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new-aesthetic: Aire – World’s First Self-Flying Drone for The Home
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prostheticknowledge: Paperclips Browser-based Idle Game by Frank Lantz lets you control an AI that runs a paperclip company. There are no instructions but if you are familiar with the game AdVenture Capitalist you will probably work things out (and get drawn into it in the same way, drawn by the growing numbers and frustrated with…
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The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks
The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks kenyatta: Traditional definitions of the state and its authority hinged on the right to raise taxes, and on its legal monopoly on coercing its people, from punishing and imprisoning them to waging formal war. But as James Scott points out, roughly between 8000…
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Plenty of Work, Not Enough Pay
stoweboyd: One of the most troubling unresolved issues in modern economics is the continued lack of wage increases even as unemployment has dropped to under 5%. This is a worldwide phenomenon and appears to be linked to a number of intertangled factors, like the decline of unions and collective bargaining, the rise of freelancing and outsourced…
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npr: Cookie Monster is all wound up. The Count has him hold up his furry blue fingers, count them (of course), and blow on each one in turn as if he were blowing out a birthday candle. Afterward, Cookie declares, in his familiar growly voice, that he feels much better. “Hey! Me feel terrific! Me…
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To the extent that it is driven by rents as opposed to productive activities, the extreme concentration of wealth we observe is not fair according to a meritocratic conception of social justice. Moreover, because rents do not compensate productive activities, redistributing them through taxes or regulation does not harm the economy, and could even boost…
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We are all burnt by ultraviolet rays. We all contain water in about the same ratio as Earth does, and salt water in the same ratio that the oceans do. We are poems about the hyperobject Earth. Timothy Morton (via inthenoosphere)
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one day (at French Quarter – CBD, New Orleans, Louisiana)
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I like the Vieux Carré (at Carousel Bar at Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans)
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nerd NOLA, original Edison bulb at Antoine’s (at French Quarter – CBD, New Orleans, Louisiana)