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PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
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Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default | peps.python.org
This PEP proposes enabling UTF-8 mode by default.
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Balaji Srinivasan calls for tech to "exit democracy" and seize local governments
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Newrepublic
The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues”
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling…
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The construction of the mafioso social capital and the Sack of Palermo (2023)
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Wiley Online Library
Progress, employment and profit: The construction of the mafioso social capital and the Sack of Palermo
The Sack of Palermo that took place from the 1950s to the 1980s dramatically changed the Sicilian capital's economic and social landscape. Vast tracts of what was agricultural land, including the Con...
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GM collects driver behavior data then sells access to insurance companies
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Techdirt
People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them
Last month the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill published a major story on how GM collects driver behavior data then sells access (through LexisNexis) to insurance companies, which will then jack…
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Three women contract HIV from dirty "vampire facials" at unlicensed spa
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Ars Technica
Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa
Five patients with links to the spa had viral genetic sequences that closely matched.
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Tesla's Autopilot, Full Self-Driving linked to 100s of crashes, deaths
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The Verge
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths
When it was time to react, often it was too late.
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Stripe de-couples payments from the rest of its stack
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TechCrunch
Stripe, doubling down on embedded finance, de-couples payments from the rest of its stack
Stripe continues to hold the noscript of being the biggest financial technology business still in private hands, with a current valuation of about $65
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Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community
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I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (2014)
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Nautilus
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.
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Apple's Regular Mac Base RAM Boosts Ended When Tim Cook Took Over
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MacRumors
Apple's Regular Mac Base RAM Boosts Ended When Tim Cook Took Over
Apple used to regularly increase the base memory of its Macs up until 2011, the same year Tim Cook was appointed CEO, charts posted on Mastodon by...
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Removing Reflections from Raw Photos
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arXiv.org
Removing Reflections from RAW Photos
We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking...
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Google lays off its Python team
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social.coop
Thomas Wouters (@Yhg1s@social.coop)
It's a tough day when everyone you work with directly, including your manager, is laid off -- excuse me, "had their roles reduced", and you're asked to onboard their replacements, people told to take those very same roles just in a different country who are…
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Hotel WiFi JavaScript Injection (2012)
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justinsomnia.org
Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection - Justinsomnia
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DayLight Computer
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In-Silo
DayLight Computer
A project by Başak Tuna
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European privacy regulator will stop using its own social media platforms
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Big Tech and Silicon Valley are transforming the military-industrial complex
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The Costs of War
How Big Tech and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex | Costs of War
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan…
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3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind
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Bun's New Crash Reporter
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Bun
bun.report is Bun's new crash reporter
How we built an anonymous Zig/C++ crash reporter that doesn't require debug symbols to be shipped with the application.
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The brutal business practices of Amazon
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Vanity Fair
Inside the Brutal Business Practices of Amazon—And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch”
In an interview with Vanity Fair, reporter Dana Mattioli reveals how the company systematically stifles criticism, squeezes out competitors, and even pits its own employees against one another. “People tend not to last,” she says, “because it’s very aggressive…
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Show HN: I put PubMed in a vector DB
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Pubmedisearch
Great PubMed Search
Find scientific articles from Pubmed with ease.
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Tesla's 2M car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny
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Ars Technica
Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny
NHTSA has tested the updated system and still has questions.
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