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It's really cool that the full text of this paper is posted publicly like this, +1 for foss science. But it's also very dense and I'm not a physicist, can anyone ELI5 for us mere m…

This actually happened in WW2, after fully breaking the Enigma codes the Allies had to carefully choose which intelligence to act on and not act on, sometimes with poor results for…

I highly recommend the book 'Flyboys' by James Bradley (also the author of Flags of our Fathers) for help putting this period of WWII into context. A good portion of the end of the…

I received an email with this text from support@envkey.com earlier today: --- Today I have some difficult news to share. After nearly 7 years of working on EnvKey, I’ve decided to …

IANAL but a face-value evaluation of this policy seems unlikely to shield Cloudflare from either civil or criminal liability for illegal activity? I know the DMCA provides a certai…

This is such a neat discovery, I'm having fun just thinking about all the amazing things you could do with this. Imagine in many years being able to inject, or deposit in some more…

While I appreciate the point of view the author of the article presents here, I do not think warning labels are a good solution to the addictiveness (and other negative effects) of…

Regarding voluntary adoption, I watched an interesting video on YouTube about this a few days ago which handles it from a "diffusion of innovation" point of view: https://youtu.be/…

This was an interesting read! I hope they do a follow up article on how they automatically manage the rest of their recovery process.

Not weighing in on if this is a good or bad thing overall, but I did listen to a pretty good NPR podcast a while back that explains a little more about this treaty and how it was a…

Sounds really cool! I can't wait to charge my phone just by setting it on my nightstand at the end of the day. And my smart watch, and my headphones.

I'm seeing the term "HA" being used a lot in the comments here, what does it mean?

Can someone explain why they would transition to a new hash function and not a block chain based system of tracking? If one of the goals of introducing a stronger hash function is …

I'm ok with Edge and Bing being the default "web tab" providers for this new tab functionality, but I'll be instantly changing it for a different browser and search engine. If it's…

If you've ever thought about doing contract development work this blog post is worth the read.

Obviously YMMV, but my personal take on this is that no particular fish is too big to be thrown back, especially if they're a pain in the ass. That said, it sounds like you don't w…

Personally, my main take away from this article was that in 2015 50% of the patients that had a kidney removed (which would roughly be the other 24k patients the study didn't comme…

Good article, was informative. Germany isn't the only country considering laws like this, and companies with large online presences need to find some way to get a handle on the use…

Just as a spitball idea... What about a structured "cohort" hiring process where you give potential employees short term (literally one or two days, where you have a group exercise…

This was an interesting article, thanks for sharing it. But as an average consumer and amateur investor (at best) I'm much more interested in using Bitcoin (and other digital curre…

I feel like a reasonable solution to this might be a digital currency? Any coin with a fast enough block time that using the site is fluid would be fine (one minute or less) and co…