a tiny bank called Raiffeisen Gmund am Tegernsee is passing through the #ECB’s negative interest rate of 0.4% to retail individual depositors with balances over €100k, rather than just businesses. #euro #banking #economics #demurrag
book review of a book marketing string theory. Contains memorable quote, “Marketing, advertising, and product promotion are commercial tactics with the very purpose of affecting their targets’ objectivity. These tactics shouldn’t have any place in science.” #physics
why #tags work better
according to #USA federal prosecutors, retweets are endorsement of #terrorism. #free-speech #human-rights
#Argentina Police are raiding public buses in Florencio Varela and Quilmes, forcing all of the passengers to show them their papers and belongings. #human-rights
Explanation of the #Microsoft Windows RT signed policy #security vulnerability that allows jailbreaking those devices to run #free-software
The Omega2 SBC #hardware got #crowdfunding for US$300k, 20× its US$15k goal. Supposedly US$5 in November. Wi-Fi, what looks like a custom BusyBox-based Linux distro. Configured with #nodejs, it seems. 580MHz (ARM?) CPU, 64MB RAM, 16MB flash, USB2, 15 GPIO.
Former #Trump supporters discussion
“A Model for the Application of Target-Controlled Intravenous Infusion for a Prolonged Immersive #DMT #Psychedelic Experience.” … "based on the pharmacokinetic models of these drugs that allow you to simulate the level of drug in the brain… you can actually program an infusion machine, to control the infusion rate of the drug such that the level of the drug remains a constant level within some particular window with some degree of accuracy.” #drugs #toread
brief human #history of the #Gopher protocol
“A Single-Scale Nomogram”, from Richard K. Guy, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 37, No. 319 (Feb. 1953), p. 39, DOI: 10.2307/3609499. Using an #elliptic-curve and a straightedge to multiply, divide, and extract square roots. #Analog computation. The explanation of why it works uses elementary algebra. #nomography #math
Using an #elliptic-curve and a straightedge to multiply, divide, and extract square roots. #Analog computation.
The limnic eruption (or “lake overturn”) of Lake Nyos in #Cameroon that killed 1700 people in 1986; it’s ready to erupt again, despite the degassing pipe that’s been installed; Lake Kivu, which is a thousand times larger, could also do this. #geography #history
They’re mining #methane from Lake Kivu between #Rwanda and #Congo for #energy and to prevent a disastrous lake overturn with a potential death toll in the millions. Mazuku depressions are all around; historical limnic eruptions happen there about once a millennium. #geography
#archaeology of the 312-grave cemetery in Varna, #Bulgaria, shows that at least that #Copper-Age people had strong social stratification and patriarchy 6500 years ago, from 4600 BCE to 4200 BCE, followed by a bloodless civilizational collapse around 4000 BCE, perhaps due to #climate-change.
Facebook executive Ken Walton’s account of being arrested at gun point by Arizona #police officer Oton Villegas
another review of #Appelbaum allegations, providing context for the #rape of River: “Die Zeit was able to speak with three of the five guests who were present.” Says they claim she was never unconscious and her consent was respected. (Not Der Spiegel.)
#screencasting #video of writing a version of Pong in #JS with <canvas> in 5’30" #video-games
#etymology of the informal #AAVE use of “cock” to mean “vagina”
Nicky Case made a web site about #explorable-explanations, with an overview of not only their work but also all the other work in the space. #UX
a website where people write tutorials on computer-generated art; also hosts textures, 3D models, forums, etc.
Godot is a 2D/3D open-source #video-games engine from #Argentina company Okam Studio; five OSes plus HTML5, built-in IDE for its homespun scripting language
NUKE is apparently some kind of postproduction visual effects video software extensively scriptable in Python
#QEMU supports #emulation in user space so you can run an ARM Linux executable on an i386 Linux machine or vice versa. In fact you can even run an i386 Win32 executable under i386 WINE on an ARM Linux machine.
Capstone, an embeddable #disassembler in C for ten CPU architectures with fifteen language bindings.
The Witchcraft Compiler Collection can, among other things, convert executables to shared libraries and generate C headers from binaries.
Discussion of #explorable-explanations.
John Baez did some beautiful #visualization of roots of integer-coefficient polynomials. #math
discussion thread on how to run your own #email server nowadays without being classified as #spam.