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Tied electionsgottwurfelt.com
Stephen Pettigrew at FiveThirtyEight writes about the 2014 elections that ended in a tie. These are generally resolved by games of chance. The elections that are mentioned there are small ones (two... -
Space Engine - Home pageen.spaceengine.org
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Uber to Portland: We're Here. Deal With It.bits.blogs.nytimes.com
The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company started offering its services in Portland, Ore., despite loud protests from city officials who said the service is illegal there. -
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How can you tell if a cipher is secure?cryptologie.net
How can you tell if a cipher is secure? I was asked that question during an interview a while ago. Back then it troubled me because it seemed so basic and yet and I had no idea how to answer it. I became vivid and didn't know what to say and later I di... -
Penicillin tactics revealed by scientistssciencedaily.com
One of the oldest and most widely used antibiotics, penicillin, attacks enzymes that build the bacterial cell wall. Researchers have now shown that penicillin and its variants also set in motion a toxic malfunctioning of the cell's wall-building machin... -
Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco Staterollingstone.com
After 13 years of war, we haven't defeated the Taliban in Afghanistan, but we have managed to create a nation ruled by drug lords. -
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The International Competition Where Master Lock-Pickers Do Battle | WIREDwired.com
For a lock picker, the world is a different place. Take, for example, a typical suburban house, with a bicycle in the front yard and a five-pin Weiser bolting the front door—a basic pin-and-tumbler lock, employed by millions of home owners. -
24 days of Rust - working with JSON | Blog | siciarz.netsiciarz.net
JSON is a workhorse data format of the modern Web. Originating from the JavaScript world, it gained a lot of traction and at the moment it's usually the first choice of a Web developer for a data interchange format. Not only Web - once JavaScript-only,... -
Yann LeCun - A list of challenges related to how... | Facebookfacebook.com
A list of challenges related to how neuroscience can help computer science: The brains appears to be a kind of prediction engine. How do we translate... -
So I Told These Nomads About the Big Bang… - Issue 101: In Our Nature - Nautilusnautil.us
To explain her motivations as a writer, Anna Badkhen quotes the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert: “you have little time you must give… -
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Becoming more formidable - 42Floorsblog.42floors.com
“The founder who handles fundraising should be the CEO, who should in turn be the most formidable of the founders.” -Paul Graham in his epic Fundraising How To guide for·mi·da·ble adjective inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, p... -
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A planet of suburbseconomist.com
The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.