Krister Walfridsson's blog: Type-based aliasing in C
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Posted on 2016-05-23T18:08:57+0000
A controversial theory may explain the real reason humans have allergies
Allergies may have evolved as a way of protecting our ancestors by flushing out toxic chemicals.
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Super exciting to hear a fresh view on allergies. I need to look this guy up.
"For now, however, Medzhitov would just be happy to get people to stop seeing allergies as a disease, despite the misery they cause. “You’re sneezing to protect yourself. The fact that you don’t like the sneezing, that’s tough luck,” he said, with a slight shrug. “Evolution doesn’t care how you feel.”"
Posted on 2016-05-23T15:35:13+0000
Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron - ACM Queue
Q: Dear Tom: A few years ago we automated a major process in our system administration team. Now the system is impossible to debug. Nobody remembers the old manual process and the automation is beyond what any of us can understand. We feel like we've painted ourselves into a corner. Is all operation...
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Posted on 2016-05-23T07:27:24+0000
For World’s Newest Scrabble Stars, SHORT Tops SHORTER
Nigerian players are dominating Scrabble tournaments with the surprising strategy of playing short words even when longer ones are possible, in an extreme form of rack management.
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"Across the developing world, more governments are funneling money and organization into the sport. In Pakistan, 700-plus people competed in last year’s national championship, which was televised live. A Gabonese man’s second-place finish in the French-language world championship sparked a national Scrabble league in that African state."
Posted on 2016-05-23T07:21:47+0000
How the West (and the Rest) Got Rich
The Great Enrichment of the past two centuries has one primary source: the liberation of ordinary people to pursue their dreams of economic betterment
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"Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, had the right idea in what he said to Reason magazine last year: “When people ask, ‘Will our children be better off than we are?’ I reply, ‘Yes, but it’s not going to be due to the politicians, but the engineers.’ ”"
Posted on 2016-05-23T06:59:31+0000
Pakistan's Senate Gets Smart About Terrible Cyber-Crime Bill
Over the last few months, Pakistan's Internet community has been fighting to stop the passage of one of the world's worst cyber-crime proposals: the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB). Thanks in part to the hundreds of messages sent to Pakistan's senators, they secured a major victory this…
The Day the Moon Blew Up
Bill Gates reviews the book ”Seveneves” by author Neal Stephenson.
The Father of Modern Metal - Issue 36: Aging - Nautilus
Sometime in 1882, a skinny, dark-haired, 11-year-old boy named Harry Brearley entered a steelworks for the first time. A shy kid—he…
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"What’s more, Harry Brearley didn’t know it then, but the stuff he cast from the electric furnace at Firth’s on Aug. 20, 1913, was nothing new. At least 10 others had created it, or something like it, before; at least half a dozen had described it; and one guy even explained it, and explained it well. Others had patented it, and commercialized it. Before Brearley got around to it, at least two dozen scientists in England, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and the United States were studying alloys of steel by varying the amounts of chromium, nickel, and carbon in it. Faraday had tried as much nearly a century earlier. It’s not like Brearley was exploring unknown territory. That he is credited with discovering stainless steel is due mostly to luck; that he is credited with fathering it is due mostly to his resolve."
Posted on 2016-05-21T06:43:38+0000
Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip, Used it in Family Guy & DMCA'd the Original - TorrentFreak
This week's episode of Family Guy included a clip from 1980s Nintendo video game Double Dribble showing a glitch to get a free 3-point goal. Fox obtained the clip from YouTube where it had been sitting since it was first uploaded in 2009. Shortly after, Fox told YouTube the game footage infringed it...
The Daily Post_ Search the Archive.pdf
View and download The Daily Post_ Search the Archive.pdf on DocDroid
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Posted on 2016-05-21T06:24:03+0000