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No Refrigerant Left Behind
We have a plan to prevent 2 billion tons CO2e in the next 10 years by collecting and destroying superpotent refrigerants.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 1,047 posts.
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Another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis
Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, the criminal legal system is incapable of admitting its mistakes
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Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times
What the NYT Cancel Culture Editorial Got Wrong, And What It Got Right
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Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago. Over that time, our set of services has become much more complicated. With that complexity we have developed policies around how we handle abuse of different features Cloudflare provides
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Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas.
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Compound pejoratives on Reddit
What can Reddit comment data tell us about the rules governing the formation of insulting compound words like 'fartface', 'scumwad', or 'assgoblin'?
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IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said today it will be transitioning away from requiring biometric data from taxpayers who wish to access their records at the agency’s website. The reversal comes as privacy experts and lawmakers have been pushing the IRS and other federal agencies to find less intrusive methods for…
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Moving money internationally
SWIFT operates a messaging protocol which ties banks together with correspondent banks. This collaboration enables most international wires.
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Stanford hates fun
Stanford hates fun is the title of the second Stanford article in the Wall Street Journal this week. (On the first, Stanford's guide to acceptable words , enough said already.)
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An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
This is a song about culture wars, futurism, apocalypta, and gun math. Click to read Handwaving Freakoutery, by BJ Campbell, a Substack publication.
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Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st
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Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?
In 2017, consulting giant Booz Allen cut a deal with the government to extract junk fees from Americans who want to use Federal lands and waters for hunting or fishing. Will Congress or Biden act?
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I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it
Avoided emissions seem like a (well-intentioned?) shell game
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Considered "18+"
Vodafone UK has taken it on themselves to make the world better by marking this website (daniel.haxx.se) "adult content". I suppose in order to protect the children. It was first reported to me on May 2, with this screenshot from a Vodafone customer: And later followed up with some more details from another user in ……
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$9.99/month
With subscriptions now the norm of the app world, I wanted to take a closer look & see how those little monthly microtransactions added up.
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Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies
A Central Bank Digital Currency would enable a totalitarian nightmare
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2021 Letter
Getting worse and getting better; Jesuits; common prosperity; Rossini's glittering realm; slow-casual chains; Lem's ocean; vowelsongs.
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Terminated
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Why Galesburg has no money
It's not the normal stories we tell ourselves, but a new analysis
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FTX was registered with and licensed by the CFTC, which failed to regulate FTX
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Dennis M. Kelleher, Co-founder, President and CEO, issued the following statement regarding the CFTC’s failure to properly regulate or supervise FTX, which was registered and licensed by the CFTC and which had hired innumerable former CFTC officials: “FTX via FTX Derivatives US LLC, a derivatives…
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Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (2019)
A recent post received numerous comments asking why I was so concerned about privacy and asking what I have to hide. Here's my reply...
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Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
A textbook currency crisis, triggered by a bunch of policy mistakes.
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Workplace surveillance is coming for you
If you want to do something terrible with technology, you can't just roll it out on people with money and social capital. They'll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege…
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Finnish as a world language?
It is obviously difficult to answer this question with certainty. At the moment there seem to be several factors which would hinder such a development.
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Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn?
This paper derives from a short, time-bound, review of the literature, which sought to investigate the question “Did Insurance Fire Brigades let uninsured buildings burn?”. The question is set in the context of property fire insurance in London, from 1680. The situation was possibly comparable with other large British…
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