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It may be possible to reverse aging. nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Sacha Baron Cohen: We Must Save Democracy From Conspiracies
The comedian explains why he's terrified for the survival of democracy
How Masks Went From Don’t-Wear to Must-Have During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven’t always succeeded.
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The abuse of “science” in the name of science was particularly egregious this year.
What it boils down to is stealing the prestige of Maxwell’s equations for some shaky data analysis. The level of independent replication differs by orders of magnitude.
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Nigeria Protests Show Bitcoin Adoption Is Not Coming: It's Here - CoinDesk
Blockchain is gaining traction fast in Nigeria, where people are eager to learn about decentralized tools and how to use them.
Crypto Reading
A list of worthwhile posts about cryptocurrency.
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Crypto Capital is the hope of the rest of the world. It is stateless capitalism, it is capitalism without corporations, it is decentralized censorship-resistance and it is principled non-violence.
And it is the youngest, but may yet prove the strongest.
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The Rise of Woke Capital
How culture war became a tool of corporate self-interest.
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Woke Capital is the ideology of much of modern America. It’s capitalism that enables decentralized censorship, cancel culture, and American empire. It’s drone strike democracy.
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Is China the Governance of the Future? - Quillette
In his 2009 book When China Rules the World, Martin Jacques notes with satisfaction that “as a Chinese world order begins to take shape, the American world order is eroding with remarkable speed.” His widely praised book is highly complimentary to...
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Communist Capital is the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party. It’s capitalism checked by the centralized power of the Chinese state, as pithily summarized here. quillette.com/2020/10/10/is-… pic.twitter.com/wcpDJ71rd3
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Washington Post public editor: the powerful have realized they don’t need the Post
<p>This month we learned that Tesla, a $400 billion public company run by one of the richest people in the world, has done away with its media relations department—effectively formalizing an informal policy of ignoring reporters. Though we should...
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Media corporations are slowly realizing that leverage has shifted.
You don’t need to give free content to Bezos, Sulzberger, or Murdoch employees to get the word out anymore.
Just build your own audience, and go direct if you have something to say.
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You no longer need to pay a toll to a media middleman to reach an audience. You don’t need them at all.
“The internet...destroyed one of the media’s most important sources of power: being the only place that could offer access to an audience.”
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Uber and Instacart don’t represent Silicon Valley. Why we’re voting “No” on Prop 22
Today, I’m publishing a letter that I penned with Nate D’Anna, co-founder and co-CEO of Dumpling, about Prop 22 and the status of gig workers. Prop 22 is the California ballot proposition that would exempt app-based transportation and delivery...
New! Add a custom domain to your Substack
Custom domains are now available on Substack. Many writers have told us they’d like to use custom domains to build a home for their newsletters, so we’re excited to finally bring this feature to everyone.
Polymarket Raises Massive $4 Million Round From Polychain, Naval Ravikant, Other Notable Investors
Just months after their initial launch, information markets platform Polymarket has raised a massive $4 million investment round lead by notable investors Polychain Capital and Naval Ravikant.
Blockstream Block Explorer
Blockstream Explorer is an open source block explorer providing detailed blockchain data across Bitcoin, Testnet, and Liquid. Supports Tor and tracking-free.
Receiver operating characteristic - Wikipedia
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@default_friend From a machine learning perspective, standards that are too high result in false negatives. Standards that are too low result in false positives. But better algorithms can reduce both false positives and false negatives. 🙂
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Tesla dissolves its PR department - a new first in the industry - Electrek
Electrek can confirm that Tesla has dissolved its PR department – technically becoming the first automaker who doesn’t talk to the press. It is something that we have discussed on our podcast several times over the last few months, but now that...
Deep learning to translate between programming languages
TransCoder is the first self-supervised neural transcompiler system for migrating code between programming languages. It can translate code from Python to C++, for example, and it outperforms rule-based translation programs.
Golden raises $14.5m Series A led by a16z, closes $1m US Air Force contract, and Marc Andreessen joins board
Since we formally launched in 2019, our team has been hard at work executing our vision to build an extensive database and graph of knowledge for humanity, including practical commercial tools and community features to aid discovery and decisions....
India pushes bold ‘one nation, one subscription’ journal-access plan
Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared on online repositories.