FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right To Sell Cars Direct To Consumers
Key officials at the FTC aren't mincing words in a new post defending the right of manufacturers to sell directly to consumers: Part of the U.S. regulatory..
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Posted on 2015-05-12T03:06:41+0000
More Consensus on Coffee’s Benefits Than You Might Think
A review of studies shows that coffee’s reputation as being unhealthy is undeserved, with the potential health benefits surprisingly large.
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Posted on 2015-05-12T03:03:22+0000
Narrowing a Residential Street - McAllister
We will transmit this City not only, not less, but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. - Derived from the Ephebic Oath, Athens, 4th Century BCE I took the image below outside ...
Game theory’s cure for corruption – Suzanne Sadedin – Aeon
Seen through game theory, cancer and police corruption are pretty much the same thing. And for one of them, there’s a cure
Hasnain says:
I think this takes it a little bit to the extreme, but a great read nonetheless
Posted on 2015-05-11T16:26:22+0000
cbloom rants: 05-10-15 - Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web-
I'm trying to get together the photos of my baby to share with my mom. What a fucking nightmare. They're mostly on my phone, and auto-backed up to Google Photos. Should be easy, right?
LRB · Seymour M. Hersh · The Killing of Osama bin Laden
It’s been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first term, and a major factor in his re-election. The White House still maintains that the . . .
Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions - BBC News
Windows 10 will be the last version of the operating system to be numbered, says Microsoft executive.
Hasnain says:
Finally. Though it's still a slight disappointment from what I thought at first
Posted on 2015-05-11T05:09:39+0000
Whoever Is Leaking Trans-Pacific Partnership Drafts: Please Leak More
Knowledge is power, they say.
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Posted on 2015-05-10T17:22:28+0000
NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal By Their Heartbeats
A couple years ago, NASA and DHS unveiled a portable radar unit based on technology used to detect alien life on distant exoplanets. This radar unit, though, would be used closer to home—to find people burried under rubble. In the first real-world demonstration of its use, the device helped save 4 m…
Hasnain says:
This is awesome and scary at the same time. Just like all the scanning for life stuff in Sci-Fi media
Posted on 2015-05-08T06:31:31+0000
The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper's Poison Packet - PagerDuty
We uncovered 4 bugs causing random cluster-wide lockups. Two bugs laid in ZooKeeper, and the other two were lurking in the Linux kernel. This is our story.