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When SimCity Got Serious: Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
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The Obscuritory
When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery | The Obscuritory
The creators of SimCity had a division that made Sim games for corporations. They were never released to the public. For the first time ever, this is the story of Maxis Business Simulations.
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Show HN: Fantasy Congress – a fantasy sports website for politics
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Fantasy Congress
Welcome to Fantasy Congress: Fantasy Sports for U.S. Politics
Draft members of congress for your team, earn points weekly from their actions, and become a champion by getting the most points during the season.
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
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Quanta Magazine
Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway.
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Introducing Facebook Shops
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Meta Newsroom
Introducing Facebook Shops: Helping Small Businesses Sell Online
We’re launching Facebook Shops and investing in features across our apps that inspire people to shop and make selling online easier.
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Square announces permanent work-from-home policy
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The Verge
Square announces permanent work-from-home policy
Employees have been working remotely since early March due to the spread of COVID-19.
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Launch HN: Satchel (YC S18) – Guides to the Best SaaS Tools
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Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
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www.csun.io
Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash | Cameron Sun
An overview of how I use the open source accounting program GnuCash to manage my finances and generate cool graphs.
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Blogging Is Not Dead
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www.garron.blog
Blogging is not dead
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Uber engineering layoffs expected tomorrow
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The Information
Uber Managers Asked for Pay Cut to Save Jobs. The CEO Said No
In late April, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called a meeting of the executives in charge of the ride-hailing firm’s nearly 4,000-person engineering department to tell them they needed to plan to cut headcount by 20%.Some of the engineering leaders responded…
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Old bills in Yemen are worth 10% more than new ones
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Blogspot
One country, two monetary systems
I often write about odd monetary phenomena on this blog. Here's a new contender, Yemen's dual banknote system. Yemen uses the Yemeni ri...
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Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
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The Verge
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
Developers will be able to run Linux apps side by side with Windows ones
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Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq
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Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
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TechCrunch
Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
Over the past couple of years, Spotify has demonstrated a long-term commitment to the podcasting format by shelling out money hand over fist. The music streaming service has made a number of high-profile acquisitions, including production company Gimlet and…
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Signal PINs
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Signal
Introducing Signal PINs
At Signal, our goal is to build a reliable, secure, and private communication experience that is broadly accessible and simple to use. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours.
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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Microsoft News
DirectX
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DirectX 12, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL and OpenCL acceleration are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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A safer and more private browsing experience with Secure DNS
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Chromium Blog
A safer and more private browsing experience with Secure DNS
With Chrome 83, we’ve started rolling out Secure DNS, a feature built on top of a secure DNS protocol called DNS-over-HTTPS, which is desi...
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402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed
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Artur Piszek
402 Payment Required and why micropayments are doomed
Micropayments systems are doomed. Here is why.
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DirectX on Linux
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‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ launches exclusive partnership with Spotify
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Spotify
‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ Launches Exclusive Partnership with Spotify
The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is coming to Spotify via a multi-year exclusive licensing deal. The talk series has long been the most-searched-for podcast on Spotify and is the leading show on practically every other…
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Censorship by Google
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Wikipedia
Censorship by Google
Google's removal or omission of information from its services or those of its subsidiary companies
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No free view? No review.
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nofreeviewnoreview.org
No free view? No review!
Sign the pledge not to review for closed-access publications!
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