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“Revoke article 50 and remain in EU” petition crashes parliament website
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Twitter
Arieh Kovler
The UK Parliament petions site has now crashed under the load of people trying to sign a petition to cancel Brexit. Shows the importance of peak load testing!
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Exercises in Emulation: Xbox 360’s FMA Instruction
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Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson
Exercises in Emulation: Xbox 360’s FMA Instruction
Years ago I worked in the Xbox 360 group at Microsoft. We were thinking about releasing a new console, and we thought it would be nice if that console could run the games of the previous console. E…
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LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks
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symmetry magazine
LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks
A new observation by the LHCb experiment finds that charm quarks behave differently than their antiparticle counterparts.
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Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
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CityLab
Amsterdam's Plan: If You Buy a Newly Built House, You Can't Rent It Out
In an effort to make housing more affordable, the Dutch capital is crafting a law that says anyone who buys a newly built home must live in it themselves.
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Concurrency with Python: Threads and Locks
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Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)
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BBC News
Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18
If passed, the bill will allow 18-year-olds to marry and sign contracts without parental consent.
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Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables
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RenewEconomy
Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables
New data suggests the pipeline of wind, solar and storage projects in Australia is nearing 100GW – possibly enough for the country to go 100% renewables.
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Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)
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founders.archives.gov
Founders Online: Advice to a Young Tradesman, [21 July 1748]
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Doomed Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Boeing Sold as Extras
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NY Times
Doomed Boeing Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Company Sold Only as Extras
Airlines had to pay more for two optional upgrades that could warn pilots about sensor malfunctions. Boeing now plans to make one of the features standard.
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A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online
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The Tools We Need
A Few Simple Steps to Vastly Increase Your Privacy Online
Switch up your browser and search engine, add some plugins to block surveillance, and get a little technical with DNS servers.
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Rails on OCaml
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protoship.io
Protoship Codegen
Protoship Codegen converts your Sketch designs to simple and precise HTML and CSS that your developers can instantly understand, change, and integrate into their codebase.
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There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway
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Nytimes
There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway. (Published 2019)
The particular sheen of America by Amtrak.
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In Defense of YAML
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Content for Engineers by Engineers | Atomist Blog
In Defense of YAML
If you follow me on Twitter, you may think I hate YAML. I'm not against YAML, just against abuse of YAML. I want to help prevent people abusing YAML and being cruel to themselves and their coworkers in the process.
YAML's strength is as a structured data…
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A Pwn2Own Exploit Chain
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GitHub
GitHub - saelo/pwn2own2018: A Pwn2Own exploit chain
A Pwn2Own exploit chain. Contribute to saelo/pwn2own2018 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Bitcoin Spreads Like a Virus
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Ssrn
Bitcoin Spreads Like a Virus
In this paper we provide a mathematical derivation that links traditional time-value-of-money concepts to Metcalfe value, and use Bitcoin, Facebook as numerical
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Why I Turned Down My Y Combinator Interview
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Facetdev
Why I Turned Down My Y Combinator Interview
It had been 2 months since I left the second company I founded, Numetric. In just 3 short years I’d built the company from nothing to a working product, dozens of customers, 40 employees and enough recurring revenue to raise over $16M in venture funding from…
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Show HN: A Tax Calculator for India
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kartickvad/Tax-Calculator
Calculates take-home pay based on CTC, or vice-versa, for both employees and consultants - kartickvad/Tax-Calculator
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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
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What Made Apollo a Success (1971) [pdf]
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Cloudflare Registrar
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Cloudflare
Cloudflare Registrar | Domain Registration & Renewal
Cloudflare offers easy, at-cost domain registration and renewals through Cloudflare Registrar. Buy, transfer, and manage your domains with no add-on fees.
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Microsoft revives “Clippy” as a sticker for Microsoft Teams
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TechRepublic
Microsoft reanimates corpse of maligned Office Assistant "Clippy" to help Teams compete with Slack
The paperclip that everybody loves to hate is back as a sticker for Microsoft Teams, Redmond's answer to other collaboration giants.
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