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Senate Blocks Patriot Act Extensionnpr.org
The Senate struggled to prevent an interruption in critical government surveillance programs early Saturday, rejecting both a House-passed bill and a short-term extension of the USA Patriot Act. -
If Haskell were strict, what would the laziness be like?nikita-volkov.github.io
Recently a question by Chris Done on Reddit has spawned yet another debate on the subject of whether Haskell’s laziness is actually a good thing. -
Human Reaction Times and Fighting Games, or Why Blocking Isn’t Always Easyshoryuken.com
Frame data matters to some extent in every competitive game. Many of these games, however, lack a static framerate against which to compare these numbers, so any gathered frame values are, at best, a rough estimate of the times that players can expect... -
Losing the Signal: How BlackBerry’s bid to one-up the iPhone failedtheglobeandmail.com
Excerpt from Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff -
Florida Agency Classifies Uber Driver As Employee, Says He Is Eligible For Unemploymentbuzzfeed.com
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity says former Uber driver Darrin McGillis was an employee of the company — not an independent contractor. -
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Amazon Targets Etsy With ‘Handmade’ Marketplacewsj.com
Having vanquished scores of brick-and-mortar retailers, Amazon has a new target: Etsy. The Web retailer is prepping a marketplace for artisan goods that it is calling Handmade. -
U.S. Flies Over a Chinese Project at Sea, and Beijing Objectsnytimes.com
The Chinese are unhappy that the U.S. Navy is watching a huge reclamation project to turn reefs into islands in the Spratly Islands, a group of reefs in the South China Sea. - tonyday567.github.io
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The Clock is Still Running: Neither NSA Reform Nor Reauthorization Advances in Senateeff.org
Tonight, the US Senate failed to move ahead with the USA Freedom Act, an NSA reform bill that would address phone record surveillance and FISA Court transparency and fairness. It also was unable to muster votes for a temporary reauthorization of Sectio... -
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OCaml and Mirage now running on rumprun, including bare metal - rumpkernel-users - FreeListsfreelists.org
OCaml and Mirage now running on rumprun, including bare metal, rumpkernel-users at FreeLists