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What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?
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Nytimes
What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan? (Published 2019)
An assessment of spending on the war in Afghanistan finds there is little to show for it.
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The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
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An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube
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GitHub
GitHub - ajayyy/SponsorBlock: Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension). Contribute to ajayyy/SponsorBlock development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Must and Must Not (On Software Documentation)
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queue.acm.org
MUST and MUST NOT - ACM Queue
Pronouncements without background or explanatory material are useless to those who are not also deeply steeped in the art and science of computer security or security in general. It takes a particular bend of mind to think like an attacker and a defender…
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Collaborative Software That’s Wary of the Cloud
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WIRED
You Can Have Collaborative Software That’s Wary of the Cloud
Research lab Ink & Switch wants to harness the benefits of productivity and communication without forcing users to give up control of their data.
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Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002)
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Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System
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Signal
Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System
Groups are inherently social, and Signal is a social app. Whether you’re planning a surprise party, discussing last night’s book club meeting, exchanging photos with your family, or organizing something important, group messaging has always been a key feature…
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Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable
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Quanta Magazine
Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable
By considering simple symmetries, physicists working on the “bootstrap” can rediscover the basic form of the known forces that shape the universe.
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2019’s Top Machine and Deep Learning Research Papers
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Fritz ai
Top Machine and Deep Learning Research Papers - Fritz ai
Having had the privilege of compiling a wide range of articles exploring state-of-art machine and deep learning research in 2019 (you can find many of them here), I wanted to take a moment to highlight the ones that I found… Continue reading Top Machine and…
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Show HN: Tiny, fast, and free API to geolocate IP addresses
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GitHub
GitHub - risk3sixty/geoapi: Lightweight API service to get geolocation data from IP addresses.
Lightweight API service to get geolocation data from IP addresses. - risk3sixty/geoapi
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An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)
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CNN
The artificial glacier growing in the desert
Using nothing but physics, Indian engineer Sonam Wangchuk is creating giant ‘ice stupas’ in the Tibetan plateau to counteract the effects of climate change.
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Over the past 35 years, views on privacy and Caller ID have flipped
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
Caller ID History: How Our Views on Phone Privacy Changed
Over the past 35 years, our views on privacy and Caller ID technology have totally flipped. The concern used to be about the caller. Now, it’s the recipient.
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How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
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The New Yorker
How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to a strange new world: the present.
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E-scooter company Unicorn goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads
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BBC News
E-scooter company Unicorn goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads
The Texas-based company reportedly sold just 350 of its $699 commuter scooters.
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Every bookmark manager ever made
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Bookmark OS
Every bookmark manager ever made
Updated June 18th, 2021
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Why Child Care Is So Expensive
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The Atlantic
Why Child Care Is So Ridiculously Expensive
Three broad reasons obtaining care for kids now costs as much as buying a brand new Hyundai Elantra each year
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A walk through the Magit interface
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emacsair.me
Emacsair! A walk through the Magit interface
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
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American Factories Demand White-Collar Education for Blue-Collar Work
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WSJ
American Factories Demand White-Collar Education for Blue-Collar Work
For the first time, U.S. manufacturing workers with college degrees will soon outnumber those without. It’s part of a shift to automation that has increased factory output, opened opportunities for women and reduced prospects for the nation’s lowest-skilled…
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For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town
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Atlas Obscura
For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town
You could own the busiest watering hole for miles.
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Nintendo Switch as Network Switch
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Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust
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Jamesmunns
Formatting is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust
As a (late) part of the #rust2020 request, I wanted to talk about one of the paper-cuts that has become decently problematic for new and experienced users of Embedded Rust:
The size costs of formatting in Rust today are unreasonably expensive for users of…
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