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Residents May Have to Flee the São Paulo Water Crisis
Residents May Have to Flee the São Paulo Water Crisis dbreunig: The NYTimes writes: In a meeting recorded secretly and leaked to the local news media, Paulo Massato, a senior official at São Paulo’s water utility, said that residents might have to be warned to flee because “there’s not enough water, there won’t be water…
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bobbycaputo: Rare photos from a 1965 Selma March participant’s POV
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publicartfund: “ art and creativity have much to offer the world outside the arts. artistic thinking is based on constant awareness of potentiality – of the idea that reality is malleable, relative, and that, through my actions, I can affect and change the world. art can touch people deeply; experience isn’t just in the head,…
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“This is one of the questions that Peter Reinhardt, CEO and co-founder of Segment, asks in a timely post, Replacing Middle Management with APIs. Services like Uber replace a layer of task management with software APIs. Customers use an app interface to enter their data into the system. Reinhardt represents this in pseudocode as: uber.drive(card,…
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behindsuchgreeneyes: Me and my mutual followers that never seem to actually talk but we like and reblog each other’s posts:
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ShAkira!
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Asking for things is hard.
adrianparsons: After being laid off, an ex-coworker asked me to write a recommendation for him on LinkedIn. I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. A few weeks later, a friend trying to grow her career as a comedian asked me to retweet her latest joke. I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. I was surprised when I…
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it’s a(door)able
it’s a(door)able go play “it’s a(door)able”, and then support it, too!
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prostheticknowledge: Dreeps iOS game is an RPG with minimal involvement – you set an alarm clock for when you and your character wish to awaken after sleep, and you can observe the journey of your character throughout the day: For you who don’t have time anymore to play RPG, “Alarm Playing Game” is a new…
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mostlysignssomeportents: Impossible Programs: a great lecture on some of computer science’s most important subjects Here’s a 40-minute video in which Tom Stuart gives a talk summarizing one of the chapters from him new book Understanding Computation, describing the halting state problem and how it relates to bugs, Turing machines, Turing completeness, computability, malware checking for various…