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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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How to want less
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When private equity becomes your landlord
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America is facing a great talent recession
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Notes on work
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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security
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How the sugar industry makes political friends and influences elections
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We were warned about the ports - A 2015 federal report predicted the entire slowdown that’s come to pass
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She was a notorious hacker in the '80s - then she disappeared: Searching for Susy Thunder
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He spent twenty-five years infiltrating nazis, the Klan, and biker gangs
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How civilizations fall: A theory of catabolic collapse
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The Dubai job
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Roblox October 2021 outage post-mortem
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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Putin’s wager in Russia’s standoff with the West
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Analysis of PINs
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Why you're christian
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Always remember - The Therac 25 incident
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When SimCity got serious: The story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
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The Texas electrical grid failure was a warmup
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Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
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The US empire is crumbling before our eyes
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XXX-Files: Who torched the Pornhub palace?
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Why Galesburg has no money
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The secret MVP of sports? The port-a-potty.
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
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The gritty, underground network bringing Japan’s arcades to the US
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Sikh drivers are transforming US trucking. Take a ride along the Punjabi American highway.
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Logging is a code smell
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How the personal computer broke the human body
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Dan Wang's 2021 letter about China
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Public Domain Day 2022: Works from 1926 are open to all
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Critics of “Don’t Look Up” are missing the entire point
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The importance of price signals
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ACX Grants results
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