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The Resilience of CostcoFor 40 years, Costco has succeeded with a simple formula: reinvest merchandising profits into lower prices and better products; be a disciplined operator; and treat customers and employees well. But with greater share of shopping moving online, it’s fair to wonder if the company's best da Mine Safety Disclosures 500 words Rated 2023-7-27 10:13pm
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How the Cheesecake Factory became the chain restaurant of millennial dreamsToo big to fail: How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success. #Culture #Food & drink 2022-12-24 4:30am Vox Alex Abad-Santos 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-27 9:41pm
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The Fight for the Right to TrespassA group of English activists want to legally enshrine the “right to roam” — and spread the idea that nature is a common good. #England 2023-7-26 2:01am The New York Times Brooke Jarvis ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-7-27 6:34pm
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The Dictator Myth That Refuses to DieAuthoritarians would have you think that they can do certain things better than their counterparts who have to deal with checks, balances, and public opinion. Don’t believe it. #United States 2023-7-26 7:00am The Atlantic Brian Klaas ($) 200 words Rated 2023-7-27 9:43am
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The Magnificence of the Bluefin TunaRivka Galchen on “Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas,” by Karen Pinchin, and the importance of an ancient and threatened fish. #Fishing #Ocean 2023-7-24 3:00am The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-25 10:24pm
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How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and PragmatismThe privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots? #Politics #Silicon Valley 2023-7-23 4:00am WIRED Kai Ye 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-25 4:13pm
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The Gimli GliderWhen a botched imperial-to-metric conversion left a commercial jet with insufficient fuel, pilots had to improvise. 2007-11-12 12:00am Damn Interesting Alan Bellows 25,000 words Rated 2023-7-24 10:10pm
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Ability to See Expertise is a Milestone Worth Aiming ForGood news: we have a neat, universal milestone on the journey to mastery. What that looks like, and how to use it. 2022-4-5 12:34pm Commoncog Cedric Chin 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-21 1:00pm
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The End of the Magic World’s 50-Year GrudgeIn 1973, Uri Geller claimed to bend metal with his mind on live television. Skeptics couldn’t beat him. Now they’ve joined him. #Artificial Intelligence #Britain #Celebrity #Israel #Magic 2023-7-8 2:00am The New York Times David Segal ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-21 10:37am
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An invitation to a secret societyOr: why you should be a lizard 2023-7-20 8:03am Experimental History Adam Mastroianni 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-20 7:08pm
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Wikipedia’s Moment of TruthCan the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process? #Artificial Intelligence #Google #Reddit 2023-7-18 2:00am The New York Times Jon Gertner ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-7-20 6:40pm
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The hidden force that shapes everything around us: ParkingA Q&A with Henry Grabar, author of “Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.” #Politics #Transportation #Urban Planning 2023-5-9 4:30am Vox Marin Cogan 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-17 2:20pm
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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VPPeople rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad. #Culture 2023-7-12 9:00am Honeycomb Emily Nakashima 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-14 9:56pm
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S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’ What is the city’s plan?San Francisco officials say driverless taxi incidents by Cruise, Waymo are 'skyrocketing.' What is the city's plan to address the growing problem? #California #New York Times #Twitter #Uber 2023-7-14 4:00am San Francisco Chronicle Ricardo Cano 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-14 7:06pm
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Firing of gay Catholic school teacher could test latest Supreme Court rulingA substitute drama teacher in North Carolina sued after being fired for marrying his partner; the school says such discrimination is allowed. 2023-7-11 7:30am The Washington Post Rachel Weiner ($) 200 words Rated 2023-7-13 9:00pm
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Anchor Brewing Was San Francisco | DefectorAnchor Brewing was a cockroach. The San Francisco brewery survived the great earthquake of 1906, the subsequent fire that destroyed the city, its owner being run over by a cable car right after the fire, World War I, the Volstead Act, World War II, a series of midcentury closures and re-openings, and 127 years of ... 2023-7-12 1:11pm defector.com 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 10:44pm
