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Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing
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Psyche
Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid
Struggling to understand is perfectly honourable. Being wilfully stupid is something else and we should strive to fix it
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NASA solved a $100M vibration problem cheaply by strobing the display
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Gizmodo
How NASA Solved a $100 Million Problem for Five Bucks
A few years ago, back when the Constellation Program was still alive, NASA engineers discovered that the Ares I rocket had a crucial flaw, one that could have jeopardized the entire project. They panicked. They plotted. They steeled themselves for the hundreds…
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Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads
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AP News
Facebook shuts out NYU academics' research on political ads
Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.
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2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
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Smithsonian Magazine
2,400-Year-Old Baskets Still Filled With Fruit Found in Submerged Egyptian City
Wicker vessels recovered from the ruins of Thônis-Heracleion contain doum nuts and grape seeds
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Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
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The Conversation
How summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
Scientists tend to study heatwaves and floods as discrete events – but this overlooks the crucial connections between them.
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What Irony Is Not (2020)
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The MIT Press Reader
What Irony Is Not
A handy guide to distinguishing the notoriously slippery concept from its distant cousins coincidence, satire, parody, and paradox.
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Wealth Shown to Scale
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IPCC: Sixth Assessment Report
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Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
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Bbc
Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades.
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WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan
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The Verge
WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan
The EFF, Snowden, and more have shared criticisms.
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Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
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NBC News
Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
Workers at one of the world’s largest call center companies said additional monitoring would violate the privacy of their families in their homes.
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BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video]
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BBC Sport
The secrets of BBC Sport's Tokyo studio
Dan Walker and Sam Quek give you a behind the scenes look at the BBC's innovative TV studio for the Tokyo Olympics.
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Supercritical CO2 Tech Team
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Energy.gov
Supercritical CO2 Tech Team
Supercritical CO2 is a highly technical team focused on different heat source applications of the sCO2 Brayton Cycle.
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Droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents
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Facebook
Introducing droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents
We are open-sourcing droidlet, a “one-stop shop” platform for AI robotics research. Droidlet makes it easy to mix and match different computer vision and language models to build versatile, intelligent agents that can operate in simulation or in the real…
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Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
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GitHub
Why is the US Green Party's site blocked? · Issue #453 · blocklistproject/Lists
www.gp.org is blocked in phishing.txt. I've bissected the repository for it, and there is no explanation, it's been introduced in 0f11189 when the list was created, with thousands o...
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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about gover
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
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Chatcontrol 2.0: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence in the EU
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Ask HN: How many of you are quitting over return to office?
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The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written – Lisp Interpreter Written in Lisp
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www.lvguowei.me
The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written
A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp
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What is sustainable web design?
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Sustainable Web Design
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Sustainable web design is an approach to designing digital products and services that puts people and planet first.
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