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A Canadian City Once Eliminated Poverty And Nearly Everyone Forgothuffingtonpost.ca
An aerial view of the city of Dauphin, Man. Forty years ago, a groundbreaking experiment provided cheques to Dauphin’s poorest to raise their incomes to a liveable wage. (Photo: Dauphin Economic Development/Facebook) On a December aftern... - haste-lang.org
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Sweden's Bizarre Tradition of Watching Donald Duck (Kalle Anka) Cartoons on Christmas Eveslate.com
Nothing says Christmas like Donald Duck … if you’re Swedish. Every culture has its own holiday customs, and Jeremy Stahl, a non-Swede and a “partially lapsed Jew,” stumbled upon an odd one during a trip to Sweden. In the article reprinted below, Stahl ... -
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KVM scalability and consolidation ratio: cache none vs cache writebackilsistemista.net
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Coca-Cola Disconnects Voice Mail at Headquartersbloomberg.com
Forget about leaving a voice mail at Coca- Cola Co.’s Atlanta headquarters. Send a text instead. -
Sorry Google, No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA doesn't stop bots - ShieldSquareshieldsquare.com
Google recently launched a new version of reCaptcha which claims to be more robust to bots and easy going on the humans, Does this work? lets find out ! -
The Sneakiest Way Prosecutors Get a Guilty Verdict: PowerPoint | WIREDwired.com
In Washington state earlier this month, an appeals court threw out a murder conviction based on shoddy work by the defense. But the court also took the prosecutor to task for something even stranger: a bad PowerPoint presentation. -
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Uber CEO Indicted in South Korea Over Its Taxi Servicebloomberg.com
Prosecutors in South Korea charged Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick and the head of its domestic business partner MK Korea Co. with violating a transportation law. -
Origins of the policeworxintheory.wordpress.com
In England and the United States, the police were invented within the space of just a few decades—roughly from 1825 to 1855. The new institution was not a response to an increase in crime, and it r... -
Announcing Hologram, taking EC2 Instance Roles everywheretech.adroll.com
AWS Keys are sensitive cryptographic material that should not be left lying around in code, repositories, or even on developers' laptops. In EC2, this is solved by assigning Instance Roles and letting the metadata service generate temporary credentials... -
I Am Not an Ubernplusonemag.com
Twenty to thirty people, mostly men, show up for secret meetings on Los Angeles’s East Side, near the neighborhood of Little Armenia where most of them live. Clutching coffee and packs of Marlboros, they share war stories and ask for advice. Female dri... -
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In Defense Of Inclusionism - Gwern.netgwern.net
Iron Law of Bureaucracy: the downwards deletionism spiral discourages contribution and is how Wikipedia will die. -
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enigma-io/s3plzgithub.com
s3plz - A polite, minimal interface for sending python objects to and from Amazon S3.