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wil_wheat_onon Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page

the other two winners, male, had pages https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/1047098079097380864, there's a broader argument about bias here

wil_wheat_onon Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2018/08/30/bezos-un... everything he's going after is going to cost jobs or create many low wage jobs

wil_wheat_onon A Programmer Ate Ass to Save Cryptocurrency

I am thoroughly perplexed

wil_wheat_onon Uber said to be negotiating sale of self-driving tech to Toyota

Does this mean that ultimately this will be won by manufacturers? Volvo has a program where you can only lease certain vehicles; Tesla is thinking about on-demand rentals for vehicles, so in the longer run, the manufacturers may outmaneuver Uber? Just a thought

wil_wheat_onon Bubble, Bubble, Fraud and Trouble

I suspect Bitcoin will leave many unhappy "investors"

wil_wheat_onon $10m for ni.ke domain

It may be Nike Corporate trying to get a lock on the domain. If it isn't, the new owner must have quite the legal budget.