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Spurious Justifications for Eliminating Price Caps on .org and Legacy Domains
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Circleid
The Spurious Justifications for Eliminating Price Caps on .org and Other Legacy Domains
ICANN is about to do serious damage to its reputation by making a precipitous, ill-considered leap into the unknown should it follow through on removing price constraints on several legacy extensions, most notably .org. Doing so would expose a global community…
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Brain Drain Across the United States
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Losing Our Minds: Brain Drain across the United States
Over the past 50 years, the United States has experienced major shifts in geographic mobility patterns among its highly-educated citizens. Some states today are keeping and receiving a greater share of these adults than they used to, while many others are…
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The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona
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The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona
In the tourist-clogged city, some locals see the service as a pestilence.
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Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)
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Rob Walling - Serial Entrepreneur - Building, Launching and Growing Startups
Why Good Developers are Promoted into Unhappiness - Rob Walling - Serial Entrepreneur
Rob Walling discusses why good software developers are promoted into management and then find themselves unhappy.
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Subtractive Synths Explained
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Resident Advisor
Subtractive synths explained
Everything you wanted to know (and more) about the most widespread synthesis method in music technology.
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Meditations on Moloch (2014)
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Slate Star Codex
Meditations On Moloch
I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u…
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What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly
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Metaobject
What's Going Down at the TIOBE Index? Swift, Surprisingly
Last month I expressed my surprise at the fact that Objective-C was recovering its rankings in the TIOBE index, not quite to the lofty #3 s...
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J2cl: Transpile Java to JavaScript for Closure Compiler
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GitHub
GitHub - google/j2cl: Java to Closure JavaScript transpiler
Java to Closure JavaScript transpiler. Contribute to google/j2cl development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Living Wage Calculator
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We All Work for Facebook
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We All Work for Facebook - Longreads
Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?
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There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (2016)
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Just Well Mixed
There is no good reason to ever buy an inkjet printer - Just Well Mixed
Despite their enormous popularity, inkjet printers are always a bad deal
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Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)
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TechCrunch
Study finds Reddit’s controversial ban of its most toxic subreddits actually worked
It seems like just the other day that Reddit finally banned a handful of its most hateful and deplorable subreddits, including r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate. The move was, at the time, derided by some as pointless, akin to shooing criminals away from one…
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Mastering Motion: The Journey to Emulate MotionPlus
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Dolphin Emulator
Mastering Motion: The Journey to Emulate MotionPlus
Your eyes are not deceiving you, MotionPlus emulation is finally here. In a dramatic return to the project after a long hiatus, Billiard returned to the project with the goal of cleaning up emulated Wii Remotes and implementing emulated MotionPlus correctly…
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How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance
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Fast Jet Performance
How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance.
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Building a Passive IMSI Catcher
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Harrisonsand
Building a passive IMSI catcher
This post walks through the processes of building a passive IMSI catcher. The purpose of this post is to be educational - to highlight the ease of which these devices can be built, and to practically show how privacy is already being compromised today.
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China’s Spying Poses Rising Threat to U.S.
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WSJ
China’s Spying Poses Rising Threat to U.S.
Chinese spies are increasingly recruiting U.S. intelligence officers as part of a widening, sustained campaign to shake loose government secrets.
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Mystery of the Universe’s Expansion Rate Widens with New Hubble Data
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NASA
Mystery of the Universe’s Expansion Rate Widens With New Hubble Data
The universe is getting bigger every second — but how fast? Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have crossed an important threshold in revealing a discrepancy between the two key techniques for measuring the universe's expansion rate.
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Show HN: Offst – A decentralized payment system
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California Has a Housing Crisis. The Answer Is More Housing
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Nytimes
Opinion | California Has a Housing Crisis. The Answer Is More Housing.
A bill clearing the way for more urban development in the state would help address affordable housing and climate change.
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Possible blood test for colon cancer
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Stanford News
Possible blood test for colon cancer | Stanford News
Stanford doctors and materials scientists hope a blood test will encourage more colon cancer screenings.
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Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned
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Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned
Japan’s population is shrinking. Last year it fell by nearly 450,000 people. Not since records began in 1899 had so few babies been born (921,000). Before that, 2017 had also set a record. Meanwhile the number of people passing away last year set a post-war…
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