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Green Tea Press: Free Books by Allen B. Downey
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The Internet and the Third Estate
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Stratechery
The Internet and the Third Estate
Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…
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AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
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The Information
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
There are a lot of ways companies can rack up high bills for using cloud services, sometimes unexpectedly. One particularly stiff expense is the cost of shifting data from one cloud provider’s servers to another provider, or to a company’s own data center.…
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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
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RLSL a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler
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RLSL A Rust to SPIR-V compiler Maik Klein, Embark Studios
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DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing. Exponentially?
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DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo Traffic
Daily DuckDuckGo search traffic since 2010.
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Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
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Yahoo Finance
Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
A class action lawsuit filed in January 2019 claims Equifax used "admin" as both password and username for a portal with sensitive information.
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Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich
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Google’s attempt to shut down a unionization meeting just riled up its employees
Management tried to shut down an employee-led talk on unionization at its Zurich office, but it happened anyway.
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CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study
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Spectrum
CRISPR therapy may reverse autism mutation’s effects well past infancy
CRISPR therapy — Injecting the gene-editing tool CRISPR into the brains of mice may reverse the effects of an autism mutation at any age.
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On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm
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Nytimes
On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm (Published 2019)
Residents of Norilsk long felt isolated from their country’s turbulence. Then a mining company strung a fiber-optic cable across 600 miles of tundra.
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The Decline of Stack Overflow
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The decline of Stack Overflow | Hacker Noon
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Software Test Desiderata
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Test Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence
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The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked
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Niko Bell
The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
It’s been a long, confusing, exhausting federal election season. We’re all tired. But put aside your worries, fellow citizens; it’s time for the invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal …
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Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined
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Business Insider
The fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined. Here are the biggest ways it…
The fashion industry is the second-largest consumer of water and the second-largest polluter of water. Here's why.
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Samsung Kills 'Linux on DeX' with Android 10 Rollout
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TFiR | A video is worth a million words
Samsung Kills 'Linux on DeX' With Android 10 Rollout
Samsung will no longer provide support for the program for future operating systems and devices.
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Lyft No Longer Showing What Passengers Pay on Trips
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Jalopnik
'I Wonder What They Are Hiding:' Lyft Drivers Can No Longer See How Much Riders Paid For Each Trip
At the beginning of October, Lyft rolled out a mandatory app update for its drivers. After installing the update, drivers noticed they could no longer see how much the rider paid for any given trip. It’s yet another move that potentially undercuts Lyft’s…
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)
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SoftBank to Take Control of WeWork: Sources
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CNBC
SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources
The deal values WeWork between $7.5 billion and $8 billion, sources familiar with the matter say.
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Julian Assange extradition judge refuses request for delay
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the Guardian
Julian Assange extradition judge refuses request for delay
WikiLeaks founder’s legal team wanted an extra month to submit evidence
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Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
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Riccardo Mori
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
A long long rant about my continued frustration with today's Apple. Nothing new, really.
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Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that's not Linux-derived
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