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Why Catholics Built Secret Astronomical Features into Churches
A disc of light moves across the cathedral floor. The marble in its path lights up, revealing deeply colored swirls, rich with hues of burgundy, plum, caramel, and ochre. It is ancient rock, stained by...
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Patent application by USC: Fasting condition as dietary treatment of diabetes
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 61/841,709 filed Jul. 1, 2013, the disclosure of which is incorporated in its...
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Welcome Aaron, Gustaf, Lyle, Immad and Marcus
We're excited to welcome three new visiting partners and three new part-time partners to YC. YC Winter 2017 Visiting PartnersThe visiting partner program is a new experiment we are launching to embed...
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Keybase chooses Zcash
Some backgroundAt Keybase we've gotten quite a few requests to add altcoin X to public profiles: Ethereum, Ripple, Stellar, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Namecoin, and many others.Those coins have useful...
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The Danger of Being Default Alive
Paul Graham poured the ice bucket over Silicon Valley when he brought up the discussion of becoming cash flow positive. Not that he used those mundane words, he called it being “Default Alive.” But...
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All around the world, nationalists are gaining ground. Why?
AFTER the sans culottes rose up against Louis XVI in 1789 they drew up a declaration of the universal rights of man and of the citizen. Napoleon’s Grande Armée marched not just for the glory of France...
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Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS
Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS.Firefox FocusWe live in an age where too many users have lost trust and lack...
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Demystifying the i-Device NVMe NAND
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U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years
In the vast and complicated U.S. economy, it is rare for an individual to exert much control over the price of a major commodity.But then there is Arty G. Schronce and the price of chicken.As director...
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Global warming: The state of the climate in 2016
AS UN climate talks in Marrakesh enter their final few days, leaders have a lot on their minds. Political support for a green agenda will wane in America next year. Barack Obama has led international...
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Shareholders approve Tesla Solarcity acquisition
Tesla and SolarCity leapt an important hurdle Thursday: getting shareholder sign off for the proposed acquisition of the latter by the former. Respective shareholder votes at both companies signaled a...
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Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools
I have to provide this guidance at least 2-3 times a day so instead I am publishing it here so everyone can find / link-to this guidance.There is one hard-and-fast rule when it comes to Bash on...
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The Genius and the Laborer: The Troubled Friendship of Leo Tolstoy and Maxim...
“Let me tell you my life; it won’t take much of your time—you ought to know it.I am a weed, a foundling, an illegitimate being.”—Maxim Gorky, 1908“As a writer, I am not ‘great’; I am simply a good...
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A Conversation with Dan Ariely About What Shapes Our Motivations
Jessica Gross | Longreads | November 2016 | 14 minutes (3,711 words)“It’s astonishing to me how some ideas endure even when it’s obvious that they are no longer relevant,”Dan Ariely writes in his...
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Inside the world of Australian opal miners who live underground
Photographer Tamara Merino and her boyfriend were driving through the desert in Australia in November 2015 when they started to see a few odd signs: “Underground bar,” then “underground restaurant.”...
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Updating my plane’s very old GPS data in a very modern way
My epic saga of updating my plane's very old GPS's data in a very modern wayI bought a Cessna 150 recently. It had a very nice set of avionics in it (for a C-150), including an IFR-certified GPS. It...
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Kaspersky OS
At last – we’ve done it!I’ve anticipated this day for ages – the day when the first commercially available mass market hardware device based our own secure operating system landed on my desk. And here...
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If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter (2012)
Blaise Pascal? John Locke? Benjamin Franklin? Henry David Thoreau? Cicero? Woodrow Wilson?Dear Quote Investigator: I was planning to end a letter with the following remark:If I had more time, I would...
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The psychology of stress and burnout
As a neonatal nurse, Jennifer Welker learned to thrive under stress.Rather than allowing the pain of handling a sick infant to affect her, Welker deftly handled some of the most challenging moments in...
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Gosubc – An implementation of the SubC language in Go
READMESubC is a simple subset of C originally written by Nils Holms (http://www.t3x.org/) for teaching newcomers how to write a compiler. This is a reimplementation of SubC based on Nils compiler...
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