The Marketing Message That Works with Republicans but Not Democrats
Research finds that consumer attitudes about luxury products are shaped by their views on hierarchy.
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Posted on 2018-08-11T21:36:25+0000
The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market
Ten years after a housing collapse during the Great Recession, home values have rebounded but there are too few homes on the market. Buyers face intense competition, and that means higher prices.
Hasnain says:
"Many potential buyers reach a breaking point where they finally resign themselves to renting long-term or moving out of the area."
Posted on 2018-08-08T01:09:48+0000
Remote code execution in Apple's packet-mangler (CVE-2017-13904, CVE-2018-4249)
The packet-mangler component of Apple's macOS operating system kernel contained a remote code execution vulnerability which could be triggered by sending a malicious network packet to the Mac over the internet. This post explains how it we found it using QL.
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Posted on 2018-08-05T18:33:03+0000
Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision-Making Is a Fallacy
The popular idea that avoiding losses is a bigger motivator than achieving gains is not supported by the evidence
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Posted on 2018-08-05T05:31:05+0000
Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (part 1 of N)
Before I started doing research, I saw SAT solvers as academically interesting but without practical uses ouside of other academic applications. I've since then changed my mind, and I want to change yours, because modern SAT solvers are neat, fast and almost criminally underused by the industry.
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Posted on 2018-08-04T19:53:53+0000
Andrew Sullivan: When Racism Is Fit to Print
The left defended New York Times hire Sarah Jeong’s tweets attacking white people because in their worldview, anti-white bigotry simply can’t exist.
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Posted on 2018-08-04T03:09:05+0000
A Japanese medical university lowered women's test scores because it was a "necessary evil"
The scores were rigged so that no more than 30% of the successful candidates would be women.
Three Children, Two Abortions
What a woman chooses to do with her body should not be up for debate in 2018.
Hasnain says:
"America: a country where pro-life actually means pro-blastula, pro-embryo, and pro-fetus, not pro-baby. You know what pro-life policies actually look like? Universal health care, so all women could afford prenatal doctor visits and the birth itself; paid maternity and paternity leaves, to allow parents to actually care for a living baby without emptying their bank accounts; subsidized daycare, so parents could go to work without paying all or most of their income to private babysitters; and a school day that hews closer to the workday, not to some outmoded agrarian schedule designed to get kids home in time to harvest crops."
Posted on 2018-08-03T14:31:50+0000
Pakistan: Adventure travel's best-kept secret?
Are you looking for the ultimate in adventure travel? Then look to Pakistan. This surprising destination has "mountain scenery that is beyond anyone's wildest imagination," says the British Backpacker Society.
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Posted on 2018-08-03T03:22:24+0000
How we scaled nginx and saved the world 54 years every day
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post is about one of the...
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Posted on 2018-08-02T04:28:54+0000