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$4k Renault compared to Tesla Model 3
What is disruption? Ask the clickbait mills and the sheep who retweet them, and thy name is Tesla. Everyone knows the Tesla narrative. Autonomy! Electrification! Superchargers! Musk! If it weren’t for...
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NBC News launches a twice-daily Snapchat news broadcast
NBC News is bringing news broadcasts to Snapchat, the company announced today, with the launch of a twice-daily headline news show it’s calling “Stay Tuned.” The show aims to connect with younger...
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Open Container Initiative specifications are 1.0
After two years of work with major stakeholders in the community, we’re excited to announce that the Open Container Initiative (OCI) image and runtime specifications have now hit version 1.0. This...
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How Devastating was the Black Death?
Next-generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: Insights from the Black DeathBy Alexander F. More, Nicole E. Spaulding, Pascal Bohleber, Michael...
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Firefox marketshare revisited
Why building a better browser doesn’t translate to a better marketshareI posted a couple weeks ago about Chrome effectively having won the browser wars. The market share observations in the blog post...
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How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US
Reddit is a modern-day canary in the coal mine for the people of Appalachia – a region of the United States disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic.Since the presidential election, a Reddit...
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‘F for Fake’: Orson Welles' masterpiece of oddball art cinema
‘F for Fake’: Orson Welles asks ‘What is reality?’ in dazzling masterpiece of oddball art cinema “If my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real.”—Elmyr de HoryIf you’ve seen Orson Welles’...
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The Man Who Got Americans to Eat Pollock
Chuck Bundrant was a college freshman with $80 in his pocket when he drove halfway across the country to Seattle to earn a few bucks fishing. The year was 1961.He hasn’t stopped fishing since.Source:...
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How to Design a Bottle
Soylent Blog / 3 hours agoWhen we introduced Soylent Drink in August of 2015, we wanted to get our new format into the hands of excited customers as soon as possible. At the time, the best option was...
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How misaligning data can increase performance by reducing cache misses (2014)
How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache missesHow misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache missesHere’s the graph of a toy benchmark of page-aligned...
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Patient Number One in a new cancer treatment
William Ludwig was almost dead when he became Patient Number One in a radical new cancer treatment, one that’s just won the endorsement of F.D.A. advisors.Photograph by sebastianosecondi /...
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The security content of iOS 10.3.3
Released July 19, 2017ContactsAvailable for: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, and iPod touch 6th generationImpact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected application...
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Why Should I Start a Startup?
A lot of people ask themselves this question.They often mull over one or more of the following facts:1. The vast majority of startups are not successful2. For talented technical people, it’s relatively...
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Show HN: A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy
README.mdThe term Gambler's fallacy refers to a misconception about statistics. [...] In statistics, a random event has a certain probability of occurring. The fallacy is that if the event has...
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Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator (2009)
Introducing the Dice-O-Matic mark II, now generating the die rolls on GamesByEmail.com. It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day. Currently,...
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153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
TxHashBlockAgeFromToValue[TxFee]0xb8b2ab533593512ec335ae5b20e659e27524f9ccf8167b685ce160791a864f1b40461573 mins ago0x007b9d404583d18b715c3f9ce5f09fd2199a7b88 IN MultisigExploit-Hacker0...
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How Checkers Was Solved
Marion Tinsley—math professor, minister, and the best checkers player in the world—sat across a game board from a computer, dying.Tinsley had been the world’s best for 40 years, a time during which...
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How to 'size' your platform for live video streaming
There's a recurring discussion I get myself into, and it goes roughly like this:- I want to stream live video, what kind of machine, and how many of them do I need?- It depends.- Depends on what?-...
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The Metaphysics of the Hangover
The Hedgehog Review: Vol. 19 No. 2 (Summer 2017)We commonly think of hangovers as the next-day result of too much alcohol. We overdo it the night before, and the following morning we pay. We develop...
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