this is a great way to ensure the union doesn’t have a future, pretending that if you close your eyes, technology just goes away somehow.
Month: January 2018
Iron Manhattan
Why? That’s the first question people always ask. Why would you want to swim 4km, bike 180, and then run a marathon? Why would you do it 5 days in a row? Why would you plan the whole thing yourself? In the 5 boroughs? In the middle of June? “Why does anyone do anything?” answered Chris Solarz, a guy who read stoic philosophy in the sauna while training for such a feat. “Why do we try to run arbitrary distances in arbitrary times? I don’t know. There’s no easy answer.” Last summer, Solarz and fellow New Yorker Chris Calimano completed the arbitrary task of one full Ironman-distance triathlon each day for 5 days straight, totaling 1100km. The event started as most harebrained ideas do: over beers.
SSA scams
The letter the Eckensteins received from the SSA indicated that the benefits had been requested over the phone, meaning the crook(s) had called the SSA pretending to be Ruth and supplied them with enough information about her to enroll her to begin receiving benefits. He and his wife immediately called the SSA to notify them of fraudulent enrollment and pending withdrawal, and they were instructed to appear in person at an SSA office in Oklahoma City.
Pope Fake News
The Irony of the Pope Decrying Fake News. the people spreading nonsense are also the loudest critics of fake news, whether in politics or religion.
Great CEOs
We’ve been spending our time lately interviewing the CEO’s of companies like Microsoft and PepsiCo and Facebook. You’d think there’d be some sort of a template for what makes a successful CEO, some set of common characteristics. But the data tell a different story. It’s very hard to pin down just what produces, or predicts, or even indicates a good CEO In the absence of great statistical evidence, we’ll go the anthropological route and ask the question: how do you become a CEO? We’ll track our CEO’s from their beginnings through their ascensions — including how they almost didn’t make it.
Podcasts are dumb
this is a pretty accurate description of podcasts.
DNA robot arm
A novel electric propulsion technology for nanorobots allows molecular machines to move 100Kx faster than with the biochemical processes used to date. This makes nanobots fast enough to do assembly line work in molecular factories.
Solar regulatory burdens
The regulation comes in 3 un-American guises: permitting, code and tariffs — and together they are killing the US residential market. Modernizing these regulations, primarily at the local and state level, is the greatest opportunity for US solar policy
Rooftop solar in the us costs 2x as much as in developed countries due to inconsistent, super-local “regulations”. why we can’t have nice things.
AI soundscapes
A Japanese group trained a deep learning algorithm to compose soundscapes for locations on Google Street View.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 