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Joichi Ito Resigns After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
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NY Times
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein (Published 2019)
Joichi Ito had acknowledged taking $525,000 for the lab from Mr. Epstein, as well as more than $1 million for his own investment funds.
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Show HN: I made a mind map tool meant for large, detailed node hierarchies
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The American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong
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BuzzFeed.News
Made In America: For $9.50 An Hour, They Brew Tear Gas For Hong Kong
A BuzzFeed News investigation found low-paid American workers producing tear gas in potentially dangerous conditions. It's then shipped to Hong Kong, where it's used against pro-democracy protesters.
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App Updates for HTML5 Apps
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Apple
App Updates for HTML5 Apps - Latest News - Apple Developer
In order to provide users with the secure and curated experience that they expect on the App Store, we have always specified that apps must be self-contained bundles. This means that the core features and functionality of the app must be contained within…
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HK protesters use “unblockable” messaging via a bluetooth mesh
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Bbc
Hong Kong protesters using Bluetooth Bridgefy app
They want to communicate with each other while avoiding snooping from the Chinese authorities.
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Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?
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Slate Star Codex
Is There A Case For Skepticism Of Psychedelic Therapy?
There’s been an explosion of interest in the use of psychedelics in psychiatry. Like everyone else, I hope this works out. But recent discussion has been so overwhelmingly positive that it…
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The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno elites
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the Guardian
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites
The MIT-Epstein debacle shows ‘the prostitution of intellectual activity’. Time for a radical agenda: close the Media Lab, disband Ted Talks and refuse tech billionaires money
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You don’t have to be “pro-nuclear” or “anti-nuclear.”
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Vox
A beginner’s guide to the debate over nuclear power and climate change
Guess what? You don’t have to be "pro-nuclear" or "anti-nuclear."
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Utopia, Abandoned: The Olivetti Town
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NY Times
Utopia, Abandoned (Published 2019)
The Italian town Ivrea was once a model for workers’ rights and progressive design. Now, it’s both a cautionary tale and evidence of a grand experiment in making labor humane.
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Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace
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Gizmodo
Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace, Baffling Scientists
A large monitoring station used to gather important scientific data in the Baltic Sea has mysteriously vanished.
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Outbreak of Lung Illness Associated with Using E-Cigarette Products
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New ways to make vertical farming stack up
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The Economist
New ways to make vertical farming stack up
Cultivating fresh produce in an artificial environment is getting cheaper
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DNA from cigarette butt leads to arrest of pipeline protester 3 years later
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Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics
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NY Times
Opinion | Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics (Published 2019)
Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it.
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Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python
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dropbox.tech
Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python
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How Did a Nissan Leaf Beat a Tesla Model S in a Race?
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CleanTechnica
How Did A Nissan LEAF Beat A Tesla Model S In A Race?
The Nissan LEAF certainly doesn't have a reputation as a serious performance car. With far less power than any Tesla, "semi-independent" rear suspension like you'd find under a Chevy Cavalier, and many similarities with the Versa, the LEAF is widely regarded…
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Malcolm Gladwell's famous 10k hour rule isn't holding up in new research
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Business Insider
Malcolm Gladwell's famous 10,000 hour rule for mastering a skill isn't holding up in new research
As the Guardian reports, new research indicates the 10,000-hour rule alone doesn't account for mastery in a given skill, like playing the violin.
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A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]
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Julia Academy: Learn ML, Parallel Programming, Julia and More
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Juliaacademy
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The definitive source for learning all things Julia, for free!
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Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?
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Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
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Durmonski.com
The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly [Summary]
If you want to know more about how the future will unfold reading The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly should be your very first step. Understand the key concepts of the book in my book summary.
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