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His mission: Meet 10k people, one at a time, for an hour at a time
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https://www.inquirer.com
His mission: Meet 10,000 people, one at a time, for an hour at a time. His goal: Human connection.
In 2015, Lawless launched Robs10kFriends, an initiative to meet 10,000 different people for an hour each. So far, he’s connected with close to 3,000 strangers. He projects to spend the next 10 years plugging away at the goal and speaking about the value of…
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Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter
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Nature
Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter
Human-induced warming also made the hot spell up to 100 times more likely in some parts.
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Viewing Cute Images Narrows Attentional Focus (2012)
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The Power of Kawaii: Viewing Cute Images Promotes a Careful Behavior and Narrows Attentional Focus
Kawaii (a Japanese word meaning “cute”) things are popular because they produce positive feelings. However, their effect on behavior remains unclear. In this study, three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of viewing cute images on subsequent…
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Show HN: Everything asked – organized recaps of 'ask me anything' interviews
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Everythingasked
everything asked
everything asked - recpas of the top ask me anything interviews from reddit and more
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Major Update of Vector Class Library
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SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program
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SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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The Risk of Weak Online Banking Passwords
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Amazon Is a Monopoly
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Marketplace Pulse
Amazon Is a Monopoly, an Interview With Sally Hubbard
In an interview with an antitrust expert Sally Hubbard, we discussed what makes Amazon a monopoly, how that affects consumers, businesses relying on Amazon, and competitors, as well as what actions and regulations antitrust investigations might bring in the…
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Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality
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Streets ahead
Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality | Europe
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YouTube bans 14 year old for violating hate speech guidelines
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YouTube bans 14-year-old for violating hate speech guidelines
YouTube has reportedly removed the account of Soph, a 14-year-old girl with nearly 1 million followers, after she uploaded a video attacking LGBTQ people.
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Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air
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Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air
As someone who pays Google thousands of dollars a month for Google Drive for Business (Gsuite rebrand was moronic), I am very disappointed that an essential
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U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator
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WSJ
U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator
The U.S. Treasury labeled China as a currency manipulator after its central bank let the yuan depreciate, sharply escalating the trade conflict and stoking fears that the widening clash could disrupt America’s economy.
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Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher CO2 could put millions at risk
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phys.org
Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide could elevate health risks for tens of millions
As a result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, Earth is experiencing many discernable changes, such as melting glaciers, higher global sea levels, and an overall greening of the planet. ...
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MakerLisp Machine: An EZ80 CPU Card Running Bare-Metal Lisp [video]
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MakerLisp Machine: an eZ80 CPU card running bare-metal Lisp, by Luther Johnson (long-form talk)
BALISP, the Bay Area Lisp & Scheme Users Group
https://balisp.org/
Sat 2 Feb 2019
Hacker Dojo
Santa Clara, CA
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The MakerLisp Machine is a portable, modular, computer system, designed to recapture the feel of classic computing, with modern hardware.…
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Libraries are fighting to preserve your right to borrow e-books
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CNN
Libraries are fighting to preserve your right to borrow e-books | CNN
Creating barriers to access to e-books, which is what publishers are doing to resist dominance by Amazon, says Jessamyn West, disrupts the public good libraries were created to serve. Public libraries exist in large part because they are necessary to a functioning…
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How I finally won my name from Domain Squatters after 9 years of waiting
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The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
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3D printing unicorns disrupted by new open-hardware laser tech
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Fabbaloo
Continuous 3D Printing Possible With Transparent Polygon Scanning? « Fabbaloo
Could the TPS concept revolutionize resin 3D printing? Open source Transparent Polygon Scanning could avoid patents allowing inexpensive resin 3D printers.
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Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds
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Scale (YC S16) Raises $100M from Accel and Founders Fund at $1B Valuation
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Spin found in clinical trial abstracts in top psychology and psychiatry journals
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Misrepresentation In Abstracts Found In Over Half Of Top Psychiatry Journals - Sciencebeta
‘Spin’, defined as exaggerating the clinical significance of a particular treatment without the statistics to back it up, is discernible in more than half of clinical trial abstracts published in top psychology and psychiatry journals, a review of relevant…
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