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Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderationRated 2024-03-19 - sethherr
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My Notes on GitLab Postgres Schema DesignI spent some time going over the Postgres schema of Gitlab. GitLab is an alternative to Github. You can self host GitLab since it is an open source DevOps platform. My motivation to understand the schema of a big project like Gitlab was to compare it against schemas I am designing and learn some best… 2022-07-08 Shekhar Gulati 6,000 words Rated 2024-02-21 - elll
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“Rabbit Test” unwins the HugoI cannot convey the supreme depths to which I'd rather be doing anything else with my Saturday afternoon other than writing this blog post, but here we are. If you have been blessedly insulated from the current furor over the 2023 Hugo Awards -- good for you! (I'm going to have to explain this post… 2024-02-18 SAMANTHA MILLS 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-19 - sethherr
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Berkeley's Upzoning Would Be Among Nation's LargestA proposal to end exclusionary zoning would allow for 100,000 more homes in Berkeley's neighborhoods. 2024-02-17 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words Rated 2024-02-18 - sethherr
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Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-MossIf you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate. jacobian.org 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-17 - sethherr
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Taste gamesor why I avoid midrange beer 2024-02-15 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 3,000 words Rated 2024-02-16 - sethherr
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Activists vow to keep installing guerrilla benches at East Bay bus stopsBerkeley has replaced one DIY bench with a city-approved one. A pair of activists have added at least four more wood benches in the East Bay. #Transportation 2024-01-13 Berkeleyside Iris Kwok 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-12 - sethherr
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Jacques on X: "Sharing a long, but insightful comment @Gwern made in response to the question: "EA had a pretty weak hand throughout and played it as well as can be reasonably expected"? Gwern: It was a pretty weak hand. There is this pervasive attitude that Sam Altman could have been…" / XX (formerly Twitter) 1,000 words Rated 2024-02-11 - sethherr
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The rise of the American oligarchyWhat targeting Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own. 2024-01-22 Mother Jones Tim Murphy 7,000 words Rated 2024-02-10 - sethherr
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40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl ForeverAn oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase. #Apple #TV 2024-02-09 The New York Times Saul Austerlitz ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-02-10 - sethherr
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The New Jersey Governor’s Wife Has Decided to Be a SenatorRated 2024-02-06 - &e
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Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking SandOrganized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped? 2024-02-01 Scientific American David A. Taylor 4,000 words Rated 2024-01-31 - sethherr
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At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill’s ResignationProfessors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom. #College 2024-01-29 The New York Times Stephanie Saul ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-30 - sethherr
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How “Co-regulation” Became the Parenting Buzzword of the DayJessica Winter on why parenting experts claim that co-regulation is the single goal from which all other family aspirations can flow. #Parenting 2024-01-25 The New Yorker Jessica Winter 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-28 - sethherr
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In case you missed it: America just effectively got much biggerNo shots fired. No flags raised. No land gained. Still, the U.S. recently grew by the size of about two Californias. Big Think 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-28 - sethherr
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Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?Rated 2024-01-28 - sethherr
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Rising Leqembi Prescriptions Are Straining Clinic Capacity | ALZFORUMalzforum.org 4,000 words Rated 2024-01-28 - sethherr
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Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use – experts explain the hazardsRecycled plastics are not safe if the chemicals used in creating them in the first place are harmful. #Cameroon #Mauritius #Microplastics #Nigeria #Togo The Conversation Bethanie Carney Almroth 1,000 words Rated 2024-01-27 - sethherr
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Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicyclingSam Shuster compares men and women’s responses to the sight of a unicyclist 2007-12-22 PubMed Central (PMC) 3,000 words Rated 2024-01-23 - sethherr
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Japan’s Housing Crisis: What The YIMBYs Don’t UnderstandWhat Really Drives Housing Prices — And Why Japan’s Haven’t Increased Since 1995! 2022-11-25 Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 8,000 words Rated 2024-01-23 - sethherr
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‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. CrusadeThe backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign. #College #Texas 2024-01-20 The New York Times Nicholas Confessore ($) 7,000 words Rated 2024-01-23 - sethherr
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An Idealistic Cop, a Forbidden Ticket and a Police Career on the BrinkMathew Bianchi took routine traffic stops seriously and handed out tickets regardless of people’s connections within the Police Department. He says he was punished for it. #Lawsuit #NYPD #Police 2024-01-16 The New York Times Jonah E. Bromwich ($) 3,000 words Rated 2024-01-18 - crkrenn
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Escalation Theory: Compliance, Violence, and Overachievement In SocietyHow Elites Cause Crime By Acing Marshmallow Tests Some people think crime is caused by poverty. Some think crime is caused by criminals. Some even think crime is caused by the climate. Don’t swallow these easy-to-digest popular narratives — society is shaped by its elite, always has been, always will be. It all comes back to the marshmallows. 2024-01-07 Radical Contributions Conrad Bastable 10,000 words Rated 2024-01-16 - sethherr
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What happened to GE?Bill Gates shares his review of “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric” by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann 2021-06-14 gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-16 - sethherr
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group"When an organization has, say, financed the overthrow of the government of Guatemala, you would think there might be a speaking fee." 2024-01-09 The Paris Review Johannes Lichtman 3,000 words Rated 2024-01-11 - sethherr
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LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 - <antirez>Rated 2024-01-10 - sethherr
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Opinion | Look What We Made Taylor Swift DoWhether she is conscious of it or not, Ms. Swift signals to queer people — in our language — that she has some affinity for queer identity. #Celebrity #Country Music 2024-01-04 The New York Times Anna Marks ($) 5,000 words Rated 2024-01-10 - sethherr
