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How to Respond to COVID-19
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GatesNotes
How to respond to COVID-19
We need to save lives now, and also improve the way we respond to outbreaks in general.
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A half hour to learn Rust
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fasterthanli.me
A half-hour to learn Rust
In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it.
But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or...
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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
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gwern.net
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
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Amazon tells employees to pause nonessential travel in U.S. due to coronavirus
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Reuters
Amazon defers 'non-essential' moves even in U.S. as corporate travel bans spread
(Reuters) - Amazon.com deferred all non-essential travel, within the U.S. and beyond, and Google set new restrictions for travel to South Korea and other places, as corporations moved to protect employees from the spread of coronavirus.
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We’re Not Ready for the Next Epidemic (2015)
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We’re not ready for the next epidemic
The world isn’t prepared to handle a massive epidemic. But we can get there.
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Trump Backs Limits on Secret Surveillance Court
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WSJ
Trump Backs Limits on Secret Surveillance Court
President Trump has signaled his support for a measure that would prohibit the U.S. government from turning to a secretive surveillance court to obtain wiretaps on Americans, setting up a potential clash between the president and the intelligence community.
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Draft of the fastai Book
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GitHub
GitHub - fastai/fastbook: The fastai book, published as Jupyter Notebooks
The fastai book, published as Jupyter Notebooks. Contribute to fastai/fastbook development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A Text Renaissance
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A quick primer on type traits in modern C++
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Internal Pointers
A quick primer on type traits in modern C++
Discovering one of the pillars of C++ generic programming.
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I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
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StamfordAdvocate
I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad.
I have the coronavirus. And it hasn't been that bad.
I am in my late 60s, and the sickest I've ever been was when I had bronchitis several years ago. That laid me out on my back for a few days. This has been much easier: no chills, no body aches. I breathe…
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Trader Joe's founder Joe Coulombe, dies at 89
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usatoday
Joe Coulombe: Trader Joe's founder dies at 89
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My Covid-19 Story. Brooklyn
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Reddit
r/nyc on Reddit
My COVID-19 Story. Brooklyn. - 9,104 votes and 1,674 comments
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Programming trick questions
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qntm.org
Programming trick questions
Note: me telling you up front that these are trick questions rather gives the answers away in most cases, but oh well.
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Question 1
What's the fastest way to sort a jumbled array, given that the array has length N and contains all the integers…
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Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey
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the Guardian
Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report
Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has taken a ‘sizable stake’ and intends to ‘push for changes’, reports Bloomberg News
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Three Years of Metal (2019)
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zeux.io
Three years of Metal
3 years ago, we ported our renderer to Metal. It didn’t take much time, it was a blast and it worked really well on iOS. Today Metal is in better shape than ever - and I’d like to talk a bit about that.
But first, if you have not read the original article…
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The Zephyr Airline seat offers a better experience in economy
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FlyerTalk - The world's most popular frequent flyer community
These New Economy Seat Concepts Are Getting Interesting
Some companies are making an effort to introduce more comfortable alternatives to the economy seat, such as Air New Zealand's Economy Skynest and newcomer Zephyr.
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The File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
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Vice
Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
We used the California Consumer Privacy Act to see what information the controversial facial recognition company has collected on me.
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All the current trees in Barcelona City
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CARTO
Arbrat viari de la ciutat de Barcelona
Font: OpenDataBCN — Map created by Juanjo Vidal in CARTO
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The Korean Clusters: How coronavirus cases exploded in Korean churches/hospitals
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Reuters
2019 coronavirus: The Korean clusters
How coronavirus cases exploded in South Korean churches and hospitals
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Seattle Area Patient with Coronavirus Dies
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A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip
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Alexander Bakker's Blog
A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip (CVE-2019-9465)
Starting with the release of the Pixel 3, all of Google's Pixel Android smartphones come with the Titan M security chip on board. When I realized the Pixel 3a XL I purchased also had it, I decided to try to take advantage of it in an app I work on. It turned…
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