Human folly for 02016-01-04

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• 2016 01 breakthrough ceramics 3D Technology (phys.org):

  stereolithography #3D printing of silicon oxycarbide, “Z. C. Eckel et al. Additive manufacturing of polymer-derived #ceramics, Science (2015). DOI: 10.1126/science.aad2688”

• Data sharing (medium.com):

  “The Weird Visa”, a short story about #privacy in the near future

• First known hacker caused power outage signals troubling escalation (arstechnica.com):

  “Highly destructive malware [known as BlackEnergy] that infected at least three regional power authorities in #Ukraine led to a power failure that left hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity last week” #security

• Lookupname (onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu):

  Sidney Luxton’s classic math and physics #ebooks.

• US border patrol drones hacked by drug cartels (hackread.com):

  UAVs run by US CBP are vulnerable to GPS spoofing, so Mexican drug traffickers are able to divert them, allowing them to cross the border safely. #security

• (nanex.net):

  Nanex showing how #HFT induces market slippage.

• Down to earth SpaceX and the return of limitless ambition (medium.com):

  #SpaceX and the successful Falcon 9 launch and re-landing. “I guess it was similar to how people feel when their team scores the winning touchdown in the Superbowl, except this touchdown really mattered.”

• Technology and wealth inequality (blog.samaltman.com):

  Sam Altman on wealth #inequality.

• Pmc2746062 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov):

  “personality subtypes of suicidal adults” #psychology #suicide