August 2019 Archive
2941.
A hiker in Canada was approached by a cougar. She blasted Metallica to scare it (cnn.com)
2942.
The Man Who Thinks the U.S. Is Better Off as a Bunch of Separate Countries (fivethirtyeight.com)
2943.
Airbnb introduces new search tools for business travelers (techcrunch.com)
2944.
The cost of next-day delivery (buzzfeednews.com)
2945.
Ask HN: What have you automated that saved you a ton of time?
2946.
Ask HN: Is there any guarantee that my phone's camera isn't spying on me?
2947.
Is Britain Becoming a Failed State? (project-syndicate.org)
2948.
Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland (wsj.com)
2949.
Blue teams, what has had the most impact protecting against cyber attacks?
2950.
We bought a successful app, loaded it with extras and watched it fail (vox.com)
2951.
Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless (inc.com)
2952.
Inequality driving 'deaths of despair' (bbc.com)
2953.
“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson (vox.com)
2954.
What do you look for when hiring a freelancer
2955.
Cloudflare ending DDoS protection for 8chan (twitter.com)
2956.
Mummia (en.wikipedia.org)
2957.
The Nut CPU (HP Calculator CPU) [pdf] (hp41.deringenieur.net)
2958.
The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials (theatlantic.com)
2959.
The Elder Scrolls: Skyblivion (skyblivion.com)
2960.
Taking History Personally (the-tls.co.uk)
2961.
Managing Developers: Understanding Work Styles and Individual Needs (7pace.com)
2962.
Fighting forest crime in Guatemala (nationalgeographic.com)
2963.
Bolsonaro has blessed ‘brutal' assault on Amazon, sacked scientist warns (theguardian.com)
2964.
Reports say White House has drafted an order for FCC to monitor social media (techcrunch.com)
2965.
Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic (theguardian.com)
2966.
The Internet Must Change – Start with the Data (shift.newco.co)
2967.
Next browser 1.3.0: your Lisp daily driver
2968.
Anatomy of a Posit Number (johndcook.com)
2969.
Distributed tracing in the service mesh: four myths (linkerd.io)
2970.
Fine-Tuned Constants (plato.stanford.edu)