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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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64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
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AnandTech
The 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review: In The Midst Of Chaos, AMD Seeks Opportunity
The recent renaissance of AMD as the performance choice in the high-end x86 market has been great for consumers, enabling a second offering at the top-end of the market. Where Intel offers 28 cores, AMD offers 24 and 32 core parts for the high-end desktop…
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Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75
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GitHub
Chrome 79 and 80 results · Issue #683 · krausest/js-framework-benchmark
Results for Chrome 79 are online. Sadly this benchmark reports one again worse numbers for a newer chrome version:
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France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones
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Deutsche Welle
France fines Apple €25 million for slowing iPhone software
France's consumer watchdog slapped on the fine two years after Apple admitted its iOS software slowed down the performance of older phones.
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Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold
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The Verge
Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold
Tesla claims it can yank features from even used cars
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Mental health websites don't have to sell user data but most still do
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Privacy International
Mental health websites don't have to sell your data. Most still do.
The changes discussed in this article are based on a second analysis performed in late November, 3 months after the original study Your Mental Health is for Sale and following the exact same methodology.
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Ericsson pulls out of major Barcelona conference over coronavirus
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Reuters
Ericsson pulls out of major Barcelona conference over coronavirus
STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson withdrew on Friday from this month’s major international telecoms conference in Barcelona due to the coronavirus outbreak, becoming the second major exhibitor to pull out.
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Under Armour dumped its app
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Bloomberg.com
Under Armour Dumped Its App, and Consumers Feel the Heartbreak
It’s the kind of thing that’s going to happen more in our connected lives.
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Apollo 11 guidance computer vs. USB-C chargers
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Software-dependent devices: do they now need expiration dates?
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Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action
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Idursun
Rust zero cost abstractions in action
One of my colleagues was experimenting with Rust. He started by writing a sudoku solver which he has already written in C before. Once he was completed writing it in Rust, he was very disappointed because Rust version was twice as fast than the C version…
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Board Games of the Ancient World
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Best Board Games of the Ancient World
Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga
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Guide to the London Startup Ecosystem
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Startups of London
London Startup Ecosystem - Ultimate Report 2023 | Startups of London
London Startup Ecosystem is growing and evolving each day. Read the deeply researched, comprehensive guide for 2023 strategies!
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“Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted
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Science
The Arctic’s thawing permafrost is releasing a shocking amount of dangerous gases
This “abrupt thaw” affects 5 percent of Arctic permafrost, but it could double the amount of warming it contributes.
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Wikimedia Cookbook
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Cats, lasers and Raspberry Pi
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Raspberry Pi
Cats and lasers and (Raspberry) Pi, OH MY!
Keeping a modern cat entertained requires something more high-tech than a ball of yarn. The MagPi's Phil King wonders if this is a purr-fect project
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Simple, solar-powered water desalination
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MIT News
Simple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve…
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