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Why does no one ever talk about Sweden anymore?
Very weird, isn't it?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,050 posts.
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Russia restricts opposition election voting app
Mobile app store metrics from NetBlocks confirm the removal of a popular opposition election tracking app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The incident comes as Russia ...
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On YouTube’s recommendation system
How YouTube's recommendation system works: Understand how videos are suggested and how to optimize your content for discovery.
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Treasury Dept. Seeks to Track Transactions of Personal Bank Accounts over $600
The Biden administration is proposing that banks be required to report all transactions greater than $600 to collect more tax revenue. This policy is poised to suffocate businesses and stifle the financial privacy of Americans.
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Pieces of Shit
I listened to this song last night.
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Instagram Ruined Photography for Me
The story of why I stopped taking photos
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Useful Spy Books
Reading a good book is a great joy. And recommending a good book is almost as enjoyable. I’ve long been fascinated by books on espionage, and this contributed in no small part to me eventually joining the Dutch intelligence world, and later, rejoining it in some fashion. If you have favorite books that should be on…
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Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets
Transcript of interview
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EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web
Through the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, HTTP Toolkit has been selected for funding from the EU's Horizon research & innovation program, to...
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Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American
Texts on this and that.
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(L)Awful Interception
One of democracy's foundations is the fact that all human beings have certain inalienable rights and freedoms. Suspended by trust and shared values. Today, trust and shared values are being replaced by “control and surveillance”.
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NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
While analyzing the phone of a Saudi activist infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, we discovered a zero-day zero-click exploit against iMessage. The exploit, which we call FORCEDENTRY, targets Apple’s image rendering library, and was effective against Apple iOS, MacOS and WatchOS devices.
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Apple Won a Battle to Lose the War
Apple v. Epic indeed…
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Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)
The assumption that Adam Smith accepted inequality as the necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy is wrong, writes Deborah Boucoyannis. In reality, Smith’s system precluded steep inequalities not out of a normative concern with equality but by virtue of the design that aimed to maximise the wealth of…
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How factories were made safe
The fundamental cause was a wrong attitude towards the core question: who is responsible for safety?
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We found a phone with pre-installed malware via the Lifeline Assistance program
We discovered yet another phone model with pre-installed malware provided from the Lifeline Assistance program via Assurance Wireless by Virgin Mobile.
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Epic vs. Apple injunction doesn't allow for alternative in-app payment mechanism
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The Privacy Lesson of 9/11: Mass Surveillance Is Not the Way Forward
Congress must ensure that the next generation of Americans is able to speak and associate freely, without fear of surveillance.
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Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.
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Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
And other misadventures
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The code that controls our money
COBOL is a coding language older than Weird Al Yankovic. The people who know how to use it are often just as old. It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed. How a computer language controls the financial life of the world.
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Web3 is a stupid idea
timdaub · Web3 is a stupid idea A long time ago, I gave a talk in front of a full audience talking about BigchainDB, a company I worked for to create a (scalable) decentralized database. As
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