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Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
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WSJ
Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
Most of the ills traced to these companies are a direct consequence of their no-cost business models.
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I didn't get paid, so I open sourced my clients project
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To stop a virus, California has euthanized more than 1.2M birds
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Los Angeles Times
To stop a virus, California has euthanized more than 1.2 million birds. Is it reckless or necessary?
Each morning, once the kids were off to school, Kerri Hand would slip out to her backyard, sit in a lawn chair and hang out with her feathered family.
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Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body
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Science News
Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body
A new survey of interactions between microbes and medications suggests that gut bacteria play a crucial role in how the body processes drugs.
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Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa: 'Climbers need to wake up’
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BBC News
Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa: 'Climbers need to wake up’
Kami Rita Sherpa has spent his life on the world's highest mountain and holds the record for Everest ascents.
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USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides
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phys.org
USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides
Many pesticides that have been banned or are being phased out in the EU, Brazil and China, are still widely used in the USA, according to a study published in the open access journal Environmental Health.
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TV meteorologist objected to management’s ‘code red’ orders
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Generate new repositories with repository templates
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The GitHub Blog
Generate new repositories with repository templates
Today, we’re excited to introduce repository templates to make boilerplate code management and distribution a first-class citizen on GitHub.
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California Considering a Ban on Realtime Police Body Camera Facial Recognition
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Reason.com
California Considering a Ban on Realtime Police Body Camera Facial Recognition
We can still say no to mass surveillance.
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Plaid Deletes GitHub Issue Exposing Imitation of Bank Login UIs
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America's rural radio stations are vanishing
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the Guardian
America's rural radio stations are vanishing – and taking the country's soul with them
At a time when local newspapers are disappearing, the loss of a radio station leaves a community with another cultural and informational gap
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It Pays to Play Around
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Nautilus
Why It Pays to Play Around
The 19th-century physicist Hermann von Helmholtz compared his progress in solving a problem to that of a mountain climber “compelled…
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Write HTML Like It's 1999
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uglyduck.ca
Write HTML Like It's 1999 · Ugly Duck
Breaking down some easy steps to ensure you are writing clean and semantic
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ASCII fluid dynamics – A tiny fluid simulator that fits in 80x25 terminal
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YouTube
ASCII fluid dynamics -- IOCCC2012 endoh1.c
A tiny fluid simulator that fits in 80x25 terminal.
https://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/
https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2012/endoh1/endoh1.c
BGM: Water Music (Handel)
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New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
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NY Times
New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It (Published 2019)
Digital recruiting is leaving more of a forensic trail in discrimination cases. But a wave of litigation is running up against higher legal hurdles.
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It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say these two Davos experts
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World Economic Forum
It's time to switch to a four day working week, say these two Davos experts
Working less would have a range of benefits for workers and the world should embrace the four-day working week, according to two experts at Davos 2019.
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Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed with Long, Pointy Shoes?
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Atlas Obscura
Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed With Long, Pointy Shoes?
Going to foolish lengths for fashion.
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Grover – A State-of-the-Art Defense Against Neural Fake News
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The Making of a YouTube Radical
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Nytimes
The Making of a YouTube Radical (Published 2019)
Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.
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Teenagers campaigning for Mike Gravel on Twitter
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NY Times
Are These Teenagers Really Running a Presidential Campaign? Yes. (Maybe.) (Published 2019)
The retired senator Mike Gravel gave two young fans his Twitter password and permission to campaign in his name. It might be a stunt — or the future of politics.
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The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature
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WIRED
The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple's 'Find My' Feature
Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple.
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