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Some judges use stun belts to inflict punishment in court
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The Marshall Project
Shock Treatment in Court
Some states control defendants by making them wear 50,000-volt stun cuffs, but the practice is open to abuse.
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Anyone who looks at this code instantly becomes insane
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The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis
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The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis
Here are three versions of the same story:1. In the fall of 1996, Sally Clark, an English solicitor in Manchester, gave birth to an…
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Launch HN: Tandem (YC S19) – A Virtual Office for Remote Teams
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A chemical clue to how life started on Earth
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phys.org
A chemical clue to how life started on Earth
Earth didn't always harbor life. But around 4 billion years ago, something in the environment changed, and systems with biological properties began to emerge. Many scientists believe a lively dance of ...
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
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Show HN: Lagukan, a highly personalized music service
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019)
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A Readable Specification of TLS 1.3
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N.Y.P.D. Adds Children as Young as 11 to Facial Recognition Database
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NY Times
She Was Arrested at 14. Then Her Photo Went to a Facial Recognition Database. (Published 2019)
With little oversight, the N.Y.P.D. has been using powerful surveillance technology on photos of children and teenagers.
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Announcing PartiQL: One query language for all your data
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Amazon
Announcing PartiQL: One query language for all your data | Amazon Web Services
Data is being gathered and created at rates unprecedented in history. Much of this data is intended to drive business outcomes but, according to the Harvard Business Review, “…on average, less than half of an organization’s structured data is actively used…
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Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers
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armin.dev
Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers
It is a regular occurrence to hear about open source developers selling their browser extensions, only for their users to be exploited later on by the new owners.
Purchase offers for browser extensions usually range between $0.1 and $0.3 per user, depending…
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The High Price of Multitasking
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Opinion | The High Price of Multitasking (Published 2019)
We all do it. The question is how.
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Detroit’s Indigent Defense System Fails Poor Defendants
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The Marshall Project
One Lawyer. Five Years. 3,802 Cases.
In Detroit, court-appointed lawyers for the poor take on large caseloads at the expense of their clients, a new report says.
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DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M
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PR Newswire
DoorDash signs definitive agreement to acquire Caviar, Square's food-ordering platform
/PRNewswire/ -- DoorDash, the fastest-growing last-mile logistics platform in the U.S., announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with...
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July was world's hottest month on record, WMO says
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CBC
July was world's hottest month on record, World Meteorological Organization says | CBC News
The latest data from the World Meteorological Organization shows the month of July "at least equalled if not surpassed the hottest month in recorded history."
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Known packings of equal circles in a circle
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hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de
The best known packings of equal circles in a circle
packing of equal circles in a circle
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Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
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Amazon
Time, Randomness, and a $100,000 Prize to Forever Change Blockchain | Amazon Web Services
Announcing an open source hardware competition to change how blocks (as in blockchain) are produced using far less energy. And on the way, finding a solution to move from proof of work to proof of stake.
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Iron Age Celtic Woman Was Buried in a Hollowed-Out Tree Trunk
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Smithsonian Magazine
This Iron Age Celtic Woman Was Buried in a Hollowed-Out Tree Trunk
The woman performed little physical labor during her lifetime and enjoyed a rich diet of starchy and sweetened foods
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FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats
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FBI Says QAnon, Internet Conspiracy Theorists Are National Security Threats
QAnon and Pizzagate have the attention of the feds.
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Heat Wave Results in Highest U.S. Electricity Demand Since 2017
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www.eia.gov
Heat wave results in highest U.S. electricity demand since 2017 - Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government
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