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This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical

On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians t ...

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Hasnain says:

"Shortly after Hines’ article published, openly gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy tweeted that the author “basically just outed a bunch of athletes in his quest to write a shitty [Daily Beast] article where he admitted to entrapment.”"

Posted on 2016-08-12T04:42:54+0000

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The Great Productivity Puzzle - The New Yorker

Whatever is driving the slowdown in productivity growth in the U.S. appears to be affecting the advanced world as a whole. What is it?

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Zero-cost futures in Rust · Aaron Turon

Zero-cost futures in Rust 11 Aug 2016One of the key gaps in Rust’s ecosystem has been a strong story for fast and productive asynchronous I/O. We have solid foundations, like the mio library, but they’re very low level: you have to wire up state machines and juggle callbacks directly. We’ve wanted s...

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Generating fantasy maps

These are some notes on how I generate the maps for my Twitter bot @unchartedatlas, which is based on a generator I originally produced during NaNoGenMo 2015. There's JavaScript code for the generator on Github here, and the original messy Python generator code can be seen here.

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Prosecutors in PG&E case abruptly reduce potential fines

Abruptly and without explanation, federal prosecutors slashed potential criminal penalties for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. from $562 million to $6 million Tuesday while a jury was considering whether the company violated safety laws both before and after the lethal 2010 gas pipeline explosion in Sa...

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We just got even weirder results about the 'alien megastructure' star

Last year , the world freaked out over the discovery of a star that was dimming and flickering so erratically, it couldn't be explained by any known natural phenomenon - prompting one scientist to actually go there and suggest it could be evidence...

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