December 19, 2022
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we’ve solved our killer asteroid problem https://t.co/gzd9t45oMi
Dec 17, 2022
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Let's try something else: using Trumpet Winsock to connect from a Windows 3.1 machine to a Windows 2000 machine over null modem!
Dec 18, 2022
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This is a great video for OPSEC lessons.
For 1000 years, Arabic was the primary international language of commerce, scholarship & politics, much as English is today. Over the centuries, English adopted many words that were borrowed directly from Arabic For Arabic Language Day, here are 20 words with Arabic origins…
Dec 18, 2022
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https://mastodon.sdf.org/@rebrafsim/109332595715126973Me: do you think he called himself T.S. Eliot so nobody would notice that T. Eliot is toilet backwards?
Librarian: stop talking
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#Colombia: The Colombian government has reportedly revoked its controversial amnesty granted to three alleged IRA members charged with training FARC guerrillas in bomb making. theguardian.com/world/2022/dec…
Dec 19, 2022
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**Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure**
It is very well known that intelligence or talent exhibit a Gaussian distribution among the population, whereas the distribution of wealth - considered a proxy of success - follows typically a power law (Pareto law). Such a discrepancy between a Normal distribution of inputs, with a typical scale, and the scale invariant distribution of outputs, suggests that some hidden ingredient is at work behind the scenes. In this paper, with the help of a very simple agent-based model, we suggest that such an ingredient is just randomness.
[1802.07068] Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western cultures is rooted on the belief that success is due mainly, if not exclusively, to personal qualities such as talent, intelligence, skills, efforts or risk taking. Sometimes, we are willing to admit that a certain degree of luck could also play a role in achieving significant material success. But, as a matter of fact, it is rather common to underestimate the importance of external forces in individual successful stories. ...
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Why would you leave twitter now when your chances of being the beneficiary of a class action lawsuit are increasing by the second
Nov 10, 2022
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The Polish chief of police fired a live grenade launcher inside his office. It blew up part of the ceiling, damaged his office, and injured himself and two others.
@GoodReddit Funniest thing is the government suggested he mistook it for a stylized alcohol bottle. The stylized alcohol bottle in question:
Dec 17, 2022
„I will not betray a great secret if I write that one of the Polish services wrote as a joke "Ordinance of the Chief on the ban on the use of hand grenade launchers in closed rooms”
The story:
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