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In the belly of the MrBeast
what does MrBeast mean?
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The case for banning non-competes
Making the labor market work
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Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs
As an inventor, many of my readers know that I developed BeltBro, a no-buckle belt that uses two side belts loops to hold up your pants.
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The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing
There can be no accountability if there is no transparency.
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Scribd and Quora considered harmful
There are two terrible web properties out there that everyone hates, Scribd and Quora. Please don’t use them. Instead of Scribd just host a PDF anywhere, or upload text to pastebin or make a nice blog on WordPress or Medium or something. And instead of Quora use Ask MetaFilter or StackExchange .
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Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
Det Centrale Personregister (CPR) har konstateret en alvorlig sikkerhedshændelse. Ved at misbruge en dansk virksomheds lovlige adgang til at søge...
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People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
People who are both trustworthy and competent are most sought after when forming teams
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STFU About What Women Want
In a recent post on TechCrunch , Penelope Trunk tells us (again) that most women don’t want to do startups. First, I’d like to extend that...
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American Equity
I’d like feedback on the following idea. I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP. I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of...
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The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
The Stringer Bell rule is obsolete, as Trump and state attorneys general let the egg producers off the hook for a brazen conspiracy. Still, egg prices did drop as a result of the investigation.
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Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litigation
Today (2011-10-06), the time-zone database was closed down . It is perhaps easy to read that line, think it doesn't affect you, and then ...
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Why are Adults so busy?
As a kid, I'd always wonder what it was about adults that made them so busy. What could they be possibly doing with all their time? After I (kinda) became one, it hit me. There's an alarmingly large list of things adults do that we never quite grasp until we're there.
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Nearly 20% of active Twitter accounts likely to be fake or spam
TL;DR - From May 13-15, 2022, SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of five datasets including a variety of active (i.e.
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Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
New Australian surveillance bill enables police to hack your device, collect or delete your data, and take over your social media accounts.
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I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income
Across the U.S., home prices have outpaced income. Our data reveals how the American dream of homeownership is becoming a nightmare.
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Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
GPTZero used our Hallucination Check tool to find 50+ hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.
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Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11
Next week on Wednesday (May 11), the EU Commission will present an EU draft law on mandatory chat control to the public for the first time. Similar to Apple's highly controversial "SpyPhone" plans, the Commission wants to oblige all providers of email, chat and messaging services to search for susp
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“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Google Groups has been left to die
Where should the formal methods community move?
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Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
Today we’re announcing a carbon-intelligent computing platform, which can shift tasks to hours of the day when energy from cleaner power sources is plentiful.
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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
Drowning in AI Generated Garbage : the silent war we are fighting par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their...
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Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
After the three gas leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the Danish Defence deployed the frigate Absalon and the pollution control vessel Gunnar Thorson, as well as a helicopter capacity.