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Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest
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Nautilus
Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest
Dear Bella,I’m going to imitate Rudyard Kipling and tell you a just-so story. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the…
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What's Behind Technological Hype?
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Issues in Science and Technology
What’s Behind Technological Hype?
Many highly touted new technologies and start-ups are seriously over-hyped. Buying into this hype hurts the economy and actual innovation.
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Virgin Australia administrators agree to sell airline to Bain Capital
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the Guardian
Virgin Australia administrators agree to sell airline to American private equity firm Bain Capital
Administrators Deloitte say the deal, which still needs creditor approval, would retain thousands of jobs and recapitalise the airline
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Relax for the Same Result (2015)
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Derek Sivers
Relax for the same result
A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach.
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Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update'to prevent confusion'
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ZDNet
Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update by IT pros 'to prevent confusion'
Microsoft has made a change, acknowledged publicly this week, in how manual deferral of Windows 10 feature updates will be handled by business users starting with the May 2020/2004 update.
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Software Entropy
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Camhashemi
Software Entropy
Defining Entropy Entropy is a measure of chaos, or disorder, in a system.
My college physics professor described entropy using two shoe closets.
Imagine a clean shoe closet, where all shoes are paired and sorted by color. The closet’s entropy is the total…
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Microsoft to permanently close nearly all of its retail stores
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The Verge
Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores
Just four locations will remain open. The rest are closing.
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The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US
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the Guardian
The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US
Wildlife Services kills thousands of animals at ranchers and farmers’ behest. But it operates with little oversight – and critics describe it as out of control
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Permacomputing
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Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
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BuzzFeed News
Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location
Data company Mobilewalla used cellphone information to estimate the demographics of protesters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says it’s “shady” and concerning.
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Earning $800 / Month with Spotify
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Steve Benjamins
Earning $800 / Month With Spotify — Steve Benjamins
I'm making over $800 per month with my music— almost exclusively through Spotify. This is up from $400 per month last year. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a major label. I'm just a small indie artist making music in my evenings— and…
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Trust, Slavery and the African School of Economics
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The Economist
Trust, slavery and the African School of Economics
Leonard Wantchekon is trying to build a world-class university in Benin
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Working on iPad
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Vercel on Notion
Working on iPad
For the past weeks, I've been working exclusively from an iPad Pro 11
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What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)
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Evan S. Porter
How to Write for The Onion & Lessons Learned
I wrote for The Onion News Network for exactly four weeks. Here's what I learned.
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Prisma Raises $12M Series A to Build the Next Generation of Database Tools
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“Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari.”
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Apple Developer Documentation
Safari Technology Preview Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Learn about changes for Safari Technology Preview releases and Web Inspector for macOS.
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Apple, Big Sur, and the Rise of Neumorphism
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Input
Apple, Big Sur, and the rise of Neumorphism
Like it or not, the user interfaces of the near future are going to be much lusher, and often cringe-inducing.
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SARS-CoV-2 detected in Barcelona sewage water sample from March 2019
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medRxiv
Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater anticipates the occurrence of COVID-19 cases
SARS-CoV-2 was detected in Barcelona sewage long before the declaration of the first COVID-19 case, indicating that the infection was present in the population before the first imported case was reported. Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater…
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New York Times developers squabble over decision to doxx Scott Alexander
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The Daily Beast
The Latest Squabble Inside The New York Times
Yet another internal beef has emerged at the paper of record—this time over the alleged “doxxing” of the psychiatrist behind popular blog Slate Star Codex.
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Why Climate Change Won't Be Stopped
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Show HN: HiFiC – Generative Image Compression (demo and paper)
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hific.github.io
HiFiC - High-Fidelity Generative Image Compression
We combine Generative Adversarial Networks with learned compression to obtain a state-of-the-art generative lossy compression system.
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