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YC and Ginkgo Bioworks announce new partnership for synthetic biology startups
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Y Combinator
YC and Ginkgo Bioworks announce new partnership for synthetic biology startups
Ginkgo Bioworks was the first bio company YC funded, back in summer 2014, which makes us especially delighted to announce a new partnership between YC and Ginkgo. Ginkgo Bioworks programs cells. They program them to produce flavors, fragrances, cannabinoids…
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100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
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Mozilla Foundation
A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web
Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, an ambitious initiative to empower individual creators and galvanize an alternative business model for online content
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Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
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NY Times
Opinion | Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry (Published 2019)
The state’s aquifers are shrinking, yet corporations want to appropriate even more of them.
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Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon
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Observer
Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon
And the shopping platform has plans to take on Amazon next.
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Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
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Twitter
Julien Chaumond
Apple, are you trying to bankrupt us? At ~500 MB per average model download, 90k hits (Apple's IP addresses are the 17. block) translate to ~45TB of downstream bandwidth… which starts being costly for us. Your new ML platform Overton (https://t.co/ZUnVXeMNzv)…
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GraalVM: The holy graal of polyglot JVM?
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Transposit
GraalVM: the holy graal of polyglot JVM?
A blog post from the makers of Transposit.
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Against Against Pseudoaddiction
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Slate Star Codex
Against Against Pseudoaddiction
I. “Pseudoaddiction” is one of the standard beats every article on the opioid crisis has to hit. Pharma companies (the story goes) invented a concept called “pseudoaddiction”…
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Sauropod Neck Posture
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Wikipedia
Sauropod neck posture
subject debated among scientists
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Nearly 90 percent of Peruvians want members of Congress to step down
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Latin America Reports
Peruvians demand dissolution of Congress
Nearly 90 percent of Peruvians want members of Congress to step down.
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Tilde.club
is giving accounts to waitlist
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Anti-intellectualism in American Life
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Square Wants to Be a Bank but Doesn’t Want to Be Taxed Like One
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WSJ
Square Wants to Be a Bank But Doesn’t Want to Be Taxed Like One
Square has lent billions to small businesses and consumers and applied for a banking license, but it says it isn’t a financial company.
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The Crane Wife
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The Paris Review
The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
July 16, 2019 – Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes.
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Richard M. Stallman resigns from MIT CSAIL over “a series of misunderstandings”
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The We Company reportedly will put its public offering on hold
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TechCrunch
Under pressure, The We Company now only says it expects to go public ‘by the end of the year’
The We Company, beleaguered parent of the short-term real estate property management and development company WeWork and other We-related subsidiaries, has issued a statement that says it “expects” to complete its initial public offering by the end of the…
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MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library
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GitHub
GitHub - microsoft/STL: MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library.
MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library. - microsoft/STL
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Richard M. Stallman has resigned as FSF president
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www.fsf.org
Richard M. Stallman resigns
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WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback
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Reuters
WeWork delays IPO after frosty investor response
(Reuters) - WeWork owner The We Company has postponed its initial public offering (IPO), walking away from preparations to launch it this month after a lackluster response from investors to its plans.
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DNSCrypt encrypts communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver
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DNSCrypt
DNSCrypt version 2 - Official Project Home Page
New home of the DNSCrypt project, now implementing multiple protocols to improve DNS security. Download official DNSCrypt & DoH servers and clients here.
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Gaussian Processes, not quite for dummies
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Yuge Shi
Gaussian Process, not quite for dummies
Before diving inFor a long time, I recall having this vague impression about Gaussian Processes (GPs) being able to magically define probability distributions over sets of functions, yet I procrastinated reading up about them for many many moons. However…
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How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (1993)
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