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How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
At the age of 10, Bernard Hare's father took him down the mine where he worked. -
Terms of Service; Didn't Readtosdr.org
Terms of Service; Didn't Read (ToS;DR) is an active project to fix the biggest lie on the web. We help you understand the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies of websites. -
How MIT Students Scammed the Massachusetts Lottery for $8 Millionnewsfeed.time.com
MIT students figured out how to make winning the Massachusetts lottery a sure thing, and a recent investigation suggests that the lottery commission knew about it -
Elon Musk's Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secured for 5-Mile Track in California - Transport Evolvedtransportevolved.com
Back in August 2013, long before Tesla unveiled its plans to offer autopilot features on every new car via over-the-air updates and even longer before Tesla unveiled its plans for its massive Gigafactory and its range of Tesla Energy static energy stor... -
Goodbye Marcognome.org
The GNOME project is sad to have learnt that Marco Pesenti Gritti recently passed away after a long fight with cancer. Marco made major contributions to GNOME, having been the original author of bo... -
Pebble Time review: an underdog among smartwatchesengadget.com
For two years, Pebble was the smartwatch company to beat. In 2012, it raised over $10 million on Kickstarter for its simple, monochrome e-paper wristwatc -
Los Angeles Plays Itselfnplusonemag.com
Psychologically, there are two L.A.’s. One is where Naomi Watts gets to be the sunny aspiring actress Betty and have beautiful teeth and a gorgeous lesbian relationship with an amnesiac Laura Harring. The other is where Naomi Watts is Diane, with fucke... - jandrewrogers.com
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White House sides with Oracle, tells Supreme Court APIs are copyrightablearstechnica.com
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Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure (or: why dual writes are a bad idea)blog.confluent.io
This is an edited transcript of a talk I gave at the Craft Conference 2015. The video and slides are also available. How does your database store data on disk reliably? It uses a log. How does one ... -
Squeezed quantum catsphys.org
ETH professor Jonathan Home and his colleagues reach deep into their bag of tricks to create so-called 'squeezed Schrödinger cats.' These quantum systems could be extremely useful for future technologies. -
The Creative Genius of Slime Moldpriceonomics.com
Capable of navigating through mazes, creating complex networks, and and anticipating recurring trends, slime mold demands intellectual respect. -
A Brief History of the Wristwatchtheatlantic.com
The military origins of wearable tech, a century before the Apple Watch -
Q: Is there such a thing as half a derivative?askamathematician.com
The original question was: Another one of those questions of the type "does this make sense". You have first derivatives and second derivatives. f'(x), f''(x) or sometimes dy/dx and d^2y/dx^2. Is... -
Basho Relaunches To Deliver A Cohesive Big Data Platformforbes.com
Database and big data vendor Basho has had something of a turbulent history - not unlike many other vendors, its path to success has included twists, turns, pivots and organizational changes. But under it's relatively new CEO, Adam Wray, Basho seems to...