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> Yes, there is an enabling superpower that autists have through damage and accident, but non-autists like me have to cultivate: not giving a shit about monkey social rituals. > Neurotypicals spend most of their cognitive bandwidth on
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ESR on autism, genius, and the power of obliviousness(esr.ibiblio.org)
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Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/4duscc/outdated_and...
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Outdated WordPress and Drupal versions may have contributed to Panama Papers hack(wptavern.com)
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> The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commerci
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FBI says a mysterious hacking group has had access to US govt files for years(motherboard.vice.com)
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Forget unicorns, investors are looking for 'cockroach' startups now(businessinsider.com)
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"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers. They're typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They're not capa
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A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech(theregister.co.uk)
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Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11338508
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A statement from the Tor Project on software integrity and Apple(blog.torproject.org)
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The Rise of Killer Robots(ozy.com)
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Apple's response to DOJ: your filing is full of misleading claims and falsehoods(techdirt.com)
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> One solution would be to simply automatically delete messages after reading. As you can readily do with Signal or Telegram.
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Many nation-states impose not only conscription in wartime, but also universal conscription in peacetime for males of certain age. Some citizenships (e.g. Switzerland or Israel) would thus come with some pretty significant strings attached,
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Indeed. I think most people mind the Kafkaesque bureaucracy involved in taxation much more than the taxation itself.
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You don't have to imagine, it's all chronicled on his blog. Gogulski's life is an open book.
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> Being stateless is not a good thing. That's wholly a matter of individual preference. I know Mike Gogulski personally and I can attest to him being quite happy having made the choices he did, and no longer being part of what he pe
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There are other measures and rankings elsewhere. In addition to the additional metrics you mentioned, perhaps yet another to take into account is how hostile natives feel towards you when traveling in certain parts of the world--up to and i
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For those looking to renounce their U.S. citizenship, Mike Gogulski has chronicled and documented the whole paperwork-heavy process on his blog: http://www.nostate.com/about/ In his case, after submitting the paperwork
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The UK passport is the best in the world in every ranking: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-10-most-powerful-passport...
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Indeed: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-10-most-powerful-passport...
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Gmail now has more than 1B monthly active users(techcrunch.com)
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Direct link to the emulator: https://win95.ajf.me/win95.html
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Windows 95 running natively in your browser is a sight to behold(thenextweb.com)
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http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon...
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A little surprised nobody has noted the Daniel Suarez connection as yet. This is obviously inspired by "Kill Decision" (note the logo of Huginn wearing a headset) and "Daemon".
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Part II: https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/interview-wi...
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Erlang, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Idris, the JVM, Software and Protocol Design(medium.com)
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For those interested in modular implicits, see http://www.lpw25.net/ml2014.pdf

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