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An Amazon engineer gave random people on Twitch $50K to invest — and this is what happened

A long-standing rule for preserving one’s sanity on the internet is to never, ever read the comments section.

Amazon engineer Mike Roberts had a different idea: What if he let the comments section pick his investment portfolio?

After six months of tinkering, he has now released his invention: Stock Stream, which Roberts is billing as “the world’s first multiplayer stock market game that uses real money.”

As of last week, anyone with an account on the game-streaming site Twitch could log-in and help allocate $50,000 of Roberts’ money by typing stock symbols into the Stock Stream’s comment section.

Roberts says he got the idea from watching Twitch users collaborate on games like Pokemon.

As more and more Twitch-ers started using the platform to crowdsource ideas, Roberts got the idea to see how that crowdsourcing might be used for more practical activities, like choosing what stocks to invest in. Read more (6/5/17)

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New blog post and recipes! Learn how to make syrup and jelly with wild violets, my tricks for keeping the colour as purple as possible, and ideas for how to use both to impress your friends and family.

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Black Cauldron is a cursed love story that follows a Raven who had his mind eaten by a Fox, his body taken by a Swan and his heart given to a Rose.

I took some time so I can work on original ideas and decided to flesh this one out since people seem to enjoy Ren. I like him as well and gave him a cast of witches to follow.  If you’re curious, character information is below, thanks for reading~!

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Pilot, the real-time universal translator, is straight out of a sci-fi novel

The ability to understand someone speaking a foreign language could soon be as easy as wearing a new earpiece.

Waverly Labs is behind an earpiece called the Pilot that is eerily similar in scope to Star Trek’s Universal Translator  that allows individuals to translate languages in real-time.

The smart earpiece works by canceling out ambient noise to concentrate on what is being said by a speaker

And then funnels that data to a complementary app that screens it for translation and speech synthesis, according to its website.

Pilot isn’t the first — and likely won’t be the last — piece of tech made for the translation marketplace.

However, where this device really shines is with its instantaneous translation possibilities that remove the sometimes awkward waiting game. Read more

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Anatomy of muscle fiber

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no no its not mood swings its emotional parkour

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“Santa Clause Want Some Loving” - George Clooney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_raJkhZujs

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The Most Creative Bookshelves Ever

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I can’t believe this isn’t real.

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Like...do you even feel the word feelings is a word

Jew Gold topped with kief, SFV OG live resin and Afgoo shatter 🙌

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some stoner: do u wanna get high me, an intellectual: yes

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Júzcar: a beautiful blue town in the middle of the mountains | Spain (by Nacho Coca)

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