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Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation (2017)
The government issues thousands of new patents every week — each one a new regulation — with little to no oversight or review.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 347 posts.
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MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
John Galvan was arrested at 18 and spent 35 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
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Call for Participation to Chaos Computer Club’s 37C3
The Chaos Communication Congress is the Chaos Computer Club’s (CCC) annual symposium and hacker party.
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Food security and the coming storm
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Is the Russian Air Force incapable of complex air operations?
More than a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Air Force has yet to commence large-scale operations. Inactivity in the first few days could be ascribed to various factors, but the continued absence of major air operations now raises serious capability questions.
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Covid and the Heart: It Spares No One – Johns Hopkins
New evidence suggests anyone infected with COVID is at higher risk for heart issues—a risk that persists even in relatively healthy people long after the illness has passed.
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How Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
Mixed appraisals of one of the Internet’s great friends (or foes), Wikipedia, are reflected in the slightly dystopian article “List of Wikipedia Scandals”, which sits below a Wikipedia web address. Scrutiny aside, billions of users routinely flock to the online, anonymously editable encyclopedia knowledge bank for…
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Zendesk to be acquired
A Zendesk é uma empresa de CRM que prioriza o atendimento e cria softwares eficientes e flexíveis para atender às necessidades de qualquer negócio. Saiba mais sobre nós
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Adversarial Collaboration
[EDITOR'S NOTE: In marking this year's 25th anniversary of Edge , we are presenting original lectures from eminent scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who are changing the way we think about science and our place in the world.]
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Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars
All vehicles lose efficiency and range in very cold weather. Electric cars are no different. The good news, however, is that this range loss is temporary and not as limiting as many people may think.
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EU Digital ID wallet is coming
As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen:
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Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight
The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive…
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Can we protect land for nature and carbon by simply buying it up?
This blog post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: hazel grove, Devon. Land ownership in Britain is highly concentrated and unequal: just 1% of the population own half the land in England, while in Scotlan…
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To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots
Parking lots amplify high temperatures. Why are we still requiring them to be larger than they need to be?
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65k fake students enrolled in the California junior college system
Can't we all agree that college students should be real?
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Arguing from compassion (2021)
For example, that universal basic income (UBI) could ameliorate the loss of jobs due to automation, a straw man would be, “So you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money?” Recently, the term has become a cudgel in the culture wars.
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Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill
The government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had been in the works for three years, slamming the brakes indefinitely on privacy safeguards in India.
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Proposed bill would shorten California workweek to 32 hours
Will Californians across the state soon be saying “Thank God it’s Thursday” as they look forward to a mandated three-day weekend all year round? Efforts to reduce work time have regained steam with the California Legislature’s introduction of a bill to reduce the standard workweek to 32 hours – without sacrificing…
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Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal (2017)
When Dr. Frederic Whitehurst initially blew the whistle on the systemic forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab, he could never have known it was the start of a lifelong fight for government accountability. In 1994, he reported his concerns with FBI lab practices internally. It was “alterations of reports, alterations of…
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Fog Revealed: A guided tour of how cops can browse your location data
In Part 1 of our series on Fog Data Science, we saw how when you give some apps permission to view your location, it can end up being packaged and sold to numerous other companies. Fog Data Science is one of those companies, and it has created a sleek search engine called Fog Reveal that allows cops to browse through…
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