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Fateful Harvest: Why Brazil has a big appetite for risky pesticidesreuters.com
In rising agricultural superpower Brazil, risky pesticides – including paraquat – face lax regulation. And in the rural northeast, rampant use has led to sickness and violence. -
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karpathy.github.io
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A real-time processing revival - O'Reilly Radarradar.oreilly.com
Register for Strata + Hadoop World, London. Editor’s note: Ben Lorica is an advisor to Databricks and Graphistry. Many of the technologies discussed in this post will be... -
Cellphones for Women in Developing Nations Aid Ascent From Povertynytimes.com
Digital financial tools can greatly improve lives in poor countries, but it is especially crucial to put them into the hands of women, whose role in economic growth is often ignored. -
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projects.newyorker.com
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Why These Coworking Spaces In Train Stations Let You Pay In "Social Capital"fastcompany.com
Is the free coworking space that's giving 80,000 people desks in vacant areas of schools, hospitals, and train stations the future of work? -
Snapchat’s Non-Vanishing Message: You Can Trust Usmedium.com
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FAQ: So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex's Photographs Without Permission. What Next?myrmecos.net
In August I hired ImageRights International, a reputable copyright enforcement agency, to assume the routine handling of commercial infringements of my professional work. There are a lot. Starting ... -
Study on MOOCs provides new insights on an evolving spacenewsoffice.mit.edu
Findings suggest many teachers enroll, learner intentions matter, and cost boosts completion rates. -
HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Ruleseff.org
This week we released the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere to all of our users. Compared to the previous major release, this version introduces thousands of new rules, translations of the interface into sixteen new languages, and support for "Block A... -
Thin-Slicing MDD: How We Choose Effective Operational Metricslibra.to
An in-depth exploration of how we choose, instrument, and consume metrics at Librato. We do a little dashboard diving with a single, randomly chosen KPI in one of our production services, and explore what it can teach us about the practice of Metric... -
news.ycombinator.com
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pranjan.blogspot.com
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anandtech.com
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Karen, an App That Knows You All Too Wellnytimes.com
An interactive app from the British art group Blast Theory is part story, part game and leaves its users feeling distinctly uncomfortable. - oreilly.com
