2021 Archive
10621.
U.S. Backs 15% Global Minimum Tax to Curb Profit Shifting Overseas (nytimes.com)
10622.
Wikipedia is loaded, so why’s it asking for donations? (thenextweb.com)
10623.
Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory (arxiv.org)
10624.
Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked (businessinsider.com)
10625.
Packages dumped in wrong lobby, resident tried harder to correct it than Amazon (cambridgeday.com)
10626.
Excess Deaths in 2020 (kieranhealy.org)
10627.
The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015) (journals.asm.org)
10628.
Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019) (practicaltypography.com)
10629.
Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine (teslaoracle.com)
10630.
Why Lisp? (2015) (blog.rongarret.info)
10631.
Enter Sandbox: Google is building an internet without cookies (pressgazette.co.uk)
10632.
Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk (bbc.com)
10633.
Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
10634.
2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing (axios.com)
10635.
Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee' (bleepingcomputer.com)
10636.
Dumb Phone (joindiaspora.com)
10637.
Every DoorDash employee, from engineers to CEO, will make deliveries (cnn.com)
10638.
The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks (nemets.substack.com)
10639.
Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage (ruky.me)
10640.
FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh (cgit.freebsd.org)
10641.
Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the Belarus nuclear plant (lrt.lt)
10642.
3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm (twitter.com)
10643.
Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox (theverge.com)
10644.
Mealworms can compost styrofoam (livingearthsystems.com)
10645.
Browser Fingerprinting Without JavaScript (fingerprintjs.com)
10646.
Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
10647.
‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree (nationalgeographic.com)
10648.
Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016) (blog.pinboard.in)
10649.
Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us (about.chatroulette.com)
10650.
If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying (sashachapin.substack.com)