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Part 2 in a series. (See also Part 1: The Great Dot Org Heist.) Updates: Moz letter, El Reg, registry agreement, ISOC forum + letter, Wyden Ethos Capital seems on track to complete their takeover …
Increasing crop yields is crucial to improve food security, living standards, and reduce human impacts on the environment.
Patrick and Tyler are obsessed with progress — and they think you should be too.
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
Since 2023, an average of 62% of Americans report owning stock, a rebound after more than a decade of lower readings.
That’s an easy go: energy is the amount of (on) my electricity bill, or maybe of (on) my natural gas bill. If I am very concentrated, I might add that it is also the money I spend at the gasoline pump, and if I am even more concentrated I will suggest that it might have something to do with the filling up of my…
My friend Aviv was recently the subject of a popular Buzzfeed article about the possibility of an impending “information apocalypse”. tl;dr: Aviv extrapolates from the fake news crisis that started in 2016 to a world in which anyone can create AI-assisted misinformation campaigns indistinguishable from reality to the…
I. Kaj Sotala has an outstanding review of Unlocking The Emotional Brain; I read the book, and Kaj’s review is better. He begins: UtEB’s premise is that much if not most of our behavior is dr…
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Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names, or else assume there are at least more stringent verification requirements involved in obtaining a .gov domain versus a commercial one ending in .com or .org. But a recent experience suggests this trust may…
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Updates: EFF letter, PIR’s update; IGP’s insider take; ICANN resolution; Ways to act, Reg essay x2, Ohashi, Tim Berners-Lee response; Letters from ISOC(😇), Ethos(🌈), and…
The findings of this analysis paint a nuanced picture of just how prevalent political speech is among U.S. adults on Twitter.
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Oscar Wilde once said, “it’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco.” Indeed, with the weather, view, and diversity, San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the U.S. But then, every city has a dark side, and San Francisco is no exception. San Francisco, as […]
By Michael Nielsen, November 21, 2019
Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions lays out the devastating impact of the shrinking and consolidation of local news outlets.
The current outer surface of the Great Pyramid at Giza is made of rough limestone blocks, colored a dark sandy brown from hundreds of years of pollution and wea
The world's largest social network believes it has found a way to bypass Europe’s strict privacy laws.
Cripples and lovely women are both tired of being looked at, they are weary of an existence that involves constantly being observed, they feel hemmed in; and...
On Medium, Nassim explains how once an intransigent minority reaches a tiny percentage of the total population, the majority of the population will
Entrepreneur and Anesthesiologist Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma talks with host Russ Roberts about what it’s like to run a surgery center that posts prices on the internet and that does not take insurance. Along the way, he discusses the distortions in the market for health care and how a real market…
