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Forbes 30 under 30 strikes again.

They won't make digital ID mandatory yet; the point is to make it as inconvenient as possible not to have a digital ID. It's likely you won't be able to do your taxes online withou…

AWS r7iz claim to be good and sped it up close to Mac M1 performance.

My program ran 3x slower on AWS t4g instances than on my mac. Where can you get the fastest cpus for VPS hosting?

Does the compensation listed on YC jobs include stock converted to cash? For example, Retool (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retool) claims to be paying $600k to someone wit…

Did he say that? I can't find the original. The Guardian article cites an article that cites an article that never contains the word "coup".

That's the definition of a "rubber stamp". They technically have the ability to reject, but they rarely do.

Ownership: NYT - billionaire Sulzberger family WaPo - Jeff Bezos LA Times - billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong Disney/Comcast/Paramount represent the consolidation of an industry that…

What is the ongoing cost of the price of ink?

The real story is India forcing its censorship regime on Canada by threatening employees in India. Facebook should leave India or be forced by Canada and Europe not to cooperate wi…

So India couldn't extradite him. There are many people North Korea would like to punish but can't extradite. You seem to be implying that if India couldn't extradite him, they shou…

The comparison to 'morals clauses' is apt: it was used mostly to force Christian, anti-Communist, and later pro-China stances on actors lest they harm the 'reputation' of the studi…

Where is this—the record of the old ones?

Mandatory reminder that this narrative of "individual impact" was created and pushed by oil companies to shift blame from them to consumers.

That sounds like totalitarianism. > ruling party Are there fair elections in Bangladesh? Why does this not hurt their election chances? Why would a people tolerate this of their go…

Did he reshape the art world or the art trade? Artists or art traders?

It's quite likely that the purpose of this story is to push a narrative for anti-encryption advocates. Cf. US and UK pushes against encryption.

I see no "sponsored" labels on Google shopping results. Does anyone else? How do you tell when it's an ad?

The British government has been oppressing the people of the British isles long before and after the empire...

TLDR: weird treatment of global/nonlocal in CodeSignal, probably because they're wrapping the function. I nearly lost a job offer today because CodeSignal does not execute 'real' P…

Can you cite a source?

Yeah, that's just aging, fortunately.