August 2021 Archive
3931.
A Conversation Between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram [video] (youtube.com)
3932.
ARM China Seizes IP, Relaunches as an Independent Company (extremetech.com)
3933.
Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed (charleseisenstein.substack.com)
3934.
Travels the World: The Story of the Indian SCL6502 (cpushack.com)
3935.
Paseto Is an Even More Secure Alternative to the JOSE Standards (JWT, etc.) (paragonie.com)
3936.
The Origins of Covid-19: An Investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology [pdf] (gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov)
3937.
New York Times quashed Covid origins inquiry (spectatorworld.com)
3938.
With Covid-19, World Health Organisation's Fall from Grace Is Complete (thewire.in)
3939.
Smoke from Siberia wildfires reaches north pole in historic first (theguardian.com)
3940.
Senators press FB for answers about why it cut off misinformation researchers (techcrunch.com)
3941.
Economics of 'Serverless' (bbva.com)
3942.
Our Journey Building Porter (blog.porter.run)
3943.
PolyNetwork Suffers Record-Breaking $600.3M Hack (twitter.com)
3944.
Show HN: My Favorite Hosting Stack. Consul, Nomad and Vault on Digital Ocean (github.com)
3945.
Autistic kids can now be electrocuted by teachers in USA if they are disobedient (theshot.net.au)
3946.
What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong (nytimes.com)
3947.
The Respected Scientists Who Pushed for Alcohol Prohibition in 1920 (brownstone.org)
3948.
List of Countries by Vehicles per Capita (en.wikipedia.org)
3949.
Goodreads' Problem with Extortion Scams and Review Bombing (time.com)
3950.
Will [US-collected] fingerprint data point Taliban to targets? (bbc.com)
3951.
What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban (theatlantic.com)
3952.
Faster: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates [pdf] (microsoft.com)
3953.
PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database (postgresql.org)
3954.
Mathematical model predicts best way to build muscle (phys.org)
3955.
Hubble Captures a 'Einstein Ring' Magnifying the Depths of the Universe (sciencealert.com)
3956.
TCP BBR – Exploring TCP congestion control (atoonk.medium.com)
3957.
Rollups on Streaming Data: Rockset vs. Apache Druid (rockset.com)
3958.
The Era of Easier Voting for Disabled People Is Over (theatlantic.com)
3959.
It Is Immoral to Be a Billionaire (youtube.com)
3960.
China orders state firms to migrate to government cloud services (scmp.com)