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Re:Gecko Robotics built a $600M company from a college project on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:38PM (#40067812)

https://archive.ph/b3fjd

Gecko Robotics built a $600M company from a college project

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:38PM
from the fortune.com dept.

https://fortune.com/2024/04/17/gecko-founding-jake-loosararian-robots-infrastructure-environment-y-combinator/

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Re:The Best Essay on Sunday March 10, 2024 @05:53PM (#39662802)

Speaking of tributes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ#t=217

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoAGasPLh30#t=213

Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:29PM
from the theconversation.com dept.

https://theconversation.com/salad-fingers-wasnt-just-strange-it-was-art-heres-how-its-still-influencing-the-weird-part-of-youtube-2-decades-on-216911

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Software Mimicry

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:35PM
from the hillelwayne.com dept.

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/software-mimicry/

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The development of fair tests of treatments (2014)

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:33AM
from the thelancet.com dept.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60821-7

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High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:10PM
from the mattstoller.substack.com dept.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/economists-to-cattle-ranchers-stop

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Reasonable Doubt

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:21PM
from the chicagoreader.com dept.

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/reasonable-doubt-james-allen-murder-credibility/

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The Origins of the Wirecard Scandal

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:37AM
from the newrepublic.com dept.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162084/weird-extremely-german-origins-wirecard-scandal

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Goodbye Gutwhale (2020)

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:52PM
from the stuffedwomb.at dept.

http://stuffedwomb.at/goodbye_gutwhale

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Not Just Nuclear: Families are elders long buried and generations yet unborn

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:16PM
from the plough.com dept.

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/immigration/not-just-nuclear

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Specially made gloves let Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos Martins play again

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Monday September 28, 2020 @07:11PM
from the chicagotribune.com dept.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/consumer-reviews/sns-magic-gloves-helped-brazilian-pianist-joao-carlos-martins-play-20200123-3jydwt47rjgd7bddvz4fc252a4-story.html

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Poems of my Father #3 – The First Snowfall

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:51PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@russroberts/poems-of-my-father-3-797a00b44a00

( Read More... | 4 comments | 18 points | on HN )

The battle to save Canada's grain elevators

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:12PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/17/canada-prairie-castles-cathedrals-battle-to-save

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Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years and Counting

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:17PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/arts/latin-dictionary.html

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Faith, Hope and Probability (1991)

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:37PM
from the lrb.co.uk dept.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v13/n10/mary-douglas/faith-hope-and-probability

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A Monk of the Secular Age

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:16PM
from the neh.gov dept.

https://www.neh.gov/article/monk-secular-age

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Hyperinflation and trust in Ancient Rome

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:58AM
from the notesonliberty.com dept.

https://notesonliberty.com/2019/09/16/hyperinflation-and-trust-in-ancient-rome/

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‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Friday August 09, 2019 @01:05PM
from the thedailybeast.com dept.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-saw-a-thing-when-a-small-midwest-town-banded-together-to-kill-the-town-bully

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RaptorJIT + Studio: Analyzing the evolving C heap of a JIT compiler (2017)

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Saturday July 06, 2019 @08:06PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/lukego/blog/issues/20

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Re:An update on last week's customer shutdown incident on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:19AM (#20101689)

Excuse me, but that is not how it's done. Repeat after me:

The paper will be read and attempts to improve will be made.

Dad will be blamed.

Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @03:49PM
from the thegrayzone.com dept.

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/03/us-journalists-fake-news-north-korean-official-purged/

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400-year-old Bible stolen from US is found in Netherlands

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:10AM
from the apnews.com dept.

https://www.apnews.com/fac7326cd5dc4a89bf11599638100da4

( Read More... | 31 comments | 82 points | on HN )

Bees That Live on Human Tears

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:01PM
from the nybooks.com dept.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/04/18/the-bees-that-live-on-human-tears/

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A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Underground

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:25PM
from the longreads.com dept.

https://longreads.com/2019/03/13/a-three-day-expedition-to-walk-across-paris-entirely-underground/

( Read More... | 25 comments | 95 points | on HN )

Egypt discovers 40 mummies in ancient chambers in Minya

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:52AM
from the timesofisrael.com dept.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-discovers-40-mummies-in-ancient-chambers-in-minya/

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A Modernist Pioneer Designed the Perfect Animator's Desk

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:09PM
from the collectorsweekly.com dept.

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/disney-animator-desk/

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Why I Quit Being a Therapist [video]

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:05PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Fi32LbXHA

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Recovering Emotions After 24 Years on Antidepressants

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Sunday October 07, 2018 @04:30AM
from the madinamerica.com dept.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/10/recovering-emotions-24-years-antidepressants/

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Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’

Posted by BobbyVsTheDevil on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:58PM
from the aeon.co dept.

https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-bring-back-the-sabbath-as-a-radical-act-against-total-work

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