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How Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

Grand Theft Auto, that most lavish and notorious of all modern videogames, offers countless ways for players to behave. Much of this…

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India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans

The availability of computer-savvy, young, English-speaking job seekers and efficient technology have contributed to the growth in cyberfraud against Americans.

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Hasnain says:

"“I just wanted to become a great scammer,” Mr. Dubey said. “Everyone was scamming around me. I thought, ‘I will also become a great scammer.’”"

Posted on 2017-01-04T16:36:58+0000

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Nonreligious Americans Remain Far Underrepresented In Congress

Only one member of Congress is religiously unaffiliated, but more than one-in-five Americans are.

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Hasnain says:

This is kind of surprising in that I thought Muslims were hated more than atheists; and I'm surprised that socialists polled that high.

"Not only that, but atheist is still far more of a minus than a plus for voters. According to one 2014 Pew poll, just over half of Americans said that knowing a presidential candidate was atheist would make them less likely to vote for that candidate; only 5 percent said "more likely" (the remaining 41 percent said it "wouldn't matter")."

Posted on 2017-01-04T15:41:14+0000

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Why Recursive Data Structures?

In this essay, we are going to look at recursive algorithms, and how sometimes, we can organize an algorithm so that it resembles the data structure it manipulates, and organize a data structure so that it resembles the algorithms that manipulate it.

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The UBI already exists for the 1%

The universal basic income — a cash payment made to every individual in the country — has been critiqued recently by some commentators…

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Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture? | Hacker News

* With few exceptions, engineers aren't hired for a specific team; they go through bootcamp where they get exposure to all parts of the stack and tasks from different teams.

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research!rsc: Lock-Free Bugs

[I wrote this post in mid-2014 for debuggers.co, which seems to have gone at least partly defunct, so I am reproducing it here. That site collected answers from programmers to the prompt “What’s the most interesting bug you’ve encountered?”]

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