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Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history.
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Why are there so many cats in Istanbul?
After visiting Istanbul, I wondered why there were so many cats in town. This piece dives into the history & culture of stray cats in Turkey.
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Privatizing our digital identities
Trying to make the case for permanent irrevocable digital identities, which unfortunately today, by de-facto, are email addresses.
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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not pro -monopoly – they're just realists who understand that global gigacorporations are too big to fail, too big to jail, and that governments can't hope to rein them in. Trying to regulate a tech giant, they say, is like trying to regulate the…
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Why Did Congress Just Vote to Break Up Big Tech?
The Judiciary Committee voted 21-20 to split up Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. What happened was unbelievable.
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The worst acquisition in history, again
Warner Bros.
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Wind provided 37 per cent of Ireland’s electricity in Q1 2019
Tìm khoản vay tiền nhanh sử dụng CCCD, hồ sơ được hỗ trợ xét duyệt nhanh và chuyển khoản ngay khi đủ điều kiện. Người có nợ xấu vẫn có thể được xem xét tùy hồ sơ và chính sách của từng đối tác tài chính. Vay tiền ngay!
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Working remotely crossed the chasm today
From academia to the Open Source movement, remote collaboration is not exactly novel. From Github to DuckDuckGo, remote-first successful businesses are no longer rare.
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“Guccifer2”'s second release from DNC hack
This’s time to keep my word and here’re the docs I promised you. It’s not a report in one file, it’s a big folder of docs devoted to Hillary Clinton that I found on the DNC …
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Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post with 10 things that amazed me about bitcoin (here). I just can’t stop thinking about the idea that I brought up in the final point of that post, specific…
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Standing Up For Android
Shifty Jelly’s counterargument to some of my Android opinions, which provides a concrete data point showing that money can be made on Android, concludes with this:
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A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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The Holes in the Map: England’s Unregistered Land
Coding and writing by Anna Powell-Smith. Around 15% of the freehold land in England & Wales is unregistered. What this means is that if you go to the Land Registry and ask them ‘Who owns …
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What Amazon's ebook strategy really means
It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry.
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Ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton
A new study finds that increased ocean acidification will dramatically affect global populations of phytoplankton: Some species will die out, while others will flourish, which will affect marine food webs.
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Seeing the Smoke
Information on the coronavirus is widely available, and it doesn’t look positive. So why is everyone waiting for permission to do something about it?
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Anti-Personnel Computing (2023)
Neologisms for the current computing era.
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Seth Godin Tries Out Brandjacking
Seth Godin has ginormous balls. There, I said it. This morning, Seth used his much respected blog to reveal the…
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The Glass Famine
Spies, war, industrial subterfuge and secret recipes. And it all really happened. Honestly, what more could you ask for?
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The Cosmetic Class
What happens when a society with a penchant for the cosmetic meets a medium dominated by it? “The medium is the message.” Or so goes the famous saying from media scholar Marshall McLuhan, widely re…
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Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
Scientists have uncovered how tobacco plants naturally make nicotine, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for nearly two centuries.
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