Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?
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Intel Honesty
The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government to pick up the bill via purchase guarantees.
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...
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Brady Corbet’s Wildly Ambitious Period Epic ‘The Brutalist’ Blows Minds at Venice With 13-Minute Standing Ovation
The aesthetically innovative movie stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn and has become one of the most buzzed-about titles of the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
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Founder Mode
September 2024 At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the…
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Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective,…
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In Praise of Reference Books
Reference volumes should be valued as least as much as fiction and other nonfiction books
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John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism
Back when I was an undergraduate, during the final years of the cold war, by far the most exciting thing going on in political philosophy was the powerful resurgence of Marxism in the English-speaking world.
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What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
Stephen Wolfram explores minimal models and their visualizations, aiming to explain the underneath functionality of neural nets and ultimately machine learning.
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Priority 600HXT Review: Shifting Opinions
Find Miles' Pinion Smart.Shift equipped Priority 600HXT review after thousands of miles of bikepacking and trail riding here…
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How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.
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The rise of the "Brat Pack" — and a new Democratic political style
At the DNC, a political approach long relegated to the wings takes center stage
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Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia
Rounding up migrants. Lists of “friendly” sheriffs. Debating political assassinations. Internal messages reveal AP3's journey from Jan. 6 through the tumultuous lead-up to the 2024 election. One member predicts: “It’ll be decided at the ammo box.”
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When Was the Last Time You Finished a Book? You Need an AI Reading Companion Like Me
When a flattering email arrived inviting me to participate in an AI venture called Rebind that I’d later come to think will radically transform the entire way…
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Quick look: applications of chaos theory
Introduction Recently we (Elizabeth Van Nostrand and Alex Altair) started a project investigating chaos theory as an example of field formation.[1] The number one question you get when you tell peo…
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Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan
The facts of Palmer Luckey’s life are so uniquely bizarre—combining elements of fantasy with lunacy and also world-altering change—that they could be printed on…
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The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas
A Read Max re-run: A Hackernews comment opens up a strange new world
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Integration and Android
The most important takeaway from Google’s Pixel event is that it is Android that matters most, and Google’s integration with Android is worth preserving if the goal is spurring innovati…
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How California Turned Against Growth
Even before it became a state, people migrated to California in search of a better life: for jobs, the chance to become rich and famous, or simply the comfortable climate and beautiful landscape.
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Friendly Google and Enemy Remedies
The DOJ brought the right kind of case against an Aggregator, which stagnates by being too nice; the goal is for companies to act like they actually have enemies.
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What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images | Quanta Magazine
Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences.
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Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight, Kremlin says
By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold…
