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Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video after Ted Cruz complained
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Business Insider Nederland
Facebook removed a fact-check on an anti-abortion video after Republican senators including Ted Cruz complained
Doctors working for fact-checking site Health Feedback labelled a Facebook video from anti-abortion campaigner Lila Rose as inaccurate.
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Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week
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www.discoverlocal.fm
Discover Local Concerts
Discover and listen to artists performing near you this week!
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Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk to Slow Down Speeding Cars
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Bored Panda
Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk To Slow Down Speeding Cars
In the small fishing town of Ísafjörður, Iceland, an exciting development in road safety has just popped up - almost literally. A new pedestrian crossing has been painted that appears to be 3D by way of a cleverly-detailed optical illusion.
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The mineral content of vegetables has plummeted
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Linkedin
Lee S Dryburgh on LinkedIn: "The average mineral content of calcium, magnesium, and iron in cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, and spinach…
August 18, 2019: Lee S Dryburgh posted images on LinkedIn
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MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14
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CNBC
MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14
The company informed subscribers that it was ending the service because its "efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date."
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Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"?
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Blogspot
Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"?
The idea of "statistical significance" has been a basic concept in introductory statistics courses for decades. If you spend any time lookin...
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Sebastião Salgado: Gold
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British Journal of Photography
Sebastião Salgado: Gold
As Taschen republishes Sebastião Salgado’s classic reportage from the Serra Pelada gold mine, a former Magnum director recalls the day it first landed on his desk
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Absolute Scale Corrupts Absolutely
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apenwarr.ca
Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
The Internet has gotten too big.
Growing up, I, like many computery people of my generation, was an idealist.
I believed that better, faste...
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Types for Python HTTP APIs
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Medium
Types for Python HTTP APIs: An Instagram Story
And we’re back! As we mentioned in the first part of our blog post series, Instagram Server is a Python monolith with several million…
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Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
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Cal Newport
Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
In computer programming, it’s common to split your program into multiple different threads that run simultaneously, as this often simplifies application design.
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BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful
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Animalz
BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful - Animalz
BLUF is a military communications acronym—it stands for “bottom line up front”—that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.
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'If I Happen to Fall Out of a Window, You Can Be Sure I Was Pushed'
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Spiegel
'If I Happen to Fall out of a Window, You Can Be Sure I Was Pushed'
In a DER SPIEGEL interview, whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about how he managed to mislead the most powerful intelligence agency in the world, about his life in Russia and about why the internet must be reinvented.
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Super Wood (2018)
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Scientific American
Stronger Than Steel, Able to Stop a Speeding Bullet—It’s Super Wood!
Simple processes can make wood tough, impact-resistant—or even transparent
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When a hospital sling costs 900% more than at Amazon, something is very wrong
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Los Angeles Times
Column: When a hospital sling costs 900% more than Amazon's price, something is very wrong
This is yet another example of in-your-face medical pricing that often reflects not what things really cost but what healthcare businesses think they can get away with.
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New York Uncovers $1B in Sackler Family Wire Transfers
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NY Times
New York Uncovers $1 Billion in Sackler Family Wire Transfers (Published 2019)
In a court filing, the state attorney general’s office says that it has found new account transfers by members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma, the maker of opioids.
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A Kubernetes/GKE mistake that cost me thousands of dollars
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Medium
Mistake that cost thousands (Kubernetes, GKE)
Lessons learned scaling Kubernetes cluster
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What Happened to the Real Time Strategy Genre?
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Probably Dance
What Happened to the Real Time Strategy Genre
I replayed Warcraft III recently and was looking for other games I could play in the same genre. Turns out that outside of StarCraft 2, there are no recent games that are anywhere near as good. Wha…
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Ruby One-Liners
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Request for Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions
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Federal Register
Request for Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is interested in gathering information on patent-related issues regarding artificial intelligence inventions for purposes of evaluating whether further examination guidance is needed to promote the reliability…
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Taking a year to explain computer things
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Julia Evans
Taking a year to explain computer things
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The Case for Doing Nothing
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NY Times
The Case for Doing Nothing (Published 2019)
Stop being so busy, and just do nothing. Trust us.
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