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The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia
“How much is the taxi to Khomeini Square?” “ Gheymati nadore, it does not cost anything”, the old taxi driver spreads his arms...
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The time I yoga-balled an Apple store employee
My personal website and blog
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NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping
More Snowden documents analyzed by the Guardian—two articles—discuss how the NSA collected e-mails and data on Internet activity of both Americans and foreigners. The program might have ended in 2011, or it might have continued under a different name. This is the program that resulted in that bizarre tale of Bush…
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New phones aboard Air Force One
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Jean Bourgain
I have just learned that Jean Bourgain passed away last week in Belgium, aged 64, after a prolonged battle with cancer. He and Eli Stein were the two mathematicians who most influenced my early ca…
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The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era
Fastly, you killed glitch.com and ruined your karma for 10,000 years. You have “betrayed yourself for nothing.”
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Private equity looting public health in a pandemic
During a 2007 trip to NYC, while taking long walks from one indie bookstore to the next, lugging increasingly heavy bags of pressed vegetable matter, I stumbled on Simon Lovell's How to Cheat at Everything at the St Mark's Bookshop.
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Grade inflation at UC Riverside, and institutional pressures for easier grading
Recent news reports have highlighted grade inflation at elite universities: Harvard gave 79% As in 2020-2021, as did Yale in 2022-2023 , compared to 67% in 2010-2011. At Harvard, the average GPA has risen from 2.55 in 1950 to 3.05 in 1975 to 3.36 in 1995 to 3.80 now. At Brown, 67% of grades were As in 2020-2021, 10%…
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The digital natives are not who you think they are
I have heard the term "digital natives" applied to todays youth, but when it comes down to the meat and potatoes, they do not know jack shit.
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The Monks in the Casino
A brief theory of young men, "the loneliness crisis," and life in the 21st century
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We don't know why Malawi is poor
And that’s a problem for economic development
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Congress demands tech CEOs censor the internet even more aggressively
The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves.
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Ad block and you don't stop
Who will win, a multibillion dollar industry or a couple of txt files?
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Is it legal to mix cash in a jar? How is Bitcoin mixing any different?
Chris Blec asks the following question: Source: Twitter Chris's premise is that it is "not illegal" for him to get together with a bunch of ...
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The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank
The UK faces an epidemic of telephone scams. Fraudsters are constantly calling people up pretending to be their bank. But how can you be sure the number displayed on your screen in genuine? You can't. The telecom system is hopelessly insecure and shouldn't be trusted for anything more complicated than dialling the…
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SVB was particularly poorly run
Banks manage their liquidity through their asset composition and choice of liabilities. Badly run banks have volatile liabilities and assets.
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What It Feels Like to Be Rich
A “wealth window” is opening as these tech trends go mainstream and my goal is to make sure YOU are ahead of the curve, securing your financial future in the process.
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American Elections Will Be Hacked
It’s over. The voting went smoothly. As of the time of writing, there are no serious fraud allegations, nor credible evidence that anyone tampered with voting rolls or voting machines. And most important, the results are not in doubt. While we may breathe a collective sigh of relief about that, we can’t ignore the…
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When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right
“There’s this flat-earther documentary called BEHIND THE CURVE,” my wife said. “We have to watch it!” Of course we did. My wife will occasionally get into huge debates…
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Orange Site Hit
I know I'm not alone in having a relationship with the orange site that is... weird. I generally dislike the culture there, it's almost impossible to read any of the comments without being frustrated about the industry I work in or am adjacent to and some of the people who inhabit it; but as a link aggregator of stuff…
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