Saturday, March 11, 2017

The Motley Fool: Can Intel Corporation Save the Personal Computer Market With Better Chips?


Can Intel Corporation Save the Personal Computer Market With Better Chips?
The Motley Fool

Probably not, but that doesn't mean Chipzilla shouldn't strive to build better chips at a rapid pace. Read the full story


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Friday, March 10, 2017

Interesting quote from "When Breath Becomes Air"

Hi - I'm reading "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese and wanted to share this quote with you.

""forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race";"

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Thursday, March 09, 2017

Interesting quote from "When Breath Becomes Air"

Hi - I'm reading "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese and wanted to share this quote with you.

"his fierce belief in the moral dimension of his job."

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Tuesday, March 07, 2017

The Motley Fool: 1 Way Intel Corporation Can Improve Power Consumption for 2018 Processors


1 Way Intel Corporation Can Improve Power Consumption for 2018 Processors
The Motley Fool

Migrating this support chip to a newer manufacturing technology could help Chipzilla build more efficient computer processors. Read the full story


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Saturday, March 04, 2017

Do Public Protests Matter in a Democracy? The “outside strategy” as a signal of support to judges and bureaucrats | Just Security

https://www.justsecurity.org/36956/public-protests-matter-democracy-outside-strategy-signal-support-judges-bureaucrats/


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Ben Wittes and Quinta Jurecic on the “Oathless Presidency”—Questions raised by deep distrust in Trump | Just Security

https://www.justsecurity.org/38327/ben-wittes-quinta-jurecic-oathless-presidency-questions-raised-deep-distrust-trump/


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Obama & FISA: Trump Wiretap May Have Been Sought | National Review

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap


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The Dirty Secret Behind the Jeff Sessions Mess

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/the-dirty-secret-behind-the-jeff-sessions-mess/amp


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High US health care spending is quite well explained by its high material standard of living – Random Critical Analysis

https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/high-us-health-care-spending-is-quite-well-explained-by-its-high-material-standard-of-living/amp/


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Obama & FISA: Trump Wiretap May Have Been Sought | National Review

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap


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Monday, February 27, 2017

Leaked DHS Report Contradicts White House Claims on Travel Ban - Lawfare

https://lawfareblog.com/leaked-dhs-report-contradicts-white-house-claims-travel-ban


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the guardian: Just who are these 300 'scientists' telling Trump to burn the climate?


Just who are these 300 'scientists' telling Trump to burn the climate?
the guardian

John Abraham: As with all such lists, the 300 'scientists' badly lack climate expertise Read the full story


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Sunday, February 26, 2017

X-Plan: Giving your kids a way out (#xplan) | Bert Fulks

https://bertfulks.com/2017/02/23/x-plan-giving-your-kids-a-way-out-xplan/


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Art is a waste of time – or so Effective Altruism claims | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/art-is-a-waste-of-time-or-so-effective-altruism-claims

In 1972, the Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer published an essay called 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality', which contained the following thought experiment. Suppose you saw a child drowning in a pond: would you jump in and rescue her, even if you hadn't pushed her in? Even if it meant ruining your clothes? It would be highly controversial to say 'no' – and yet most of us manage to ignore those dying of poverty and preventable disease all over the world, though we could easily help them. Singer argues that this inconsistency is unjustifiable. The EAs agree, and have dedicated their lives to living out the radical implications of this philosophy. If distance is morally irrelevant, then devastating poverty and preventable disease surround us. Any break we take from working to reduce suffering throughout the world is like having a leisurely nap beside a lake where thousands of children are screaming for our help.

