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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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Abnormal String Hashing
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Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
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The Daily Beast
Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Ban of Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
“Blizzard makes a lot of money in China, but now the company is in this awkward position where we can’t abide by our values,” a Blizzard employee told The Daily Beast.
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The Making of the American Gulag
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Boston Review
The Making of the American Gulag
During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with its own carceral state.
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Show HN: Interviews with open source maintainers and developers
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Managing by Outcomes
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Product Talk
Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it. | Product Talk
Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. Last month, I spoke […]
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Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots
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Googleblog
ROBEL: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots
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As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts
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Scientific American
As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts
Environmental reviews emphasize the relatively small contributions from individual infrastructure projects, ignoring the bigger picture
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String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet
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Scientific American Blog Network
String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Bet
Science writer John Horgan wins a 2002 bet with physicist Michio Kaku that by 2020 no unified theory of physics will win a Nobel Prize
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Designing a COM Library for Rust
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The Slave of Seriousness
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Slate Magazine
Susan Sontag, the Slave of Seriousness
“Now, the very idea of the serious (and the honorable) seems quaint, ‘unrealistic,’ to most people.”
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Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
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Freedom of the Press
Newsrooms, let’s talk about Google Workspace
If you work in a newsroom, there’s a good chance you work with colleagues on Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and more. Google Workspace software is simple and powerful. But anyone working in a newsroom has probably asked themselves: What can Google see? What…
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A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
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Medium
The dumb reason your fancy Computer Vision app isn’t working: Exif Orientation
I’ve written about lots of computer vision and machine learning projects like object recognition systems and face recognition projects. I…
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Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers
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stackoverflow.blog
Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers - Stack Overflow
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Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account
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Charlotte Mather
So now Blizzard have disabled ALL FOUR authentication methods to actively stop people from deleting their accounts. This is beyond disgusting. Spread awareness of this. #BoycottBlizzard
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Sixers fans say they were ejected from preseason game for 'Free Hong Kong' signs
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For The Win
Sixers fans say they were ejected from preseason game for 'Free Hong Kong' signs
They captured video of the incident.
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The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
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Andreessen Horowitz
The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more than $500,000 a year from reader subnoscriptions. The top content creator on Podia, a platform for video courses and digital memberships, makes more than $100,000 a month. And teachers…
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