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Dear American Website Owner
Jan Rychter: Tech Consulting, Product Development, Data Science.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 470 posts.
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There is no nanotech, stop talking about it and start laughing at it
I used to work next to the center for nanotechnology. The first indication I had that there was something wrong with the discipline of “nanotechnology” is I noticed that the people who …
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Scribd.com Comes to the Dark Side
SALDOWD adalah salah satu layanan alternatif link login dan daftar platform resmi situs terbaru saldo wd hari ini yang sangat mudah diakses 7/24 jam nonstop.
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HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone
[UPDATE (Oct 14, 2010): HTC has released the source code. Evidently 90-120 days was not in fact necessary, given that they managed to do it 7 days after the phone's official release. It is possible that the considerable pressure from the media, modders, kernel copyright holders, and other kernel hackers contributed to…
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No More Fear
Here’s the country I want to be a citizen of: the one that decides to buy comfort and convenience by deploying courage.
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Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee
(Update: we've added a few engineers who asked to sign on right as the letter was going out; the final count is 96 signatures) Today, 87 prominent Internet engineers sent a joint letter the US Senate Judiciary Committee, declaring their opposition to the "Combating Online Infringement and...
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Patriot Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections
Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to renew three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, after the Senate abandoned the PATRIOT reform effort and approved the extension by a voice vote on Wednesday night. Disappointingly, the government's dangerously...
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Why I Canceled My Facebook Account
I canceled my Facebook account because it was lowering my capacity for independent action. I joined Facebook under certain conceptions that it was a somewhat private place. It used to have a clean …
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You Should Self-Publish
Your experience has been an inspiration to me, Joe, as I've noted on my own blog . I've always believed that self-publishing was the mark of permanent amateurism. Now, I've self-published my own book, Dead Furst . I've sold... next to nothing. But I'm obscure, and patient, and have a lovely Carl Graves cover. So…
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Apple fears the killer app
Ok, so were finally getting down to it. On at least two fronts, Apple has now essentially thrown out its draconian rules on what developers can and cannot do on its platform, and replaced them with essentially, no rules. The new “rules” appear to be, “its OK to do what you want in your app if we say so. And we’ll…
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