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Why are some things darker when wet?
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Aryan Kashyap
Why are some things darker when wet?
Have you ever wondered why some things become dark when you spill water on them? What’s exactly happening?
Well, let’s find out!
SourceBefore I explain this phenomenon to...
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Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups
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A surprising new source of attention in the brain
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SciTechDaily
A Surprising New Source of Attention in the Brain Raises New Questions
As you read this line, you're bringing each word into clear view for a brief moment while blurring out the rest, perhaps even ignoring the roar of a leaf blower outside. It may seem like a trivial skill, but it's actually fundamental to almost everything…
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BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
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Hackaday
BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X
You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as C…
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The Oldschool PC Font Pack
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int10h.org
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack: Home
Home of the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles
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The MTA Is Going After an Etsy Artist over a New York Subway Map It Didn’t Make
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Vice
The MTA Is Going After an Etsy Artist Over a New York Subway Map It Didn’t Make
Jake Berman spent more than 300 hours making his own subway map because he didn't like the MTA's. Now the MTA says he can't sell it.
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A Croatian Fisherman Caught a Brand New, Mysterious NASA Device While Fishing
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Open Source, SaaS and Monetization
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Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
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Vice
Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
"We are aware of incidents discussed below where employees violated our policies," a letter from Ring obtained by Motherboard reads.
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San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident
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Curbed SF
San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident
And the Bay Area’s ten largest cities combined sport three empty homes for every two persons without one.
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Postman announces 50% price hike starting Feb 2020
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Show HN: Ilograph – Interactive Architecture Diagrams-as-Code
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Ilograph
Ilograph Interactive Diagrams
Create interactive, multi-perspective diagrams with Ilograph
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Facebook Forcing Moderators to Log Every Second of Day – Even in the Bathroom
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Vice
Facebook Is Forcing Its Moderators to Log Every Second of Their Days — Even in the Bathroom
“People have to clock in and clock out even when going to the toilet and explain the reason why they were delayed, which is embarrassing and humiliating.”
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Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the industrial revolution
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eLife
Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the Industrial Revolution
Since the Industrial Revolution, normal body temperature in both men and women has decreased monotonically by 0.03°C per birth decade.
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Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous
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Python⇒Speed
Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous
Copying data wastes memory, and modifying/mutating data can lead to bugs. Learn how to implement a compromise between the two in Python: hidden mutability.
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An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions
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Quanta Magazine
An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions
The laws of physics stay the same no matter one’s perspective. Now this idea is allowing computers to detect features in curved and higher-dimensional space.
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Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
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Axios
E-scooter startup Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
The move comes with layoffs of about 14% of its workforce.
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A simple C++11 Thread Pool implementation
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GitHub
GitHub - progschj/ThreadPool: A simple C++11 Thread Pool implementation
A simple C++11 Thread Pool implementation. Contribute to progschj/ThreadPool development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Australia's severe wildfires were predicted by the government over a decade ago
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Newsweek
Australia's severe wildfires were predicted by the government over a decade ago
Fires in the country have burned more than 8 million hectares and killed at least 24 people.
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Precious Plastic Version 4 [video]
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YouTube
Precious Plastic 4 - Fully explained
The Precious Plastic Universe is our masterplan to create a global solution to tackle the plastic waste problem. In this video we’ll explain the ins and outs of our alternative plastic recycling system. We’ll explain about machines, business plans products…
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For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests
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