GatesNotes 2020 Annual Letter: Why we swing for the fences
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Will Spotify ruin podcasting?
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The deal of the century (or, the alliance of losers)
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Deep sea diving: The state of submarine cable technology
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When medical debt collectors decide who gets arrested
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Reasons not to become famous
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Wood joint strength testing
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The billion-dollar disinformation campaign to re-elect the President
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Pack-ratting in video games: How can developers encourage or discourage players from hoarding?
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The internet of beefs
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The rapid rise and sudden fall of a Kratom Kingpin
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What I learned about life at a company that deals in dead bodies
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Book Review: Human Compatible
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Bethesda never understood Fallout
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Utah wanted all the tourists. Then it got them
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Ignorance, a skilled practice
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SolarRoof.Cool — A crash course on Tesla's Solarglass roof, Powerwall, and sustainable energy systems, from the perspective of an owner.
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How sustainable is a solar powered website?
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Trapped in Iran
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How will you measure your life? Clayton Christensen’s advice on how to determine success.
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Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case
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Demoted and placed on probation
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Invasion of the ‘Frankenbees’: The danger of building a better bee
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Splendid isolation: How I stopped time by sitting in a forest for twenty-four hours
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Leader of US nazi terror group "The Base" revealed
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The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
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War by other means: Syria’s economic struggle
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Missouri charmer led double life, masterminded one of the biggest frauds in farm history
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Jumping worms are taking over North American forests
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Scientists synthesize the voice of 3000 year old mummy
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It is 100 seconds to midnight: 2020 Doomsday Clock statement
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Is it really just sexism? An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
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Balancing act: How developers approach making games feel "fair"
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Way-too-early 2020 CFB Rankings
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The Hamilton Hustle
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American Psycho: An oral history, twenty years after its divisive debut
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Becoming a man
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America’s radioactive secret: Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year
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A decade ago, a new spirit of tolerance of the avant garde blossomed in Russia. But these days, it’s impossible to know where the lines are—as the country’s most celebrated director discovered
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International Money Fund World Economic Outlook update - January 2020
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The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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The US pesticide industry's playbook for avoiding neonicotinoid bans
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Rethinking the meaning of success through the stories of Phil Campbell, co-founder of Quantic Dream and former creative director on major franchises like Tomb Raider
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The pirate radio broadcaster who occupied Alcatraz and terrified the FBI
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Is cannabis the answer to everything?
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Which tech company is really the most evil?
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Two gay Chinese dads. One long and winding trip to fatherhood
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Microsoft announces their plan to be carbon negative by 2030
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Free market or socialism: Have economists really anything to say?
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The story of how Microsoft's Kinect grew from a skunkworks motion-controller project into a company-wide effort with massive resources, and was eventually abandoned
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