Monday, August 28, 2017

Risk: "Half of hurricane Harvey loss could fall to reinsurance: J.P. Morgan"

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This is a few days old but provides a base for what's to come. From Artemis, Aug 25: As hurricane Harvey continues to bear down on t...

Goldman Sachs On Hurricane Harvey and the Oil & Gas Business

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Amid the awful images and stories coming out of Houston there is also the commercial angle. WTI $47.49 down  38 cents; Gasoline (RBOB) 1.75...

"Maersk moves show the shipping industry is far from sunk "

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Well duh. From the Telegraph: I t’s almost exactly a year since the crisis in the shipping industry made global news with the collapse of...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

"Superbrains getting closer? Musk ‘lines up $100m’ to fund Neuralink brain-computer interface "

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From RT: Elon Musk could be preparing to invest $100 million of his own money to fund Neuralink, the start-up the billionaire tycoon hop...

Bill Gates Invests In Another Lab-Grown Meat Company

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This marks Gates' third such investment although, to be fair, Hampton Creek only recently began the pivot from Just Mayo to industrial-s...

Climateer Line of the Day: Writing Tips I Probably Won't Be Using Edition

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"Note to historical novelists: the Stalinist era is severely underrepresented in fiction, even though it was a demented hellscape ...

Adventures In Pattern Recognition

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From SMBC Comics : HT: I'm sure it was FT Alphaville's David Keohane but can't for the life of me remember when.

Paging M. Macron: "CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA"

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From The Intercept, April 2016: SKINCENTIAL SCIENCES , a company with an innovative line of cosmetic products marketed as a way to erase...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Hurricane Watch: As Harvey Inches Back Toward The Gulf, Two More Atlantic-side Disturbances

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First up, a snippet from Jeff Masters at Category 6: Heavy Damage in Texas from Harvey; Disastrous Flooding Lies Ahead ..... The forecast...

"China Is Weaponizing Water"

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If demography isn't destiny, geography might be. From The National Interest: Hidden in plain sight is an intimidating Chinese weapon...

"The 10 largest homes for sale in the US right now"

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From The Real Deal: Small homes may continue to rise in popularity, but bigger will always be better for the most luxurious end of the ...

Where Are The Profits Of Big Data Flowing?

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From TechRepublic, March 17: Why machine learning benefits the rich, and everyone else is toast   Big data started with cheap hardware an...

Robert Conquest's Summary of Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" (and other stuff)

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I've read Conquest but had never seen this. From Nautil.us: The $1 Billion Misunderstanding of Aging Robert Conquest, a historian o...

Facebook Is Creepy: The 'People You May Know' Feature (FB)

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From Gizmodo: Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I kne...
Friday, August 25, 2017

"Google To Refund "Fake Traffic" Advertising Revenue"

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From ZeroHedge: One month ago, consumer products giant Procter & Gamble - one of the largest and most sophisticated advertisers in th...

"Hurricane Harvey Strengthens to 110 mph Winds..."

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From Wunderground's Category 6: August 25, 2017, 2:34 PM Hurricane Harvey is poised to deliver a catastrophic flooding blow to Texa...

Questions America Wants Answered: "Could the Palladium Rally Lead to Changes in the Auto Industry?"

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From the WSJ's MoneyBeat blog: Could the Palladium Rally Lead to Changes in the Auto Industry? ...

A Quick Reminder For Bitcoin Enthusiasts In the Path Of Hurricane Harvey

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When the power goes out you won't be able to access your crypto. Just sayin'

Hurricane Harvey: Worst Case Scenario

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From BAMwx's Ed Vallee: The European is the worst case scenario for #Texas with TWO landfalls over the course of the week, both as...

BlackRock: "Don’t let the valuation bears scare you"

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The writer, Kate Moore, is a Managing Director and Chief Equity Strategist for BlackRock. From the BlackRock blog: Equity valuations may...