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The most-disliked people in the publishing industry
One way of studying literature is through direct experience.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 13,067 posts.
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In Defense of Inclusionism (2009-18)
Iron Law of Bureaucracy: the downwards deletionism spiral discourages contribution and is how Wikipedia will die.
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The Lies that can Undermine Democracy
Recent events highlight our need to take serious measures to counter lies that are undermining democracies.
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The End of the Ad-Supported Web
What if we got the business model of the web wrong?
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Reinstating Net Neutrality in the US
Today, Mozilla together with other internet companies ADT, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Reddit, Vimeo, Wikimedia, sent a letter to the FCC asking the agency to rei
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Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal
WhatsApp is not private or secure. Please consider using Signal instead.
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Ageism is becoming an issue for me
By ageism, I mean people saying that my age makes me less intelligent, informed, clued, aware, whatever. It's never rational, not part of an intelligent discussion. I can't probe the people to find out what they mean. I assume they're expressing some frustration and projecting it on me.
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A Letter to the Berlin Startup Scene
Dear Berlin Startup Scene,
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The Brain Sandwich
The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.
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How does our language shape the way we think? (2009)
Humans communicate with one another using a dazzling array of languages, each differing from the next in innumerable ways. Do the languages we speak shape the way we see the world, the way we think, and the way we live our lives? Do people who speak different languages think differently simply because they speak…
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Airlines using reverse auctions to determine true seat pricing
Of this (via MR): It’s an auction conducted at the airport terminal. In this auction you are a seller and you are bidding to sell your ticket back to the airline. Optimists look at this and …
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Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics
Twitter threads are a pain to read! So let's just steal them, right? Umm... Nope, probably wrong. I'm going to say very wrong. Think about it.
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Out of Africa's midlife crisis
on bottlenecks, crashes and what diversity really looks like
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The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen
The Internet King on why the Internet is a force for good, on media conformity, the inevitable triumph of the WEIRD, Crypto, Retards, etc.
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Boys Rules, Girls Lose - Women at Work
My two daughters are now in college and have put their toes in the working-world with summer jobs. As they’ve grown older, they’ve heard their parent’s advice about women in the workforce. Th…
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The Ruby community has a DHH problem
The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.
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Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
[This is part two in a series — you should read part 1 first for context and then you might go on to part 3.] The Dublin Core — metadata made dumb Just when librarians were in despair o…
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The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters
March 26, 2017 @ 9:24 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Information technology , Language and computers , Language teaching and learning , Writing , Writing systems
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Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019
This analysis was featured on: The Hustle newsletter (lead story), TechCrunch, Hacker News, The Growth Newsletter (issue #021), Social Blade, Data Science...
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Unremarkables
There has never been a better time to be remarkable, nor a worse time to be unremarkable.
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Amateur Radio Parity Act Passes in the US House of Representatives
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"