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Vivaldi: Violating CoC on forum may close your email account
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,050 posts.
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Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers
What if your boss was an algorithm? What would you do if your employer suddenly fired you or reduced your pay without telling you why? And without being willing to give you a reason when you ask for one?
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Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic
ITU’s Measuring digital development: Facts and figures 2021 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year.
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The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.
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Arkham Quixote (2020)
“There’s that sort of sense that many technical people will see or feel when you see something and you know what it could be, and you know it could be important, and you see companies just doing it wrong — there’s that powerful desire to fix it and do it right and show them sort of how it’s supposed to be done”
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Is Web3 anything?
The term “web3” seems pretty fluid and is being used as a label for a bunch of disparate ideas. Given that it’s a decentralized group describing a decentralized movement, that lack of focus isn’t exactly surprising. Almost by definition it’s going to end up being different things to different people.
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How do you fix a stroad?
We respond to a question posted for us on Reddit about a stroad that seems unfixable—and maybe that’s because it is.
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“Free PACER” bill advances through Senate judiciary unanimously
The Senate Judiciary Committee today by voice vote advanced the Open Courts Act (S. 2614), a bill that would modernize the federal judiciary’s case management system and — finally — make access to court filings free for all Americans.
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Number of journalists in jail reaches global high
Editor’s note: Numbers for each prison census are adjusted yearly as CPJ learns of arrests, releases, or deaths in prison. The numbers for CPJ’s 2021 census have been revised from 293 to 302 in accordance with this policy. For the most recent data, see cpj.org/data/imprisoned/ The number of journalists jailed around…
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Facts don’t change our minds (2018)
Why don't facts change our minds? This article explains the logic of false beliefs and proposes a better system for constructive conversation.
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Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?
A guest post on Georgism by Lars Doucet
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Web3 Is Not Decentralization
It's just not. Here's a deep dive into why, exactly, I think that.
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Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: act now on child and adolescent mental health
Será imposible identificar los retos que enfrentan los jóvenes si no podemos estudiar correctamente cómo estos interactúan en línea. Más de 200 académicos se adhieren a este manifiesto
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The Missing Missing Reasons
Members of estranged parents’ forums often say their children never gave them any reason for the estrangement, then turn around and reveal that their children did tell them why. But the reasons their children give—the infamous missing reasons—are missing.
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The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness
The global pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness in America. This report from Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, explores who is lonely, the many causes of loneliness, and ways to alleviate it.
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Web3? I have my DAOts
The promise of a decentralized and trustless future is forever just that: a promise, and in the future.
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The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
Amazon’s logistics investment makes the company increasingly attractive to 3rd party merchants.
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War Starts
22nd May 1990. The two Yemens, north and south, become one. The mood of the world seems to be for the dissolution of old animosities. In that same week, East and West Germany sign a treaty to begin reunification, the US and USSR agree to destroy their chemical weapons, and the World Health Organisation stops…
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The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks
Alexander the Great tread in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks
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Is Web3 Bullshit?
And is that even the right question?
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Is the big tech era ending?
I put on my wizard hat 🧙♂️
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William Cook has died
Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57.
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Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
The coalition contract of the newly elected German government contains right to encryption.
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An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter
Updates: Our open letter made the WSJ, and has been tweeted by Matt Yglesias and others. See also Boaz Barak’s thread, and a supportive tweet from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Silicon Valley). If you…