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California legislators to vote on bill that could devastate Uber and Lyft
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Business Insider
California legislators are set to vote on a bill that could devastate Uber and Lyft's business model
Uber and Lyft don't want Assembly Bill 5, otherwise known as the Dynamex bill, to become law. It could force them to classify drivers as employees.
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Shenanigans With Hash Tables
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thume.ca
Shenanigans With Hash Tables - Tristan Hume
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Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 into liquid fuel
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Science
Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
Having solved stability problems, chemists think metal-organic frameworks are ready for a commercial ascent
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Chinese people who show sympathy for HK protests risk getting doxxed by friends
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Quartz
Chinese people who show sympathy for Hong Kong’s protests risk getting doxxed by friends
Those who even mildly deviate from the state-approved line on the Hong Kong protests could see their information—and that of their family members—shared online.
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Basecamp's Protest Google Ad
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X (formerly Twitter)
Jason Fried (@jasonfried) on X
When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached…
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A browser extension that replaces occurrences of 'serverless' with 'CGI-bin'
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GitHub
ghuntley/serverless-to-cgi-bin
A browser extension that replaces occurrences of 'serverless' with 'cgi-bin' - ghuntley/serverless-to-cgi-bin
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How tear gas works
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Popular Mechanics
Watch This Protester Instantly Neutralize Tear Gas
An expert weighs in on the science behind the trick.
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Economics of Electric Vehicles Mean Oil's Days as a Transport Fuel Are Numbered
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Forbes
Economics of Electric Vehicles Mean Oil's Days As A Transport Fuel Are Numbered
Oil's days as a transportation fuel are numbered because the economics of renewable energy are so compelling, says a new report from BNP Paribas. In order to compete, the oil price would need to be $9-$10 a barrel, says the report's author Mark Lewis, the…
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Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language
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Microsoft Research
Static TypeScript: An Implementation of a Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language - Microsoft Research
Static TypeScript is designed to be useful in practice (especially in education), while being amenable to static compilation targeting small devices.
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In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
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WIRED UK
In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
The block might appeal to users, but is potentially worrying to publishers
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We Let Machine Learning Design Logos
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SQL Window Functions
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Helen Anderson
SQL Window Functions: RANK and Running Totals - Helen Anderson
SQL window functions allow us to see the rows in a table with a new column showing a running total, rank or moving average.
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Some good Git practices (2009)
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What Is a Tech Company?
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Stratechery
What Is a Tech Company?
The question of “What is a tech company” comes down to how much software and its unique characteristics affects the company’s core business.
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Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times
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ZDNet
Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times
Two years after Firefox Quantum's release, Mozilla devs said they fixed Firefox's battery-draining problem.
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Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police
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Quartz
Real-time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police
Volunteer-created and crowdsourced, these help protesters and bystanders alike navigate fast-changing and often chaotic situations.
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Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environment, not for health
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CNBC
Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat boom: Good for the environment but not for your health
Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey says while he thinks plant-based meat companies are more "ethical" than regular meat companies, he does not endorse meat alternatives for health due to their "highly processed" ingredients.
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Regex Crossword
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Regex Crossword
A crossword puzzle game using regular expressions. Earn achievements completing puzzle challenges. Easy tutorials for people new to regular expressions.
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Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill
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South China Morning Post
Hong Kong leader withdraws extradition bill, sets up platform to examine protest causes
Chief executive finally agrees to one of protesters’ five demands after weeks of insisting bill would not be withdrawn.
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Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix
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grsecurity.net
grsecurity - Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix
An in-depth analysis of the journey of a Spectre fix into the upstream LTS kernels that left its users with nothing more than a false sense of security.
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How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
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BBC News
How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
Cassava is very dangerous if not prepared properly, so how did people develop and share that knowledge?
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