes.com
Few companies recognize that it’s not the number of hours their people work that determines the value they create, but rather the energy they bring to the hours they work, writes Tony Schwartz in the Life@Work column. -
Partial Recall - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. ... -
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The Second Wave of Blockchain Innovationmedium.com
The first wave was simply currency. The second wave is full economic freedom. -
Uber slapped with suit by 45 city taxi companiesphilly.com
A group of 45 Philadelphia taxi companies filed suit in federal court here Tuesday, claiming Uber, the app-based taxi enterprise, is waging unfair competition against medallion owners who must operate under state laws and regulations. -
First Map of Antartica’s Moving Ice : Image of the Dayearthobservatory.nasa.gov
Mapping the motion of Antarctica’s ice sheets for the first time revealed unsuspected patterns never seen before. - yager.io
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Computational Phenomena in Physics | Scott Aaronsonyoutube.com
Scott Aaronson Massachusetts Institute of Technology November 22, 2014 Scott Aaronson discusses the quest to understand the limits of efficient computation i... -
Leaked "The Interview" Movie Torrent Gets Over 50,000 Leechers In Less Than 1hrnetloid.com
We reported earlier today that “The Interview” will be available for rental on Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft’s Xbox Video, and Sony’s dedicated website www.seetheinterview.com, starting at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET on Dec. 24. On Sony’s site, The I... -
Each New Boot a Miracleascii.textfiles.com
This week, we got the emulation of MS-DOS programs (mostly) working on the Internet Archive. Up to now, every single emulated system has been via the JSMESS project, which supports well over 600 sy... -
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Four Beautiful Python, R, MATLAB, and Mathematica plots with LaTeXr-bloggers.com
LaTeX lets you create lovely, complex mathematical functions from typed text. Plotly will render LaTeX in annotations, labels, and titles. In this post, we’ll show how it works. 1. MATLAB plotting with LaTeX First, here’s an example using Plotly’s MAT... -
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In an All-Digital Future, It’s the New Movies That Will Be in Troublevulture.com
When it comes to preserving movies, the digital revolution may turn out to be a catastrophe. - joeyh.name
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Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever – Lary Wallace – Aeonaeon.co
As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity -
Instagram has a drug problemventurebeat.com
Instagram has ushered in a golden age for the drug trade. You read that correctly: Thousands of accounts -- perhaps many more -- are currently selling marijuana, prescription pills, ecstasy, and ot...