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How to prolong lithium based batteries
Manufacturers take a conservative approach and specify the life of Li-ion in most consumer products as being between 300 and 500 discharge/charge cycles.…
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Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
The table below and notes which follow are a comparison of some of the different standard library implementations available for Linux, with a particular focus on the balance between feature-richness and bloat. I have tried to be fair and objective, but as I am the author of musl , that may have influenced my choice of…
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A proactive approach to more secure code
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog2019132 points28 commentscited by 17Security & Privacy details
What if we could eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities before they ever happened?
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Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud
Our Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud series profiles companies that have over one million dollars in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable.
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What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
Some browsers use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t.
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The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized
A hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord (or Word for Mac?) document written in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date added in May 1990. Provided for historical interest only. The diagrams are a bit dotty, but available in versioins linked below. The text has not been changed, even…
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Remote: the new book by 37signals, coming fall 2013
On top of making Basecamp, we write books about what we’ve learned running our own business. They’re filled with practical advice you won’t find anywhere else.
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Programming with Nothing (2011)
I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …
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Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are warming too' are examined to see what the science really says.
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The Archive (macOS) – Note Taking: Nimble, Calm, Plain.txt • Zettelkasten Method
Calm, simple, and beautiful macOS note-taking app for creative thinking.
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Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture
More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
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Economic Inequality
How is inequality measured, who produces key databases, and what does the data tell us?
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Guns
Do you have a gun in your home? In general, do you feel that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now? Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons?
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The Backblaze Blog
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Long Now Years: Five-digit Dates and Y10K-compliance at Home
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
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What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.
As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.
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Population Growth
Explore global and national data on population growth, demography, and how they are changing.
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What’s behind the recent surge in the M1 money supply?
While the terms “money” and “wealth” often mean the same thing in everyday parlance, economists define money more narrowly as the component of wealth consisting of
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2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can g...
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Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
How can individuals reduce their emissions from transport?
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Nuclear Power in China
China has become largely self-sufficient in reactor design and construction, as well as other aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle. The strong impetus for nuclear power in China is increasingly due to air pollution from coal-fired plants.
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Hours of Work in U.S. History
In the 1800s, many Americans worked seventy hours or more per week and the length of the workweek became an important political issue. Since then the workweek’s length has decreased considerably. This article presents estimates of the length of the historical workweek in the U.S., describes the history of the…
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Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage
In Pew Research Center polling in 2001, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by a margin of 57% to 35%. Since then, support for same-sex marriage has steadily grown.