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chris_gerrib) wrote2013-06-04 09:27 am
chris_gerrib) wrote2013-06-04 09:27 am
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Yet Another Housing Update and Links
We (my realtor and I) placed an offer on the Willowbrook townhouse last night. I eagerly await the seller's response. If it goes through, I'll still have a two-week period of homelessness, which I'll probably solve by getting an extended-stay hotel room.
Moving on from "all homes all the time" here, have some links.
A) I've been following Jim Fallow's writings on a peculiar set of American police-state actions. Basically, pilots of private planes find themselves detained at gunpoint for several hours by heavily-armed police for no apparent reason. Today's article brings interesting theories as to why.
B) Via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jaylake, an interesting article comparing China's cyberwar on the US to Elizabethan England's pirate wars against Spain.
C) The title oversells the article a bit by claiming This experiment proved that anyone could design a nuclear weapon . Still, it apparently isn't as hard as you'd think.
D) From Tobias Buckell, an interesting article on survivorship bias. Basically, to get a full understanding of success, one needs to focus not just on those who succeed, but those who fail.
Moving on from "all homes all the time" here, have some links.
A) I've been following Jim Fallow's writings on a peculiar set of American police-state actions. Basically, pilots of private planes find themselves detained at gunpoint for several hours by heavily-armed police for no apparent reason. Today's article brings interesting theories as to why.
B) Via
jaylake, an interesting article comparing China's cyberwar on the US to Elizabethan England's pirate wars against Spain.C) The title oversells the article a bit by claiming This experiment proved that anyone could design a nuclear weapon . Still, it apparently isn't as hard as you'd think.
D) From Tobias Buckell, an interesting article on survivorship bias. Basically, to get a full understanding of success, one needs to focus not just on those who succeed, but those who fail.