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  When Mark Massie and I started Transatomic in April 2011, the future of nuclear power was uncertain. In the wake of Fukushima, all bets for a nuclear renaissance were off, and starting a venture-funded advanced nuclear technology startup seemed like an…

An analysis of both IMDB and Google Trend data for the Chernobyl tv series.

Some of my security stuff and vulnerabilities. Nothing advanced. More to come. - numirias/security

Hacker News turned 12 last February. Here's the traffic since the beginning — or a dozen-years brief internet history: https://t.co/FTTDTUjHNv Disclaimer: except for tremendous love and respect, I have no affiliation with @ycombinator.

My friends and I found hidden spaces where we could be teenagers again. We must be allowed to keep them.

Finding take-up lacking academic blogging lacking, Duncan Green outlines the major arguments for taking blogging seriously. and suggests reading a blog should be like listening to the person talk, but with links.

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Being a financial middleman is a lot easier than creating great art

HZDR press release of May 27, 2019: The Sun follows the rhythm of the planets // New study corroborates the influence of planetary tidal forces on solar activity

International undergraduate students write a letter to President Eisgruber on behalf of all international students affected by the Optional Practical Training (OPT) work authorization processing delays.

About three years ago, I published a story about how the Twitter app I built in high school, Follow, reached 150,000 downloads in two…

The measure is for people who “think their furniture is more important than their cat,” a supporter said. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo would have to sign it.

Random stuff from the fingers of Christer Weinigel.

Go Project Design Documents. Contribute to golang/proposal development by creating an account on GitHub.

What if sleep were considered a continuous infusion of a medication that helped patients heal faster?

!!Con 2019 - Writing an Interpreter in SQL for Fun and No Profit! by Michael MalisWriting SQL can be hard. SQL code is a bizarre combination of yelling and r...

If you're thinking about using @github for your life's work, FYI, they may remove it without any warning or notice, based on some user "report" made out of spite. That happened today for the 5+ years of One Hour One Life work that I'm hosting there. They…

inferring sql queries from plain-text questions about tables - GitHub - paulfitz/mlsql: inferring sql queries from plain-text questions about tables

Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings for the first quarter dropped 19 percent annually amid an industry slump, but Taiwan bucked the downtrend with billings soaring 68 percent year-on-year, international trade group SEMI said yesterday.…