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GitHub should start an App Store. Great idea! And GitLab too.

They have the distribution and skillset to pull it off, and could make one-click installation work on desktop and Android, if not iOS. @natfriedman @sytses

Tesla proved that memes, narratives and online activism are powerful tools long before Gamestop, but as they take hold in the broader market it should be noted: the results are not easy to defend as efficient allocations of capital.

India has vaccinated 3.7 million in 2 weeks (mainly focused on high risk groups). Expecting capacity to vaccinate 10mn per day by July.

But pessimism has been rampant from people who don't get India - its chaotic, but it's selective chaos.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on officials to step up protection of intellectual property rights from the perspective of “national strategy” via @business 🤣

tbf, america in 19th century ripped-off british works all the time.

"While the probability of an American between 6'6" and 6'8" being an NBA player today stands at a mere 0.07%, it's a staggering 17% for someone 7 feet or taller...being 7 feet tall is the world's shortest path to becoming a millionaire."

@sagar__dubey

10 Reasons to use Haskell by @serokell

The Life and Times of George Fernandes - The man who always took on the Establishment

For those who are interested, here is the post in r/wsb drawing up the play to gamma squeeze $GME and send the HFs to the hospital.

It’s a thing of beauty.

3/3 The book is special to me as it was really my first introduction to non-school / non-contest math, and, well, the rest is history :)

You can read more about Virginia Lee Pratt here

A local resident has been detained for cooking a barbecue over an eternal flame monument to fallen World War II soldiers in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

“No need for coal,” the unidentified man was heard explaining to eyewitnesses.

(1/4)"Invasion of Sikhs from the Punjab"

An Oct 1907 article that explores the causes behind the "anti-Hindoo riots" in Bellingham, WA.

@hamsanandi @Gurubhat_ @sridatta_a Yes ,there is gradual evolution.
Yes ,from Kalyani Chalukya/Housal time period onwards, it becomes easy to read.

When The Giants Of Indian Classical Music Collided With Psychedelic San Francisco ~ That Which Colors the Mind

@deno_land Documentation to the newest version is broken?

@EthantheFlaneur @SuspiciousPleb it's actually juice made from the dried flesh of "kokum" fruit - also used for making curries etc.

The Buddhist community deals with a mistranslation of one of their works:

Think this old piece of mine is relevant now

Philip Rivers

This is how the system is rigged.

The elites aren't even trying to hide it.

Robinhood, who's revenue is largely tied to Citadel, restricts trading in $GME, $AMC, and $NOK.

Users can only sell, not buy.

Propaganda can only achieve so much. Reality catching up really quickly.

Good!

Also, watched this Mandelbrot fractal edu movie that would be good for kids.

"Mandelbrots World of Fractals" also free on there

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But my guess is we will end up with more rules and regulation of retail/reddit-horde, and no new rules for Wall Street.

Continuing the theme of the last 40 years of "Libertarianism For Me, Authoritarianism For Thee"

Cold winter nights often remind me of Halku हल्कू, the poor farmer of Hindi story pūs kī rāt पूस की रात (= A winter's night) by Premchand. It reveals the sheer burden of poverty & harsh realities of elements without making grand statements. Read it here-

Since today is #HolocaustMemorialDay, I'll again share the story of Peter Wegner. Witnessed Anschluss/Kristallnacht in person. Escaped on Kindertransport. Went on to write earliest texts on PL, edit 1st ACM curriculum, Cardelli-Wegner, etc. What a life.

@Suricata_IDS @pevma NVM: found a good reference that explains Community ID:

The guy who started the original reddit meme has turned his $50k investment into $21.95 million.

I cannot believe that is a true sentence.

@ekrich @rossabaker It has worked for them so far.. so can't knock that..

"The Bit Player", a documentary about Claude Shannon - on Amazon Prime.

@rossabaker that sounds like sphinx, specifically readthedocs ?

Two years ago, when I was living in Singapore and sent this piece to the Straits Times, I was expecting a rejection. After all, they had rejected some of my earlier pieces. (1)

It was maddening listening to how Spaniards basically lucked and lied into conquering the New World. How they shrugged off the cruelty they showed to the natives as they were "pagans"

This was a cornerstone for their deceit and destruction - divine right

I am still catching up on early January posts 👉 Optimizing Lambda functions packaged as container images – interesting tips by @rts_rob #AWS #Serverless #DevOps

This is some insane, crazy, baller shit:

r/wsb just ran over one of the most successful hedge funds around

I hate the fact that the Fed govt retains jurisdiction over Native American lands.

After listening to these fantastic podcasts, I really do feel that Conquistador should be a synonym for a monstrous, ravenous, unadulterated evil.

The sheer lack of honor and arrogance coupled with inhuman brutality shown to the natives is appalling.

TCS overtakes Accenture to become world’s largest IT firm by market cap

Notice a bunch of your friends seemed to have gotten pregnant since the start of the pandemic?

You might be tempted to call it a trend, but several states that keep track of births in near-real-time recorded significant drops in Dec. 2020 birthrates.

I don't know if I would call this #serverless, but definitely a modern replacement for xinetd :-) I'm glad this article got written, I've been meaning to go down this rathole for a while. Alt Title: Socket activated services with #Podman.

@Chris_arnade @AliceFromQueens As an endorsement, watch one of the two Top Gear episodes where they take a random farmer's Tacoma, and try to beat it to shit by literally casting it out to sea and dropping it off a building, and they fail to make it not start.

Hadrian was a great patron of the arts. His villa at Tibur was adorned with magnificent works of art.
Read more 👉

Really great write-up on "That XOR Trick":

I'm convinced a lot of these stupid interview questions that ask things like this are mostly just filtering for people who went to the same university where you're introduced to things like this.

Wrote about a growing phenomenon among finance professionals today: Robinhood Envy.

What makes bats excellent reservoirs of née pathogens that periodically spill over into humans and livestock causing outbreaks and Pandemics. A review

Accounts of China and India written by arab sailor 900 AD. highly recommended. comparative analysis of china vs india not even totally off today.

some of the stuff is funny. obv aghast as every indian refusing to eat off each other's plates