This is my second post in what I call my “what if” series of posts. I’ve been listening to the audio book Principles by Ray Dalio and in the book he talks about the algorithms his company created to become successful investing in various markets and creating amazing returns. This got me thinking, what...
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The idea of using nanobots to fight disease is something I’ve thought about for a while. If you’re not sure what a nanobot, it is “a hypothetical, very small, self-propelled machine, especially one that has some degree of autonomy and can reproduce.” Essentially these are extremely tiny robots, 50,000 of them could fit on...
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I love to discover new music. I especially like to find great music that isn’t widely known. Even with all of the music services like iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, Amazon Music, and YouTube Red, it’s still difficult to really find great music. For example, back in 2007 someone posted a link to Zac Brown Band...
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Coinhive made recent news when sites like Pirate Bay had deployed their scripts and were mining cryptocurrency in visitors’ browsers without their consent or knowledge. While this wasn’t the best way to deploy a browser based mining script, it did garner much attention for coinhive and browser based mining. It also made ad blockers...
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As I’m about to go to bed I realize that tomorrow I will wake up and relive a swirl of emotions. 15 years ago I was in San Antonio, Texas. I was staying in a Hilton. At this point I was sleeping, likely with a bit of restlessness. Not because I could predict what...
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I’m one of those people that buy things and then use them until there’s not much use left in them. This is especially true for cars and cell phones. I’ve had my Samsung Galaxy S4 Activ for 2 years now and it’s time to make a change. I started looking at the new Samsung...
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On July 3oth, 2015, 435 government officials detained Julie Smith, a teacher from Sheboygan, WI and thousands of U.S. citizens in just 15 minutes. Without due process, these U.S. citizens have had their U.S Passports revoked and are not allowed to travel outside of it’s borders. Under H.R. 237, the federal government deemed thousands...
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So, you have just gathered all your data, perhaps even spending hours entering it into your favorite spreadsheet software. Now you want to upload it into a program so you can actually use the data, only to find out that you entered the first and last name into one column and the program requires...
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