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Cameras that guess age and sex are coming to store shelves
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CBC
Cameras that guess your age and sex are coming to store shelves | CBC News
Eyeing that can of soda in the supermarket cooler? Or maybe you're craving a pint of ice cream? A camera could be watching you.
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Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
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Harvard Magazine
Inflammation causes many common diseases of aging | Harvard Magazine
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
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Tibetan musical notation
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Open Culture
Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful
Religions take the cast and hue of the cultures in which they find root. This was certainly true in Tibet when Buddhism arrived in the 7th century. It transformed and was transformed by the native religion of Bon.
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Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Cell Phone Location Data
There's heartening news for our location privacy out of Massachusetts this week. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, ruled that police access to real-time cell phone location
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The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
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Wired
The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
Brave says it can show users ads while protecting their privacy; eventually, it hopes to also pay publishers.
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IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In
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Forrest Brazeal
Cloud Irregular: IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In · Forrest Brazeal
Forget Lambda and serverless: if you are doing anything at all in AWS besides using it as a fantastically overpriced datacenter, I pretty much guarantee you are deeply locked into IAM.
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Bombay Nights
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Aeon
Bombay nights
In the night schools of Bombay, factory workers dreamed that literacy and learning would raise them to respectability
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Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
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The Cloudflare Blog
xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.
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Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]
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Facebook Reports First Quarter 2019 Results
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Facebook Reports First Quarter 2019 Results
Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019. "We had a good quarter and our business and community continue to grow," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. "We are focused on building out our…
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Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing?
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Literary Hub
Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing?
Many writers rely more heavily on pronouns than I’d suggest is useful. For me this sort of thing comes under the heading Remember that Writing Is Not Speaking. When we talk, we can usually make our…
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Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa
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They worked in sweltering heat for Exxon, Shell, Walmart. They didn’t get paid
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Reveal
They worked in sweltering heat for Exxon, Shell and Walmart. They didn’t get paid a dime | Reveal
“I can’t fathom this being legitimate,” one former Labor Department investigator says of a drug rehab’s work program.
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Tesla Quarterly Loss Is Bigger Than Foreseen: $702M
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NY Times
Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag (Published 2019)
The $702 million loss exceeded expectations, but the company reaffirmed its guidance on the year’s deliveries. It said it was open to raising capital.
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An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace
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BuzzFeed News
Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying Upwards of $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way to the Top of The Marketplace
An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers pricey ways to cheat the marketplace and mislead customers, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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Es: A shell with higher-order functions (1993)
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Vim.wasm
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NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program
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WSJ
NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program
The National Security Agency has recommended that the White House abandon a U.S. surveillance program that collects information about Americans’ phone calls and text messages, saying the logistical and legal burdens of keeping it outweigh its intelligence…
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The wave of unicorn IPOs
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The Economist
The wave of unicorn IPOs reveals Silicon Valley’s groupthink
There is more to life than blitzscaling
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The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Ed
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The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Education — The James G. Martin Center for Academic…
Teaching shaped by fear, especially when dealing with controversial topics, will never be effective teaching.
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Immediate Mode GUI
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Behind the Pixels
Immediate mode GUI
Recently I have been re-writing my own GUI library. This time I took an immediate mode approach rather than the traditionally “retained mode”. I am quite happy with what I’ve got so far, both in terms of functionality and aesthetic. The following is a screenshot.
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