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A 5-story building in China 'walks' to new location
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CNN
A 5-story building in Shanghai ‘walks’ to new location | CNN
Shanghai residents passing through the city’s eastern Huangpu District earlier this month might have stumbled upon an unusual sight: a ‘walking’ building.
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Laser-Guided Lightning May Help Prevent Wildfires
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Laser-Guided Lightning May Help Prevent Wildfires
Small, portable laser pointers could be used to guide lightning strikes, with a study suggesting the technology may prevent bolts from sparking wildfires, a researcher told AFP Thursday.
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SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups as expected, but users are impressed
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Ars Technica
SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups as expected, but users are impressed
"Link stability is a little rough," but Netflix works great, one user says.
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What distinguishes great software engineers? [pdf]
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Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml
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OCaml
Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml
Greetings! I’m a new OCaml user. The intent of this post is simply to share my experience thus far in OCaml and hopefully generate some casual conversation about how other community users think about & use OCaml. What do I hope to get from this post? Critiques…
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RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement
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The Economist
The meaning of RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement
It is unambitious in scope but marks a win for China and a setback for India and America
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Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses
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NY Times
Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses
It can be tempting to ascribe the affliction’s prevalence to our current climate of indulgence, but that’s not the full story.
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The Treehouse Is De-Plaformed
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The Last Refuge
The Treehouse is Deplatformed... - The Last Refuge
Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term “deplatforming.” Unfortunately, the big tech control mechanism to shut down speech & assembly has now arrived on our doorstep. One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received…
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Safely open apps on your Mac
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Apple Support
Safely open apps on your Mac - Apple Support
macOS includes a technology called Gatekeeper, that's designed to ensure that only trusted software runs on your Mac.
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On Taking Criticism
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Observationalhazard
On Taking Criticism
David Kopec's blog.
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Only 17% of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Ethical (2019)
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Forbes
Only 17% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Ethical, Survey Says
The results don't look good for surveillance capitalism ...
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On learning chess as an adult: From 650 to 1750 in two years
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Jacob Brazeal
On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
I caught the chess bug as a college student, twenty-one years old, and it’s become my favorite way to unwind since then, as I’m now working at VisioStack and starting a master’s i…
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Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS
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MacRumors
Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS
Following the release of macOS Big Sur on Thursday, Mac users began to experience issues with opening apps while connected to the internet....
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A woman who is allergic to water (2016)
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Bbc
The woman who is allergic to water
Rachel’s rare condition means that a bath is agony; even her own tears will scorch her face. How can the human body reject life’s most basic necessity?
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The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin
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Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server
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Stolen irreplaceable books found under floor of Romanian house
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BBC News
Stolen books worth £2.5m found under floor of Romanian house
The "irreplaceable" works, including a first edition by Galileo, were taken in a dramatic London heist.
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Italian police use Lamborghini to transport donor kidney 300 miles in two hours
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Jalopnik
Italian Police Use Lamborghini To Transport Donor Kidney 300 Miles In Two Hours
In what may be one of the most Italian things that has ever happened, the Italian State Police rushed a donor kidney from Padua to Rome for a transplant in a Lamborghini Huracan. Last week’s journey is around 300 miles, but with the help of a specially-outfitted…
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Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had
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Alexey Guzey
Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had, as …
It’s easy to give useless advice that feels profound.
For example, one of the pieces of advice I give most often to people is to write more. So a few months ago I suggested to a friend of mine that they should write about the situations in which they started…
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A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension
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Forbes
A Spacetime Surprise: Time Isn’t Just Another Dimension
It's fundamentally different from space. Here's how.
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Apple apps can bypass firewalls and VPNs – a potential security/privacy issue
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TNW
Apple apps on Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs — this is terrible
Security researchers have found that Apple apps on Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs — this is a huge security and privacy issue.
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