American Tech Companies Are So Afraid Of Offending Indians That They're Censoring All Their Products
In the world’s largest democracy, Amazon Prime Video deletes most nudity and profanity, Google bans retailers from buying ads for erotica, Amazon and Flipkart refuse to sell adult products, and Tinder
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This is an amazing detailed study of how tech companies are toeing the line in India
Posted on 2017-07-18T04:50:27+0000
Ask a Repair Shop - Philip Yurchuk
This is the story of how you’re buying your enterprise software the wrong way. Probably your appliances, too. Some years ago, I had a broken GE washer. Pretty sure I knew the culprit, but if I was wrong I’d waste a bunch of money on a part I couldn’t return. So I called a local repair shop who servi...
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Posted on 2017-07-16T06:11:36+0000
Starbucks should really make their APIs public. – Tendigi
From Slack integrations to coffee buttons, there are loads of potential integrations that could be built if they opened their API to third…
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Posted on 2017-07-16T06:03:53+0000
The .io Error - Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration | The Hacker Blog
Taking over all .io domain names via a targeted domain registration.
Nevada running out of weed, ‘state of emergency’ declared
Nevada's governor has endorsed a state of emergency declared for recreational marijuana regulations, after the state's tax authority declared that many stores are running out of weed. The Nevada Tax Commission said in a statement it will consider emergency regulations on July 13 to provide a structu...
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" A halt in this market will lead to a hole in the state’s school budget," the department said in its statement."
Wait, it's only been ten days and they already put all the projected revenue into the budget?
Also kind of hilarious to hear "think of the children!" as an argument for weed, not against
Posted on 2017-07-11T06:10:57+0000
Washington’s new family-leave law is among the most generous in the nation
This week, Washington became the fifth state to mandate that employers pay workers' salaries when they need to take time off for the birth of a child. Our law allows a longer leave at higher rates of pay than many others.
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Posted on 2017-07-08T01:37:33+0000
A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World | Quanta Magazine
June Huh thought he had no talent for math until a chance meeting with a legendary mind. A decade later, his unorthodox approach to mathematical thinking has
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Amazing human interest story that happens to touch upon math.
"Huh’s inadvertent proof of Read’s conjecture, and the way he combined singularity theory with graphs, could be seen as a product of his naïve approach to mathematics. He learned the subject mainly on his own and through informal study with Hironaka. People who have observed his rise over the last few years imagine that this experience left him less beholden to conventional wisdom about what kinds of mathematical approaches are worth trying. “If you look at mathematics as a kind of continent divided into countries, I think in June’s case nobody really told him there were all these borders. He’s definitely not constrained by any demarcations,” said Robbert Dijkgraaf, the director of IAS.
Soon after he posted his proof of Read’s conjecture, the University of Michigan invited Huh to give a talk on his result. On December 3, 2010, he addressed a room full of many of the same mathematicians who had rejected his graduate school application a year earlier"
Posted on 2017-07-07T16:48:07+0000
This is how Big Oil will die – NewCo Shift
Self-driving cars will be electric because of cost. And the cost will be so low, oil will not survive.
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I think the timeline is too optimistic, but the writer makes a lot of solid points
Posted on 2017-07-07T05:19:30+0000
United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby
Earlier today, the United States filed a civil complaint to forfeit thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae. As alleged in the complaint, these ancient clay artifacts originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and were smuggled into the United States through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and…
EPA launching program to challenge climate science
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has recruited a team of researchers to challenge climate science.
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"EMILY HOLDEN, REPORTER, E&E NEWS: So, what we know so far is essentially that Administrator Pruitt wants to recruit scientists who work on this red team/blue team to sort of look at any potential vulnerabilities, any sort of uncertainty in climate change report. So, the red team would do that. The blue team would be the team producing and defending the reports."
so, peer review?
Posted on 2017-07-03T17:53:05+0000