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The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768/


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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Michael Flynn Resigns as National Security Adviser

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn.amp.html?client=safari


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Exclusive: U.S. arrests Mexican immigrant in Seattle covered by Obama program | Article [AMP] | Reuters

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN15T307


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PCWorld: Intel ships latest Itanium chip called Kittson, but grim future looms


Intel ships latest Itanium chip called Kittson, but grim future looms
PCWorld

Intel's Itanium chip is hanging by a thread, and after more than three years, the company is now shipping the next and possibly final version of the processor, which is code-named Kittson. The chip is now shipping to test customers, and volume shipments will commence later this year, a company spokesman said. Itanium chips have been used in mainframes and mission-critical servers. Hewlett Packard Enterprise will ship servers with Kittson later this year. Itanium has been dying a slow and painful Read the full story


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Vox: Doctors finally admit drugs can’t fix most cases of back pain


Doctors finally admit drugs can't fix most cases of back pain
Vox

The American College of Physicians now recommends heat therapy and yoga ahead of pain meds for lower back pain. Read the full story


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Getting a photo ID so you can vote is easy. Unless you’re poor, black, Latino or elderly. - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a-photo-id-so-you-can-vote-is-easy-unless-youre-poor-black-latino-or-elderly/2016/05/23/8d5474ec-20f0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html?utm_term=.cf39faffd5c3


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Tough on crime

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2017/02/top_cops_are_trying_to_appeal_to_donald_trump_s_brain_on_criminal_justice.html


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Sunday, February 12, 2017

The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins – Observer

Putin' puppet

http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/amp/


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Ice

http://www.nnirr.org/drupal/sites/default/files/ice-raid-toolkit-011117-w_o-appendices.pdf




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Systems biology of cancer: entropy, disorder, and selection-driven evolution to independence, invasion and “swarm intelligence”

In honor of Darwin Day, find and read an interesting science paper.

"Besides the minority of cancers arising from direct exogenous causes such as radiation, carcinogens, viruses, or inflammation, the majority of cancers do not originate from single obvious events but rather from multiple chance events in the normal life of our 3 × 1013cells. We link these events to the increasing entropy in the cell physiology and to the noise in our cell metabolism, which may initiate the process in some cells. This can lead to the major reverse biological transition from cells in pluricellular organisms, which obey constrains of the whole, to unicellular organisms, which independently strive to survive and multiply. After this transition to independence, the same causal mechanisms coupled to a Darwinian selection will cause the evolution to progression, invasion, metastasis, and in a few cases immortality as infectious agents. '


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843370/


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How Federal Funding Works at Planned Parenthood

Try to educate yourself

https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/blog/how-federal-funding-works-at-planned-parenthood


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Friday, February 10, 2017

Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal – review | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/10/explorers-nile-tim-jeal-review


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What Is The Average Lifespan Of A Commercial Jet? - Airliners.net



The DC-9 was I believe 100,000 cycles. You can't exactly put a life span on it in terms of years. There are too many variables.
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Navy strike fighter jets: Two-thirds currently can't fly

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/02/10/politics/us-navy-planes-grounded/index.html

Today, jets are being stretched to fly between 8,000 and 9,000 hours to fulfill mission expectations as a result of fewer operational aircraft, budget restrictions and delays to the fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

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Congress's Role in the Debate over Trump's Executive Order - Lawfare

https://lawfareblog.com/congresss-role-debate-over-trumps-executive-order

Even those (myself included) who think the Order should probably be overturned in court given the evidence of discriminatory intent, acknowledge that the most persuasive arguments against it are not legal, but rather moral and practical.

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8 U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible aliens | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute


By law, we should keep all Trump supporters out of the country

(D)Immigrant membership in totalitarian party
(i)In general

Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible.




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Monday, February 06, 2017

This Pulitzer Prize winning scientist thinks technology is responsible for ‘the most dangerous problem facing Americans today’ | Caroline Fairchild | Pulse | LinkedIn


So what's the cause of all the increased animosity at the root of these issues? The rise of technology is decreasing modes of face-to-face communication making it easier for Americans to compromise less and argue more, Diamond argues.

"This is the most dangerous problem facing Americans today," he said. "It is much easier to be rude to words on a screen than rude to a face... That's the best sense I can make of the deterioration of American society."

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This Pulitzer Prize winning scientist thinks technology is responsible for ‘the most dangerous problem facing Americans today’ | Caroline Fairchild | Pulse | LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pulitzer-prize-winning-scientist-thinks-technology-most-fairchild


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Cancer Studies Are Fatally Flawed. Meet the Young Billionaire Who's Exposing the Truth About Bad Science | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/john-arnold-waging-war-on-bad-science/amp/


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How Violence Undermined the Berkeley Protest - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/opinion/how-violence-undermined-the-berkeley-protest.html


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