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Zhang Haitao was a basketball-loving teenager who dreamed of going to a specialized sports high school when he got a pain in his right arm that just wouldn’t go away. It turned out…

Remember the Snowden leaks where he showed that Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc... all the giant tech companies gave FIVE TIMES the amount of data requested by the US gover…

Aka "science has found no official support for the 'ALL MEN ARE PIGS!' tagline dating back to circa 1996." I "love" (/s) that science now has to justify that we're not a subhuman s…

"Sorry, no plans to make this tool public for a while." Well, that certainly makes the whole thing much less interesting.

Ishkur's guide may have been useful in 1998. It's now super outdated.

He wanted the website dead, he essentially put a hit out on the website, just without any monetary rewards and no follow up. He did this because his was upset at the moderators for…

Very good indeed, Quite the explanation, the storage part would be an interesting thing to see, for instance in SQLite, what is this binary file created in the filesystem, or how i…

After a recent problem with failures of electrolytics, after a overhaul that included changing all electrolytics, the problem was tracked to stock storage. The manufactures specify…

Because, open source is more about intellectual property rights, than about architecture and control. From the outside looking in, it appears that you have made some decisions made…

Only I can't open this page?

The real scandal is how many kid of congress people get into good schools, not because they're deserving nor because of bribes, but b/c the schools figure they might mifgt need a f…

There is a painful but telling postscript to the excellent article about the tragedy of crime in Baltimore and the ineffectiveness if not obliviousness of the city's mayor to stop …

What an incredible non-story burying an actual real and terrifying story. The crux of this entire issue is a company known as Dark Matter, which is essentially a UAE state sponsore…

No amount of sleep will make you feel well if your entire life is economically and, therefore, emotionally stressed because your country does not care about you. Provide affordable…

A lot of the “don’t want to work on killing people” rhetoric is arguably a bit naive. First, sometimes governments legitimately need to use weapons to defend us, and they don’t gro…

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The headline is a lie. This is all about raising money to pad their pensions.

I was in Bulgaria, and can't remember any dish from that list accept rakia.