Did you know that The Rock was the first person to report that bin Laden was dead? …

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Did you know that The Rock was the first person to report that bin Laden was dead?

That's…just so randomly weird.

How Did The Rock Know About Osama Bin Laden’s Death Before Anyone Else?
How did Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tweet about Osama bin Laden’s death before the news media had even broken the story?

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The news that AI beat humans in the video game DOTA2 got a lot of play recently

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What hasn't got so much play is the fact that humans quickly figured out a strategy for beating the AI.

OpenAI bots were defeated atleast 50 times yesterday. • r/DotA2
All 50 Arcanas were scooped Twitter : https://twitter.com/riningear/status/896297256550252545 If anybody who defeated sees this, share us your…

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Orbit Jupiter.

Posted by on August 31, 2017 1 comment
Orbit Jupiter.

Jupiter: Juno Perijove 06
NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran Original video: https://youtu.be/fKN4_RVfB2A Free 125 megapixel Jupiter Print Portrait: https://flic.kr/p/VfYvq9 Follow…


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Buy American policies result in fewer American jobs

Posted by on August 31, 2017 1 comment
In an illustrative simulation we find that scrapping Buy-America(n) would reduce U.S. employment in manufacturing but boost employment in the rest of the economy with a net gain of about 300 thousand jobs. Even in the manufacturing sector, there would be many winning industries including those producing machinery and other high-tech products. Employment would increase in 50 out of 51 states and 430 out of 436 congressional districts.

Assuming follow-up research confirms these findings. Who expects politicians to begin to advocate for the ending of Buy American regulations?

(also I'm always a little wishy-washy on posting economics papers in a Science collection. There's always an argument about it. I just don't really post enough economics articles to start an Economics collection.)

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Seeing the total eclipse gave me many of the same feelings as when I first saw Michelangelo's…

Posted by on August 21, 2017 1 comment
Seeing the total eclipse gave me many of the same feelings as when I first saw Michelangelo's David in Florence.

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The liberal/libertarian tends towards thinking the USA has too many people in pr…

Posted by on August 20, 2017 48 comments
The liberal/libertarian tends towards thinking the USA has too many people in prison.

Perhaps that is wrong?

With offenders each year committing well over a million very serious violent crimes and another 1.6 million burglaries, with police each year arresting 1.5 million violent offenders, and with courts each year convicting more than a million persons for a felony, it is perhaps not so surprising that state and federal prisons hold one and a half million inmates. If we have a “mass incarceration” problem it appears to be because we have a “mass crime” problem, despite the downward trend of the past two decades.

Does America over-incarcerate?
Joseph M. Bessette writes, only two fifths of those convicted of felonies in state courts are actually sentenced to prison. Of the rest, about half receive no incarceration (mainly probation) and h…


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How do you tell the difference between a plumber and a chemist?

Posted by on August 20, 2017 5 comments

Ask them to pronounce "unionized".


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Super nervous about the forecast for my town of "mostly cloudy" for eclipse…

Posted by on August 17, 2017 1 comment
Super nervous about the forecast for my town of "mostly cloudy" for eclipse day.

I guess I'll pack up the car Sunday and head out for an East or West drive if the forecast remains the same.

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I'm looking at the Google Assistant website right now

Posted by on August 14, 2017 No comments
Assistant is so stupid when it comes to which commands are supported on which devices. I mean, how how is a normal person supposed to remember that you can ask your phone, your watch, or the Google Home "Will I need an umbrella today?", but you can't ask your watch "What is the traffic like to work?" and the only device you can ask "What movies are showing this weekend?" is your phone?

Typical Google.

#google #googleassistant #assistant

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Posted by on August 12, 2017 No comments

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