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Visa and MasterCard Are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Visa and Mastercard are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
Pornhub is removing millions of user-uploaded videos. This action comes after a New York Times column accused the website of hosting sexual videos of underage and nonconsenting women. In response to
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
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MIT News
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
MIT neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the “multiple demand network,” which is also recruited for complex cognitive tasks such as solving math problems…
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Cloudquery: Easily ask questions about your cloud infrastructure
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GitHub - cloudquery/cloudquery: Data pipelines for cloud config and security data. Build cloud asset inventory, CSPM, FinOps, and…
Data pipelines for cloud config and security data. Build cloud asset inventory, CSPM, FinOps, and vulnerability management solutions. Extract from AWS, Azure, GCP, and 70+ cloud and SaaS sources. -...
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Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
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SolarWinds use the password 'solarwinds123' on their Update Servers
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U.S.
Hackers used SolarWinds' dominance against it in sprawling spy campaign
On an earnings call two months ago, SolarWinds Chief Executive Kevin Thompson touted how far the company had gone during his 11 years at the helm.
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Surplus Extraction
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Pedestrian Observations
Surplus Extraction
Ever since reading Brooks-Liscow on the growth in American road construction costs since the 1960s, I’ve been interested in the surplus extraction theory of costs. The authors call their main…
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iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
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Ars Technica
iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
Dramatic video shows employees smashing windows in response to pay disputes.
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4.2B to charity
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CBS News
MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4.2 billion to charity
Scott, the 18th richest person in the world, said she wanted to accelerate her giving due to the impact of the pandemic.
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Asset forfeiture is just theft
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How to Learn Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A Guide for Software Engineers
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Far cry: How the fire burns and spreads
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Jean-Francois Levesque | Engineering Manager
Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads | Jean-Francois Levesque
INTRO A few years ago, I got the opportunity to architect and code the fire propagation system in Far Cry 2. At that time, it was a gigantic task and it scared the hell out of me. Luckily, it turned out well enough. With the upcoming Far Cry 3, several people…
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Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
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Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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Our Year in Review: How We’ve Made Firefox Faster in 2020
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Mozilla Performance
Our Year in Review: How we’ve made Firefox Faster in 2020
This year was unlike anything any of us has experienced before. The global pandemic affected how we learn, connect with others, work, play, shop, and more. It affected directly or ...
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I Built a Smart Thermostat
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Medium
How I Built a Smart Thermostat
The pursuit of minimizing my commute to work led me to move into an apartment with no temperature control. Given how common this is for…
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Air-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
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I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager
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i3wm.org
i3 — i3: improved tiling X11 window manager
i3 is a tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii
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Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday
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Growing the .NET Ecosystem
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dotnet/docs/ecosystem-issues.md at 214c8c343587461f161198cdf5e9084abddde179 · microsoft/dotnet
This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Found...
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Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study
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Mongabay
Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study
When Celso Silva Junior, a Ph.D. candidate at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), stepped back from his recently completed map of Brazil’s secondary forests, he was surprised by the sheer quantity that had grown back since the 1980s. About…
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Show HN: Interactive Rubik's Cube with sub-puzzles for solution steps
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Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says
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Bloomberg.com
Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says
Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else, according to a study of the advanced world that could add to the case for the wealthy to bear more of the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.
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