Brave will give users a 70% cut of its advertising revenue, which Eich estimates could work out to about $5 a month. Brave will pay users with its own bitcoin-style “cryptocurrency” called Basic Attention Tokens or BAT, which has traded for as little as 12 cents and as much as 46 cents over the past 12 months. Today, there’s no way for users who receive BAT for viewing ads to swap their digital currency for $, but Brave will partner with cryptocurrency exchanges to make that possible.
Month: April 2019
Bernie und Ert
Bernie und Ert was a recurring sketch on the show created by Attik Kargar, who performed the puppets and supplied the voice of Bernie. Bernie and Ert are an obscene parody of Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street, and especially as re-dubbed on Sesamstrasse. The pair are a same-sex couple, with no nose and one eye each. Each sketch focused on such topics as crime, drug abuse (Bernie is a cocaine addict), and S&M practices.
Brewer Emergency Kit
Whether you are a homebrewer or a craft brewer, things don’t always go as expected or something breaks. If you aren’t ready, it could cost you a batch or delay a brew. In the worst case scenario a company can go out of business, making a replacement part difficult and expensive to procure. More than once we haven’t had a (seemingly) small inexpensive thing and it caused issues. Learn from us (and chime in with your own suggestions)!
Biased Polygenic Scores
Promising efforts at disentangling the effects of genes and the environment on complicated traits may have been confounded by statistical problems.
Cancelled Singularity
So just how cancelled is the singularity? To review: population growth increases technological growth, which feeds back into the population growth rate in a cycle that reaches infinity in finite time. But since population can’t grow infinitely fast, this pattern breaks off after a while. The Industrial Revolution tried hard to compensate for the “missing” population; it invented machines. Using machines, an individual could do an increasing amount of work. We can imagine making eg tractors as an attempt to increase the effective population faster than the human uterus can manage. It partly worked.
Lehman Trilogy
The Lehman Judges Judge The Lehman Trilogy
The judges decamped to a wood-paneled room and sat sipping seltzer under portraits of bewhiskered officers. “For us, who have the experience of what happened after the play ended, it really isn’t a beautiful story of America. The bankruptcy worked, but should it have happened in the first place? Were we just left to clean up after the elephants? I think maybe we were.”
“I had trials for employees who had all their retirement money in Lehman stock and lost everything. And now we have a President who proudly talks about all his bankruptcies. It’s just bizarre.” She stood up and said goodbye; she had to rest up before her next Lehman hearing, on Monday morning.
Bus Data
Partially obscured by the evening commute, though, was a 3rd peak. That was new. “What we know from traditional surveys is, people remember their biggest trips. But what people forget is ‘I’m picking up the laundry,’ ‘I’m stopping to grab coffee.’ We see more of these data captured by cell phones.” Those trips, the futzing around of daily life, tend to happen in off-peak hours—from midday into the evening, 8 or 9 o’clock. “That’s traditionally when agencies cut down their services.” The buses are slacking off when they could be serving a whole other population.
UK Iron Age ritual burials
The Iron Age site at Childrey Warren was particularly fascinating as it provided a glimpse into the beliefs and superstitions of people living in Oxfordshire before the Roman conquest. Evidence elsewhere suggests that burials in pits might have involved human sacrifice. “These findings open a unique window into the lives and deaths of communities we often know only for their monumental buildings, such as hillforts or the Uffington White Horse. The results from the analysis of the artifacts, animal bones, the human skeletons and the soil samples will help us add some important information to the history of the communities that occupied these lands so many years ago.”
Strange Stars & Matter
Nuclear physicists hypothesize that when the cores of neutron stars are subject to enough pressure, the quarks that make up the core can turn from up and down quark varieties into strange quarks. As this Kurzgesagt video explains, this strange matter is particularly stable and if it were to escape from the core of the neutron star, it would convert any ordinary matter it came into contact with to more strange matter
Acoustic transparency
As if all contemporary buildings have tinnitus
acoustic transparency is a quality of ambience—what became known as the “atmosphere” of a space. Very often, you can observe that once rooms are silenced, other sounds are introduced artificially because, in the end, total silence doesn’t feel comfortable.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 