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Why Match School And Student Rank?... 2023-7-10 10:39pm Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 45,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 5:04pm
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Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action?Bill McKibben writes on the recent temperature records set amid a global heat wave, on a global cascade of climate-change-related floods and disasters, and the lack of political will in Canada and the U.S. to take on the needed confrontation of oil and gas interests. #Canada #Climate Change #Global Warming #Wildfire 2023-7-11 11:18am The New Yorker Bill McKibben 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 9:00am
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A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chumby John MahoneyThis is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks. It signals that they should let go, deploy their nictitating ... The Awl 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 8:07am
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After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire ToyboxIn an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO, Alex Barasch writes. 2023-7-2 3:00am The New Yorker Alex Barasch 5,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 8:01am
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Felt for Advocacy Groups: Mapping Traffic Violence in OaklandBryan Culbertson and Kuan Butts, two activists working on Traffic Violence Rapid Response, leverage Felt maps to advocate for safer streets in Oakland. felt.com 1,000 words Rated 2023-7-11 9:56am
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Jawboning against SpeechGovernment officials use informal pressure — bullying, threatening, and cajoling — to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech. The use of this informal pressure, known as jawboning, is growing. 2022-9-12 12:00am Cato Institute 15,000 words Rated 2023-7-10 7:17pm
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Analysis | Do blue-state taxes really subsidize red-state benefits?In honor of our first anniversary, we turn our powers of analysis on you, the reader, to identify -- and answer! -- the question you are most eager to ask. 2023-7-7 2:54am The Washington Post Andrew Van Dam, Linda Chong ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-10 7:15pm
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Jigar Shah’s big idea for getting rooftop solar and smart appliances to low-income AmericansHow the DOE could marshal its loan guarantees to decarbonize the grid and boost energy equity in one fell swoop. #Renewable energy 2021-11-23 12:00am Canary Media 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-6 6:42pm
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Bloc Party's Kele Okereke On Being Gay and Black in the Dance and Rock WorldsRated 2023-7-6 6:09pm
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The Secret Gay History of Indie RockIs it truly possible to queer one of the straightest genres of music? From the closeted to the overexposed, this is a lineage of queer indie rock icons. #LGBTQ+ 2023-7-5 8:58am Pitchfork Emma Madden 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-6 5:59pm
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Reclaiming Real American PatriotismThis Fourth of July, let’s rescue our love of country from those who have hijacked it. #New Hampshire #New York #West Virginia 2023-7-4 4:00am The Atlantic Tom Nichols ($) 500 words Rated 2023-7-5 7:48am
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The Engineer/Manager PendulumLately I've been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I'm a senior engineer, but I'm thinking about being a manager. I really like engineering, but I feel like I'm just solving the same problems over and over and it seems like the real… 2017-5-11 10:20am charity.wtf 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-5 7:26am
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How to Do Great Workpaulgraham.com 10,000 words Rated 2023-7-3 7:31am
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The Cancer-Drug Shortage Is DifferentFourteen crucial chemotherapies are currently in shortage. Why does this keep happening? 2023-6-26 4:00am The Atlantic Ed Yong ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-27 11:27pm
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Why Britain doesn’t buildThe history of attempts to reform planning in Britain is proof that political willpower is not enough: you need to be smart, not just brave. 2023-5-23 5:36am Works in Progress 8,000 words Rated 2023-6-27 8:58pm
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One Free Trick: How to Use the Writing Skills You Have to Learn the Ones You Don’tWhen I went to the Viable Paradise writer’s workshop back in the distant dim year of 2013, the inestimable Elizabeth Bear, along with various other people who are cleverer than me, explained to me … 2019-3-25 9:00am Tor.com https://www.tor.com/author/arkady-martine/ 3,000 words Rated 2023-6-22 8:31pm
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San Francisco Police Traffic EnforcementAn analysis of SFPD moving violation citations in San Francisco transpomaps.org 3,000 words Rated 2023-6-20 9:49am
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Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to ‘Extreme’ Water RecyclingSan Francisco is at the forefront of a movement to recycle wastewater from commercial buildings, homes, and neighborhoods and use it for toilets and landscaping. This decentralized approach, proponents say, will drive down demand in an era of increasing water scarcity. Yale E360 3,000 words Rated 2023-6-20 7:12am
