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How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw over Workers
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The New Republic
How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw Over Workers
C-suite executives use share buybacks to manipulate stock prices for their own benefit, and no one else’s.
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Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server
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tamas.dev
Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server
Can’t sell it? Repurpose it! It was around 4 years ago when I bought a used, slightly beat up Asus C300 Chromebook from a friend of mine for £50. It served me well, I installed Linux on it and used it to work on some side projects while commuting. However…
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How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? (2016)
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NASA JPL Education
How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? – News | NASA JPL Education
While world record holders may have memorized more than 70,000 digits of pi, a JPL engineer explains why you really only need a tiny fraction of that for most calculations – even at NASA.
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Manually verified job salaries/offers in Artificial Intelligence
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China's social credit system is both unique and part of a global trend
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Tutanota
China's Social Credit System: It's both unique and part of a global trend.
China's Social Credit System is meant to improve society while denying citizens their Human Rights.
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Abuse isn’t an “advising style”: Consequences of MIT sheltering abusive mentors
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Medium
Abuse isn’t an “advising style”: The consequences of MIT sheltering abuse behind mentorship
The notification of an email, the buzzing of a text, or the unexpected call sent me into a spell of anxiety.
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YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions
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Ars Technica
YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week by killing crowd-sourced captions
500,000 signatures aren't stopping YouTube from shutting down accessibility feature.
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Technology has created a barrage of notifications and interactions
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WIRED
How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole
Instead of optimizing work, technology has created a nonstop barrage of notifications and interactions. Six months into a pandemic, it's worse than ever.
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Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
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Google Docs
Pack.png seed reversal methodology
Pack.png A Search By The Minecraft Community SalC1 Approved Unofficial_Approved pack.png This document documents the method used for reversing the seed of pack.png, the default icon of minecraft texture packs and servers. Brief Summary of what was useful…
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Show HN: Erlang code generator for Idris 2
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GitHub
GitHub - chrrasmussen/Idris2-Erlang: Erlang code generator for Idris 2
Erlang code generator for Idris 2. Contribute to chrrasmussen/Idris2-Erlang development by creating an account on GitHub.
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SEC charges Amazon finance manager with insider trading
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APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS
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The Eclectic Light Company
APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS, and more
APFS adds 6 volume roles, including one which supports Time Machine backups. And per-file encryption is coming.
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Microsoft 365 Widespread Outage
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I can’t upgrade the firmware of my toothbrush because I once did jailbreak
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Peter Steinberger
cc @PhilipsCare please fix your jailbreak detection thx
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What is it like to be a smartphone?
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ROUGH TYPE
What is it like to be a smartphone?
“The fact that we cannot expect ever to accommodate in our language a detailed denoscription of Martian or bat phenomenology should not lead us to dismiss as meaningless the claim that bats and…
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Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars
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The Information
Infighting, ‘Busywork,’ Missed Warnings: How Uber Wasted $2.5 Billion on Self-Driving Cars
After five years and an investment of around $2.5 billion, Uber’s effort to build a self-driving car has produced this: a car that can’t drive more than half a mile without encountering a problem. “The car doesn’t drive well” and “struggles with simple routes…
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Google requiring Android apps to use its billing system next year
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9to5Google
Google requiring Android apps on the Play Store to use its IAP billing system next year
As rumored last week, Google today announced that it will require all Android apps downloaded from the Play Store to use its in-app billing system...
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Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
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Spread Privacy
As Predicted, Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
Google's search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.
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Type Systems Explained with Examples
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Show HN: A simple way to set goals you actually follow
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Facebook ads targeted black audiences for voting “deterrence”
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Channel 4 News
Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016
3.5 million Black Americans were profiled and categorised as ‘Deterrence’ by Trump campaign – voters they wanted to stay home on election day
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