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Insulin Wars: How insurance companies farm out dirty work to doctors patients
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The Insulin Wars
How insurance companies farm out their dirty work to doctors and patients.
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Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies
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Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies
Previously, I wrote an article about customizing objects by manually defining its property/accessor denoscriptors. The current article is…
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Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield
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Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield
Gather a mob and Facebook will now let you make political demands. Tomorrow Facebook will encounter a slew of fresh complexities with the launch of Community Actions, its News Feed petition feature. Community Actions could unite neighbors to request change…
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Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems
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Every new web app at PayPal starts with TypeScript
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Medium
paypal-noscripts now supports TypeScript as well as JavaScript
What happened that made TypeScript viable for me and worth migrating paypal-noscripts for.
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A Lifetime of Systems Thinking
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The Systems Thinker
A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
hen one reaches 80, one is considered to be ripe and ready for picking. Picking usually consists of the pickers asking the pickee to reflect back on the wisdom he has gained over his lifetime. This request is based on the false assumption that wisdom increases…
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Torrent Paradise Creates Decentralized 'Pirate Bay' with IPFS
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Torrentfreak
Torrent Paradise Creates Decentralized 'Pirate Bay' With IPFS * TorrentFreak
The BitTorrent protocol has a decentralized nature but the ecosystem surrounding it has some weak spots. Torrent sites, for example, use centralized search engines which are prone to outages and takedowns. Torrent-Paradise tackles this problem with IPFS,…
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Schumpeter on Strategy
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Reaction Wheel
Schumpeter on Strategy
It’s Friday and I’m procrastinating, so here you go. Let’s talk about Joseph Schumpeter. Good old John Joseph Jingleheimer Schumpeter, as he wasn’t called. Schumpeter once w…
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Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS
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Ask HN: What are must know concepts for back end development?
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Paradox of tolerance
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New Scooter Removal Service Appears
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Scooter Removal
24/7 Scooter Removal in San Diego and Los Angeles
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Jeff Bezos Realized He Was Not Bright Enough to Be a Theoretical Physicist
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YouTube
Cosine: The exact moment Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust
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GitHub
Release 0.2.0 · quinn-rs/quinn
We (@djc and @Ralith) are happy to announce the release of 0.2.0 of Quinn, our pure-Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol, the next generation TCP replacement protocol currently being standardiz...
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Remember the mortgage mess? $1.2T in corporate debt is flashing similar signs
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Los Angeles Times
Remember the subprime mortgage mess? $1.2 trillion in risky corporate debt is flashing similar warning signs
Indebted borrowers increasingly take out high-interest, adjustable-rate loans that are packaged into securities and sold to investors eager for a better rate of return.
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Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point’
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Nytimes
Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say
With the Arctic warming rapidly, ice loss in Greenland is accelerating and may soon be a major factor in rising sea levels, according to a new study.
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Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me
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Ehud Reiter's Blog
Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me
People who search for me in Google see a Google-generated box which incorrectly says that I am Israeli. Google has ignored my complaints about this; they dont seem to care about the accuracy of th…
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How McSema Handles C++ Exceptions
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The Trail of Bits Blog
How McSema Handles C++ Exceptions
C++ programs using exceptions are problematic for binary lifters. The non-local control-flow “throw” and “catch” operations that appear in C++ source code do not map neatly to straightforward binary representations. One could allege that the compiler, runtime…
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How shutting out men from the conversation is an obstacle to change
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Medium
Me(n) Too
Masculinity, Patriarchy, and Sex
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Atrazine in Australian water affects male fertility
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Medicalxpress
'Safe' herbicide in Australian water affects male fertility
The last 50 years has seen a rapid decline in male reproductive health. Decreased sperm counts, increased rates of testicular cancer and a range of malformations in male genitalia have been reported in ...
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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
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Hillel Wayne
Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
I saw this question on the Software Engineering Stack Exchange: What are the barriers that prevent widespread adoption of formal methods? The question was closed as opinion-based, and most of the answers were things like “its too expensive!!!” or “website…
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