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Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
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ZDNet
Commentary: How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley
Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians and many of them are allegedly making life a living hell for Dalits, those who are classified as the lowest of the low in India, whose horrifying historical persecution has continued in the cradle…
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How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work
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Remains of the Day
Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day
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A Picture of Java in 2020
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The JetBrains Blog
A Picture of Java in 2020 | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog
This year Java hit an incredible milestone and reached the grand old age of 25 years. We celebrated its jubilee by running a special online Java day event, where lots of expert speakers shared their e
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St Helena laws for inhabitants 1672
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blogs.bl.uk
St Helena laws for inhabitants 1672
From its earliest days, the East India Company’s ships called at the South Atlantic island of St Helena on homeward voyages from Asia. They gathered supplies of fresh water, citrus fruits, meat and fish. Company ships also used St Helena as a place of rendezvous.…
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Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months
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Bbc
Internet: Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months
Every morning at 7am when the second hand TV was switched on, the village internet went down.
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Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Country This Week
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Vice
Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Country This Week
Activists in Palo Alto will hold a "good riddance" protest followed by an "unwelcome" party at Palantir's new Denver headquarters as part of a nationwide week of actions against the surveillance giant.
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Why should I do production support?
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Deven Bhooshan
why should I do production support?
I hear this question almost every month from at-least one product engineer(specially new hires) in the team. In this blog post, I will to try to answer this question with my experience of doing pro…
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Star Tek–Exploiting the Final Frontier: Counterspace Operations in 2025 (1996) [pdf]
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Bypassing ESP32 Encrypted Secure Boot
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Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge
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GitHub
GitHub - revnull/noisefunge-legacy: A music programming environment
A music programming environment. Contribute to revnull/noisefunge-legacy development by creating an account on GitHub.
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What Is the Sound of Thought?
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The MIT Press Reader
What Is the Sound of Thought?
Reading linguistic thought directly from the brain has brought us closer to answering an age-old question — and has opened the door to many more.
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Assange Hearing Day 14
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Craig Murray
Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 14
Monday was a frustrating day as the Assange Hearing drifted deep into a fantasy land where nobody knows or is allowed to say that people were tortured in Guantanamo Bay and under extraordinary renditi
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Show HN: Play Battleships on PostgreSQL
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GitHub
GitHub - selectel/sql-battleships: [Community] Play Battleships on PostgreSQL
[Community] Play Battleships on PostgreSQL. Contribute to selectel/sql-battleships development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Remove first 300M lines from 700 GB file on 1TB disk
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Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
How do I remove the first 300 million lines from a 700 GB txt file on a system with 1 TB disk space?
How do I remove the first 300 million lines from a 700 GB text file
on a system with 1 TB disk space total, with 300 GB available?
(My system has 2 GB of memory.)
The answers I found use sed, tail,
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Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
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themarkup.org
Blacklight – The Markup
A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
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Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, but for Evicting People
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Vice
Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People
A company called Civvl says evicting people is the "FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19."
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China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
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U.S.
Exclusive: China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural laborers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region that rights groups have branded…
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Designing Up Banking
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Up — Easy Money
The Evolutionary Design of Up
A deep-dive on the design journey of the Up app. A collaboration between product, design, engineering and our growing base of Upsiders.
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Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams
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Amazon
Workload Discovery on AWS
Workload Discovery on AWS (formerly called AWS Perspective) is a tool to visualize AWS Cloud workloads. Use Workload Discovery on AWS to build, customize, and share detailed architecture diagrams of your workloads based on live data from AWS.
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British Museum makes lost Hokusai drawings available online
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Smithsonian Magazine
You Can Now Explore 103 ‘Lost’ Hokusai Drawings Online
Newly acquired by the British Museum, the trove of illustrations dates to 1829
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Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come from All Around to Watch
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Atlas Obscura
Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come From All Around to Watch
A window into complex avian sociopolitical lives.
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