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Certbot usability case study: Making it easier to get HTTPS certificates ~comp security Article 6227 words 12 votes
Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization ~finance economics Article 3081 words, published Oct 22 2019 15 votes
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Frank Gehry's most ambitious project: Restoring the Los Angeles River ~design urban planning Article 3024 words 6 votes
Iron: From mythical to mundane ~humanities.history Article 3943 words, published Oct 22 2019 17 votes
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MIT Media Lab scientist claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, but the computers never worked ~science Article 4134 words 9 votes
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Fortnite is the future, but probably not for the reasons you think ~games Article 5179 words 10 votes
Financial Bubbles are the Gnostic Heresy: The Voegelin-Minsky Synthesis ~finance Article 11 940 words, published Oct 18 2019 5 votes
Designing River City Girls' approachable, challenging brawling ~games Article 3088 words, published Oct 11 2019 4 votes
Google Pixel 4 and 4XL review: More than the sum of its sensors ~tech google android Article 4293 words 5 votes
In face of rising sea levels the Netherlands ‘must consider controlled withdrawal’ ~enviro climate change Article 5280 words, published Mar 26 2019 10 votes
What randomization can and cannot do: The 2019 Nobel Prize ~finance economics Article 4833 words 4 votes
Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors ~enviro climate change Article 4118 words 21 votes
The case for fiber to the home, today: Why fiber is a superior medium for 21st century broadband ~tech internet Article 7953 words 11 votes
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent released nine years ago - lessons about designing horror games from Frictional's creative director ~games Article 3626 words 7 votes
America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon ~finance business Article 3451 words 11 votes
A photographer at the ends of the Earth - Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places ~arts photography.landscape Article 6656 words 7 votes
Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena ~science Article 3903 words, published Sep 30 2019 23 votes
Meet the rich kids who want to give away all their money ~finance Article 4554 words, published Sep 27 2019 10 votes
Land without bread: The Green New Deal forsakes America’s countryside ~enviro climate change Article 5189 words, published Sep 1 2019 9 votes
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Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us ~finance business Article 11 112 words, published Oct 8 2019 16 votes
The Oracle of Delphi - Chapter 1: The center of the world ~humanities.history Article 7022 words 5 votes
The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt ~tech Article 9099 words 12 votes
The Biblioteca de Marvila library in Lisbon helped rejuvenate a neglected neighborhood through embracing and encouraging gaming ~games Article 3860 words 7 votes
An unseen victim of the college admissions scandal: The high school tennis champion aced out by a billionaire family ~life education.higher Article 7095 words 9 votes