Sunday, October 29, 2017

"Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT revealed in FULL"

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After getting banned by Twitter it appears RT has no plans for going back. Showing this to the world is borderline cruel. Bridges burning, ...

Seven Startups Creating Lab-Grown Meat

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From Nanalyze: We cover a isht ton of disruptive technologies here at Nanalyze so that our readers understand what’s out there that may ...

Soylent Banned In Canada

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Not to put too fine a point on soi-disant Soylent "Food reformatted", but hasn't the Silicon Valley bro-appeal passed its sell...

Jeremy Grantham Three Years Ago: "The Stock Market Will Run Deep Into A Bubble Before It Crashes "

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Contra the second para, Grantham isn't gloomy, he's dour. And according to GMO, usually too early. Which is a handy thing to know, ...

Professor Damodaren May Have Lost His Mind: Talking Bitcoin

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Important note after the jump. From his personal blog, Musings on Markets, October 24: The Bitcoin Boom: Asset, Currency, Commodity or C...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

"WeWork: A $20 Billion Startup Fueled by Silicon Valley Pixie Dust"

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A solid, solid article. From WSJ Pro—Venture Capital October 16, 2016 When Adam Neumann pitches potential investors on his startup, WeW...

"Chinese scientists warn North Korea about disaster threat at nuclear test site"

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From the South China Morning Post: UPDATED : Saturday, 28 October, 2017, 10:25am Researchers brief Pyongyang delegation on Beijing’s con...

"Modern Media Is a Denial of Service Attack on Your Free Will"

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From Nautil.us, Oct. 21: How the attention economy is subverting our decision-making and our democracy.  It’s not that James Williams, a...

Energy Storage: "It’s Big and Long-Lived, and It Won’t Catch Fire: The Vanadium Redox-⁠Flow Battery"

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So much of battery tech and investing has been hailed as breakthrough but then couldn't be made to physically scale. That is definitely ...
Friday, October 27, 2017

"The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics"

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Coincidentally with the news of the plague epidemic in the post immediately below , Quanta Magazine is leading off their current issue with ...

"DEATH IS COMING Plague warning in NINE countries – including Brit holiday hotspots – amid fears BLACK DEATH could spread on flights from Madagascar"

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It's probably nothing. The headline is from The Sun, who have been known to get a bit overwrought. South Africa's Daily Vox is ta...

"Facebook Patents VR Audio Tech That Sends Sound Straight To Your Skull" (FB)

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Huh. Anybody want some mint-in-box Sennheiser wireless 'phones? From CB Insights Patent for using bone transducers in a VR audio ...

The Market Ticker Has Some Thoughts on Amazon (AMZN)

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AMZN is up $ 129.34 (13.30%) at $ 1,101.77 making Mr. Bezos the richest person in the world, again. The Market Ticker has two posts on Th...