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Cycling Doping FallaciesI make the case that we cannot extrapolate clean performances from Lance Armstrong’s doped performances against doped rivals in the Tour de France. 2024-01-05 The New Leaf Journal Nicholas A. Ferrell 6,000 words Rated 2024-01-09 - sethherr
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The reality of the Danish fairytaleDenmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the United States into. And for many good reasons. Education is state-funded, and students are even paid a stipend to go to university. Health care is equally free of individual charge, and there’s generally a robust social safety net for u... world.hey.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-07 - sethherr
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Bill Gates–1986As chief executive officer of Microsoft, William H. (Bill) Gates is considered one of the driving forces behind today's personal computing and office automation industry. Gates started his career in computer software at a young age. Both Gates and Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, worked as programming consultants while attending high school in Seattle, Washington. In… 2008-05-20 Programmers At Work 10,000 words Rated 2024-01-07 - sethherr
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Everything you ever wanted to know about car bloatnewsletters.feedbinusercontent.com Rated 2023-12-19 - sethherr
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7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor CampA man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times. #China #Crime 2023-12-17 The New York Times Isabelle Qian, Pablo Robles ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-12-18 - sethherr
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Giant food companies are quietly ruining your favorite snacks — and hoping you don't noticeFrom Coke to Nutella, your favorite treats are being ruined by a sneaky ploy known as 'flavorflation.' #Economy #Food & drink #Retail 2023-12-12 Insider Jairaj Devadiga ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-14 - sethherr
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Joseph Hone - He Steals Them, of Course!Joseph Hone: He Steals Them, of Course! Literary Review 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-12 - sethherr
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Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred in other comparably wealthy countries. #Cars #Poverty 2023-12-11 The New York Times Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, Josh Katz ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-12-12 - sethherr
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Byrne Hobart, the unlikely oracleHow the hedge fund analyst turned writer makes the future look clear, even without a crystal ball. 2023-11-27 Meridian Shreeda Segan 3,000 words Rated 2023-12-11 - sethherr
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A Decade of Have I Been PwnedA decade ago to the day, I published a tweet launching what would surely become yet another pet project that scratched an itch, was kinda useful to a few people but other than that, would shortly fade away into the same obscurity as all the other ones I'd launched over the previous couple of decades: It's alive! "Have I been pwned?" by @troyhunt is now up and running. Search for your account across multiple breaches http://t.co/U0QyHZxP6k — Have I Been Pwned... 2023-12-04 Troy Hunt 4,000 words Rated 2023-12-05 - sethherr
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Europe And U.S. Diverge Sharply On Treatment Of Gender Incongruence In MinorsIn line with precautionary principle, introduction of treatments whose effects are either disputed or unknown should be carefully reviewed before being routinely adopted. #Transgender 2023-12-02 Forbes Joshua Cohen 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-04 - sethherr
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God Help Us, Let's Try To Understand The Paper On AI MonosemanticityInside every AI is a bigger AI, trying to get out 2023-11-27 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 20,000 words Rated 2023-11-29 - sethherr
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“Useless Ruby sugar”: Argument forwardingThis is a part of a blog post series about “useless” (or: controversial) syntax elements that emerged in recent Ruby version. The goal of the series is not... zverok.space 4,000 words Rated 2023-11-24 - sethherr
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Opinion | Here’s How Houston Is Fighting Homelessness — and WinningHouston demonstrates what should be obvious: that a wealthy society doesn’t have to accept as inevitable throngs of people sleeping on sidewalks. #Dallas #Homelessness #Housing #Jobs #Mental Health #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-11-23 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof, Rahim Fortune ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-24 - sethherr
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Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources sayAhead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. 2023-11-23 Reuters Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-23 - sethherr
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Do Squirrels Remember Where They Buried Their Nuts?Squirrels spread their fall bounty across several locations. But do they have a key to this treasure map? 2023-11-20 Scientific American Emma Bryce 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-21 - sethherr
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These bats use their penis as an 'arm' during sex but not for penetrationMammals usually mate via penetrative sex, but researchers report Nov. 20 in the journal Current Biology that a species of bat, the serotine bat, (Eptesicus serotinus) mates without penetration. This is the first time non-penetrative sex has been documented in a mammal. 2023-11-20 Phys.org Science X 1,000 words Rated 2023-11-21 - sethherr
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The Philosophical And Moral Incoherence of “How Dare You Walk Out Of My Speech”“Cancel Culture” Has Victims, But You’re Probably Not One Of Them 2022-08-14 The Popehat Report Ken White 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-21 - sethherr
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My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut UpElon Musk and The Enduring Appeal of “Criticism is Censorship” 2023-11-20 The Popehat Report Ken White 1,000 words Rated 2023-11-21 - sethherr
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The FCC Is Trying To Stop Discrimination In Broadband Deployment. Telecoms And Republicans Are Big Mad About ItFor decades, big ISPs like AT&T have refused to upgrade low income and poor communities to fiber, despite billions in subsidies, regulatory favors, and tax breaks that were supposed to accomplish precisely that. Groups like the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) have released studies on cities like Cleveland and Detroit, documenting how this discrimination lines… 2023-11-17 Techdirt 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-17 - sethherr
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The night train revolution has been hailed as an alternative to airplanes. Here’s how that’s goingNight trains have been making a resurgence across Europe after decades of decline, raising the prospect of more sustainable ways of criss-crossing the continent as travelers look to find alternatives to flying. 2023-11-12 CNN Ben Jones 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-17 - sethherr
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Why we can’t buildAmerica’s inability to build is killing people. #Politics 2020-04-22 Vox Ezra Klein 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-16 - sethherr
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