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EU Digital ID wallet is coming
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 1,047 posts.
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Crypto, the Left and Technofeudalism
Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic of the emerging regime of techno-feudalism, and the folly of El Salvador’s Bitcoin-heavy negotiating tactics with the IMF. Luckily, we have found this person in […]
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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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Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
Personal website of Samuel Burer, Tippie Rollins Professor of Business Analytics, University of Iowa.
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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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Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security
When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech's centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves.
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How to Drop Out (2004)
People who work get bored when they don't work. People who don't work never get bored.
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Psychedelics and mental illness
The science of psychedelics is everywhere – but we should treat it with serious scepticism
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Universal's Audible Watermark (2012)
This is my personal blog. The views expressed on this page are mine alone. Update, April 8, 2013: Can you hear it? Take the watermark listening test. Update, January 14, 2015: Check out the results of the listening test. A while ago, I wrote about my confusion regarding Weird Spotify Compression Artifacts. It turns…
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A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017)
W hat happens, if 100 persons in a room are given $100 each and give away a Dollar to one randomly chosen person in this room each tick of the clock? How is wealth distributed over time by pure chance?
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Latin as she is spoke: How classicists tricked themselves (2019)
How Classicists tricked themselves into not learning Latin well.
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A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (2013)
Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would …
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Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)
When I discovered Google Fi six months ago, I thought to myself, “Finally, a phone service that accomplishes everything I need at a…
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Microsoft Full Circle
Microsoft has come full circle from the company that cared more about Windows than Office; the retirement of the Office name is possible precisely because Microsoft gave up on Windows and went to t…
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A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
A tutorial for getting on Mastodon
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Can a Tarot card reading be defamatory?
Crazed Tik-Toker's Tirade Against University Professor Raises Fact v. Opinion Issue
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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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The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger
It's not "ego." It's a claim that you encounter a lot—an insult really—that people are buying bigger and bigger trucks to compensate for… so...
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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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The Trouble with 5G
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Rights, Laws, and Google
Google is not bound by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, but its actions in a false positive CSAM case show that it is flouting the spirit behind them.
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SIM swapper abducted, beaten, held for ransom
A Florida teenager who served as a lackey for a cybercriminal group that specializes in cryptocurrency thefts was beaten and kidnapped last week by a rival cybercrime gang. The teen’s captives held guns to his head while forcing him to record a video message pleading with his crew to fork over a $200,000 ransom in…
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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.