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GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
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Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line
https://transfer.sh
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https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/elvish/
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The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube (2020)
https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-olap-cube/
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https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/
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Dabrowski’s theory and existential depression (2020)
https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/dabrowskis-theory-and-existential-depression-in-gifted-children-and-adults/
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GitHub Copilot regurgitates valid secrets
https://twitter.com/alexjc/status/1411966249437995010
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FINRA Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood
https://www.finra.org/media-center/newsreleases/2021/finra-orders-record-financial-penalties-against-robinhood-financial
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Computing Performance on the Horizon
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171
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit
169
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The Secret Life of Machines
https://www.timhunkin.com/a243_Secret-Life-of-Machines-intro.htm
167
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RustViz: Generates Visualizations of Rust Lifetime and Borrowing Mechanism
https://github.com/rustviz/rustviz
165
AI Explorables: big ideas in machine learning, simply explained
https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/
164
Miniflare – Local simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers
https://github.com/mrbbot/miniflare
154
Show HN: Lego Brick Scanner – open-source Boilerplate
https://github.com/GistNoesis/BrickRegistration
59
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https://medium.com/geekculture/how-ios-15-makes-your-app-launch-faster-51cf0aa6c520
150
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Ever Given: Egypt agrees deal to release ship that blocked Suez Canal
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57719551
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141
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https://newrepublic.com/article/162882/americas-obsession-self-help-americanon-review
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The future of deep learning is photonic
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-future-of-deep-learning-is-photonic
134
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Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead in heat wave
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/04/1013026434/canada-battles-more-than-180-wildfires-with-hundreds-dead-in-heat-wave
133
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Audacity: Clarification of Privacy Policy
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1225
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Ardour -Audacity Alternative to Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, OS X and Windows
https://ardour.org/
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https://medium.com/geekculture/howto-running-the-1g-analog-phone-from-1997-3caec77a9df9
39
Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval of its Alzheimer’s drug
https://www.statnews.com/2021/06/29/biogen-fda-alzheimers-drug-approval-aduhelm-project-onyx/
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https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/the-rouleur-journal/the-eraser-men
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https://jeremykun.com/2014/01/02/probably-approximately-correct-a-formal-theory-of-learning/
114
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110
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https://blog.hrithwik.me/the-good-and-the-limitations-of-github-copilot
108
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https://www.sqlite.org/cves.html
107
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European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/european-plan-gigantic-new-gravitational-wave-detector-passes-milestone
105
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Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/04/open-source-audacity-deemed-spyware-over-data-collection-changes
81
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-57692160
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https://blog.fract.al/post/62180302979/a-closer-look-at-fractals
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https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/audacity_profile/
Highview Developing 50MW/500MWh Liquid Air Energy Storage Facility in Chile
https://highviewpower.com/news_announcement/highview-enlasa-developing-50mw-500mwh-liquid-air-energy-storage-facility-in-the-atacama-region-of-chile/
93
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Microsoft executive says U.S. overuses secret orders for Americans' data
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-surveillance-microsoft-idCNL2N2OB2SV
92
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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-after-pressuring-telecom-firms-myanmars-junta-bans-executives-leaving-2021-07-05/
95
Tough Turban: an open-source design for turban-wearing motorcyclists
https://toughturban.com/
A Twitter addict realizes she needs rehab
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/twitter-addict-realizes-she-needs-rehab/619343/
88
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https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts
Barclays stops UK clients from sending funds to Binance
https://www.ft.com/content/abc04cc0-ea53-4ecb-8c1e-49c85014fa3f
42
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https://economics.td.com/esg-carbon-report
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Some Days I Can’t Do Life – When everyday life becomes a struggle (2020)
https://medium.com/invisible-illness/some-days-i-cant-do-life-47c83045cd05
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https://www.bmw.com/en/innovation/how-hydrogen-fuel-cell-cars-work.html
Cloud-Native Database Systems (2021)
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/csjgwang/cloudb/
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https://en.pingcap.com/blog/how-we-trace-a-kv-database-with-less-than-5-percent-performance-impact
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http://www.einstein-schrodinger.com/mercury_colony.html
75
Git vs. Fossil: what you should have done vs. what you did
https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki#history
69
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Raymond Chandler’s guide to street, hoodlum, and prison lingo
https://flashbak.com/raymond-chandlers-guide-to-street-hoodlum-and-prison-lingo-443428/
European Citizen's Initiative for UBI
https://eci-ubi.eu/
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