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Food Deserts in America: Understanding The Impact on Communities with Limited Food Access
Learn what a food desert is and the impact of food deserts in America, where communities face limited access to affordable, nutritious food options.
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Xanalogical Structure
Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More than Ever: Parallel Documents, Deep Links to Content, Deep Versioning and Deep Re-Use
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Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center
*Feb. 13 update: I posted more details about Directory Tiles here.* We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make ...
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Funding, Incentives, and Governance
In my first blog post I focused on the most important thing: our values. Now I turn to the next-most-important issue for our mission: funding. Here’s how we’ve gathered the necessary resources to get…
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Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking leaves no land untouched. In 2013 the U.S. State Department estimated that there are 27 million victims worldwide trafficked for forced labor or commercial sex exploitation. A 201…
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Open-sourcing Haxl, a library for Haskell
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競馬予想サイトのグロリア(GLOLIA)は詐欺サイト？口コミ評判から予想が当たるか徹底検証！
グロリアの無料予想検証結果 競走馬を題材にしたアプリゲームが大ヒットしたことにより、競馬には大きなムーブメント...
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Classifying the Internet of Things
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
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Themes are GPL, too
If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are compl…
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Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.
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privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited
For more information about this, have a look at David Baron's post, the bug and the post on the security blog. For many years the CSS :visited selector has been ...
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How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis
An unprecedented congressional mandate threatens the Postal Service's ability to continue to provide good jobs and universal service.
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Impact of fluoride on neurological development in children
July 25, 2012 -- For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain.
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Getting Real
The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
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Non-Glamorous Gains: The Pennsylvania Land Tax Experiment
Since 1913, Pennsylvania has allowed cities to tax land at a higher rate than buildings. This decision has led to some unique success stories: cities that have weathered post-industrial decline and revitalized their urban cores.
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Mortality in the past: every second child died
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally. How do we know about the mortality of children in the past? And what can we learn from it for our future?
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Global Perspective on U.S. Health Care
This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 12 other high-income countries.
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US Federal Agricultural Farm Subsidies: How Much Farmers Get By Year
Federal farm subsidies make up an average of 13.5% of net farm income.
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More Dots: Syntactic Loop Fusion in Julia
After a lengthy design process (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8450) and preliminary foundations in Julia 0.5 (/blog/2016-10-11-julia-0.5-highlights#vectorized_function_calls), Julia 0.6 includes new facilities for writing code in the "vectorized"...
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Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
Hidden features, reduced discoverability, cognitive overhead from dual environments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low information density. Too bad.
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Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
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How has social mobility in the U.S. changed in recent decades?
Historic data suggests that the likelihood of outearning your parents has declined over recent decades - so is the American Dream becoming a nightmare?
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Cap'n Proto: Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
Update Jun 18, 2014: I have made some corrections since the original version of this post.
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Joint statement from Google and Apple
Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and clou…
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Can face masks protect against COVID-19?-How well do face masks protect against COVID-19?
Face masks can help slow the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Learn about mask types, which masks to use and how to use them.
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The Option Pool Shuffle
“Follow the money card!” – The Inside Man, Three-Card Shuffle Summary: Don’t let your investors determine the size of the option pool for you. Use a hiring plan to justify a small…
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Deterministic Builds Part One: Cyberwar and Global Compromise
I've spent the past few months developing a new build system for the 3.0 series of the Tor...
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How much energy does ChatGPT use?
This Gradient Updates issue explores how much energy ChatGPT uses per query, revealing it's 10x less than common estimates.