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Dead people tend not to be very creative so I suspect that the retroactive extension of copyright will not spur much innovation from Eames. The point, of course, is not to spur creativity but to protect the rents of the handful of people whose past designs turned out to have lasting value.
europe importing a very bad law.
this is wonderful, build your own NYC subway. i got to A+
area man sues over the use of the augmented reality space overlaid on his “property” (which, unless he has paid it off fully, isn’t his anyway).
Insider traders appear to be pretty careful in choosing their accomplices. Of the known pairs of people who provide and act upon private information (“tipper and tippee”), 64% met before college, and 16% met in college or graduate school. Another 23% are family relations — more siblings and parents than aunts and uncles, despite the added capital that the latter might have provided. Tips are also commonly shared among people with ethnically similar surnames: Of 24 tips coming from people with Celtic surnames, for example, 14 went to individuals who also had Celtic surnames.
We could call this strange geography created by technology “AirSpace.” It’s the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go: a profusion of symbols of comfort and quality, at least to a certain connoisseurial mindset. Minimalist furniture. Craft beer and avocado toast. Reclaimed wood. Industrial lighting. Cortados. Fast internet. The homogeneity of these spaces means that traveling between them is frictionless, a value that Silicon Valley prizes and cultural influencers like Schwarzmann take advantage of. Changing places can be as painless as reloading a website. You might not even realize you’re not where you started…
The profusion of generic cafes and Eames chairs and reclaimed wood tables might be a superficial meme of millennial interior decorating that will fade with time. But the anesthetized aesthetic of International Airbnb Style is the symptom of a deeper condition, I think.
on the homogenization of space: sameness worldwide, reclaimed wood, craft beer etc.
While many questions about vaults remain, including whether they serve as cargo transporters for the cell, their large, hollow interiors have led some scientists to see the nanobarrels as potential tools for the delivery of biomaterials. A variety of strategies for encapsulating biomaterials already exists, including viruses, liposomes, peptides, hydrogels, and synthetic and natural polymers, but the use of these materials is often limited by insufficient payload, immunogenicity, lack of targeting specificity, and the inability to control packaging and release. Vaults, on the other hand, possess all the features of an ideal delivery vehicle. These naturally occurring cellular nanostructures have a cavity large enough to sequester 100s of proteins; they are homogeneous, regular, highly stable, and easy to engineer; and, most of all, they are nonimmunogenic and totally biocompatible.
ask the database “father : doctor :: mother : x” and it will say x = nurse. And the query “man : computer programmer :: woman : x” gives x = homemaker. In other words, the word embeddings can be dreadfully sexist. This happens because any bias in the articles that make up the Word2vec corpus is inevitably captured in the geometry of the vector space. “One might have hoped that the Google News embedding would exhibit little gender bias because many of its authors are professional journalists”.
if we can identify this reliably, we can remove the troglodyte voice completely
A majority of Americans would be “very” or “somewhat” worried about gene editing (68%); brain chips (69%); and synthetic blood (63%), while no more than 50% say they would be enthusiastic about each of these developments.
impressive analysis. if we’re lucky, historians of the future will have a much much higher quality view of what actually happened.
A group of plotters of the failed Turkish coup attempt used a WhatsApp group to communicate with each other. Bellingcat has transcribed, translated, and analysed the conversation, thereby cross-referencing the messages with photos, videos, and news reports of the evening, night, and morning of July 15-16.
Even active spaces aren’t uniformly bustling throughout the day. New York City has upwards of 24K restaurants—among them, some up-all-night delis and take-out joints, but also some that only open for dinner, sitting shuttered all morning and afternoon. There may be chefs in the back, chopping vegetables and prepping for the evening rush, but the dining area is empty.
Preston Pesek, the founder of the co-working startup Spacious, wondered if he could use those tables during the lulls. Pesek, who has a background working with architects, developers, and commercial real estate firms, aimed to turn the sparse front-of-house into an on-demand co-working space.
2018-01-04:
In 6 hours the dinner rush will just be starting at Saxon + Parole. The bar will be humming, servers will flit between tables, the kitchen will be dishing out entrees including the Impossible Burger. But, right now the restaurant is humming with a different type of energy; writers, startup employees and more using Saxon + Parole as a co-working space.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 