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That Dothraki Horde, Part I: Barbarian Couture
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part I: Barbarian Couture
This series is now available in audio format. You can find the playlist here. This is the first part of a three four part (I, II, III, IV) look at the Dothraki, the fictional horse-borne nomads of …
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Face masks considerably reduce Covid-19 cases in Germany (12/2020)
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PNAS
Face masks considerably reduce COVID-19 cases in Germany | PNAS
We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread
of COVID-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits ...
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How Takashi Murakami Got His Start as an Artist
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Artsy
How Takashi Murakami Got His Start as an Artist
Before achieving art stardom, Takashi Murakami was making drab, traditional paintings, aspired to be an animator, and dreamt of moving to New York.
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How I read books: a guide on how to learn
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Medium
How I read books: setting up a new system
Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…
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Project Loom and Structured Concurrency
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JVM Advent
Project Loom and Structured Concurrency - JVM Advent
Project Loom is one of the major “projects” in which Java is moved forward, alongside the perhaps better known projects Amber and Valhalla. It will bring “virtual” threads with low resource footprint and low cost of blocking to the Java plaform. Here is my…
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A Byte of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles
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Faroe Island's first roundabout in the World under The Atlantic Ocean
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An oral history of the hamburger icon (2019)
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Invisionapp
An oral history of the hamburger icon (by the people who were there) | Inside Design Blog
<p>It was 1981. Computing was in its infancy. And the designers at Xerox needed a solution…</p>
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On this day in 1995: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript
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I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for commercial and personal use
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High-Quality SVG Free Frontliner Heroes Illustrations
Free Frontliner Heroes Illustrations - This is a pack of high quality illustrations with 24 illustrations in total. Create breath-taking websites, landing pages, projects, newsletters, and presentations. Buy cheap Illustrations without compromising on quality.
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Bit Twiddling Hacks
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What was Aragorn's tax policy? [video]
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What was Aragorn's tax policy?
In Deep Geek - Insight and intelligent discussion on Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Westworld and more.Join me on Patreon - http://patreon.com/indeepgee...
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EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
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DW.COM
EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
With more people working from home during the pandemic, the boundaries between job and life are blurred. Lawmakers in the EU want to give workers the "right to disconnect," whereas Germany is looking at tax breaks.
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Roger Penrose: Beauty above all
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TLS
Footnotes to Plato | Roger Penrose: Beauty above all
In 1918, three years after Einstein completed his new theory of gravity, he declared that “the supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at the elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction”. For the physicists who follow that credo…
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Pg-shortkey: YouTube-Like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys
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GitHub
GitHub - turbo/pg-shortkey: YouTube-like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys
YouTube-like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys. Contribute to turbo/pg-shortkey development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Paris to ‘get rid of 70k parking spaces’
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ITS International
Paris to ‘get rid of 70,000 parking spaces’
Squeeze on cars continues in '15-minute city' under Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo
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Big Tech is getting cozy with computer science departments
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Stack Overflow Blog
Podcast 290: This computer science degree is brought to you by Big Tech - Stack Overflow Blog
An upgrade to a popular CSS framework and a discussion of what happens when big corporations support college courses and supply curriculum.
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What You Can Learn from How to Ace a YC Interview
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Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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WSJ
Reddit Claims 52 Million Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
Reddit averaged 52 million daily active users in October, up 44% from the same month a year earlier.
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Wikipedia's in Trouble (2019)
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Qualcomm Details The Snapdragon 888: 3rd Gen 5G and Cortex-X1 on 5nm
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AnandTech
Qualcomm Details The Snapdragon 888: 3rd Gen 5G & Cortex-X1 on 5nm
This year although we’re not reporting from Hawaii, Qualcomm’s Tech Summit is still happening in digital form, representing the company’s most important launch event of the year as it showcases the new flagship products that will power next year’s smartphones.…
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