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The limits of high-speed rail
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Mapping Ignorance
The limits of high speed rail - Mapping Ignorance
Author: Iván Rivera works as an engineer in innovation projects for railroads Twelve years have passed since the world record for rail speed was set. “Operation V150”, which got its name from the target speed for its testbed trainset, 150 metres per second…
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)
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Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (2004)
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Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
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The Intercept
How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron in Ecuador. The company sued him in New York, and now he’s under house arrest.
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Tesla Remotely Removes Autopilot Features from Used Tesla Without Any Notice
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Jalopnik
Tesla Remotely Removes Autopilot Features From Customer's Used Tesla Without Any Notice [Updated] - Jalopnik
One of the less-considered side effects of car features moving from hardware to software is that important features and abilities of a car can now be removed without any actual contact with a given car. Where once de-contenting involved at least a screwdriver…
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This person does not exist
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Critical Bluetooth Vulnerability in Android (CVE-2020-0022)
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Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?
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Show HN: Building an open-source language-learning platform
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Why Google Might Prefer Dropping a $22B Business
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Bloomberg
Why Google Might Prefer Dropping a $22 Billion Business
Divesting its third-party ad operation could stave off even worse regulatory action.
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MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)
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Latest EU data shows that in the Netherlands 14% of employees work from home
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JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
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The Cloudflare Blog
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
An analysis, based on CDNJS data, of when and if JavaScript libraries are updated after being installed onto websites.
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Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming
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Matt Stauffer
Setting Up Your Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming
I've started live streaming and publishing videos on my YouTube Channel again recently and it made me realize just how much work I've put into getting a good hardware setup—not just for the streams, but also just as someone who works remote and sits on video…
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Warner music claimed my video for defending their copyright [video]
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YouTube
warner music claimed my video for defending their copyright in a lawsuit they lost the copyright for
The dumbest, most ironic claim ever. (the claim has been released, but keeping this video up)
The original video that was claimed
https://youtu.be/0ytoUuO-qvg
Adam
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95%-ile isn't that good
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The Seven-Year Auto Loan: America’s Middle Class Can’t Afford Its Cars
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WSJ
The Seven-Year Auto Loan: America’s Middle Class Can’t Afford Its Cars
The availability of inexpensive debt on increasingly generous terms is supporting auto industry sales and profits. For consumers, it’s become a crutch to support their expectations.
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Dawn, a WebGPU Implementation in C++
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Dicts are now ordered, get used to it
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Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism
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BeachGrit
The surf industry paradox: "Surfing, by its very nature, contradicts basic capitalism!" - BeachGrit
Despite the ruckus in the surf industry, surfing is very much alive and chugging along nicely, thank you, oblivious to most of the drama that surrounds the long-running mismanagement of surfing as an industry. So why all the bad news? The Hurley debacle is…
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EGA Chapter 1: The Language of Schemes
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