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Gitlab: won't exclude customers on moral grounds, don't discuss politics at work
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Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'
Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at work
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SpaceX just filed a request to run 30k more Starlink satellites in orbit
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MIT Technology Review
SpaceX just filed a request to run 30,000 more Starlink satellites in orbit
If SpaceX gets approval, it could single-handedly quintuple the total number of spacecraft launched by humans.
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Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable
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Urban living makes us miserable. This city is trying to change that
How Glasgow is being redesigned to be a healthier and happier place.
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DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH
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How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
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Space
Methuselah: The oldest star in the universe
How can a star be older than the universe?
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IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust
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kottke.org
How IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust
According to a book by human rights journalist Edwin Black, Hitler needed logistical help in carrying out the genocide of Europe’s Jewish population. IBM, an American company whose leadership was obsessed with gr
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Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service
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TechCrunch
Algolia finds $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and 8K others
Algolia, one of the group of startups that provides search as a service for websites and apps as an alternative to Google and other search engines, is
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Docker containers in space
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balena
Beyond the cloud: Docker containers in space
On the 13th June 2019, a rocket launched from Kiruna, Sweden, carrying 280kg of scientific experiments; among them, a Raspberry Pi Zero running Docker containers on balenaOS. To our knowledge this is the first time a Moby/Docker container engine has been…
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Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
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Reasons to be Cheerful
Spain’s Happy Little Carless City
Wherever you find advocates for saner transportation, their dream scenario usually hinges on the same outcome: making cities blissfully free of cars. To this end, the Spanish city of Pontevedra, population 84,000, has done something remarkable: it has reduced…
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Bitcoin uses 625kWh of power and 95g of e-waste per transaction
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Digiconomist
Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index - Digiconomist
The Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index provides the latest estimate of the total energy consumption of the Bitcoin network.
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Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%
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Why Renaissance Paintings Aren't as Green as They Used to Be
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Atlas Obscura
Why Renaissance Paintings Aren’t as Green as They Used to Be
Once a brilliant hue, the pigment verdigris is now mostly brown.
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HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
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Medium
HAMR — 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
End-to-end Hand Mesh Recovery from a Monocular RGB Image.
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Paris zoo unveils the “blob”, an organism with no brain but 720 sexes
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Reuters
Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes
PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris zoo showcased a mysterious new organism on Wednesday, dubbed the “blob”, a yellowish unicellular small living being which looks like a fungus but acts like an animal.
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Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen
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Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen
Two Kernel Mysteries and The Most Technical Talk I've Ever Seen (Linux Ftrace kernel internals)
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FPGA Design for Software Engineers
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Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
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Square Corner Blog
Books, an immutable double-entry accounting database service
Tracking financial transactions at scale
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People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
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IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations
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International Astronomical Union | IAU
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Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
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Farnam Street
Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
Our brains employ two modes of thinking to tackle any large task: focused and diffuse. Both are equally valuable but serve very different purposes. To do your best work, you need to master both.
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Stones and Apples
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Mathspace Blog
Stones and apples
"How can it be that two objects, initially traveling in parallel, can continue each moving in a straight line and yet end up meeting one another?" Jake reveals the answer in this interesting thought experiment.
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