Sorry, Netflix Isn't Killing Movies, Hollywood Movie Studios Are
The controversy at Cannes, and boos for streaming services, misses the point.
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Posted on 2017-05-22T02:06:11+0000
The Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter - Issue 48: Chaos - Nautilus
He is one of those dark matter people,” Mordehai Milgrom said about a colleague stopping by his office at the Weizmann Institute…
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Posted on 2017-05-21T19:24:50+0000
On same weekend as record-breaking arms deal, Saudis announced $100 million donation to Ivanka fund
Over the weekend, Jared Kushner was credited with negotiating a $110 billion arms deal to the Saudis, the largest arms deal in U.S. history: The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's...
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Posted on 2017-05-21T19:19:02+0000
How Basic Performance Analysis Saved Us Millions - Heap Blog
This is the story of how I applied basic performance analysis techniques to find a small change that resulted in a 10x improvement in CPU use for our Postgres cluster and will save Heap millions of dollars over the next year. Indexing Data for Customer Analytics Heap is a customer analytics tool tha...
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Posted on 2017-05-21T19:09:52+0000
What happened to the radiation that was supposed to last thousands of years in Hiroshima (1945)?
Answer (1 of 6): If you were expecting Hiroshima to be uninhabitable for thousands of years, you are (understandably, given the deplorable state of science education) making a whole bunch of errors in your understanding of radiation. First of all, radiation isn’t magic death cooties. You are rad...
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"Even after Fukushima, the total number of members of the Japanese public killed by the peaceful application of nuclear energy remains 0. Meanwhile, 20,000 Americans die each year due to lung cancer caused by radioactive radon, most of which is dug up and spewed out the smoke stacks of coal-fired power plants. If Japan abandons nuclear instead of upgrading to the newer safer designs now available, they will have to get their power at least partly from coal or natural gas. If they do that, for the first time since the bomb, radiation will start killing large numbers of Japanese.*
The point is, we don’t need to blindly fear nuclear energy. We need to respect it, understand it, and hold those who wield it to a high standard of public scrutiny. Ignorance is what we need to fear."
Posted on 2017-05-21T18:35:38+0000
Seize the Hollywood Sign
The neighborhood below the landmark grew up with the city, but now LA must destroy Hollywoodland to save itself.
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Amazing read on gentrification, NIMBYism, racism, and historical LA.
"When one of the people they’d been talking about walked in, these residents jeered and the city council staffer pointed at him and screamed like he was a child who had misbehaved. A young white man in a zip-up sweater, there with his wife, was nearly in tears as he stalked up to the man, hissed that this was his fault, and huffed out the glass door. There was a general consensus in the room that there should be more surveillance cameras to watch their neighborhood, and more poor people should be arrested, and overall the city wasn’t paying enough attention to their needs. The city council staffer kept calling the poor neighbors “the transients”; an outsider asked if she could use more respectful language and was shouted down."
Posted on 2017-05-20T21:12:45+0000
Employers steal billions from workers’ paychecks each year: Survey data show millions of workers are paid less than the minimum wage, at significant cost to taxpayers and state economies
This report assesses the prevalence and magnitude of one form of wage theft—minimum wage violations (workers being paid at an effective hourly rate below the binding minimum wage)—in the 10 most populous U.S. states. We find that, in these states, 2.4 million workers lose $8 billion annually (an ave...
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"Workers suffering minimum wage violations are underpaid an average of $64 per week, nearly one-quarter of their weekly earnings. This means that a victim who works year-round is losing, on average, $3,300 per year and receiving only $10,500 in annual wages."
Posted on 2017-05-20T17:50:04+0000
44 engineering management lessons
— an open-source distributed database designed to help developers and operations teams work with unstructured data to build real-time applications.
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Posted on 2017-05-20T17:42:02+0000
Does Valve really own Dota? A jury will decide
Federal court case could hinge on 2004 forum post granting "open source" license.
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Don't care much about the case but this line, whoa. "By 2005, lead development of Dota All-Stars had transferred to IceFrog (real name: Abdul Ismail)."
I think it's irresponsible to finally mention his name
Posted on 2017-05-20T04:53:01+0000
The ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Is Dimming Again
Astronomers all over the world are rushing to train their telescopes on it.
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Posted on 2017-05-20T04:36:58+0000