Donald Trump, American Idiot

Donald Trump, American Idiot
“Hey, Umair. Did you inject yourself with Lysol yet?” Ben, the London copper, shouted from across the dog park. I looked up, confused. Massimo, the Italian…

April 27, 2020 at 11:17AM
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What Happened When I Recorded Myself Speaking Every Single Day

What Happened When I Recorded Myself Speaking Every Single Day
It was awful — until it wasn’t Jan 16 · 3 min read Credit: Westend61 /Getty Images I sat down on my couch, switched my phone to selfie mode, and hit record.…

April 27, 2020 at 10:59AM
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IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz

IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will…

April 27, 2020 at 10:54AM
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Why we can’t build

Why we can’t build
The Capitol building in Washington, DC, on April 19. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images In a viral essay , venture capitalist Marc Andreessen makes a simple…

April 27, 2020 at 10:39AM
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The first modern pandemic

The first modern pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus. The damage to health, wealth, and well-being has already been enormous. This is like a world…

April 27, 2020 at 10:22AM
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Sans le cash, il suffira d'un "clic" pour que votre argent soit bloqué !

Sans le cash, il suffira d'un "clic" pour que votre argent soit bloqué !
15/06/15 à 15:37 Mise à jour le 31/10/19 à 16:26 opinion Sans le cash, il suffira d'un "clic" pour que votre argent soit bloqué ! 15/06/15 à 15:37 Mise à jour…

April 27, 2020 at 10:06AM
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Creating A Github Action to Tag Commits

Creating A Github Action to Tag Commits
Nick Sjostrom Sep 9, 2019 · 4 min read source: Github GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build,…

April 26, 2020 at 10:10AM
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Sweden’s government has tried a risky coronavirus strategy. It could backfire.

Sweden’s government has tried a risky coronavirus strategy. It could backfire.
Hilmar Gerber, operations manager of the primary health clinic at Sophiahemmet hospital, steps out of a tent for testing and receiving potential coronavirus…

April 23, 2020 at 11:42AM
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Start Writing Python Docstrings

Start Writing Python Docstrings
Top highlight Simplify your life and the life of whoever is trying to read your code Louis de Bruijn Jan 23 · 3 min read Everybody has written good pieces of…

April 23, 2020 at 11:21AM
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This Is How Much YouTube Paid Me for My 1,000,000 Viewed Video

This Is How Much YouTube Paid Me for My 1,000,000 Viewed Video
Shelby Church Apr 3 · 5 min read The numbers may surprise you! Photo: Shelby Church I started making videos in 2009, back before being a YouTuber was a thing. I…

April 23, 2020 at 11:17AM
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TED: Anil Seth - Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality

Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.

Leonard Cohen's Prince Of Asturias Speech

How I Got My Song, Leonard Cohen's speech at the Oct 21, 2011 Prince of Asturias Awards

 

Ask Ethan: How Do We Feel Acceleration In Space?

Ask Ethan: How Do We Feel Acceleration In Space?
While most of us have never had the opportunity to go into space, we all have the chance to dream about it and wonder what it would be like. Across a wide…

April 19, 2020 at 02:48PM
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10 Extraordinary GitHub Repos for All Developers

10 Extraordinary GitHub Repos for All Developers
Top highlight Interview resources, build your own X, a list of great public APIs, and more Simon Holdorf Mar 31 · 4 min read Photo by Vishnu R Nair on Unsplash…

April 17, 2020 at 12:58PM
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'Netanyahu's actions more dangerous than coronavirus'

'Netanyahu's actions more dangerous than coronavirus'
Edward Snowden can’t understand why the Israelis are not furious, about the use of the Shin Bet’s mass surveillance database to track people infected by the…

April 15, 2020 at 11:12AM
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L’être, l’avoir et le pouvoir dans la crise, par Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Le Club des Juristes

L’être, l’avoir et le pouvoir dans la crise, par Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Le Club des Juristes
Par Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ancien ministre de l’Économie et des Finances, ancien directeur-général du Fonds Monétaire International Cet important article a été…

April 13, 2020 at 12:40PM
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Ask Ethan: If Einstein Is Right And E = mc², Where Does Mass Get Its Energy From?

Ask Ethan: If Einstein Is Right And E = mc², Where Does Mass Get Its Energy From?
Of all the equations that we use to describe the Universe, perhaps the most famous one, E = mc ², is also the most profound. First discovered by Einstein more…

April 8, 2020 at 11:58AM
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This Is Why Earth, Surprisingly, Is The Densest Object In Our Solar System

This Is Why Earth, Surprisingly, Is The Densest Object In Our Solar System
Of all the planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids and more in the Solar System, only one object can be the densest. You might think, based on the fact that…

April 8, 2020 at 11:12AM
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Building a Decision Engine

Building a Decision Engine
At multiple companies, I’ve had to build relatively simple decision engines. Something like “given this series of conditions, do we send the customer down one…

April 8, 2020 at 10:56AM
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How to Take Smart Notes: A Step-by-Step Guide - Nat Eliason

How to Take Smart Notes: A Step-by-Step Guide - Nat Eliason
How to Take Smart Notes is a book by Sonke Ahrens explaining the "Zettlekasten" methodology developed by Niklas Luhmann , a 20th century Sociologist who…

April 6, 2020 at 05:09PM
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Enforcing Commit Templates

Enforcing Commit Templates
Erik Englund Apr 12, 2019 · 6 min read Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Often times companies will have a standard template for their commit messages. Something…

April 6, 2020 at 12:15PM
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JSON Objects in Python

JSON Objects in Python
Java Script Object Notation (JSON) is a light weight data format with many similarities to python dictionaries. JSON objects are useful because browsers can…

April 6, 2020 at 11:25AM
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The Anarchist Abstractionist — Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

The Anarchist Abstractionist — Who was Alexander Grothendieck?
Jørgen Veisdal Apr 2 · 25 min read “The greatest mathematician of the 20th century” — Le Monde M athematician Alexander Grothendieck was born in 1928 to…

April 5, 2020 at 04:44PM
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Automate These 3 (Boring!!) Excel Tasks with Python!

Automate These 3 (Boring!!) Excel Tasks with Python!
No More Opening Hundreds of Excel Files Nik Piepenbreier Mar 26 · 4 min read Let’s learn how to automate some boring Excel tasks! Source: Nik Piepenbreier Excel…

April 5, 2020 at 01:18PM
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Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome

Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome
A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977. In January, scientists deciphered a piece of…

April 5, 2020 at 09:29AM
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