The long read: Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out
Most of us use love and use the jq command. It works on Linux or Unix-like systems to extract data from JSON documents. Recently I found htmlq, which is like jq and written in Rust lang. Imagine being able to sed or grep for HTML data. We can search, slice, and filter HTML data…
It was the most shocking crime of its day, 27 boys from the same part of town kidnapped, tortured, and killed by an affable neighbor named Dean Corll. Forty years later, it remains one of the least understood—or talked about—chapters in Houston's history.
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With his stubborn disregard for the hierarchy of wines, Robert Parker, the straight-talking American wine critic, is revolutionizing the industry -- and teaching the French wine establishment some lessons it would rather not learn.
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Maybe you’re the religious type. Maybe you’re not. Either way, you should consider accepting a special commission: becoming an evangelist . . . for faith in humanity. It is a faith preached not with words, but with deeds. Every time as a restaurant customer you don’t respond to…
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Research suggests utilizing a newer—and less intimidating—method to hitting the weights at the gym.
This item is only available for purchase within the USA. The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap is a first-of-its-kind multimedia collection chronicling the growth of the music and culture from the parks of the Bronx to solidifying a reach that spans the globe. The set…
Discovered more than a decade ago, a remarkable compound shows promise in treating everything from Alzheimer’s to brain injuries—and it just might improve your cognitive abilities.
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Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music legends as he seeks to keep a singular American art form thriving
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Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.
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A primer on automated story generation and how it it strikes at some fundamental research questions in artificial intelligence.
A concise overview of Elasticsearch concepts and principles
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Is Google Analytics still useful and how accurate are its stats? How much data is missing from Google Analytics due to adblockers and privacy-friendly browsers?
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One fintech veteran from India found out the hard way why “Mexicans love cash.”
Your pectoral muscles will thank you for this reset that brings relief from the 21st century lifestyle
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Quantum Brilliance has developed a diamond-based quantum computer that can run at room temperature and be miniaturised.
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A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.
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Famed since Roman times, the Spanish city’s artisans are all but extinct. But a reprieve is at hand from the TV and film industry
From the depths of poverty, Du Yuesheng rose through Shanghai’s underworld to become one of the most influential, and overlooked, figures in modern China.
One patient in a pioneering trial describes his “life-changing” experience with the psychoactive drug.
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How the writer Jesse Armstrong keeps the billionaire Roy family trapped in its gilded cage.
A guide on object detection algorithms and libraries that covers use cases, technical details, and offers a look into modern applications.
After years apart, the Black Crowes perform at the Forum on Thursday, part of a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of the group’s breakthrough debut.
State-of-the-art transformers for Ruby.
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In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.
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From the ones you know to a few new tricks. Pleonasm, anyone?
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”―Marshall Rosenberg, As a founder, my biggest regrets revolve around not having difficu…