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www.cbsnews.com 8y ago

Police respond to “active shooter situation” at YouTube's headquarters

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www.whereisroadster.com 8y ago

Where Is Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster with Starman?

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arnaucode.com 8y ago

Developing a Twitter botnet based on Markov chains in Go

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www.reviewjournal.com 8y ago

Driverless shuttle bringing a glimpse of the future to downtown Las Vegas

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theconversation.com 8y ago

How animals vote to make group decision

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

Are Index Funds Evil?

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www.bbc.com 9y ago

You can teach yourself to be a risk-taker

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bgr.com 9y ago

NASA discovered a bizarre bubble around Earth, humans accidentally created it

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www.reuters.com 9y ago

Amazon trounces rivals in battle of the shopping 'bots'

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divan.github.io 9y ago

Visualizing Concurrency in Go (2016)

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www.newswise.com 9y ago

Harvard Scientists Pinpoint Critical Step in DNA Repair, Cellular Aging

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Radio Shack Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Again

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finance.yahoo.com 9y ago

Fry’s Electronics: How this tech retailer has survived the fall of B&M

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abcnews.go.com 9y ago

UPS tests launching drones from trucks equipped with battery chargers

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josemanuelpita.blogspot.com 9y ago

Raspberry Pi Zero Build Status Monitor

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www.zdnet.com 9y ago

Apple Planning MacBook Pro with 32GB of 'desktop-class' RAM: Report

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www.forbes.com 9y ago

Amazon Scams on the Rise in 2017 as Fraudulent Sellers Run Amok and Profit Big

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github.com 9y ago

ZebraPack: a data description language and serialization format

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www.bbc.com 9y ago

The farmer who built her own broadband

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www.sciencealert.com 9y ago

The world's first solar road has opened in France

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www.crowdstrike.com 9y ago

Danger Close: Fancy Bear Tracking of Ukrainian Field Artillery Units

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arstechnica.com 9y ago

Stop using Netgear routers with unpatched security bug, experts warn

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now.howstuffworks.com 9y ago

World's First AI-Generated Christmas Song Is the Stuff of Nightmares

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

Meet the Machinists Who Keep the New York Times Running

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jeremywho.com 9y ago

Go 1.8 – Plugins

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arstechnica.com 9y ago

Beyond business: Disgraced Theranos bloodied family, friends, neighbors

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melody.sh 9y ago

Fast and reliable dependency manager for Go

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www.popularmechanics.com 9y ago

The Pentagon Uses Plant DNA to Catch Counterfeit Parts

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www.siliconbeat.com 9y ago

Apple admits to iPhone ‘touch disease,’ blames users and offers $149 fix

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phys.org 9y ago

'Conductive concrete' shields electronics from EMP attack

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I just don't see how nuclear has a bright future in any regard.

How about in space or on other planets?

And while nuclear is certainly much less CO2 intensive than any fossil-fuel source even a pro-nuclear body's publication shows that wind produces approximately as much CO2/GWh over an installations lifetime as nuclear does.

And what if it's not windy?

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Keep in mind, almost ALL the nuclear power plants built are based on 1950-1960s technology (designed for naval applications). That would be like comparing solar panels from that era with the panels designed/produced today. There is no comparison.

No money going towards nuclear....

If people were serious about ACTUALLY reducing carbon emissions, then baseload power production would be nuclear.

Please look at France as an example.

France: 5.0 metric tons per capita (2013)

US: 16.4 metric tons per capita (2013)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

Nuclear power is the largest source of electricity in the country, with a generation of 416.8 TWh, or 76.3%[2] of the country's total production of 546 TWh, the highest percentage in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

I wish ISPs billed like a utility. Something like $10 connection fee + 10-15 cents per GB.

This will force bandwidth hogs to self-regulate. If you have the ability to purchase 4k/8k TVs, then you should be responsible for the associated streaming costs and not have others subsidize it.

Also, NN does nothing to foster competition - the real problem. All we have are a bunch of local monopolies/duopolies.

Agreed. If there are more men in the city, women should have more selection.

However, the diversity of men may be limited (e.g. they are all software engineers...). It would be like going to Baskin-Robbins and all they had was various types of strawberry ice cream.

How does Bitcoin work offline? Let's say the world goes to hell (assume internet has been taken offline) and we need to trade using a form of trusted currency.

Just curious...

The problem is our obsolete voting system which effectively prohibits a third party from winning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Presidential_Deb...

Multiple lawsuits have been filed by third-party candidates challenging the CPD's policy of requiring a candidate to have 15% support in national polls to be included in presidential debates. While the lawsuits have challenged the requirement on a number of grounds, including claims that it violates Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules and that it violates anti-trust laws, none of the lawsuits has been successful.

A large part of the reason my country (Denmark) is as rich as it is because of education

No, it is because they have marketable (in demand) skill(s).

If the whole country received a degree in history, would Denmark be as rich as it is today? They have an "education" right?

* > One of the commenters on the original article (https://medium.com/@tarthedark/did-a-custom-bench-between-ht...) changed a few lines of the C# to use some different ASP.NET facilities which more than doubled the reqs/sec and dropped the std dev of latency by 2/3. That provides some evidence that it wasn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. *

It might be intentional. The author of this article is also the the author of the golang Iris framework. Normally I would not automatically discount the benchmark but the author is a well-known bad actor in the golang community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/57w79c/why_you_real...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/57tmp1/why_you_shou...

Sayeret Matkal, like all elite units, is closed to women. [1]

But it’s difficult to claim that women are equals in the IDF (even the IDF admits that less than 4 percent of women are in combat positions). Many are in “combat-support” positions that can involve anything from opening the gate of the army base to cleaning guns—and which, by the way, command a lower salary than combat positions. And tellingly, there is only one female general in the entire IDF. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/ga...