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Debt: The first five thousand years
Debt has always involved institutions that control debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is only in the current era that we have seen the creation of a planetary administrative system that protects the interests of creditors.
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Mac and the iPad: History Repeats Itself
For those of us around Apple for the launch of the 1984 Mac, things are awfully familiar.
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Bill Gates Bans iTunes From Windows
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The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird
Aviator's love for the SR-71
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32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone
It’s 32 years old, and it remains the single greatest book ever written about a programming language. Its crown is secure; even if you’d not already read the title of this article, you…
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Chrome Dev build comes with Flash 10.1 beta "integrated"
Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used web browser plug-in. It enables a wide range of applications and content on the Internet, from g...
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Space Shuttle computer has 1MB of RAM
NASA's space shuttle was controlled by a computer running on only 1 megabyte of RAM. The hardware was over 30 years old during its last flight.
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Unix recovery legend
It was a quiet Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday, 1st October, 15:15 BST, to be precise, when Peter, an office-mate of mine, leaned away from his terminal and said to me, " Mario, I'm having a little trouble sending mail. " Knowing that msg was capable of confusing even the most capable of people, I sauntered over to his…
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First Clay Millennium Prize goes to Grigoriy Perelman
Poincare official problem description
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Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost
Writing about the first winter the men spent on the ice, Cherry-Garrard casually mentions an astonishing lecture on scurvy by one of the expedition’s doctors:
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Perfect example of real-life hacking
In 1999, UC-Davis civil engineer David Phillips was grocery shopping when he noticed something peculiar. Healthy Choice Foods was offering frequent-flyer miles to customers who bought its products. But a 25-cent pudding would bring 100 miles — the reward was worth more than the product itself. Recognizing a good…
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The Oh My God Particle
The Oh-My-God Particle
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Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts
One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions launch is a feature that is near and dear to my heart: Google Chrome 4 now native...
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Stone: Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
“An informed patriotism is what we want. Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? She is a shining city upon a hill.” - Ronald Reagan ~Largest Substack on the Right~. Click to read American Ambition, a Substack publication with…
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The software fixed the hardware
software solutions to hardware problems, and outbreaks of the future. © 2007 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
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Google Multivac
In 1958 Isaac Asimov wrote a short story titled "All the Troubles of the World" (included in the collection "Nine Tomorrows" ). It described a world transformed by Multivac, a giant all-knowing computer. Asimov died in 1992, a mere four years before Larry and Sergey started their project "to organize the world's…
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Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts
Super Phénix: Creys-Malville Nuclear Power Station, River Rhone (Sur le Rhone) Creys-Malville, Isere, France, Centrale Nucleaire Europeen...
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The C Programming Language: 4.10 (HP Lovecraft version)
C functions may be used recursively; that is, a function may call itself either directly or indirectly. Uninquiring souls may take this as just another peculiarity of those C folk, of whose ways their neighbours speak little to outsiders but much among themselves.