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Contractors use shell games to hide owners, cheat taxpayers
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Project On Government Oversight
Contractors Use Shell Games to Hide Owners, Cheat Taxpayers
Contractors are defrauding the government and endangering national security by hiding their real owners behind shell companies, according to a recent watchdog report.
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Worker-in-the-Loop: A Retrospective
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The President and the Bomb, Part IV
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Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
The President and the Bomb, Part IV | Restricted Data
Why the problem of "the President and the bomb" isn't about the "crazy President," but something far more pernicious and possible.
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Satellite Photos Reveal Extent of Damage from Iranian Strike on Air Base in Iraq
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The boring findings from scraping the top 100 e-commerce stores using Shopify
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Reddit
From the Entrepreneur community on Reddit: I scraped the top 100 e-commerce stores using Shopify. Here are my boring findings.
Explore this post and more from the Entrepreneur community
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Specification for the D Programming Language
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Want to make good business decisions? Learn causality
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Stitchfix
Want to make good business decisions? Learn causality | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded
In some organizations, earnest efforts to be “data-driven” devolve into a culture of false certainty in which the influence of metrics is dictated not by the...
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The Most Important Scientific Problems Have yet to Be Solved, by Ramón Y Cajal
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The MIT Press Reader
The Most Important Scientific Problems Have Yet to Be Solved
It is important to realize that if certain areas of science appear to be quite mature, others are in the process of development, and yet others remain to be born.
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Earth-sized planet found in its habitable zone
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Nature
Earth-sized exoplanet in ‘habitable zone’ is one of closest yet to our world
NASA spacecraft also spots an alien world orbiting two stars.
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Firefox critical security update: 72.0.1 and ESR 68.4.1
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Mozilla
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 72.0.1 and Firefox ESR 68.4.1
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GPU Performance for Game Artists (2017)
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GPU Performance for Game Artists
Performance is everybody's responsibility, no matter what your role. For artists, a little knowledge of what goes on under the hood can make a big impact on a game's framerate. If you're an artist and want to understand how the GPU works and why things like…
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How Bees Argue
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A Sick Giant
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Wait But Why
What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book For Societies
Available today
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Battle of Alesia
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Blogging about Midori (2015)
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Joe Duffy - Blogging about Midori
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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NitroPad: Secure Laptop with Unique Tamper Detection
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Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in man's home for decades
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CBC
Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in Sask. man's home for decades | CBC News
Thanks to an intrepid rescue more than 60 years ago, original blueprints of a famously cancelled Canadian military project are now on display at the University of Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Canada Centre.
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How to use Query Objects to refactor Rails SQL-queries
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Refactor Rails SQL with Query Objects | mkdev
Ivan Shamatov, mkdev Ruby on Rails mentor, describes Query Objects and explains how to put them into practice
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13.3" full color ePaper display
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A note on reading big, difficult books
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Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong
A Note on Reading Big, Difficult Books...
Knowledge system and cognitive science guru Andy Matuschak writes a rant called _Why Books Don’t Work_ , about big, difficult books that take him six to nine hours each to read: >Have you ever had a book… come up… [and] discover[ed] that you’d absorbed what…
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Show HN: Visualizing Your Life in Weeks
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Failflow
How many weeks until you die?
Find out how many more weeks you have to live!
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