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The Takedown That Put Carlos Ghosn in Jail
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Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video [pdf]
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The Couple Who Turned California Desert into a Multi-Billion Dollar Snack Empire
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Longreads
The Couple Who Turned a California Desert Into a Multi-Billion Dollar Snack Empire - Longreads
Taxpayers have helped Stewart and Lynda Resnick turn an irrigated desert into a dangerous and lucrative agricultural gamble.
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A brief history of the UUID
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Twilio Segment Blog
Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) have evolved from solving database management challenges to becoming a foundational element of modern data systems. This blog explores the history, structure, and practical applications of UUIDs, highlighting their role…
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A dark side to the California dream: How the state Constitution inhibits housing
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Los Angeles Times
A dark side to the California dream: How the state Constitution makes affordable housing hard to build
In 1950, Californians voted to put a provision in the state Constitution that makes it harder for poor people to find a place to live.
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Culture of ‘Bending Rules’ in India Challenges U.S. Drug Agency
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Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks
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Quanta Magazine
Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks
Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function.
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A Dutch historian who took billionaires to task over tax at Davos
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the Guardian
'This is about saving capitalism': the Dutch historian who savaged Davos elite
Rutger Bregman never intended to take billionaires to task over tax at World Economic Forum
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Two-factor auth with public-key cryptography
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Various Failures
Two-factor auth with public-key cryptography
Note: As was pointed out in numerous comments on Hacker News and here, this approach is problematic for a number of reasons. Transferring a secret key between devices in this manner can leave you vulnerable to serverside exploits and increases the likelyhood…
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Apple Censorship
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ASCII generator: image to text, image to image, video to video
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GitHub - uvipen/ASCII-generator: ASCII generator (image to text, image to image, video to video)
ASCII generator (image to text, image to image, video to video) - GitHub - uvipen/ASCII-generator: ASCII generator (image to text, image to image, video to video)
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How to Make a User with a Numeric Username in Linux (2014)
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Dampfkraft
How to Make a User with a Numeric Username in Linux
This is something you really shouldn't do. But I'm 23, so it had to be done.
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Don't Let the Internet Dupe You, Event Sourcing Is Hard
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A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009)
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blog.rongarret.info
A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms
One of the guest lecturers aboard the ship [1] (Donald Gibbs, of Pearl-Harbor conspiracy-theory infamy) gave a very interesting talk a few ...
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The Over-Engaged Knowledge Worker
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A model to simulate how ideas move from one academic institution to another
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Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, Professors Say
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Out-Of-Office Messages Are a Security Risk
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The Lone Sysadmin
Out-of-Office Messages are a Security Risk - The Lone Sysadmin
Out-of-Office Messages are a real great way to let potential attackers know when they can be most successful. They can also be a big operational problem for your team.
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Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality
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TechCrunch
Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality
The electric scooter CEO shed light on the issues plaguing the micromobility industry and what's next for the high-flying startup.
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Is China’s corruption-busting AI being turned off for being too efficient?
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South China Morning Post
Is fraud-busting AI system being turned off for being too efficient?
Despite being restricted to just 30 counties and cities, artificial intelligence system has already helped snare 8,721 officials.
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Obfuscated JavaScript, scam emails, and American Express
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JonLuca’s Blog
Obfuscated javanoscript, scam emails, and American Express
Earlier today I received a scam email that managed to evade both my and gmail’s email filters. I wanted to get a closer look at how it did it and what it’s trying to accomplish.
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