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Apple Pay: Seamless in Stores, but Quirky Onlinenytimes.com
Integrating the new payment system with varied apps still has some flaws, but brick-and-mortar purchases are easy and fun. - github.com
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How Google Handles IT for Its Workersonline.wsj.com
Google CIO Ben Fried talks about how the company lets employees choose what technology they will use, and how that can benefit a business’s culture and bottom line. - aws.amazon.com
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A sprinkle of compost helps rangeland lock up carbonsfgate.com
A compost experiment that began seven years ago on a Marin County ranch has uncovered a disarmingly simple and benign way to remove carbon dioxide from the air, holding the potential to turn the vast rangeland of California and the world into a weapon ... -
Steve Wozniak to teach at UTSarnnet.com.au
IT pioneer and Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, has accepted a job to teach as an adjunct professor at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). - github.com
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A Reporter Got This Rare Interview With Chairman Mao in 1965, Even Though China Was Entirely Closed to the Westnewrepublic.com
Today, this would be like getting an exclusive interview with Kim Jong-Un. -
The money you donate to humanitarian causes could be making things worsenewrepublic.com
This new book makes that controversial claim. - sam-koblenski.blogspot.com
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What It Took for SpaceX to Become a Serious Space Companytheatlantic.com
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Who Wrote at Standing Desks? Kierkegaard, Dickens and Ernest Hemingway Tooopenculture.com
Kierkegaard apparently did his best writing standing up, as did Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf. Also put Ernest Hemingway in the standing desk club too. - www2.parc.com
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Scalability, Part 2: Hypercubes - ethereum blogblog.ethereum.org
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir, Chris Barnett and Dominic Williams for ideas and inspiration In a recent blog post I outlined some partial solutions to scalability, all of which fit into the umbrella of Ethereum 1.0 as it stands. Specialized micropaymen... - verbling.com
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