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The Cruise Ship Suicides
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Bloomberg.com
The Cruise Ship Suicides Began After the Last Passengers Left
Confined mostly to tiny cabins, crew members found themselves forced to stay aboard—sometimes without pay—and struggling to cope with a monthslong lockdown.
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Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US
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Usatoday
How scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US
International fraud scheme sees imposters siphon $36 billion in unemployment funds meant for out-of-work Americans.
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Dr. Levitt: Your words have power. Use them carefully
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The Stanford Daily
Dr. Levitt: Your words have power. Use them carefully. | The Stanford Daily
Speculations you share are taken as expert opinion. While you have occasionally engaged with critics, you have failed to publicly correct the misinformation you have distributed to policymakers and…
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How We Built the GitHub Globe
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The GitHub Blog
How we built the GitHub globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how open source development transcends the
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Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry
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Richard Startin’s Blog
Don't use Protobuf for Telemetry
Protobuf needs no introduction, but this post argues that you shouldn’t use it for telemetry. The basic premise of this post is that a good telemetry library needs to be lightweight to avoid perturbing the application; inefficient diagnostic tools are self…
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ViennaSuperiorCourt: Facebook can skip GDPR consent but must give access to data
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noyb.eu
Vienna Superior Court: Facebook must give access to data
Facebook lost and won appeal: It must give full access to all data and pay €500, but may use data without consent of the user.
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Baltimore Police Lied About Almost Every Aspect of Its Spy Plane Program
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Vice
Baltimore Police Lied About Almost Every Aspect of Its Spy Plane Program
The ACLU is suing to stop the program after an independent audit showed police made false statements about how mass-surveillance data was being used.
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Sunsetting Blender Network in 2021
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blender.org
Sunsetting Blender Network in 2021 — blender.org
On March 31st 2021, Blender Network will terminate its operations.
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An Israeli startup claims Covid-19 originated in a lab and willing to bet on it
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Rootclaim
What is the source of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)? | Rootclaim
Rootclaim is an open website that uses real-world data and proven mathematical models to analyze complex cases at an accuracy that surpasses human reasoning.
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Spirals, Snowflakes and Trees: Recursion in Pictures
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It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn
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The Conversation
It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn – here’s why AI is so power-hungry
Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it’s working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.
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Uber Eats avoids ruling on workers' status by settling with delivery rider
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the Guardian
Uber Eats avoids landmark ruling on workers' status by settling case with delivery rider
Settlement by Australian arm of company comes before federal court could rule whether sacked delivery rider Amita Gupta was an employee or a contractor
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Adobe Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
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Windows Latest
Adobe Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
Microsoft has already confirmed next update for Windows 10 will automatically remove Flash Player. Since Flash Player is nearing its final curtain, Adobe has now issued a new pop-up alert reminding users to remove the software for good. In September 2020…
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Things I Learnt in 2020
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Drobinin
Things I Learnt in 2020 by Vadim Drobinin
For the past six months I have been sending out a weekly newsletter with things I learnt and read during the week. Some of those trivia are not trivial at all, so I decided to share the condensed crème de la crème of the Internet in this New Year special…
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Clams filter the water and check whether the water is polluted or clean
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Polish News
Poznan. The clams filter the water. They check whether the water is polluted or clean
They are more accurate than complicated devices in the laboratory, they know “something is wrong” faster and cannot be fooled. In Poznań, mussels have been keeping water purity for 26 years. The TVN24 reporter checked what exactly their “work” is all about…
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Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry
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Amy Peniston
Ditching Excel for Python - Lessons Learned from a Legacy Industry - Amy Peniston
I spent 3 years as an analyst in the reinsurance industry. During this time, I witnessed firsthand how Python is driving rapid technological change. (Goodbye, Excel!)
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Defold engine code overview
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Defold game engine
The Defold engine code overview
An overview of the components of the Defold game engine runtime
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Learn Quantum Computation
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IBM Quantum Learning
Kickstart your quantum learning journey with a selection of courses designed to help you learn the basics or explore more focused topics.
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How Python attributes work
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Tenthousandmeters
Python behind the scenes #7: how Python attributes work
What happens when we get or set an attribute of a Python object? This question is not as simple as it may seem at first. It is true that any...
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Leading someone with more years of experience than my age
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Daniel Rojas personal Site
Leading someone with more years of experience than my age
It all started at my first job. I’ve been around 6 months in the company and was happy getting used to the ropes of my current job. In those 6 months, I quickly pushed to prod (without even k…
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HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash
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Twitter
To this day, I am super mad at all the people who put for the codswallop that HTML5 was this perfect replacement for Flash.
It's been 10 years since "Thoughts on Flash" was published and HTML5 STILL doesn't (in actual practice) replicate what mattered about…
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