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Black-market archives - Gwern.netgwern.net
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Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday—Vol. 1, No. 2theappendix.net
As a work on what non-Western people can teach us, Jared Diamond’s latest book, <i>The World Until Yesterday</i>, is “clearly written, well-conceptualized, and unresponsive to the human condition,” writes anthropologist Alex Golub. The prob... -
Uber should be suspended in California and fined $7.3 million, judge sayslatimes.com
The ride-hailing giant Uber should be fined $7.3 million and suspended from operating in California because its parent company did not comply with state laws,&nbsp;a state administrative judge&nbsp;said Wednesday. -
One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profitsnytimes.com
It might be time for Reddit to move away from its reliance on volunteers to run its operations and give Reddit’s users a financial stake in the company’s success. -
Algorithms Had Themselves a Treasury Flash Crashbloombergview.com
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The Archival Agenda: Thinking Through Scientific Archives at the Royal Societyjhiblog.org
by guest contributor Brooke Palmieri Imagine that an archivist's child is raised from birth as a professional archivist to see how they documented their life. Imagine that toddler making a finger p... -
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Three decades of the Commodore 64arstechnica.com
We reminisce about a major step in the development of the personal computer. -
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The Misleading War on GMOs: The Food Is Safe. The Rhetoric Is Dangerous.slate.com
Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that are free of genetically modified organisms. Last ye... -
Water & Vice: Producing Intoxicants in an Era of Extreme Drought - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
California is thirsty. The state is in its fourth year of a drought that is especially severe, by any measure. For instance, an April… -
Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order: Internet Service Doesn’t Have to Police Music Labels’ Trademarkeff.org
Striking a blow against the continuing effort to force service providers to serve as IP police, CloudFlare and EFF have pushed back against a court order that would have required CloudFlare to monitor its service to enforce a trademark held by a group ... -
Security Informatics | Abstract | Automatic detection of cyber-recruitment by violent extremistssecurity-informatics.com
Growing use of the Internet as a major means of communication has led to the formation of cyber-communities, which have become increasingly appealing to terrorist groups due to the unregulated nature of Internet communication. Online communities enable... -
Theory, models and biologyelifesciences.org
Theoretical ideas have a rich history in many areas of biology, and new theories and mathematical models have much to offer in the future. -
Americhrome - The Morning Newsthemorningnews.org
From Schwarzkopf’s boots to traffic cones, the federal government’s official color palette—yes, it has one—controls much of what we see. An investigation into how America elects to paint itself. -
Dear NY Times, if you're going to hack people, at least do it cleanly! - webrtcHackswebrtchacks.com
So the New York times uses WebRTC to gather your local ip addresses… Tsahi describes the non-technical parts of the issue in his blog. Let’s look at the technical details… it turns out that the Javascript code used is very clunky and inefficient. First... -
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crosswordunclued.com
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The Icy Mountains of Plutonasa.gov
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains.