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What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica
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The Nation
What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica
The British consulting firm didn’t steal the 2016 election, and it couldn’t have if it tried.
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Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us
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NY Times
Opinion | Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us (Published 2019)
Improving American nutrition would make the biggest impact on our health care.
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U.S. tech companies are building a Chinese-style social credit system
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Fast Company
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law.
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Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python
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A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)
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JF Ptak Science Books
A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)
JF Ptak Science Books Post 2793 Before the Neil deGrasse Tyson version and update of Carl Sagan's landmark television series, Cosmos, there was Alexander von Humboldt, and his enormously influential book of the same noscript, printed in 1845-1862. Well, von...
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Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
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The Verge
Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
More plant-based fast food.
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Launch HN: Memfault (YC W19) – Crashlytics for Firmware
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Show HN: Hello
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Why the CIA Doesn't Spy on the UAE
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Reuters
Why the CIA doesn't spy on the UAE
(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates finances the military leader trying to topple a United Nations-recognized government in Libya. It helps lead a coalition of nations imposing an economic blockade of Qatar, despite U.S. calls to resolve the dispute. It…
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Recognizing the signs of disruption in our urban habitat
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Strong Towns
What's Wrong With This Picture? — Strong Towns
Commuter rail stations in the San Francisco Bay Area should be some of the most valuable land in the region (and by extension, the world). So why are there so many parking lots and one-story buildings right next to them?
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The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations
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Justfacts
The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations of Europe – Just Facts
A groundbreaking study from Just Facts has found that the poorest 20% of Americas consume more goods and services than the averages for most of the world
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Do It Yourself (OpenJDK) Garbage Collector
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Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
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GitHub
sm64/README.md at master · n64decomp/sm64
A Super Mario 64 decompilation, brought to you by a bunch of clever folks. - n64decomp/sm64
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Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips
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Tom's Hardware
Huawei Seeks Independence From the US With RISC-V and Ascend Chips
Huawei outlined its options for gaining independence from US semiconductor firms, including its new Ascend chips.
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Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
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Vanity Fair
“He’s Full of Shit”: How Elon Musk Fooled Investors, Bilked Taxpayers, and Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
The controversy over SolarCity, which has dovetailed with questions about Musk’s mountain of debt and profit shortfalls, offers a window into the mindset of America’s most outlandish CEO.
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How Does Esperanto Sound?
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Martinrue
How Does Esperanto Sound?
When people hear Esperanto for the first time, they sometimes think they're hearing Italian, or maybe Spanish. A good amount of vocabulary in Esperanto is taken from romance roots, so this isn't totally surprising.
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Fuzzification: Anti-Fuzzing Techniques [pdf]
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Fast Tensors in Clojure – A Sneak Peek
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dragan.rocks
Fast Tensors in Clojure - a Sneak Peek
There's a lot going on behind the scenes, since I am not only writing the books; at the same time I have to create the software to write about. For example, ...
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Swift on Raspberry Pi
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Lickability
Swift on Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi is a small, cost-effective, single-board computer with potential only limited by its computing power. It is also well-known by hobbyists and technologists alike. It’s the perfect device for those looking to experiment with an idea or test the…
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Using bacteria to make self-healing cement
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www.thestructuralengineer.info
Using bacteria to make self-healing cement
It is a common phenomenon for the traditional concrete to crack, requiring maintenance and reparations before reinforcement starts to corrode. Luckily...
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Device vanishes on command after military missions
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phys.org
Disappearing act: Device vanishes on command after military missions
A polymer that self-destructs? While once a fictional idea, new polymers now exist that are rugged enough to ferry packages or sensors into hostile territory and vaporize immediately upon a military mission's ...
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