As Cognition Slips, Financial Skills Are Often the First to Go
Studies show that the ability to perform math problems, as well as handling money matters, are typically one of the first skills to decline in diseases like Alzheimer’s.
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“A person can appear to have their wherewithal cognitively, but not have the ability to understand money in the same way anymore,” said Ms. Clark, a retired registered nurse and family therapist in Cottonwood, Calif."
Posted on 2015-04-28T20:36:40+0000
How Do We Build a Safer Car?
And why automobile engineers know that’s the wrong question.
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The Engineer's Lament. A great read on data, cars, and how engineers think.
Posted on 2015-04-28T07:02:11+0000
Take Nothing, Leave Nothing
Seventeen hundred miles from what is customarily called civilization—in this case, the western shore of the Republic of South Africa—lies a tiny British-run volcanic island populated by fewer than thr
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Posted on 2015-04-28T04:03:02+0000
incompleteness.me
incompleteness.me
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A story of someone doing great work despite hurdles
Posted on 2015-04-28T01:51:35+0000
This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
As the Supreme Court considers extending same-sex marriage rights to all Americans, we look at the patterns of social change that have tranformed the nation.
Volatile and Decentralized: Rewriting a large production system in Go
Matt, have you tried the margo and gocode systems? I use GoSublime with Sublime Text, but am otherwise a Vim snob, and if I hadn't gotten used to using Sublime Text for Go, I believe from what I've read that I'd be using these. The plugins turn Sublime Text into something very close to an IDE, and I…
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Posted on 2015-04-26T18:54:16+0000
Docker Without Docker
Some common questions What is Docker? Do I really need it? How does Docker actually work? How can I set up a single dev environment to work on any computer? My code works on my computer. Now how do I put it on a production server? Can't I just write code and have it "just work" everywhere? Package m…
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Posted on 2015-04-26T18:46:43+0000
A Bot Made Millions on Wall Street by Reading the Web. It Also Ate This Guy’s Lunch.
On the afternoon of Friday, March 27, as several news outlets reported at the time, somebody apparently made $2.4 million from a tweet. That tweet was a bit of breaking news from Wall Street Journal writer Dana Mattioli: Quicker than any human seemingly could have done it, someone—or rather somethin…
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Posted on 2015-04-26T04:50:32+0000
Why Are Americans Leaving?
A Tale of Globalization, Taxes, and a Multi-Ethnic Nation
tiffzhang.com
tiffzhang.com
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Random startup generator. New page every time you refresh. Pretty accurate and hilarious
Posted on 2015-04-25T09:03:00+0000