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Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills
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Bloomberg.com
Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives.
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Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019
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Uber
Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019
Revenue of $4.1 billion, growing 37% year-over-year or 39% on a constant currency basis Rides Adjusted EBITDA of $742 million, with continued margin expansion Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and…
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DHS plans urgently needed to address identified challenges before 2020 elections [pdf]
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No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
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interviewing.io
No engineer has ever sued a company because of constructive post-interview feedback. So why don’t employers do it?
One of the things that sucks most about technical interviews is that they’re a black box. How can we tackle that?
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Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram's tracking algorithm
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CNET
Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram's tracking algorithm
Teenagers are using group accounts to flood Instagram with random user data that can't be tied to a single person.
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FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
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flif.info
FLIF - Free Lossless Image Format
Official website for the FLIF image format
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Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang confirmed dead of coronavirus at 34
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South China Morning Post
After chaos, Dr Li Wenliang, coronavirus whistle-blower, confirmed dead at 34
Li was one of the first doctors who tried to share information about the coronavirus only to be reprimanded by Wuhan police. Wuhan Central Hospital initially denied reports he was dead, saying he was in ‘critical condition’, before finally confirming he had…
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Global warming is speeding up Earth‘s ocean currents
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Science
Global warming is speeding up Earth’s massive ocean currents
Rising winds boost flows in tropics and Southern Ocean
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Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found
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Ars Technica
Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found
"If it had gone uncorrected it would have led to erroneous thruster firing."
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TV Backlight Compensation
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Lofibucket
TV backlight compensation
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Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions
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Electric Coin Company
Lessons From The History Of Attacks On Secure Hash Functions
This document is a work-in-progress. Please contact the author if you see errors or omissions. Most of the secure hash functions ever designed have turned out to be vulnerable to collision attacks.
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Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?
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Angular 9.0
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Medium
Version 9 of Angular Now Available— Project Ivy has arrived!
The 9.0.0 release of Angular is here! This is a major release that spans the entire platform, including the framework, Angular Material…
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The JVM's mysterious AllocatePrefetch options: what do they do?
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Opsian
The JVM's mysterious AllocatePrefetch options: what do they actually do?
The HotSpot JVM comes with a range of non-standard -XX: options, many of which have an impact on performance. One set are the family of so-called AllocatePrefetch options comprising: -XX:AllocatePrefetchStyle, -XX:AllocatePrefetchStepSize, -XX:AllocatePrefetchLines…
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A proactive approach to e-scooter safety
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Medium
Those E-Scooters Might Not Be as Dangerous as You Think
A civil engineer looks at traffic data to improve road safety
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U.S. deploys 'more survivable' submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon
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Reuters
U.S. deploys 'more survivable' submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department said on Tuesday the Navy had fielded a low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, something the Pentagon believes is needed to deter adversaries like Russia but which critics say lowers the…
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Benchmarking Debian vs. Alpine as a base Docker image
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Nick Janetakis
Benchmarking Debian vs Alpine as a Base Docker Image — Nick Janetakis
Most official Docker images offer both Debian and Alpine based images but there's some surprising performance results between the 2.
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Migrating to CockroachDB
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www.openmymind.net
Migrating to CockroachDB
CockroachDB is a newSQL database, behaving much like a traditional database while providing consistent HA and scalability out of the box.
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How Andre Iguodala handled his rare NBA sabbatical in Silicon Valley
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ESPN.com
How Andre Iguodala handled his rare NBA sabbatical
Iguodala hasn't played a second of basketball since June, but now he's back on a contender. Here's how he spent his time away from the NBA.
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Apple’s independent repair program is invasive to shops and their customers
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Vice
Apple’s Independent Repair Program Is Invasive to Shops and Their Customers, Contract Shows
The contract states independent repair shops must agree to audits and inspections by Apple, even if they leave the program.
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1k True Fans? Try 100
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Andreessen Horowitz
1,000 True Fans? Try 100
More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living off their creations, whether an artist, musician, author, …
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