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S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US
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The Sounding Line
S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US - The Sounding Line
Given the massive 'investment' corporations have made in their own equity, the need to sustain higher share prices with ever more buybacks creates a feedback loop that is drowning out real investment
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Jack Dorsey Wants to Decentralize Twitter
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Decrypt
Jack Dorsey wants to decentralize Twitter
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed he wants to create an open standard for decentralized social media. And it will start with Twitter.
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The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy
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Boing Boing
The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy
America is one of the only developed countries in the world that pays people to donate blood, much of it sold abroad (70% of the world’s plasma is of US origin), and as commercial blood donat…
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Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
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X (formerly Twitter)
jack (@jack) on X
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.
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Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
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New Atlas
Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
Treating prostate cancer through traditional means such as surgery or radiotherapy carries certain risks, with some patients experiencing impotence, urinary problems and bowel trouble, among other unwanted side effects. Safer and less invasive treatment options…
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Why the next professional network will look nothing like LinkedIn
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Substack
Why the next professional network will look nothing like LinkedIn
As LinkedIn unbundles, SaaS companies emerge as leaders of the new professional networks
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Twitter kicks off Bluesky: independent decentralized protocol for social media
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Twitter
Parag Agrawal
I’m incredibly excited for Twitter to kick off @bluesky, a new independent effort to develop a decentralized standard for social media. Please see @jack’s thread for more context. I have the privilege of finding a lead for this team. twitter.com/jack/status/12…
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Why Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm
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CityLab
Why Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm
In cities like New York, Paris, Rotterdam, and soon San Francisco, car-free streets are emerging amid a growing movement.
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ASCII QR
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Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 Max Crashes
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WSJ
Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 MAX Crashes
U.S. regulators decided to allow Boeing’s 737 MAX jet to keep flying after its first fatal crash last fall even after their own analysis indicated it could become one of the most accident-prone airliners in decades without design changes.
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A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”
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Twitter
A thread about Internet Archive's "Silent Killer" and why you should both donate to @internetarchive this month (https://t.co/EZkFMNo1xX) and encourage others to do so. (Photos by Jamie Lyons)
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Biggest list of fully remote, 100% distributed companies
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remotemasters.dev
112 Fully Remote Tech Companies | Remote Masters
We believe this is the most up to date list of tech companies with fully remote, 100% distributed software development teams on the internet.
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Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
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GitHub
GitHub - yandex/odyssey: Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler
Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler. Contribute to yandex/odyssey development by creating an account on GitHub.
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HOWTO: Get tenure (2015)
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Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
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Google Cloud Blog
Understanding dynamic resource management in E2 VMs | Google Cloud Blog
A technical look at dynamic resource management behind E2 VM machine types.
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Google bans niche browsers from GMail
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Reddit
r/kde - Google bans Falkon and Konqueror browsers! Probably other niche browsers too.
287 votes and 151 comments so far on Reddit
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Flutter: UI platform designed for ambient computing
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Googleblog
Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud
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The front end of an example full-stack app built using Vue and Node
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GitHub
GitHub - TahaSh/vue-forum-app: The frontend of an example fullstack app built using vue and node
The frontend of an example fullstack app built using vue and node - TahaSh/vue-forum-app
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DrumBot: Real-Time ML Drummer
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Magenta
DrumBot: your real-time ML drummer
One of the most interesting applications for Magenta models are real-time apps that have the user in the loop. Historically, most of the applications using o...
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Java's URL.equals() Performs DNS Resolution
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ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
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TechCrunch
ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance | TechCrunch
One of the largest civil liberties groups in the U.S. is suing two Homeland Security agencies for failing to turn over documents it requested as part of a
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