How I Learned to Stop Ordering 'Thai Spicy'
There's a myth that Thai food has to be unbearably spicy. It doesn't and shouldn't. Here's how I learned that more spice doesn't always equal a better, more authentic meal.
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Posted on 2018-03-30T03:48:33+0000
Are We Having Too Much Fun?
In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. He was, it turns out, extremely prescient.
Hasnain says:
"But Postman was a critic of more than TV alone. He mistrusted entertainment, not as a situation but as a political tool; he worried that Americans’ great capacity for distraction had compromised their ability to think, and to want, for themselves. He resented the tyranny of the lol. His great observation, and his great warning, was a newly relevant kind of bummer: There are dangers that can come with having too much fun."
Posted on 2018-03-27T05:45:47+0000
The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society
A new survey report looks at attitudes among Muslims in 39 countries on a wide range of topics, from science to sharia, polygamy to popular culture. The survey finds that overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law to be the official law of their land, but there is also wi...
Hasnain says:
I've only read two chapters so far, bookmarking this for future reading. Survey from 2013 which covers Muslim beliefs about various things. Goes into some detail, and it was interesting to see how attitudes vary by country (and especially getting data to back up some intuition)
Posted on 2018-03-24T20:48:36+0000
A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After a surprise discovery, astrophysicists are racing to understand superenergetic flashes of radio waves that sometimes beep out from distant galaxies.
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"“It’s like making a movie of the sky at 200 frames per second,” said Chatterjee, who is one of the collaboration’s leaders. “And we made this movie over 10 hours and we saw absolutely nothing.”"
Posted on 2018-03-24T20:40:26+0000
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
Breaking the Ledger Security Model
In this post, I’m going to discuss a vulnerability I discovered in Ledger hardware wallets. The vulnerability arose due to Ledger’s use of a custom architecture to work around many of the limitations of their Secure Element.
luxe engine | A lovingly hand crafted game engine
luxe is a free, cross platform, open source, rapid development game engine to make games for Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android and Web & more**consoles wip but too early to discuss.
Hasnain says:
Bookmarking for future learning. The programming language, Wren, looks great too
Posted on 2018-03-19T07:31:26+0000
Tech Leavers
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Hasnain says:
Haven't fully dug into the data yet.
"The Tech Leavers Study is a first-of-its-kind national study examining why people voluntarily left their jobs in tech. The Kapor Center for Social Impact and Harris Poll surveyed a representative sample of more than 2,000 U.S. adults who have left a job in a technology-related industry or function within the last three years.
What did we learn?
Workplace culture drives turnover, significantly affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, and costing the industry more than $16 billion each year."
Posted on 2018-03-17T00:09:03+0000
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.
Everything Surrounding These New AMD Security Allegations Reeks of a Hit Job - ExtremeTech
AMD may have a serious security problem on its hands, but the disclosure of these issues was problematic, to say the least.
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Posted on 2018-03-14T07:14:17+0000