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The Moral Duty to Explore Space (1): The Positive Case
TweetSpace exploration has long been a source of fascination and wonderment to me. I grew up reading the classic science fiction novels of the mid-20th century, many of which idealised the notion of...
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A 'Walden' for the YouTube Age
Still from Primitive Technology.Thwack. Thwack. Thwack. Thwp. Thwp. Thwack. The sound of stone striking wood. Rustling leaves. A loud crack as a tree falls. A dry whirring of insects. Further off, a...
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Every Society Invents the Failed Utopia It Deserves
by John TreschCONJECTURES #2“Now: the integration of the actual and the possible.” So speaks the radiant Marie Violette Tranchot (AKA “Octave Obdurant”) at a crucial moment in the piece that follows....
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“A thread on the best reading lists I've come across so far.”
Velkommen hjem!Denne tidslinje er der, hvor du vil bruge mest af din tid og konstant få opdateringer om det, der interesserer dig. Fungerer Tweets ikke for dig? Hold over profilbilledet og klik på...
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97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals
Almost every California municipality has failed to build enough housing. As for the ones that technically did, the devil’s in the details.State Senator Scott Wiener (D – San Francisco) has positioned...
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There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries–and China Is Winning
KOLWEZI, Democratic Republic of Congo—Miners push bicycles piled high with bags of a grayish-blue ore along a dusty road to a makeshift market. There, they line up at wholesalers with nicknames such as...
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Adventures in Autorouting (2017)
Why are we humans still wasting our time doing a crappy job at manually routing printed circuit board traces? If a computer can beat the best Go player on earth, surely it can route a mess of traces...
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The way we run Exist
Lately Josh and I have become increasingly concerned about the amount of data we're all sharing online, and how that data is being used. We've seen example after example of how online companies don't...
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Announcing HaxePunk 4.0
It's been in development for a long time - over a year, in fact - but a new major version of HaxePunk is now available on haxelib! It's the same 2D game engine you know and love with a new look, some...
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Were There Really Arrow Storms?
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Medieval , trackbackThere are a number of antique and medieval references to massive numbers of arrows creating arrow storms in battles. Some readers will...
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Roam has constructed an international housing network for digital nomads
I opened the door onto a bedroom with an attached bathroom and enclosed porch, sparsely furnished with all-white side tables, dresser and bed, but no desk or television. The room’s white walls lacked...
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London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames
Image caption The device was discovered during planned works at the airportLondon City Airport has been closed after a World War Two bomb was found nearby in the River Thames.The airport will be shut...
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Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
Our labs are held in the Apple Orchard, which has tons of natural light! CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing, is an exciting new course offered by the UC Berkeley EECS Department. Computing has...
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Fast Web Scrapping with ReactPHP
Almost every PHP developer has ever parsed some data from the Web. Often we need some data, which is available only on some website and we want to pull this data and save it somewhere. It looks like we...
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Learning ptrace the hard way: Linux process states
Recently I've been experimenting with Linux'sptrace(2) syscall. Unfortunately, there isn't any kind of "official" documentation for it and the manual page is quite poor. There are some other attempts...
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Show HN: Turn you GitHub Gist into a live dashboard
README.mdTurn this:dashboard "Food": - h1 text: Food - h2 text: By caloric content - 3 columns: - rows: - h3 text: Bananas - pie chart: {"columns": [["Protein", 5], ["Sugar", 10], ["Other carbs", 40],...
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Future of space travel : Major events in upcoming century – part I
It’s been more than fifty years since the first man stepped out from the earth but the development of space exploration technologies are a little too slow while most of the other technologies have...
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TCP-Starvation DOS
README.mdSome time ago, I found a design flaw/vulnerability which affects most TCP services and allows for a new variant of denial of service. This attack can multiply the efficiency of a traditional...
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