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Amazon to Expand Private-Label Offerings—From Food to Diapers - The Wall Street Journal

An “effective infinity” is a quantity so large we cannot help but treat it as infinite, only it isn’t. The number of grains of sand on all the beaches in the world is effectively infinite, since you could never conceive of a device or process that could manipulate or even consider them all, yet there can only be so many of them on a finite planet.…

Live video from LZ-1 - X.com

Objects from space always seem accidental in their arrival and much the worse for wear. Meteorites shrivel to pebbles, if they make it to the surface at all. Satellites meet a fiery end high in the atmosphere. Astronauts huddle in capsules, dangle from parachutes, plunge ignominiously into the ocean, and bob around awaiting rescue. The space shuttle used to land like a plane, but with a few obvious missing parts.…

Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization - MIT Technology Review

In my consulting days, I espoused an unpopular theory, that 40-60% of the workforce of every Fortune 500 company could be replaced with a well-programmed computer. I was often met with incredulity and admonished that even if such a future were inevitable, it was surely not a topic for polite conversation.…