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www.vice.com 3y ago

162-Year-Old Law Used to Jail Woman for Taking Abortion Pills Beyond Legal Time

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www.techdirt.com 3y ago

UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet

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theconversation.com 3y ago

Scientists ignored animal clitorises for centuries

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pqina.nl 3y ago

Compress an Image Before Upload with JavaScript

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www.foxnews.com 3y ago

Utah horse returns home to owner after 8 years of running with wild mustangs

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portswigger.net 3y ago

Stealing passwords from infosec Mastodon – without bypassing CSP

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: You just bought Twitter, not Elon. What changes are you making?

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attheu.utah.edu 3y ago

Money brings hunter-gatherers new choices

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www.wearethemighty.com 3y ago

Air Force ‘rods from God’ could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon (2020)

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www.platformer.news 3y ago

Facebook's big new experiment in governance: Policies written by their users?

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theoutline.com 3y ago

Google eats a business whole (2017)

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 3y ago

Over 1k iOS apps found exposing hardcoded AWS credentials

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www.richsnapp.com 3y ago

The reduce ({ spread}) anti-pattern (JavaScript) (2019)

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www.militarytimes.com 3y ago

Pentagon scientists making talking plasma laser balls for use as weapons (2019)

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www.platformer.news 3y ago

Instagram walks back its changes

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taskandpurpose.com 3y ago

Florida man breaks into Space Force base to warn of alien-dragon space war

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interestingengineering.com 4y ago

Three-Player Chess Is Just as Challenging as It Sounds

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solar.lowtechmagazine.com 4y ago

Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures

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www.engadget.com 4y ago

A Chinese Wikipedia editor spent years writing fake Russian medieval history

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www.platformer.news 4y ago

Why BeReal is breaking out

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www.newscientist.com 4y ago

Meteorite from Mars traced to crater where it was ejected by impact

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kottke.org 4y ago

The Crane That Fell in Love with Her Human Keeper (2021)

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www.dallasnews.com 4y ago

Pregnant woman says her fetus should count as a passenger in HOV lanes

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sites.google.com 4y ago

You Cant Count on Luck Why Decision Transformers Fail in Stochastic Environments

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www.theregister.com 4y ago

Sina Weibo, China's Twitter analogue, reveals users' locations and IP addresses

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ctemplar.com 4y ago

Privacy email provider CTemplar is shutting down

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evonomics.com 4y ago

The Truth About Inflation: Why Milton Friedman Was Wrong, Again

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I don't think I've ever read so much nonsensical word vomit in my life.

And I say that as someone who owns and operates a bunch of (relatively) successful social media websites.

The set of content processing algorithms is relatively fluid as new types of content become prominent and new algorithmic capabilities emerge. The set of content propagation algorithms is relatively stable.

This is the wrong way round as well. Content processing is stable, but it's the 'content propagation algorithms' that change a lot of the time.

And using the word 'algorithm' more than 200 times literally just makes it lose its meaning.

Teach them how to write their own.

Don't teach your kid how to use a computer program, teach them how to write one.

You can easily build a toy language model yourself, it will give your kid a massive head start and help structure their mental models for life so they don't view this as 'magic' like so many other people do.

Is there a technical name for that 'bubble'?

Like since we've been broadcasting signals out (television and radio etc) and saying they've been expanding at 100% strength in all directions (for the sake of argument) then we have a bubble around us.

And even if we time-travelled back into our past and changed everything, nothing beyond that bubble would be changed because nothing we'd ever done previously had gotten that far out.

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It's me Tom the author of the post.

It's-a me, Mario

Obvious marketing is obvious.

Planet Nine is Pluto.

You see how the entire conversation was reframed from demoting Pluto?

Babylonians knew about the 'tenth' planet, everyone and their mom knew about it. And there's a lot more in the ancient histories to learn about it.

So 'scientists' decided Pluto was no longer a planet, then the 'tenth' planet now becomes the 'ninth' planet, and we get articles like this.

it’s a bit astonishing how good Cloudflare is at PR and community management

It's really not, look at any cloudflare support thread here and how they crawl out of the woodwork for damage control because they failed in basic customer service

it's a huge red flag, and everyone in the comments always sees it.

cloudflare is cancer and needs to die.