Men lay out papers in Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as part of a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Médecins Sans Frontières mapping initiative. Photo by: Jorieke Vyncke / CC BY-S
In mid-July, Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director for Human Rights Watch’s Moscow office, wrote on her Facebook wall that she had received an e-mail from edsnowden@lavabit.com. It requested that she at
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Published inLyft Engineering · 7 min read· Feb 9, 2021 -- Mark Huberty & Clare Corthell, Lyft Mapping Roads to the new terminal at LaGuardia Airport opened in July 2020, evidenced by aggregate Lyft tr
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The book is exciting and the story is funny. In fact, I'm learning something new. So much so, that I keep writing down my ideas and shuffling their implications. And suddenly, I realize something. In
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This text is part of: "Science of sleep" by Piotr Wozniak (2017) Contents Kill the alarm clock! Alarm clock epidemic Few upwardly mobile people in the modern rat-race society can live without an alarm
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Collection of odds and ends relating to e-readers including personal reminisces Background Reading has been a huge part of my life. The written word has had arguably more of an impact on my life than
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Some years ago, I was invited by my then boss, Jann Wenner, the owner of Rolling Stone, to be the lead singer in a band he was putting together from the magazine’s staff. I had just turned 41, and I j
Samstag, 9 Uhr, Dagenham, Ostlondon Für Axel Fischer bedeutet der Brexit erst mal Warten. An diesem Samstag ist es 16 Tage her, dass Großbritannien die EU verlassen hat, jetzt kriegt Fischer die Folge
If you use bricks as dominoes: you get a second wave going in the opposite direction. Watch the original brick domino video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTWiZ7CYoI I think that is the origin
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Published inBekk · 4 min read· Feb 8, 2021 -- Introduction This year at work, I’ve joined a learning community of people who will build their own mobile app. I plan to get three things out of that: To
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Over a few months in 2007, a day room at Cheshire Correctional Institution turned into a mock trial courtroom a couple of nights each week. Sitting on drab, half-cushioned seats, roughly a dozen male
Joint work with Saul Schleimer. In this short video we show how various models of hyperbolic geometry can be obtained from the hemisphere model via stereographic and orthogonal projection. 2D figure c
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Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brav
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