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Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs
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The World Through the Eyes of the US
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The Pudding
The World through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.
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Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)
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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”
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Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
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The Japan Times
Number of babies born in Japan in 2018 lowest since records began; population decline the highest
The figures reveal the difficulty of the government’s goal of raising the total fertility rate amid the population decline.
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E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco, estimates landmark review
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GOV.UK
E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco estimates landmark review
Expert independent review concludes that e-cigarettes have potential to help smokers quit.
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Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
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Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
Why did you sting me? You'll drown too
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Best talks 2018?
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Amazon Echo stores your voice recordings – sent other user’s records via GDPR
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Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files
Due to an internal error, Amazon recently sent 1,700 Alexa voice files to an unauthorized customer. German computer magazine c't details what happened.
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Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
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Nielsen Norman Group
Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
In a study of people interacting with systems using machine-learning algorithms for recommendations and personalization, users had weak mental models and difficulties making the UI do what they want.
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Java 12 – Features Frozen, String Literals Delayed
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InfoQ
Raw String Literals Removed from Java 12 as Feature Set Frozen
The next version of Java SE, JDK 12, has reached the first ramp-down point where the feature set if frozen. Amongst other things JDK 12 provides a preview of an enhanced Switch statement, adds a number of improvements to the G1 garbage collector, and introduces…
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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave
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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave
The Empire never ended.
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Fortnite teen hackers 'earning thousands of pounds a week'
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BBC News
Fortnite teen hackers 'earning thousands of pounds a week'
Thieves sell hijacked accounts with in-demand skins online after locking out original owners.
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On Disbelieving Atrocities (1944)
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On Disbelieving Atrocities Arthur Koestler (Jan. 1944) There is a dream wh - Pastebin.com
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How to Version Control Jupyter Notebooks
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How to Version Control Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter notebooks generate files that may contain metadata, source code, formatted text, and rich media. Unfortunately, this makes these files poor candidates for conventional version control solutions, which works best with plain text.
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People Fall Off Cruise Ships with Alarming Regularity
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Quartz
People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity. What can be done to stop it?
The thought of falling off a cruise ship is horrifying—but are these incidents inevitable? Or preventable?
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Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
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WSJ
Big Tongues and Extra Vertebrae: The Unintended Consequences of Animal Gene Editing
Scientists around the world are editing the genes of livestock to create meatier pigs, cashmere goats with longer hair and cold-weather cows that can thrive in the tropics. But amid some successes, disturbing outcomes are surfacing.
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When Power Goes to Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart (2013)
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NPR
When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart
If your boss is a jerk, there might be a scientific reason for it. A new study suggests feeling powerful dampens the part of the brain that helps us connect with others.
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What Is Glitter?
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NY Times
What Is Glitter? (Published 2018)
A strange journey to the glitter factory.
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How Flutter uses Widgets, Elements, RenderObjects to create eye-candy at 120fps
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Medium
The Layer Cake
How Flutter uses Widgets, Elements and RenderObjects to create delicious eye-candy at 120fps.
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Exclave: Hardware Testing in Mass Production, Made Easier
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Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory
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NY Times
Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory (Published 2018)
The engineers at Epic Systems work on a campus full of childish whimsy but also sit in on open-heart surgery. Is this the indulgence of an oddball founder, or a better way to run an I.T. company?
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