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    #15yrsago Getting people’s names right in software design: a LOT harder than it looks antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat

    #15yrsago Internet Archive’s cache of 24/7 TV footage from 9/11 and beyond archive.org/details/911

    #10yrsago Peter Thiel & Y Combinator fund a “litigation financing” startup to make money off other peoples’ lawsuits gizmodo.com/a-startup-backed-b

    #10yrsago Universities fought unionization’s ‘one-size-fits-all’ using identical arguments crookedtimber.org/2016/08/25/g

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    #10yrsago Parents who can’t pay for kids’ incarceration can still go bankrupt, a US court rules archive.thinkprogress.org/ever

    #10yrsago UK Intellectual Property Office grants trademark on “should’ve” bbc.co.uk/news/business-370923

    #10yrsago The Greatest of Marlys! is the Lynda Barry book we’ve been waiting for memex.craphound.com/2016/08/16

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    #10yrsago UC Davis Chancellor spent $400K+ to scrub her online reputation after pepper-spray incident sacbee.com/news/local/article9

    #10yrsago Reputation systems work because people are mostly good timharford.com/2016/08/the-mea

    #10yrsago The guy who started Serbia’s ethnic cleansing led a pro-Trump rally in Belgrade web.archive.org/web/2016081702

    #10yrsago Europe’s banks want to store billions in cash to fight back against negative interest web.archive.org/web/2016081715

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    #10yrsago The Tor Project’s social contract: we will not backdoor Tor blog.torproject.org/tor-social

    #10yrsago Cash grants to people with unexpected bills successfully prevents homelessness science.org/content/article/bi

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    #10yrsago DEA bribes rail/airline employees for tipoffs that lead to warrantless cash seizures eu.usatoday.com/story/news/201

    #10yrsago Trump is an object lesson in the problems of machine learning mathbabe.org/2016/08/11/donald

    #5yrsago IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the

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    #10yrsago Monopoly power and the decline of small business: big business vs democracy, growth & equality ilsr.org/article/independent-b

    #10yrsago As social media centralized, blogging’s core infrastructure has withered medium.com/@anildash/the-lost-

    #10yrsago 48 hours later, Adblock Plus beats Facebook’s adblocker-blocker theverge.com/2016/8/11/1243999

    #10yrsago 100 million VWs can be unlocked with a $40 cracker (and other cars aren’t much better) usenix.org/system/files/confer

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    #10yrsago Profile of People’s Ride: a co-operative, driver-owned alternative to Uber democracyatwork.info/profile_p

    #10yrsago The story of the story of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion latimes.com/entertainment/hero

    #10yrsago Designer makes clothes out of German transit upholstery fabric, rides trains web.archive.org/web/2016080813

    #10yrsago America will finally gather statistics on which and how many people are killed by law enforcement theguardian.com/us-news/2016/a

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    #15yrsago XKCD on the password paradox: human factors versus computers’ brute force xkcd.com/936/

    #10yrsago American Bar Association votes to DRM the law, put it behind a EULA abajournal.com/news/article/af

    #10yrsago Trump only writes the angry tweets, the nice ones are written by a staffer with an Iphone varianceexplained.org/r/trump-

    #10yrsago Aviation’s war on moisture turns ten today memex.craphound.com/2016/08/10

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    #10yrsago Timelapse of pills dissolving: “decaying clowns” youtube.com/watch?v=4rY3X4xafs0

    #10yrsago Proof-of-concept ransomware for smart thermostats demoed at Defcon web.archive.org/web/2016102008

    #10yrsago Compounds in human exhalations during movies vary in response to suspense and comedy nature.com/articles/srep25464

    #10yrsago How racist traffic stops criminalize black people, and what to do about it vox.com/2016/8/5/12364580/poli

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    #25yrsago Steve Ballmer: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS ntk.net/ballmer/dancemonkeyboy

    #15yrsago HOWTO E-Z realistic corpse from a cheap plastic skeleton propnomicon.blogspot.com/2011/

    #15yrsago $300 Million Button: making customers create logins to buy cost etailer $300M/year centercentre.com/

    #10yrsago 1 billion computer monitors vulnerable to undetectable firmware attacks defcon.org/html/defcon-24/dc-2

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