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Cluetrain at 20
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Doc Searls Weblog
Cluetrain at 20
The Cluetrain Manifesto went online for the world on March 26, 1999. βPeople of Earth,β it began. Nothing modest about it. Chris Locke and David Weinberger both had newsletters with reβ¦
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'The Wake' Is an Unlikely Hit in an Imaginary Language (2015)
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Researchers: It takes 1.5 MB of data to store language information in the brain
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Medicalxpress
Researchers estimate it takes approximately 1.5 megabytes of data to store language information in the brain
A pair of researchers, one with the University of Rochester the other the University of California has found that combining all the data necessary to store and use the English language in the brain adds ...
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Microsoft bans April's fools pranks
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The Verge
Microsoft leads the way in banning April Foolsβ Day pranks
No Clippy pranks this year.
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Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)
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lindeloev.github.io
Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)
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Oil Traders Are Now Watching Workersβ Phones to Spot Problems at Refineries
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EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021
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Fast Company
EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021
Leave your plastic at home on your next European vacation.
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No sleep, no sex, no life: tech workers in Chinaβs Silicon Valley
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South China Morning Post
No sleep, no sex, no life: plight of tech workers in Chinaβs Silicon Valley
Life in Chinaβs tech industry is not easy, with young employees and entrepreneurs battling burnout while also worrying about career ceilings and lay-offs.
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The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker
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MIT Sloan Management Review
The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker | MIT Sloan Management Review
Tech CEOs claim few job losses when hiring from the H-1B visa pool. Thatβs not the whole story.
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The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M. Itβs Collected $6,790
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WSJ
The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208 Million. Itβs Collected $6,790.
Telecommunications regulators have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims. But years later, little money has been collected.
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A woman who doesn't feel pain
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Bbc
The woman who doesn't feel pain
Jo Cameron is one of two people on Earth known to have a mutation that means she feels almost no pain.
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Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair
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Vice
Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation
A leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard outlines a program that looks almost exactly like the requirements of right to repair legislation that has been proposed in 20 states.
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Stellarium v0.19.0 has been released
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stellarium.org
Stellarium v0.19.0 has been released!
The major changes of this version: 5 new sky cultures Refactoring the code: many improvements and fixes Added many DSO textures Many improvements for Scripti...
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Wikimedia Foundation Joins the World Wide Web Consortium
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Wikimedia Foundation
Joining the World Wide Web Consortium
Weβre excited to announce that weβre becoming a member of the W3C, the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994, W3C works wiβ¦
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Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
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Fastly
Lucet Takes WebAssembly Beyond the Browser | Fastly
Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four majorβ¦
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The Worldβs Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
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Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg Have Blown Up on Twitter, and in Betting Markets
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The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of the Clicker Game Universal Paperclips
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The New Yorker
The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of Clicker Games
The game represents the way human activity is constantly mediated by screens, our lives made up of fleeting words and images and rising numbers.
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Kong Raises $43M in Series C Funding
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KongHQ
Kong Raises $43 Million in Series C Funding Led by Index Ventures
Weβre announcing today that Kong has raised $43 million in Series C financing led by Index Ventures, deliver the industryβs first service control platform.
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U.S. Sues Facebook for Housing Bias, Citing Ad and Data Practices
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NY Times
Facebook Engages in Housing Discrimination With Its Ad Practices, U.S. Says
The Department of Housing and Urban Development sued the company for violating the federal Fair Housing Act by limiting who sees ads based on characteristics like race, religion and national origin.
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GΓΆdel Machine
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