form of delegative democracy

One vote doesn’t seem like much. On its own, it hardly matters at all. But if you think of yourself as part of something bigger — America, let’s say — then that one vote can make a difference. Many…

A D.C. man opened his doors to dozens of protesters overnight Tuesday after he said officers physically attacked and pepper-sprayed a group of over 200 demonstrators. Protesters emerged from the three-story rowhome a few minutes after a citywide curfew expired…

Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was first produced 45 years ago. 1 This chip, Intel's first 8-bit microprocessor, is the ancesto...

Bitcoin mining is a complex phenomenon that connects hardware and software, the energy and financial markets. Invisible rules govern every aspect of it. The performance of an individual operation is determined by various external factors that are often hard…

The Justice Department gave the agency the temporary power “to enforce any federal crime committed as a result of the protests over the death of George Floyd.”

“If a customer calls to place a coffee order, we’re paying a $6.42 fee — for a coffee.”

(Reuters) - Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode.

AT&T-owned HBO Max gets special treatment on AT&T network.

How to ship your apps on Debian and derivatives.

Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States - Volume 114 Issue 2

violent confrontation that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining

Physicist Richard Feynman had the following advice for those interested in science: “So I hope you can accept Nature as She is—absurd.”1 Here Feynman captures in stark terms the most basic insight of modern science: nature is not understandable in terms of…

Exploring JVM specification and trying to write a little code to interpret a Java class like a real JVM.

The Police Use of Force Project investigates how police use of force policies can help to end police violence.

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have created a form of nitrogen that’s never been seen before. Nicknamed “black nitrogen,” the new substance is crystalline, occurs in two-dimensional sheets, and could one day be useful in advanced electronics.

There’s a famous blog post by Joel Spolsky where he asserts that you should never rewrite a codebase from scratch. He cites the example of…

Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop - GitHub - szimek/sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop

BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. will both use equipment from Scandinavian component makers Nokia and Ericsson to build out their next-generation 5G networks in Canada.