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How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)
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ProPublica
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
Intuit, producer of the top-selling tax software, has opposed letting the government do your taxes for free – even though it could save time and headaches for millions of filers.
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Experimental rejection of observer-independence in the quantum world
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arXiv.org
Experimental test of local observer-independence
The scientific method relies on facts, established through repeated measurements and agreed upon universally, independently of who observed them. In quantum mechanics, the objectivity of...
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Report examines origins and nature of 'math anxiety'
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Medicalxpress
Report examines origins and nature of 'math anxiety'
A report out today examines the factors that influence 'maths anxiety' among primary and secondary school students, showing that teachers and parents may inadvertently play a role in a child's development ...
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In Fatberg Fight, NYC Goes to War Against Flushable Wipes
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The ATS Programming Language
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Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers
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Charged
Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers
Charged Tech is an independent technology blog and podcast, designed to save you time reading clickbait, getting you to what you need to know.
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Cheese exposed to hip-hop tastes better, finds Swiss experiment
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SWI swissinfo.ch
Cheese exposed to hip-hop tastes better, finds Swiss experiment
A quirky experiment that exposed Swiss cheese to different kinds of music found that hip-hop made it taste the best.
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Project Zipline – High-throughput low-latency compression
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Microsoft
Hardware innovation for data growth challenges at cloud-scale
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2019 kicks off today in San Jose where a vibrant and growing community is sharing the latest in innovation to make hardware more efficient, flexible, an...
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Don't Over-Optimize Fundraising
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Y Combinator
Don’t Over-Optimize Fundraising
Fundraising is never the deciding factor in the success of a company, founders should instead look to use a regret minimization function when fundraising. Essentially, they should get what they need, avoid doing stupid things, and move on.
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Formula 1: The secret aerodynamicist reveals design concepts
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BBC Sport
Have Ferrari designed themselves into a corner?
He can't tell you which F1 team he works for, but The Secret Aerodynamicist can reveal an awful lot we didn't know about in the sport.
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Programming Sucks
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Programming Sucks
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Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1
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reindernijhoff.net
Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing On using WebGL1 - reindernijhoff.net
Since the introduction of the Nvidia RTX graphics cards last summer, ray tracing is back again. In the last months, my Twitter feed flooded with a continuous stream of RTX On / RTX Off comparisons. After seeing so many nice
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Amazon walks back vendor purge
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Digiday
Amazon walks back vendor purge as sellers look to reduce dependence on the platform - Digiday
Amazon has walked back its vendor purge, but the action has served as a bit of a wake-up call to sellers who are planning how to protect their businesses.
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Phoenix: LiveView
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GitHub
GitHub - phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view: Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML
Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML - phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
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School is all about signaling, not skill-building – Bryan Caplan
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Los Angeles Times
Op-Ed: What students know that experts don't: School is all about signaling, not skill-building
Parents, teachers, politicians and researchers tirelessly warn today’s youths about the unforgiving job market that awaits them.
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YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams
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In the middle of a butterfly crisis, California sees a burst of painted ladies
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Los Angeles Times
Must Reads: In the middle of a butterfly crisis, California sees a burst of painted ladies
Perhaps you spotted them on La Cienega, flitting north by the thousands near the Westfield mall.
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How I Learned to Love Algebraic Geometry
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Azimuth
Algebraic Geometry
A more polished version of this article appeared on Nautilus on 2019 February 28. This version has some more material. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Algebraic Geometry In my 50s, too old …
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The College Scam Is Exposing All the Legal Ways Rich People Game Society
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Vice
The College Scam Is Exposing All the Legal Ways Rich People Game Society
The real question is what took so long for the country to start looking at this stuff more closely.
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WhatsApp founder warns world to ‘delete Facebook’ immediately
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Mail Online
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‘Delete Facebook NOW’: WhatsApp co-founder accuses Mark Zuckerberg of trading privacy for revenue after allowing ads on the platform
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton told students to reject Facebook by deleting their apps from their phones in an address at Stanford University in California on Wednesday.
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Show HN: A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3
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GitHub
GitHub - photonlines/Python-Prolog-Interpreter: A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3. It runs a limited…
A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3. It runs a limited subset of Prolog and uses backtracking and generators in order to perform its magic. - photonlines/Python-Prolog-In...
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