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15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
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Should the Electoral College Be Eliminated? 15 States Are Trying to Make It Obsolete
On Tuesday, Nevada became the latest state to pass a bill that would grant its Electoral College votes to whoever wins the national popular vote.
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Thoughts on Rust Bloat
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Raph Levien’s blog
Thoughts on Rust bloat
I’m about to accept a PR that will increase druid’s compile time about 3x and its executable size almost 2x. In this case, I think the tradeoff is worth it (without localization, a GUI toolkit is strictly a toy), but the bloat makes me unhappy and I think…
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US has 501,000 fewer jobs than first reported
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AP NEWS
US has 501,000 fewer jobs than first reported
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market isn't quite as strong as originally believed — with revised figures showing that the economy had 501,000 fewer total jobs this March than initially...
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CERN Open Data Portal–Explore more than 2 PB of open data from particle physics
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Dating: A Research Journal, Part 1 (2016)
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PUTANUMONIT
Dating: a Research Journal, Part 1
My journey to finding love using science and data. Part 1 – how to own online dating.
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Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
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TechCrunch
Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B
Splunk, the publicly traded data processing and analytics company, today announced that it has acquired SignalFx for a total price of about $1.05 billion. Approximately 60% of this will be in cash and 40% in Splunk common stock. The companies expect the acquisition…
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Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests
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Los Angeles Times
Op-Ed: Why so many Chinese students can't understand the Hong Kong protests
When I came to the U.S. from China as a student, my thinking had been shaped by Chinese propaganda.
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Manufacturers want to quit China for Vietnam, but find it impossible
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WSJ
Manufacturers Want to Quit China for Vietnam. They’re Finding It Impossible.
As China’s trade fight intensifies with the U.S., companies are rushing to set up new supply chains in countries such as Vietnam. They’re quickly finding no place offers the complete solution that China does.
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Plastics: What's Recyclable, What Becomes Trash – and Why
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NPR Visuals
Plastics: What’s Recyclable, What Becomes Trash — And Why
Knowing what to recycle is confusing. Here's a look at the process, from store to recycling facility.
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A.I. Is Learning from Many Humans
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NY Times
A.I. Is Learning From Humans. Many Humans. (Published 2019)
Artificial intelligence is being taught by thousands of office workers around the world. It is not exactly futuristic work.
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No Son of Mine Is Going to Be a Benthamite
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency
No Son of Mine Is Going to Be a Benthamite Utilitarian. This Is a John Stuart Mill Family, Dammit!
Son, can we talk for a second? As you know, your mother and I have worked hard to make this a good, clean, utilitarian household — a home that foll...
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Pre-Industrial Workers Had Shorter Workweeks Than Us
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Help Advance the World with Advanced Linear Algebra
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Funded
Help Advance the World with Advanced Linear Algebra
Help HornRaiser raise $75,000 for the project: Help Advance the World with Advanced Linear Algebra. Your gift will make a difference!
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List of BBC Web Pages Removed from Google's Search Results During July 2019
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Ditaa: Diagrams Through ASCII Art
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Making Containers Safer
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lwn.net
Making containers safer
On day one of the Linux
Security Summit North America (LSS-NA), Stéphane Graber and Christian
Brauner gave a presentation on the current state and the future of
container security. They both work for Canonical on the LXD project;
Graber is the project lead…
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How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers
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NY Times
How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers
Hint: They don’t just get ‘dad bods.’
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Apple's petition against RED
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digitalcameraworld
Apple's petition against Red could have serious consequences for Hollywood
Apple has filed a legal petition against key Red patent for Redcode – but what happens if it wins?
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The Most Dangerous Writing App
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MDWA
The Most Dangerous Writing App
Don’t stop typing, or all progress will be lost.
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DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS
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diode.io
Why Dns On Blockchain Is The Next Step After Dns Over Https
Last month, the trade association for internet service providers in the U.K. has nominated Mozilla for this year’s award of Internet Villain because Mozilla plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS that would bypass U.K. filtering obligations and parental controls…
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Show HN: pgcmd – An alternative to psql with JSON output
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GitHub
GitHub - soheilpro/pgcmd: Non-interactive PostgreSQL query tool.
Non-interactive PostgreSQL query tool. Contribute to soheilpro/pgcmd development by creating an account on GitHub.
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