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AI Economics for Dummies – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The…
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Your Name in Landsat
The internet still has some very nice pages and tools. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat/outreach/your-name-in-landsat/
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Ronin / The Forty-Seven
Source: The Forty-Seven
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What is Culture?
As I am often in contact with people from all around the world, sometimes I am asking myself: what makes a “culture” – geography, history, language, politics, belief system? I can in principle agree with the Wikipedia definition (a bit convoluted though)… Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found…
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“Recursion” by Blake Crouch
Recursion by Blake Crouch My rating: 5 of 5 stars Quite original idea on time-travel and paradoxes involved, wrapped in an action filled thriller. View all my reviews