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How I lost my data trying to back it up
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Hamy - The IT Guy
How I lost my data trying to back it up | Hamy - The IT Guy
This is a story about how I lost my data when trying to prevent it by backing it up.
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Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip (2018)
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Open Culture
When Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip and Then Hallucinated That He Was Being Followed by Crabs
Sometimes when confronted with strange new ideas, people will exclaim, “you must be on drugs!”
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Germany, France, Britain to Launch Mechanism for Trade with Iran
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A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)
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The National Interest
FACT: The KGB Shipped a Sidewinder Missile by Mail to Moscow
It cost $79.25.
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Racket v7.2
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blog.racket-lang.org
Racket v7.2
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 7.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket-on-Chez is done in a useful sense, but we'll wait until it gets better before making it the default Racket implementation. For more information, see htt...
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Ask HN: What are your rules-of-thumb for personal finance and saving?
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A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
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Wired
Meth, Murder, and Pirates: The Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
Along the way, he contributed to America's painkiller epidemic and got involved with North Korean methamphetamine manufacturing, Somali pirates, and murder-for-hire.
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A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
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The Atlantic
A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.
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Roll Your Own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH Reverse Tunnelling
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Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games
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USgamer.net
Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as "Whales" for Its Monetized Games
Facebook wouldn't refund large purchases made by underage gamers.
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Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes
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GQ
Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes
The computer scientist on his new book "Digital Minimalism," why workplaces may go email-free, and why the tech backlash is about to go mainstream.
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Coloured Petri Nets: Modelling and Validation of Concurrent Systems (2009) [pdf]
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A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health
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Salon
A "gold standard" study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health
A unique study praised for its rigor finds numerous upsides to deactivating your Facebook account
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A proposed API for full-memory encryption
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A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities
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NY Times
Opinion | A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities (Published 2019)
In a health system riddled with inequity, we risk making dangerous biases automated and invisible.
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Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions
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the Guardian
Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions
Move comes after Facebook exploited loophole to harvest data about apps installed on people’s iPhones
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Table Saw Kickback on Camera
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YouTube
Kickback on Camera!
The pushblock was used because it allowed me to pivot the piece into the blade to create the kickback while pulling my hand away from the blade. We tested se...
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Simulating blobs of fluid
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Five Corrections to The New York Times
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Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City
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Google is discontinuing their free weather API
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Eli Grey
Google just "upgraded" (i.e. killed) their free weather API. Can't say I'm surprised.
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