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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980) [pdf]
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Dynamic Typing in SQL
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Rockset
Dynamic Typing in SQL
Rockset Chief Architect Tudor Bosman discusses strong dynamic typing in SQL, and how it is implemented in Rockset.
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A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups
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Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups
by F. LeRon Shults, Ross Gore, Wesley J. Wildman, Christopher Lynch, Justin E. Lane and Monica Toft
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Thelio – System76
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System76
Thelio Desktops
Thelio Desktops by System76
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Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
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Bloomberg
Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
Peter Thiel, the Facebook Inc. board member who helped Donald Trump win the White House and became Silicon Valley’s punching bag in the process, said Thursday that Trump has been “relatively successful” and that he’ll support him in 2020.
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Bitcoin’s ‘First Felon’ Faces More Legal Trouble
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NY Times
Bitcoin’s ‘First Felon’ Faces More Legal Trouble (Published 2018)
Charlie Shrem went to prison in 2015 after he pleaded guilty to helping people buy drugs online. Now he’s being sued by the Winklevoss twins.
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How ‘Gardening While Black’ Almost Landed This Detroit Man in Jail
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Nytimes
How ‘Gardening While Black’ Almost Landed This Detroit Man in Jail
A black man started an urban farm in his old neighborhood. Three white women called the police repeatedly, accusing him of threatening them. The case went to court.
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Diving Deeper into Consensus
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A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
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Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable
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City Observatory
City Observatory - Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable
The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018)
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Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB
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What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?
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IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News
What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?
Follow the saga of the Computer History Museum's IBM 1401
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Travel and the algorithmic trap
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David Perell
The Algorithmic Trap — David Perell
I’m in San Sebastián, Spain, but I could really be anywhere. I’ve flown halfway across the world, but from inside this coffee shop, I can’t tell what country I’m in. They say that travel allows you to see different ways of living, but that’s definitely…
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Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers
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MIT News
Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers
MIT researchers have developed an autonomous system for drones to collaboratively search under dense forest canopies for lost hiker search-and-rescue missions. The system uses only onboard computation and wireless communication, without GPS.
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Writing in the Morning
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gwern.net
What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
<p>Many writers anecdotally report they write best first thing early in the morning, apparently even if they are not morning people. Do they, and why?</p>
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Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
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the Guardian
Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
The world has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a ‘silent killer’ as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief
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Soviet Children’s Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda
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Atlas Obscura
The Soviet Children’s Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda
How folk tales and traditional life snuck into avant-garde kids' books in the 1930s.
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Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to programme self-driving cars
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BBC News
Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars
The data that powers the most cutting edge technology in Silicon Valley begins in Nairobi's slum.
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Ace – an embeddable code editor
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Why I'm Ditching Android
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Kev Quirk
Why I'm Ditching Android - Kev Quirk
Regular readers of this blog will know that I went through a process of de-Googling my life a while ago. For the most part I think the process was pretty ... More -->
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