In economics, the Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s, is the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response…

This is pure disaster porn. It’s the story of how I drank some wine and then managed to delete the production database. Thankfully there was a backup.

Why is this shaped like this? Let's talk about two things that used to not go together: Japan and butter. Like other East Asian cultures, butter was never a part of the traditional Japanese diet, and was actually treated with disgust when introduced by Europeans…

This is an updated version of a post we originally published in 2020. You can read the original version here. The growth of the data infrastructure industry has continued unabated since we published a set of reference architectures in …

Strongmen have taken advantage of covid-19 in numerous ways

Facebook seems to have deleted @TheBabylonBee's post saying Senator Hirono wanted to weigh ACB against a duck for "violating our Community Standards." We requested a review but they haven't gotten back to us.

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"If TikTok is saved, you can thank me"

The success of Romanian broadband offers lessons for policymakers today.

The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.

One thing I don't read much about Magsafe: Apple surely did it to "improve the charging experience" and of course it brings up many, many possibilities for use cases, like the wallet: tripods, accessories, car mounts… But also, it seems that Apple didn't…

“A Frankenstein material” is teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.

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A basic tutorial about cleaning data using command-line tools: tr, grep, sort, uniq, sort, awk, sed, and csvlook