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If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention

According to the Harvard Business Review, 41% of women working in tech eventually end up leaving the field (compared to …

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The OnePlus 2 pushes the boundaries of how cheap a flagship smartphone can be

There are more options than ever for getting a good, cheap smartphone, and last year’s OnePlus One was a standout. For $300, you got a well-made, nice-looking phone with cutting-edge hardware and...

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Generate a reason to Work from Home

Need a reason to work from home? Get some of the most effective excuses as voted by the community. WFH.Ninja is the best way to start your day!

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Steam Hit by Major Security Breach, Many Accounts Hacked

Valve’s Steam is the biggest platform in the PC gaming market, with Valve themselves being one of the most prominent companies in the gaming industry as a whole. Steam has millions of accounts all ove

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One in every 600 websites has .git exposed | Jamie's OC

One in every 600 websites has .git exposed For web developers, exposing your .git folder to the world is a novice mistake. It allows anyone to download your entire source code repository, which often includes database passwords, salts, hashes, and third party API keys or usernames and passwords. Ove…

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My Szechuan Restaurant Is So Spicy That a Customer Called The Cops on Me

I invented a heat index scale for my restaurant, Han Dynasty, so people don't send dishes back to the kitchen, one of the biggest cultural insults in China.

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Hasnain says:

"Everybody takes spice differently. When I opened my first restaurant, I got so many complaints about the level of spice. A older woman once tried to call the cops on me because she thought that I was trying to fuck with her because the dish was so hot."

Posted on 2015-07-26T18:23:29+0000

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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

Translations: - Norsk 汉语 - tiếng Việt - Español - Italiano -  Français - Magyar -  Português - română - Deutsch - Suomi - Svenska -  Čeština - Русско -Íslenska - Nederlands - ελληνικά -  Audio Vers...

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Hasnain says:

"of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening."

This is really scary. I wonder why this isn't drilled into people more (I had no idea about this)

Posted on 2015-07-26T00:09:16+0000

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Hasnain says:

"Tao, by contrast, is, as one colleague put it, ‘‘super-normal.’’ He has a gentle, self-­deprecating manner. He eschews job offers from prestigious East Coast institutions in favor of a relaxed, no-drama department in a place where he can enjoy the weather. In class, he conveys a sense that mathematics is fun. One of his students told me that he had recently joked with another about the many ways Tao defies all the Hollywood mad-­genius tropes. ‘‘They will never make a movie about him,’’ he said. ‘‘He doesn’t have a troubled life. He has a family, and they seem happy, and he’s usually smiling.’"

Posted on 2015-07-25T22:31:41+0000

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Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Via Today Show And WSJ |...

If you talk to the reporters who work for various big media companies, they insist that they have true editorial independence from the business side of their companies. They insist that the news coverage isn't designed to reflect the business...

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