"Which brings us to one of the largest gaps between science and practice in our own time. Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path."
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""We have a business to run, and we're in the business of investing in the future and providing returns for LPs," Wennmachers said. "So as much as I can help advance the future and the narrative of the pro case for the future … that's what I'm trying to do. That is the goal."" So in other words, it's the VC equivalent of an inflight magazine.
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In other news: Popes Catholic, bears defecating in woodland.
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"Day One not only nails the experience of a local blog (or journal as they call it) in an app, but also has (built) a great technical infrastructure — it works fantastic (when) offline and has a fully encrypted sync mechanism, so the data that’s in the cloud is secured in a way that even someone with access to their database couldn’t decode your entries, it’s only decrypted on your local device. Combining encryption and sync in a truly secure way is tricky, but they’ve done it."
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“The charm meson has a light and heavy version that helps distinguish between its matter and antimatter states.”
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Short answer: we'd better upgrade the grid.
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"Winner, 29, was sentenced to more than five years in prison in 2018 after she leaked classified information to The Intercept news outlet about Russia's attempts to hack the 2016 presidential election. She pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report that detailed the Russian government's efforts to penetrate a Florida-based voting software supplier. At the time, the sentence was the longest ever for a federal crime involving leaks to the media." Thank you for your service.
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"In other words, Do Not Track – or something very much like it – is back in Colorado, and ignoring the setting, like companies did widely when Do Not Track was created, is not an option any more. The technical details will need to be figured out between now and when this provision goes into effect, which two and a half years away. So plenty of time to get this right."
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Unicorns are cool.
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Neat URL hack. (Although, I still like namespacing pages.)
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Sandeep's mentions feed is a fantastic look at the emerging independent social web.
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A remote configuration management alternative. Not convinced Puppet sucks though.
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I use #nominatim for reverse geolocation in #idno.
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