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How an eBay bookseller defeated a publishing giant at the Supreme Courtarstechnica.com
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Should the U.S. Make Standardized Tests Harder?theatlantic.com
A counter-intuitive argument for why the country should spend more money on the assessments -
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Amazon Fire Phone - Unlocked GSM, 13 MP Camera - Shop Nowamazon.com
Fire (Unlocked GSM), the first smartphone designed by Amazon and the only smartphone with Dynamic Perspective, Firefly, Mayday, and more. Shop Now. -
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Fire (Unlocked GSM), the first smartphone designed by Amazon and the only smartphone with Dynamic Perspective, Firefly, Mayday, and more. Shop Now. -
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How shaving 0.001s from a function saved $400/mo on Amazon EC2 | Ben Millearebenmilleare.com
If premature optimisation is the root of all evil, then timely optimisation is clearly the sum of all things good. Over at ExtractBot, my HTML utility API, things have been hotting up gradually over several months; to the extent that, at peak, it’s now... -
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The First 3-D Printer in Space Makes Its First Object: A Spare Partnbcnews.com
After a series of calibration tests, the first 3-D printer to fly to outer space has manufactured its first potentially useful object on the International Sp... -
A "Complex" Theory of Consciousnessscientificamerican.com
Is complexity the secret to sentience, to a panpsychic view of consciousness? -
Finally, a Use for Big Data: Cracking the Voynich Manuscriptmotherboard.vice.com
Brazilian researchers found some indication that the manuscript, at least, should make sense. -
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Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scalecode.facebook.com
As we’re building and running systems at Facebook, sometimes we encounter metastable failure states. These are problems that create conditions that prevent their own solutions. In gridlocked traffic, for example, cars that are blocking an intersection ... -
An economist explains what the heck is happening to the global economyqz.com
Sex, lies, and income distribution. - daemonology.net
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Friendsgiving, a new tradition to be thankful forwashingtonpost.com
The benefits of “Friendsgiving” include no travel, no drama and the ability to sleep in your own bed. -
TallyUp for Costcoitunes.apple.com
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Data reuse and the open data citation advantagepeerj.com
Background. Attribution to the original contributor upon reuse of published data is important both as a reward for data creators and to document the provenance of research findings. Previous studies have found that papers with publicly available datase... -
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