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Uber Says Its Drivers Make Great Money. But the Math Just Doesn’t Add Up.slate.com
In just four years, Uber has constructed an intimidating profile. It operates in 45 countries around the world and well over 100 cities. It services millions of customers and employs hundreds of thousands of drivers. In June, Uber snagged $1.2 billion ... -
Why would someone steal the world’s rarest water lily? | Sam Knighttheguardian.com
The long read: In January, an endangered plant was taken from Kew Gardens – only a few years after scientists saved it from extinction. Sam Knight investigates what happens when plant obsession turns criminal. -
penchestra.com
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One week later, Google algorithm change hits streaming, torrent sites hardarstechnica.com
After early efforts in 2012, it appears Google's gotten the results it wanted. -
news.ycombinator.com
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Suddenly, the Opposite Happenedsuperginbaby.wordpress.com
There has been a lot of noise on Twitter, and I suppose in other places, about Haskell users (and functional programmers more generally) being "condescending" and "smug" and thus unwelcoming to new... -
New data shows more signs that patent troll suits are in declinearstechnica.com
It's still no cause for premature celebration according to patent reform groups. -
HTML5 is done, but two groups still wrestle over Web's future - CNETcnet.com
The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess. -
Hugging a Medieval Bookmedievalbooks.nl
Book historians tend to compare features of the medieval book to body parts. Thus the manuscript’s “head” (top edge) is connected to its “spine” (the back) via the “shoulder” (the area where board ... -
OSX Yosemite: I went back to Mavericks.medium.com
Today I went back from apples latest OS X Yosemite to the former one Mavericks. Here’s why. -
Happy Anniversary to the Early Internet's First Network-Wide Crashmotherboard.vice.com
That time ARPANET managed to DDoS itself. -
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An Interview With Earnestcodeinsider.us
I'm an engineer who helps engineers and other techies find great gigs. My interviews and essays are here. -
Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. - The Interceptfirstlook.org
Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email. It was encrypted, and sent from the sort of anonymous email service that smart people use when they want to hide their identity. Sitting at the kitchen table in the small co... -
measurementlab.net
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Taco Bell | Your Destination for Tacos and Burritos All Day and Late Nighttacobell.com
Taco Bell’s official site where you can find more about Mobile Ordering, Happier Hour, Cantina Power, and Doritos Locos Tacos as well as our nutrition guide, locations, franchise information, and career opportunities. -
officialandroid.blogspot.com
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An Open Source Platform That Makes Building Apps Cheap and Easy | WIREDwired.com
Schmidt thinks it's a waste of time for companies to build the same foundations again and again, which is why he founded Meteor, which builds an open source web programming framework that anyone can use to build complex, desktop-style applications in t... -
bbc.com
