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Onename.io Aims To Streamline Bitcoin Transactions | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
If you wanted to send me bitcoin right now you could either type in '1JPrpxRagtzuzY4KWCNV2hBhybqyaTrVwA' or just look for "johnbiggs" on Onename. That's what.. -
Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Building a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than is put in to make it work is one of the biggest challenges facing engineers today. Like.. -
The Artist of the Unbreakable Code - Issue 6: Secret Codes - Nautilusnautil.us
It was the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, 1897. Through a periscope, England was sailing along in all its hope and glory.… -
Why Can't the United States Build a High-Speed Rail System?citylab.com
The problem isn't geography, demographics, or money—it's federal will. -
Das Open Connect Content Delivery Network von Netflixnetflix.com
Bei Open Connect handelt es sich um einen gesteuerte Cache-Anwendung, die teilnehmenden Internetanbietern ermöglichen soll, die Netflix-Datenströme in ihren Netzwerken besser verwalten zu können. -
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What It Takes to Win the World’s Highest Computer Science Honor | Science | WIREDwired.com
One summer afternoon in 2001, while visiting relatives in India, Subhash Khot drifted into his default mode — quietly contemplating the limits of computation. For hours, no one could tell whether the third-year Princeton University graduate student was... -
Government opens up: 10k active government users on GitHubgithub.com
In the summer of 2009, The New York Senate was the first government organization to post code to GitHub, and that fall, Washington DC quickly followed suit. By 2011, cities like Miami, Chicago, and New York; Australian, Canadian, and British government... -
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Diversity of Various Tech Companies By the Numbers — Pixel Envypxlnv.com
With Apple’s report today (finally), major tech companies have all published information about racial and gender diversity. I thought it might be useful to run the numbers and compare them against the demographics of the United States as a whole, for r... -
Introduction | Of All Possible Future Worldspossiblefutureworlds.com
Of All Possible Future Worlds: Global Trends, Values, and Ethics is a book that asks, 'What will our world be like in the next fifteen to twenty years?' According to policymakers in the US, EU, Russia, and NATO, trends may bend in many potential direct... -
dweet™ - Now with real-time alerts and notifications!buglabs.tumblr.com
Since dweet’s launch in March, the one feature we get asked about more than any other is alerts and notifications. Users want to be able to set up conditions/thresholds on specific data values being... -
What’s Up With That: Why It’s So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos | Science | WIREDwired.com
The reason typos get through isn't because we're stupid or careless, it's because what we're doing is actually very smart. -
St. Louis County police will no longer be involved in policing Fergusonrt.com
The governor of Missouri will reportedly relieve St. Louis County law enforcement from policing the ongoing demonstrations in the town of Ferguson, paving the way for possible state or federal intervention. -
Bitcoin Price Update - Aug 14 Flash Crash | CoinPrices - Bitcoin News, Prices, Analysiscoinprices.io
Large sell orders on BitFinex, forced margin calls on leveraged orders, creating a feedback loop that resulted in a flash crash over the course of 15 minutes. -
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Where have all the entrepreneurs gone (continued)?washingtonpost.com
Can these six obstacles explain the decline in start-ups? -
Beware Isolated Demands For Rigorslatestarcodex.com
I. From Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self by John Perry:"There is something about practical things that knocks us off our philosophical high horses. Perhaps Heraclitus really thought he cou... -
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