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Is San Francisco losing its soul?theguardian.com
The big pay cheques of the tech boom are changing the City by the Bay as Twitter and Google millionaires take over its bohemian haunts. Could this be the end of the city as we know it? Zoë Corbyn reports -
A Blend of Ether and Chloroform Is Fueling a Silent Drug Epidemic in Brazilmotherboard.vice.com
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How Amy Reeder, a Comic Book Artist, Spends Her Sundaynytimes.com
Amy Reeder, who created the Image Comics series “Rocket Girl” with Brandon Montclare, spends the day with friends, at the brunch table, podcasting and at karaoke. -
The Quantum Mechanics of Fate - Issue 9: Time - Nautilusnautil.us
“The objective world simply is, it does not happen,” wrote mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl in 1949. From his point of… -
The American Scholar: Traveling Corpse - Andrea Barretttheamericanscholar.org
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Meet the Spanish shoeshine guy who secretly guards Twitter’s greatest real estatewashingtonpost.com
Javier Castaño is on a quest to return high-profile Twitter handles to their rightful owners. -
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The Common Cure For Heroin Addiction Is Also A Magnet For Police Harassmentbuzzfeed.com
With heroin addiction skyrocketing, methadone remains the gold standard for narcotics dependence treatment. Yet cops nationwide target heavily regulated clinics to turn vulnerable addicts into info... -
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Specifying a PGP client that your grandmother could usedavidnoel.ca
PGP is a pain in the ass, and yet it’s the best option we currently have for encrypting email. A bunch of people are working on replacing both email and PGP, but in the meantime we should make PGP ... -
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The dangers of the "Google Analytics-powered Startup"simontorring.com
They did it again. With Google Analytics, Google has once again created a piece of free-ish enterprise software in a previously costly field (think Google Drive instead of DropBox/Box or Google Docs instead of Microsoft Office) which has become so omni... -
Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, But Time Just Might Do It - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
While on vacation in distant locales, people often find that time moves quite differently than in the places they’re used to. In… -
Stand aside for the smartphone generationthestack.com
Have British pedestrians lost their ability to negotiate collisions because of smartphone-coma? -
What is Nuitkanuitka.net
The TL;DR ... Nuitka is a Python compiler. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or ex -
Automated System testing and the story of the hidden phallussoftwareefficiency.wordpress.com
Introduction Automated system testing, the crême brulée of automated testing, verifies what your customers will see and experience. It is mainly used to do regression testing for you, if you have d... -
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