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Obesity
When did obesity increase? How do rates vary across the world? What is the health impact?
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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.An investigation by EFF of the Ring doorbell app for Android found it to be packed with third-party trackers sending out a plethora of customers’ personally identifiable...
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How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?
The Federal Highway Administration has a chart full of answers to that question you might find useful.
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The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history
Check out our file conversion API – convert 100s of formats with just a few lines of code. In a special series Zamzar take a look at some of the people who have helped shape technology and made it… Read More Jason Scott
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DebConf20: offer to speak in Palestine censored
If you reached this page via a link to debian.community , the page you requested no longer exists. Read on to find out why.
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Bill Manning has died
Quantum computing, quantum Internet, Japan, astrophotography
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Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
Today, on Wikipedia’s 19th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation has received reports that access to Wikipedia in Turkey is actively being restored.* This latest development follows a 26 December 2019 ruling by the Constitutional Court of Turkey that the more than two and a half year block imposed by the Turkish…
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In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average
Of nine leisure activities, visiting a library is the one Americans did most frequently in the past year, followed by attending movies and live sporting events.
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Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and opinion as news, Lehrer seems like one o
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Banning facial recognition is missing the point
Spanish translation Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville and Brookline in Massachusetts (a statewide ban may follow). In December, San…
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Fixing Google Map Transit Feed Mistakes in Taiwan
Probably one of the nerdier things I do in my free time is fix and report transit errors on Google Maps. Accurate transit directions and schedules are extremely important if we want more people to take transit more often, especially in scenarios where good transit options exist! I do these bug reports and the…
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SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24
Learn how the nonprofit community united in 2019 behind a successful campaign organized by NTEN and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Web of Documents (2019)
It was called Xanadu . It was a grand, holistic vision: of documents that, once published, are available basically forever; of bidirectional links that could glue together not just documents, but parts thereof; of managing copyright and royalties. It was complex. And it never really came to fruition.
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Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
The ministry of education in Turkey recently announced that they will be offering Delphi free of charge to students of computer sciences. An estimated one million students will thus have access to …
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How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy
How Germany Is Able To Run The World’s Second Largest Export Economy In The Post-Industrial Era “ The Germany Shock ” describes European growth & the efficiency-maximizing centralization of European manufacturing activity after the launch of the Single Market and the Euro . Two questi
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Dark Horse Discord
How a gaming chat platform is secretly connecting the internet, and defining the future of work
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The Internet of Beefs
You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming , right? It's a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is -- by design -- no…
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Human body temperature has decreased in United States, study finds
Stanford researchers have determined that average human body temperature in the United States has decreased since the 1800s.
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Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018)
Just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, now live in households with enough discretionary spending to be considered middle class or rich.
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Let People Move to Jobs
When I argue that we should bring rents down by building more housing, one kind of response I've gotten is: Why are you trying to move more people into cities? There's lots of housing available in the US, it's just not in the currently trendy cities. Instead of moving people we should be moving jobs. Why couldn't…
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L.A.'s Lost Transit
For many, Los Angeles embodies car-culture—and the suburban-style development, freeways, traffic jams, and pollution that go with it. But it didn’t have to be that way. Turns out, LA was never designed to be a car city.
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An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to start your argument with ‘everyone knows,’ but in this case, I think we ought to make an…
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What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips
Food delivery app DoorDash has grown rapidly into the national industry leader, serving all 50 states and outpacing GrubHub, Uber Eats, Postmates, and other players with an estimated 35% marketshare in a rapidly-expanding segment. The company is reportedly preparing for an IPO and has been valued at a remarkable $12.6…