Should Prostitution Be a Crime?
A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminalization of sex work a feminist issue.
Hasnain says:
Pretty interesting points, though I have to admit I haven't read it in full yet
Posted on 2016-05-06T02:58:34+0000
Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street? | My Mapstory Blog
Believe it or not, almost everywhere in the country, people are not paying for the cost of the street right in front of their own properties. I made a map of my home town to illustrate – you can hover over any property and see for yourself (click on the image below to open). I was recently interview...
Click to view the original at mapstoryblog.thenittygritty.org
Hasnain says:
" First and foremost, we need to abolish the laws that caused
this all to happen. Yes, that’s right – all of this was
required to happen, by law. Many people think that sprawl is
a free market phenomenon, and they are exactly wrong. Sprawl
is caused by the following policies – I call these Sprawl
Laws; you can find them for yourself in your local city code
(for the most succinct explanation, see this paper[1]):
* Zoning
* Setbacks
* Minimum parking requirements
* Minimum lot sizes
* Maximum units per lot
* Minimum road widths
"
30 years later, QBasic is still the best | Personal Registry Editor
30 years later, QBasic is still the best (5 minutes read) My oldest son Noah turned 7 three months ago. If he could trade his family for a 2 hour session of playing minecraft, he would do it in a heartbeat. The other love of his life is Super Mario Maker, and it’s been a thrill to see him play the s...
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Posted on 2016-05-06T02:34:59+0000
Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.
“The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber. “Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?” “Yes,” she replied. …
Hasnain says:
"For about ten years, I’ve been warning people, “hang onto your media. One day, you won’t buy a movie. You’ll buy the right to watch a movie, and that movie will be served to you. If the companies serving the movie don’t want you to see it, or they want to change something, they will have the power to do so. They can alter history, and they can make you keep paying for things that you formerly could have bought. Information will be a utility rather than a possession. Even information that you yourself have created will require unending, recurring payments just to access.”"
Posted on 2016-05-06T01:04:15+0000
Frozen Foods Recall From Trader Joe's And Costco Supplier Just Got Way Worse
The recall now affects 358 products sold under 42 separate brands.
oss-sec: Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714
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uvloop: Blazing fast Python networking — magicstack
TL;DR asyncio is an asynchronous I/O framework shipping with the Python Standard Library. In this blog post, we introduce uvloop: a full, drop-in replacement for the asyncio event loop. uvloop is written in Cython and built on top of libuv. uvloop makes asyncio fast. In fact, it is at least 2x faste...
Soccer’s Most Remarkable Season
A year after narrowly avoiding relegation, Leicester City is on the verge of a Premier League title.
Hasnain says:
I haven't been following the premier league this year but this is kind of crazy
Posted on 2016-05-02T16:37:34+0000
Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
Fewer T.S.A. screeners, tighter budgets, new checkpoint procedures and growing numbers of passengers have led to epic security lines, and there’s no end in sight.
Hasnain says:
"While the T.S.A. says it is hiring and training hundreds of additional screening officers, matters are not likely to improve anytime soon. Airline and airport officials have said they fear that the current slowdown will last through the year and could cause a summer travel meltdown when travel demand peaks."
Posted on 2016-05-02T14:40:06+0000
Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies
Physical activity may have less to do with weight loss than we think.
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Posted on 2016-05-02T03:43:03+0000