Steve Yegge: Why I left Google to join Grab
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Introduction - 10,000 Year Clock - The Long Now
Can't wait to visit this...
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APOD 2018 January 21: The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938
Some snow drifts reached the level of utility poles!
How the rest of the world lives
Fascinating look at the similarities and differences between the wealthiest and poorest people around the world.
Charlie Stross: Dude, you broke the future!
Humans have been subservient to AIs for quite some time now.
via jwz
Here’s why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy
Ars Technica on the bizarre price rises of GPUs driven by cryptocurrency mining.
Nuclear Powered Bomber Documentary
Even more cold-war craziness.
Buran-Energia : The Soviet Space Shuttle 2.0 on a Moon Rocket
A pretty amazing spacecraft, especially the auto-pilot and reusable Energia rockets.
Steven Pinker: Why do progressives hate progress?
"Problems are inevitable. Problems are solvable. Solutions create new problems."
Orange – Data Mining Fruitful & Fun
This looks interesting - data mining and visualisation GUI written in Python.
Eel
Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps
Bitcoin 101: What is Bitcoin? How does it work? Will it change society?
Intro/basic refresher video from Antranik that passed through my feeds.
Keller Rinaudo: How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives
TED talk on some pretty neat autonomous aircraft delivering medical supplies in East Africa.
Manually Patched Equation Editor Executable
Nice write up on a manual binary patch to the MS Equation Editor plugin to fix a security vulnerability.
Nevada's Nuclear Test Site: It's Not the Moon, It's Nevada
This is incredible, though the interactive format leaves a bit to be desired.
Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
TED talk from 2010.
David Brooks: The social animal
TED talk from 2011.
Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself
2010 TED talk.
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Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
"The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader."
Wait But Why: Putting Time In Perspective
Putting massive amounts of time in perspective is incredibly hard for humans, so we made this graphic (this is only a tiny piece of it!)
Numberphile: Clifford Stoll - An astonishing old calculator
That is a pretty epic machine!
TED: Paul Hessburg - Why wildfires have gotten worse and what we can do about it
"In 1910 [a huge wildfire] killed 87 people. Most of them were firefighters. [...] and this would shape the way we thought about wildfire in our society for the next 100 years."
Pre-colonial Australia: natural wilderness or gentleman’s park?
Indigenous scholar Marcia Langton rates Bill Gammage's exploration of Aboriginal land management, The Biggest Estate on Earth, as one of the great books.