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Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount
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NY Times
Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount (Published 2019)
When the bank closes customers’ accounts, it doesn’t always mean money stops going out. That can leave customers with hefty overdraft charges.
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Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs
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Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry
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Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]
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Why Software Architects Must Be Involved
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insights.sei.cmu.edu
Why Software Architects Must Be Involved in the Earliest Systems Engineering Activities
Suzanne Miller, Bill Nichols, Don Firesmith, and Mike Phillips contributed to this post. Today's major defense systems rely heavily on software-enabled capabilities. However, many defense programs acquiring new systems first determine the physical items to…
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Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail
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X (formerly Twitter)
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@_Freakyclown_ Posting it to you is secure, as it's illegal to open someone else's mail. ^JGS
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Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News into China
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Defense One
How Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News Into China
Pro-democracy forces are locked in a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese government, playing out on the airwaves, the internet and across the globe.
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The World's First Solar Road Has Officially Crumbled into a Total Failure
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ScienceAlert
The World's First Solar Road Has Officially Crumbled Into a Total Failure
In July, the French daily newspaper Le Monde reported that the 0.6-mile (1 kilometre) solar road was a fiasco.
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You May Be Better Off Picking Stocks at Random, Study Finds
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Study Finds
New to investing? You may be better off picking stocks at random, study finds
An interesting new study finds that novice investors are actually better off choosing stocks completely at random instead of making their own decisions.
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U.S. Weighs Selling 50- and 100-Year Bonds After Yields Plummet
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São Paulo Uncovered by Outdoor Advertising Ban
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99% Invisible
Clean City Law: Secrets of São Paulo Uncovered by Outdoor Advertising Ban
When São Paulo introduced its Clean City Law (Lei Cidade Limpa) a decade ago, over 15,000 marketing billboards were taken down. An additional 300,000 ostentatious business signs, hanging over streets or painted in large letters on facades, were also subject…
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Show HN: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management
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Michael Stapelberg
distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management
Over the last year or so I have worked on a research linux distribution in my spare time. It’s not a distribution for researchers (like Scientific Linux), but my personal playground project to research linux distribution development, i.e. try out fresh ideas.
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Announcing New AMD EPYC-based Azure Virtual Machines
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Microsoft
Announcing new AMD EPYC
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Microsoft is committed to giving our customers industry-leading performance for all their workloads. After being the first global cloud provider to announce the deployment of AMD EPYC
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With friends like these...
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Start Your Own ISP
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Startyourownisp
Start Your Own ISP
A practical guide to starting your own Internet Service Provider.
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GNU Parallel 2018
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Zenodo
GNU Parallel 2018
GNU Parallel is a command-line tool for Unix-like operating systems which allows the user to execute shell commands in parallel. GNU Parallel 2018 is the tutorial for the tool. The printed version is available at www.lulu.com/shop/ole-tange/gnu-parallel-…
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“The Nemo effect” is untrue: animal movies promote awareness, not harm
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www.ox.ac.uk
“The Nemo effect” is untrue: animal movies promote awareness, not harm, say researchers | University of Oxford
14 August 2019
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Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome
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Thurrott.com
Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome - Thurrott.com
Thanks to the open-source nature of Chromium, Microsoft has had its first major and positive impact on Chrome, Google’s web browser.
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Plastic recycling is a myth: What happens to your rubbish?
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the Guardian
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis
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The Dawn of the Age of Geoengineering
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Eli Dourado
The dawn of the age of geoengineering
These 4 audacious projects are demonstrating the ingenuity we will need to address climate change.
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Tech Interview Handbook
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