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Feature: How tiny satellites spawned in Silicon Valley will monitor a changing Earthnews.sciencemag.org
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A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking systemgendal.me
Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would ... -
Can life exist on a planet without a star? – Sean Raymond – Aeonaeon.co
In the dark corners of our galaxy, there are billions of rogue planets roaming around, starless — can they support life? -
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botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanythinggithub.com
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Deans announce new Institute for Data, Systems, and Societynewsoffice.mit.edu
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A New History Argues the Civil War Continued for Years After Appomattoxslate.com
For most history buffs, the Civil War’s sesquicentennial ends on Thursday. That day in 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox. Most historians, though, acknowledge that the war’s most ambitious ... -
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Sell in May and go away? | AgoraOpusagoraopus.com
Steen Jakobsen, Saxo Bank A/S’s chief economist, was recently quoted saying you should sell your stocks and take 6 months off. The timing might be incidental -
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This is Edward Snowden's Advice for an Unhackable Passwordtime.com
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how innodb lost its advantagedom.as
For years it was very easy to defend InnoDB's advantage over competition - covering index reads were saving I/O operations and CPU everywhere, table space and I/O management allowed to focus on dat... -
Physicists show 'quantum freezing phenomenon' is universalphys.org
(Phys.org)—Physicists who work on quantum technologies are always looking for ways to manage decoherence, which occurs when a quantum system unavoidably interacts with the surrounding environment. In the past few years, scientists have discovered that ... -
DKIM and injected headers - Word to the Wisewordtothewise.com
If you look at the DKIM-Signature header in any piece of email signed with DKIM you’ll see that one of the fields it contains, the h= field, lists some email header names, for example: h=From:Subject:Date:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type Those are the head... -
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