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Mozilla publishes position paper on the EU Digital Identity Framework
The EU is considering a draft law that has serious ramifications for the website security ecosystem. We have recommendations for how to fix it.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 1,050 posts.
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PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available
The PyCon US 2021 recordings are available on our YouTube channel . Be sure to subscribe to our channel for notifications of new content. T...
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Fighting Like Taliban
Over the last month or so we have seen several reports out of Afghanistan registering the shock of the Americans, the Afghani government, and even the Taliban itself with the speed at which the Tal…
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ISP announces 86% slowdown “in line with others”
Altice wins the race to the bottom.
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The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997)
In this video, Alan Kay talks about his vision of object oriented programming and how to design scalable systems.
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‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online: study
Yale researchers looked at 12.7 million tweets from over seven thousand Twitter users to test whether users expressed more outrage over time, and if so, why.
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Fictional Cryptocurrencies
I said they were fictional! Stop trying to invest in them!
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Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality?
Originally published: November 2021 One of the most polarizing topics today is wealth inequality. I think a better description is to refer to it as wealth concentration. Nobody should expect wealth to be equal in a society, but when wealth becomes extremely concentrated (way more unequal than usual), it’s often a sign…
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Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology
This essay is telescopic . It can shrink or expand, depending on how much attention you are willing to give. This is the original version (3344 words). Show other sizes .
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The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
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Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for users in South Korea
Posted by Wilson White, Senior Director of Public Policy Click here to read this post in Korean The South Korean government recently passe...
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Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense
Schools are increasingly adopting surveillance technology to spy on students while they’re at school, at home, or even on their social media. The companies that make these surveillance products and services advertise them to schools as a way to keep students safe–but there’s no evidence so far that they actually...
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Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)
Let's focus on a factor that puts even more extreme limits on home ownership - HOAs. And more specifically why you should avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods.
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Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair
Recently equity-minded education reformers in New York City have been trying to curtail “gifted and talented programs,” saying they “do not condone a
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More than you want to know about gift cards
Gift cards are a loosely-regulated quasi-financial product and frequently misunderstood. Here's how they operate under the hood.
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The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science
Much of climate research is focused on implausible scenarios of the future, but implementing a course correction will be difficult
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”
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The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)
Paul Graham's Hacker News is a great website to find interesting programming links and sane discussion. The site reflects a sort of post- Reddit sensibility; the design of HN was directly intended to address the shortcomings of programming.reddit.com from someone very much on the inside (Reddit was a Paul Graham Y…
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How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series
The story of how James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series
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Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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Making is show business now (2020)
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: …
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Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
Teens who bully, harass, or otherwise victimize their peers are not always lashing out in reaction to psychological problems or unhealthy home environments, but are often using aggression strategically to climb their school’s social hierarchy, a University of California, Davis, study suggests. These findings point to…