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First 60 SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing. Tight fit
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Elon Musk
First 60 @SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing. Tight fit.
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They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud
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They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud. (Published 2019)
Mined Minds came into West Virginia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks. Students found an erratic operation.
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The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
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The Atlantic
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.
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The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)
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Atlas Obscura
The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned
Instead of disappearing, the pesky rodents proliferated.
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Academe’s Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at MLA
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The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
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The Empty Promise of Data Moats
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Andreessen Horowitz
The Empty Promise of Data Moats
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building software businesses. So of …
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During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw
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Smithsonian Magazine
During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw
The International Spy Museum details the audacious plan that involved a reclusive billionaire, a 618-foot-long ship, and a great deal of stealth
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Math teachers should be more like football coaches
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NY Times
Math Teachers Should Be More Like Football Coaches
That style of motivation could help in the classroom, too.
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Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel
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PCWorld
How Windows and Chrome quietly made 2019 the year of Linux on the desktop
With Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, a full Linux kernel running in Windows, and Google's pledge that all future Chromebooks will be able to run Linux apps, 2019 is the year of Linux on the desktop.
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Predicting Stack Overflow Tags with Google’s Cloud AI
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Stack Overflow Blog
Predicting Stack Overflow Tags with Google’s Cloud AI
Check out a cool project that leverages Stack Overflow Data and Google's Cloud AI to predict what tags would work best on Stack Overflow questions.
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Amnesty loses new New York Headquarters because China
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Francisco Bencosme
.@amnestyusa was excited to move to a new headquarters location in New York. Today, however we were notified that a Chinese SoE had purchased the building and unfortunately due to our work on human rights in China can no longer move there. Bc of our work…
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Using SPARK to Prove 255-Bit Integer Arithmetic from Curve25519
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Show HN: Koonchi – Convert Photo to Hand-Painted Painting by Artists from India
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What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat
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Kotaku Australia
'I'd Have These Extremely Graphic Dreams': What It's Like To Work On Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat 11
Mortal Kombat 11 is a brutal game. That’s what you come for — sensational, over-the-top violence that’s inventive and gratuitous on a level that doesn’t exist anywhere else. It can be shocking in its detail and funny in its execution, but it’s always arresting.…
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Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off San Francisco (2015)
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Telstar Logistics
Radioactive Hulk of Aircraft Carrier USS Independence Located Off San Francisco Coast
Sixty years after it was scuttled off the coast of San Francisco, the bomb-scarred, radioactive hulk of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) has been located on the seafloor near the Farallon Islands. NOAA, working with private...
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Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups
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Medium
Adventures in WhatsApp DB — extracting messages from backups (with code examples)
Getting your messages without giving a third party your credentials and data
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Ask HN: Has Google made you pay $15,000 to $75,000 for a security review?
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The AI That's Too Dangerous to Release
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Let's Build a Compiler (1995)
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Why do you grab your bag when running off a burning plane?
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NY Times
Why Do You Grab Your Bag When Running Off a Burning Plane? (Published 2019)
As passengers fled a burning plane in Moscow, some stopped to get their luggage. Don’t be too quick to judge.
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