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The myth of inevitable technological progress
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Vox
The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us
They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not.
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China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
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China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
Apple’s decision to greenlight an app called HKmaps, which is being used by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong to crowdsource information about street closures and police presence, is attracting the ire of the Chinese government. An article in Chinese…
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No Radical Changes in GNU Project
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GitHub and US Government Developers
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The GitHub Blog
GitHub and US Government developers
At GitHub, we believe in empowering developers around the world. We also believe in basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity. Today, I wanted to share a message I sent to all employees yesterday that is related to this, as it is important…
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Salesforce: We Ditched Python for Google's Go Language in Einstein Analytics
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ZDNET
Salesforce: Why we ditched Python for Google's Go language in Einstein Analytics
Salesforce explains why Google's Go programming language is a better fit than Python and C for Einstein Analytics.
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The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI
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Medium
The Obvious UI is Often the Best UI
Design clear interactions instead clever ones, and users will follow
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Nietzsche’s Eternal Return
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The New Yorker
Nietzsche’s Eternal Return
Why thinkers of every political persuasion keep finding inspiration in the philosopher.
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Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights
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Twitter
Tim Sweeney
@CherrishChoerry @calibrono (and 3 others) Yes, absolutely. That will never happen on my watch as the founder, CEO, and controlling shareholder.
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Critical Security Issue Identified in iTerm2
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Mozilla Security Blog
Critical Security Issue identified in iTerm2 as part of Mozilla Open Source Audit
A security audit funded by Mozilla has discovered a critical security vulnerability in the widely used macOS terminal emulator iTerm2.
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Economy Is Growing, but Americans Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer and Energy
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Reason
The Economy Keeps Growing, but Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy
Good news! We’re getting more while using less.
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China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation over U.S. Tech Blacklist
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NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet
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WSJ
NBA Events in China Disrupted Over Hong Kong Tweet
A day before a scheduled tipoff of a Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers game in Shanghai, a crisis for the National Basketball Association appeared no closer to resolution.
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Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology – To China (With Translation)
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reddit
Blizzard's Official Weibo Account Just Posted An Apology - to China
Posted in r/HongKong by u/N1cknamed • 1,491 points and 120 comments
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NixOS 19.09
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Amazon EKS Windows Container Support Now Generally Available
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Amazon
Amazon EKS Windows Container Support now Generally Available | Amazon Web Services
In March of this year, we announced a preview of Windows Container support on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and invited customers to experiment and provide us with feedback. Today, after months of refining the product based on that feedback, I am delighted…
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MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on our launch
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Octopus Deploy
MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on the launch of Octopus Cloud 1.0 - Octopus Deploy
Reflections on the launch of Octopus Cloud, the SaaS version of Octopus, and how it shaped our plans for Octopus Cloud 2.0.
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The Anti-Solar Panel – A Device That Generates Electricity from Darkness
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Intelligent Living
The Anti-Solar Panel – A Device That Generates Electricity From Darkness
The anti-solar panel has been developed that can generate electricity from the night's sky. It could be the solution to bridge the gap left by solar energy.
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Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm
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Medium
Re-writing Vy.no in Elm
Vy, the largest transport provider in Norway, has been using Elm for the last couple of years. These are their experiences so far.
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Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers
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Atlas Obscura
Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers
The same machine that popularized "The Oregon Trail" was secretly imported just a few years before the USSR collapsed.
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IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency
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www.irs.gov
Virtual currency: IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment and reminds taxpayers of reporting obligations | Internal Revenue…
IR-2019-167, October 9, 2019 — As part of a wider effort to assist taxpayers and to enforce the tax laws in a rapidly changing area, the Internal Revenue Service today issued two new pieces of guidance for taxpayers who engage in transactions involving virtual…
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Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator: Antikythera Mechanism
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Fermat's Library
Fermat's Library | Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism annotated/explained version.
Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.
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