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UK firms 'near point of no return'
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BBC News
UK firms 'near point of no return'
Businesses are pausing or cancelling investment in the UK due to frustrations over Brexit.
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The City That Had Too Much Money
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Bloomberg.com
The City That Had Too Much Money
Vancouver is now the world’s lab for controlling foreign wealth.
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Pharo: The immersive programming experience
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Blockchain Is a Semantic Wasteland
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Medium
Blockchain Is a Semantic Wasteland
Why haven’t we abandoned it?
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America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants
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Bloomberg.com
America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants
Dairy farmers are under siege thanks to a strong dollar, low prices and changing consumer tastes.
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Who Are My Investors?
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Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers
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Scientific American Blog Network
Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers
Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting the tech-industry's enabling of U.S. militarism
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Facts and charts that show the world is getting better
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Vox
23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better
These are bleak times — but a lot of things are improving.
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New Cottonseed Is Safe for People to Eat
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Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl
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Sigmund Jähn, the first German to travel into space
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ZEIT ONLINE
Why isn't This Man a Hero?
Forty years ago, Sigmund Jähn became the first German to travel into space. But he did so on behalf of East Germany. Is that why he isn't honored in today's Germany?
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A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled
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The Wall Street Journal
A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled
Ex-energy trader John Arnold has put millions behind efforts to curb prices. Drugmakers say his view is flawed and oversimplified, and will restrict patients’ access to important medicines.
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Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?
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Hello P5.js Web Editor
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Medium
Hello p5.js Web Editor!
Today we are excited to announce the official release of editor.p5js.org! The p5.js Web Editor is an online platform for learning to code…
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The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations
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Marginal REVOLUTION
The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yesterday I had lunch with a former Ph.D student of mine, who is now highly successful and tenured at a very good school. I was reminded that, over twenty years ago, I was Graduate Director of Admissions. One of my favorite strategies was to take strong…
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An update on GNU performance
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Arm
GNU improvements in auto-vectorization and math routines
The in-development GCC 9 and glibc 2.29 are packed with performance improvements for Arm-based systems. Learn about auto-vectorization enhancements that allow the compiler to make the most of Advanced SIMD instruction set capabilities and math library improvements…
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Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
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the Guardian
Facebook fake review factories uncovered by Which? investigation
Firms paying refunds to buyers who write five-star reviews on Amazon, consumer group says
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Stop building websites with infinite scroll
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LogRocket Blog
Stop building websites with infinite scroll! - LogRocket Blog
Infinite scroll may be disorienting, difficult to control, and stressful for some users, so you may want to consider these alternative options.
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Zero-day in popular jQuery plugin actively exploited for at least three years
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ZDNET
Zero-day in popular jQuery plugin actively exploited for at least three years
A fix is out but the plugin is used in hundreds, if not thousands, of projects. Patching will take ages!
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No More Entrepreneurial “Struggle Porn”
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Medium
No More “Struggle Porn”
I don’t like @GaryVee.
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Basic Web Scraping with Emacs
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Something Something Programming
Basic Web Scraping with Emacs
Web scraping is the extraction of data from web pages. But most web pages aren’t designed to accomodate automated data extraction; instead, they’re designed to be easily read by humans, with colors and fonts and pictures and all sorts of junk. This makes…
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