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What Happens When You Become an Overnight Millionaire?
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Medium
What Really Happens When You Become an Overnight Millionaire?
Peter Rahal started RxBar out of his mom’s kitchen — then sold it for $600 million. Life on the other side of the entrepreneurial fantasy.
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Car tires biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters
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Los Angeles Times
The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Our car tires
Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem. Turns out, rubber particles from car tires might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters, according to the most comprehensive study to date.
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SpaCy v2.2 Released
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explosion.ai
Introducing spaCy v2.2 · Explosion
Version 2.2 of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library is leaner, cleaner and even more user-friendly. In addition to new model packages and features for training, evaluation and serialization, we've made lots of bug fixes, improved debugging and error…
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A National Privacy Law Is Nowhere in Sight
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NY Times
Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight.
Even amid a bipartisan backlash against tech companies, lawmakers have struggled to channel that into a federal privacy law.
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The American Corporation Is in Crisis
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Boston Review
The American Corporation is in Crisis—Let's Rethink It
For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well.
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GoodbyeDPI – Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker / Circumvention Utility
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GitHub
GitHub - ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI: GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows) - ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI
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No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
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Penn Today
No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that testosterone administration did not affect cognitive empathy, a measure of the ability to recognize another’s feelings and motivations. The finding calls into question the theory that the symptoms of…
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Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50
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Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?
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SYFY WIRE
Where is the Sun located in the Milky Way?
I get email. Most of the time it's people asking a question or two that are Google-able (hint hint), and sometimes it's a question I have to dig around a bit to answer. I like those, because it means
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
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Ask HN: What happens after no-deal Brexit?
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Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3
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Tesla, Inc.
Tesla Q3 2019 Vehicle Production & Deliveries | Tesla, Inc.
The Investor Relations website contains information about Tesla, Inc.'s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
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How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers
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Newrepublic
I Worked at Capital One for Five Years. This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers.
The first thing you should know about a woman I know, who I’ll call Annie, is that she volunteers to sit at the hospital with people who are going to die alone, who have no family or friends to be with them during their last moments. “It’s obviously sad,”…
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Boeing whistleblower: 737 MAX safety upgrades were rejected over cost
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The Seattle Times
Boeing rejected 737 MAX safety upgrades before fatal crashes, whistleblower says
The details revealed in the ethics complaint raise new questions about the culture at Boeing and whether the long-held imperative that safety must be the overarching priority was compromised on the MAX by business considerations and management's focus on…
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The myth of the teacher pay gap?
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Nationalaffairs
The Truth about Teacher Pay
One of the most common beliefs about American education is that teaching is an underpaid profession. Think tanks purport to calculate the "teacher pay gap." The media run stories about teachers taking second and third jobs to pay the bills. Politicia...
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Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
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NetBlocks
Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram, then shuts down internet amid civil unrest - NetBlocks
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory show that Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and other social and messaging apps have been blocked in Iraq by multiple internet providers as of ...
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Tiny Acquires Meteor
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TechCrunch
Tiny acquires Meteor
Canadian technology holding company Tiny, home to companies like Dribble, Flow and Unicorn Hunt, today announced that it has acquired Meteor, the JavaScript-centric open-source app platform.
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Researchers Discover the Tallest Known Tree in the Amazon
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Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers Discover the Tallest Known Tree in the Amazon
Satellite images and a trek into the rainforest reveal a group of trees over 80 meters, or about 260 feet, and one as tall as 88.5 meters
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The Evolution of the Hard Hat
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NY Times
The Evolution of the Hard Hat
The hard hat was designed 100 years ago as protective gear for miners and other laborers, but it has grown to become a symbol of status and masculinity.
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Dropbox CTO Resigns
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Pathfinder's priority inversion problem, discovered and fixed on Mars (1998)
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