What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.
This is way too much my life.
"There are car thieves, package thieves and air conditioning thieves," reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "But St. Louis larceny reached a new milestone Saturday when burglars drove off with a whole house."
States, municipalities and the federal government have spent billions to draw jobs and prosperity to stagnant rural areas. But they haven't yet figured out how to hitch this vast swath of the country to the tech-heavy economy that is flourishing in America's cities.
"I don't think most Americans realize how insecure U.S. telephone networks are," Wyden said in a statement. "If more consumers knew how easy it is for bad guys to track or hack their mobile phones, they would demand the FCC and wireless companies do something about it. These aren't just hypotheticals."
I'm glad we have at least one tech-savvy Senator.
Be a philanthropist with your knowledge, a freight train with your work, and indifferent about your reputation.
— Jonathan Zdziarski, "Living with Depression in Tech"
We do precision guess work based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
Scientists redefined the kilogram for the 21st century by tying it to a fundamental feature of the universe — a small, strange figure from quantum physics known as Planck's constant, which describes the smallest possible unit of energy.
In early 2017, when she was an unknown law student, Ms. Khan published "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" in the Yale Law Journal. Her argument went against a consensus in antitrust circles that dates back to the 1970s — the moment when regulation was redefined to focus on consumer welfare, which is to say price. Since Amazon is renowned for its cut-rate deals, it would seem safe from federal intervention.
Ms. Khan disagreed. Over 93 heavily footnoted pages, she presented the case that the company should not get a pass on anticompetitive behavior just because it makes customers happy.
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The paper got 146,255 hits, a runaway best-seller in the world of legal treatises. That popularity has rocked the antitrust establishment, and is making an unlikely celebrity of Ms. Khan in the corridors of Washington.