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Burying Indiana JonesChristopher Heaney on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and the titular character’s impact on the public’s perception of what it means to be an archeologist. #Movies 2023-6-18 3:00am The New Yorker Christopher Heaney 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-19 11:43pm
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Moneyball Broke BaseballBut now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it. #New York 2023-6-6 4:00am The Atlantic Mark Leibovich ($) 8,000 words Rated 2023-6-19 11:34pm
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Laundry Pods Are Bad. Laundry Sheets Aren’t Any Better.Laundry and dishwasher pods are encased in toxic plastic. Save money and go easier on the planet with these sustainable laundry tips. #Sustainability 2023-6-14 4:42am Outside Online Kristin Hostetter 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-14 5:56am
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Rewriting the Ruby parserAt Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you through... 2023-6-11 5:00pm Rails at Scale 5,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 4:37pm
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Lessons From a Renters’ UtopiaWorldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? #Housing #Real Estate 2023-5-23 1:20am The New York Times Francesca Mari, Luca Locatelli ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 11:07am
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'Anti-dopamine parenting' can curb a kid's craving for screens or sweetsDopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior. #Dopamine #Parenting 2023-6-12 2:00am NPR Michaeleen Doucleff 3,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 10:59am
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Pluto should be our ninth planet. A planetary scientist explains whyAstronomers believe they’re closing in on the so-called Planet Nine, but planetary scientist Paul Byrne argues our official definition of what is and isn’t a planet is in need of a long-overdue shake up. 2023-6-11 11:40pm BBC Science Focus Magazine Paul Byrne 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-13 10:52am
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Four supply chain experts on the challenges of manufacturing in the US—and the tactics to turn to insteadThe daily email newsletter covering the latest news from Wall St. to Silicon Valley. Informative, witty, and everything you need to start your day. 2022-8-16 8:03am Morning Brew Erin Cabrey, Maeve Allsup 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-11 6:24pm
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The Stupidity of "Buy American"The case against economic protectionism 2011-11-3 4:00am Reason Magazine John Stossel 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-9 7:06pm
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Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies HappyThe pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.” #Babies #Interview #Parenting 2023-4-9 12:25pm The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words Rated 2023-6-9 4:54pm
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Made in AmericaIn its special report #Buy American #Cars #Money Consumer Reports 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-8 8:00am
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Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological DeficitsSmall plastic particulates can induce inflammatory responses in the gut and brain, but removing them reverses this damage. #Nanoplastics The Scientist Magazine 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-8 7:40am
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Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learningFundamental algorithms such as sorting or hashing are used trillions of times on any given day1. As demand for computation grows, it has become critical for these algorithms to be as performant as possible. Whereas remarkable progress has been achieved in the past2, making further improvements on the efficiency of these routines has proved challenging for both human scientists and computational approaches. Here we show how artificial intelligence can go beyond the current state of the art by... 2023-6-7 12:00am Nature Mankowitz, Daniel J., Michi, Andrea, Zhernov, Anton, Gelmi, Marco, ... 10,000 words Rated 2023-6-7 11:48pm
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How ‘Buy American’ provisions hurt AmericaThese types of rules were costly in the 20th century, but they are self-evidently backwards in the 21st. #Buy American 2023-6-6 12:00pm The Hill Scott Wallsten, opinion contributor 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-7 6:51pm
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The growing pains of database architectureHow the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases Figma 2,000 words Rated 2023-6-7 5:13am
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Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?Track ballast is the name for the crushed stones next to railway tracks. They are used by Railway Track Designers for numerous reasons 2022-2-18 7:39pm Alpha Rail 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-4 7:27am
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