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The Whimsical Investor

fi-le.net

March 28, 2025 Not investment advice, I may have investments in any and all companies discussed,...
March 28, 2025 Not investment advice, I may have investments in any and all companies discussed, image copyright belongs to respective owners, all numbers are wildly inaccurate. Not many companies around today are both small and publicly traded, as the proportion of private enterprises continues to rise. Not many, i...

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The Entire Universe Could Exist Inside a Black Hole – Here's Why

sciencealert.com

When you peer out into the depths of the cosmos, a mystery lies there, waiting.In a...
When you peer out into the depths of the cosmos, a mystery lies there, waiting.In a survey of the deep sky, most of the galaxies are seen rotating in the same direction. This is a problem. Under current models of the way the Universe behaves, galaxies should be a hodge-podge rotating whichever dang way they please, ...
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Engineers Who Won't Commit

seangoedecke.com
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The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal Flubs

wsj.com
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She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said

cbc.ca

Anvi Ahuja noticed a "freaky" new text message from a number she didn't know right after...
Anvi Ahuja noticed a "freaky" new text message from a number she didn't know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. The text was a transcript of the conversation she'd just had with her roommates during their eight-minute Lyft ride home from a friend's place."I was like 'who is tappin...
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A multilayered approach: what's next for carton packaging?

ft.com
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Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr)

openmymind.net
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Dismay as cross-border library in US-Canada feud: 'We just want to stay open'

theguardian.com

There is only one building in North America, probably in the world, where one can browse...
There is only one building in North America, probably in the world, where one can browse bestsellers and children’s books by crossing an international border and then sit for an amateur theatre troupe in a regal opera house with each half of your body in two different countries.Standing near the Tomifobia River, a r...
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Bicycle riders' knowledge and experience of structural weakness in bicycles

bmj.com
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Why Microgravity Helps Crystals Grow Better

sparkgravity.com

Sebastian Gutierrez Published: Apr 12, 2025 Protein crystals are used in everything from pharmaceuticals to food...
Sebastian Gutierrez Published: Apr 12, 2025 Protein crystals are used in everything from pharmaceuticals to food chemistry to structural biology. But growing high-quality crystals on Earth is hard. Gravity introduces: Sedimentation Convection currents Impurities moving toward the growing surface In microgravity? Tho...
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Kezurou-Kai #39

bigsandwoodworking.com

Last weekend I went to the 39th annual Kezurou-kai event in Itoigawa, Niigata. It was my...
Last weekend I went to the 39th annual Kezurou-kai event in Itoigawa, Niigata. It was my first time going to the event here in Japan, and it was such a blast. For those who are unfamiliar with kezurou-kai, it’s an event where people compete to take the thinnest shavings of wood using Japanese planes. But more than t...
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Tariffs, Saving, and Investment

grumpy-economist.com

I haven’t written much about tariffs, because so many other economists are doing such a great...
I haven’t written much about tariffs, because so many other economists are doing such a great job. Tariffs are easy: The right answer is unilateral free trade. Tariffs are hard: The rest is explaining why 100 objections are wrong. I’ll get there. One aspect is less clear than the others: the whole business about sav...
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Comparing economic inequality between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty

phys.org
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Organised gangs behind rise in QR 'quishing' scams

bbc.com

Joanna MorrisBBC Shared Data UnitBBCCouncils across the country have issued warnings about fake QR codes in...
Joanna MorrisBBC Shared Data UnitBBCCouncils across the country have issued warnings about fake QR codes in car parksOrganised crime gangs are behind a sharp rise in scams linked to fraudulent QR codes, experts say.The national fraud reporting centre Action Fraud received 1,386 reports of people being targeted last ...
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Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less

muppetlabs.com
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Emily Dickinson's Playful Letterlocking

mit.edu

Emily Dickinson used envelopes and seals to turn letters into poetry, layering hidden messages and playful...
Emily Dickinson used envelopes and seals to turn letters into poetry, layering hidden messages and playful forms.Detail of adhesive sticker bearing the motto “I watch and I hope” on a letter from Emily Dickinson to her brother Austin, sent in 1847.Among the extraordinary literary output of Emily Dickinson are her “e...

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Wiz's $32B GTM Playbook: Unpacking the Formula (Part I)

cybersecuritypulse.net

Welcome to The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)! I'm Darwin Salazar, Head of Growth and Marketing at Monad...
Welcome to The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)! I'm Darwin Salazar, Head of Growth and Marketing at Monad and former Detection Engineer in big tech. Each week, I dig through all the major headlines to bring you the latest security product innovation and industry news. Subscribe below for weekly updates! 📧Google just acqui...
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Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science (2023)

introtcs.org

Boaz Barak Work in progress This is a textbook in preparation for an introductory undergraduate course...
Boaz Barak Work in progress This is a textbook in preparation for an introductory undergraduate course on theoretical computer science. I am using this text for Harvard CS 121. It is also used for UVa CS 3102 and UCLA CS181. See below for individual chapters. You can also download the book in a single PDF file (abou...
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Mario Vargas Llosa has died

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.Mario Vargas Llosa in 2003.Credit...François Goudier/...

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Dementia Is Much More Common Among the Married Than the Unmarried

psychologytoday.com

Are married people healthier and are they healthier because they are married? Those claims have been...
Are married people healthier and are they healthier because they are married? Those claims have been made so often that many people accept them as uncontested truths. But recent studies, often more sophisticated methodologically than the ones from the past, are challenging that belief. Just published this year (2025...
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New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents

pillar.security

Pillar Security researchers have uncovered a dangerous new supply chain attack vector we've named "Rules File...
Pillar Security researchers have uncovered a dangerous new supply chain attack vector we've named "Rules File Backdoor." This technique enables hackers to silently compromise AI-generated code by injecting hidden malicious instructions into seemingly innocent configuration files used by Cursor and GitHub Copilot—the...
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Small Towns in Japan

japanstartshere.com

It is in the small towns in Japan, they say—well, I say—where the real Japan resides....
It is in the small towns in Japan, they say—well, I say—where the real Japan resides. But in a country with literally hundreds of them—small towns, this is—where do you even begin? The good news is that many of these places aren’t out in the Japan countryside, but are accessible from larger towns and cities, even on...

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PHP Core Security Audit Results

thephp.foundation

Published on Apr 10, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy The PHP Foundation is pleased to announce the...
Published on Apr 10, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy The PHP Foundation is pleased to announce the completion of a comprehensive security audit of the PHP source code (php/php-src), commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency. This initiative was organized in partnership with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF)...
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Show HN: Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan

christopherdrum.github.io
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