August 2020 Archive
17011.
Hedonic Regression (en.wikipedia.org)
17012.
The Computer Game That Led to Enlightenment (newyorker.com)
17013.
British Grading Debacle Shows Pitfalls of Automating Government (nytimes.com)
17014.
Toronto man brings masks to the masses with airport, mall PPE vending machines (theglobeandmail.com)
17015.
Paving the way for high bitrate video streaming with GStreamer's RTP elements (collabora.com)
17016.
Does Robinhood Make It Too Easy to Trade? From Free Stocks to Confetti (wsj.com)
17017.
Biomorphic batteries could provide 72 times more energy for robots (sciencedaily.com)
17018.
Nighttime Stories (Xkcd) (xkcd.com)
17019.
Airbnb indefinitely bans all parties at its listings (techcrunch.com)
17020.
Stop Paying the Apple Tax (lifehacker.com)
17021.
Zoom is coming to Facebook’s video-chat device, Portal (cnbc.com)
17022.
A Simple DDoS CLI Written in Go (github.com)
17023.
Slideshare Is Joining Scribd (slideshare.net)
17024.
747 Supertanker - largest aerial firefighting aircraft (en.wikipedia.org)
17025.
When Did Reagan's First Signs of Alzheimer's Appear? (2011) (psychologytoday.com)
17026.
Microsoft TileCode: Design, Code, and Play Games on Arcade Devices (makecode.com)
17027.
Anxiety grows as China’s Three Gorges dam hits highest level (theguardian.com)
17028.
I Took an Entry-Level, Half-Time Job at My Portfolio Company BallotReady (heysue.com)
17029.
How to Raise a Venture Fund (medium.com)
17030.
Reflections on ReasonML (nirvdrum.com)
17031.
Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci (notes.eatonphil.com)
17032.
The uncomfortable but inevitable process of cultural evolution (ryanavent.substack.com)
17033.
What Is a Kubernetes Operator and Why It Matters for SRE (blameless.com)
17034.
Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels (nytimes.com)
17035.
Why cloud providers don't care about security – and they shouldn't (franklyspeaking.substack.com)
17036.
Engineer's Workshop: Recreating the Ahn'Qiraj War Effort (worldofwarcraft.com)
17037.
A flexible, high-performance 3D simulator for Embodied AI research (github.com)
17038.
News Publishers Join Fight Against Apple over App Store Terms (wsj.com)
17039.
Fastly to buy Signal Sciences for $775M (nasdaq.com)
17040.
In the US, switching to EVs would save lives and be worth billions (arstechnica.com)