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Amazon hired private detectives to spy on injured worker
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www.wsws.org
Amazon hired private detectives to spy on injured worker
Having denied surgery for Michelle Quinones’s wrist injury, Amazon’s workers compensation administrator Sedgwick hired private investigators to spy on and harass Michelle.
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Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
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The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town
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Spectator USA
The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town | Spectator USA
How we unpicked a Der Spiegel reporter’s demonstrably false story about Fergus Falls, Minn. It’s staggering just how much he made up
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California lets self-driving startup Zoox offer autonomous rides
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What did Jesus really look like?
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BBC News
What did Jesus really look like?
Long hair and a beard, sandals and a robe. Everyone knows what Jesus looked like. Or do they?
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Risk-First Software Development
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risk-first/website
Risk-First Software Development. Contribute to risk-first/website development by creating an account on GitHub.
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President Trump has signed a $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech
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MIT Technology Review
President Trump has signed a $1.2 billion law to boost US quantum tech
The new National Quantum Initiative Act will give America a national master plan for advancing quantum technologies. The news: The US president just signed into law a bill that commits the government to providing $1.2 billion to fund activities promoting…
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TensorFlow Lite is for mobile and embedded devices
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My Stepdad's Huge Dataset
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Logic Magazine
My Stepdad’s Huge Data Set
What happens when data and porn collide?
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Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content
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ArtStation Magazine
What happened to the ArtStation Android App?
We have been getting many questions from users asking what happened to the ArtStation Android App, as it seems to have disappeared from the Google Play Store. In the interest of transparency and keeping our users informed, we wanted to let you know what is…
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The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained
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Robert Heaton
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained very clearly | Robert Heaton
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm teaches your computer how to riff. The algorithm takes in an archetypical input, and produces procedurally-generated outputs that look like it.
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American Universities’ China Problem
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Quillette
American Universities' China Problem - Quillette
According to a report released last month by a group of distinguished China scholars, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses vague threats to induce US professors and students to avoid topics that might offend Chinese government sensitivities—research or…
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Chip Industry's Fundamental Shifts in 2018
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Semiconductor Engineering
Fundamental Shifts In 2018
2018: A Year Of Fundamental Changes This will go down as a good year for the semiconductor industry, where new markets and innovation were both necessary and rewarded.
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Some thoughts about learning
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Gwurd.com: Math and Machine Learning Blog
Gwendolyn’s birthday and some thoughts about learning
TLDR My cat’s birthday is today It is possible to learn a subject and build anxiety in it due to prevalent stressful education environments Real, stress-free learning happens when you enjoy something…so learn to enjoy it first
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Half-life
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ProPublica
This Los Alamos nuclear worker died of a rare cancer linked to radiation. The government denied him benefits.
Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.
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How Juul became worth $38B
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TechCrunch
How Juul made vaping viral to become worth a dirty $38 billion
A Juul is not a cigarette. It’s much easier than that. Through devilishly slick product design I’ll discuss here, the startup has massively lowered the barrier to getting hooked on nicotine. Juul has dismantled every deterrent to taking a puff.
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Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries
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GitHub
GitHub - genuinetools/binctr: Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries.
Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries. - genuinetools/binctr
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Show HN: RedixDB – a fast persistent key-value store with the Redis protocol
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Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify?
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Bloomberg
How Machine Learning and AI Can Predict Gentrification
New research from the Urban Studies journal uses London as a test site to show how machine learning can predict which neighborhoods will gentrify next.
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Let’s Try t-SNE
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Observablehq
Let’s Try t-SNE!
An Observable notebook by Mike Bostock.
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Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook
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Medium
Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Fictional Story Created by Social Media
On the dangers of outsourcing your reality and identity to Facebook or any other social media platform.
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