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www.technoblogy.com 9y ago

A tiny lisp machine

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thesocietypages.org 9y ago

Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection

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hapgood.us 10y ago

Trump University’s Online Materials Are a Lot Better Than Your University’s

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www.wired.com 10y ago

How the armed Predator drone came to be

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justinmcguirk.com 10y ago

The post-spectacular economy

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medium.com 11y ago

Building Analytics at 500px

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deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com 12y ago

The Revolution in Military Affairs: A Partial Timeline

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www.theguardian.com 12y ago

UK e-border system so overwhelmed that 650,000 smuggling alerts were deleted

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www.wikihow.com 12y ago

How to Fake Fingerprints

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broadcast.oreilly.com 12y ago

Authentication Flaws in the Tesla Model S REST API

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www.spectator.co.uk 12y ago

Airline classes as wealth redistribution

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panopticlick.eff.org 12y ago

Panopticlick (browser fingerprint test)

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venturebeat.com 12y ago

GlassUp raised $100K on Indiegogo — but PayPal is refusing to pay up

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research.nvidia.com 12y ago

NOVA: A Functional Language for Data Parallelism

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www.slate.com 13y ago

Why Is the United States So Sick?

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www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk 13y ago

The Californian Ideology

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spin.atomicobject.com 13y ago

Unifying Programming and Math – The Dependent Type Revolution

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www.overthinkingit.com 13y ago

How Inter-service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire

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www.azarask.in 13y ago

Know When to Stop Designing, Quantitatively

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axisofeval.blogspot.co.at 13y ago

Mixing first-order and higher-order control

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programming-puzzler.blogspot.se 13y ago

Racket vs. Clojure

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highscalability.com 13y ago

Prismatic Architecture

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boingboing.net 14y ago

Soviet synthesizer you play by etching images

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www.spaceflightnow.com 14y ago

SpaceX has a backlog of 40 launches or $4 billion

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www.haskellforall.com 14y ago

Scrap your type classes (and implement them at value level)

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www.ribbonfarm.com 14y ago

Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class

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it.slashdot.org 14y ago

Flying drone cracks WiFis eavesdrops on GSM phones

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craigmod.com 15y ago

Embracing the digital book

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thebitcoinsun.com 15y ago

Bitcoin, the Darknet Economy, and the Low Over-Head Revolution

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bitgigs.com 15y ago

BitGigs - Bitcoin Job Board

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TTIP Leaks 10 years ago

Of course, but all these are manifestations of the same ideological system (that also brought "peace and prosperity").

Chinese automaker GAC recently invested in Uber. techcrunch.com/2015/12/21/uber-china-lands-strategic-investment-from-chinese-automaker-gac/

All eyes are on Silicone Valley, but I think China will be the first to allow fully autonomous cars on its roads (Chinese-made of course).

FlyKly Smart Wheel 13 years ago

Most European cities will make you carry your bike from time to time or make huge detours. But, like you, I'm not the target customer for this so maybe people in general are more careful with route planning.

FlyKly Smart Wheel 13 years ago

Not necessarily. QR systems such as Maxle are sturdy enough for competitive downhill use.

Also 10 pounds is a huge difference not just in the effort needed to propel the bike forward but also in terms of maneuverability, especially as it is rotating weight. And in city usage you often have to carry the bike down stairs etc. where again 5 kg and a messed up center of gravity is a big deal.

Looking at "similar scandals" on the same page, science/engineering does not come out unscratched either.

Also I always found Sokal affair a bit stacked against the offending the journal. The issue was "Science Wars", that is confronting scientific vs. postmodernist view. If they were to edit what were presumably contributions from the side of science, it would defeat the purpose somewhat.