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"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of ONE extraordinary man" -- Elbert Hubbard (b. 1856)

knownon The web is 30 years old today

Humanity is indebted to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

knownon Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?

Fisher invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess

knownon IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

I just installed it; Very colorful :)

knownon Being kind to others is good for your health

"Happiness? It's quite simple. Practice ALTRUISM" --Unknown

knownon Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed

I learned from https://yts.mx/movies/zero-days-2016 that software that generates big heat can destroy hardware/nuclear plant

knownon All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" --George Bernard Shaw (b. 1856)

knownon Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET

Twitter recently moved to AWS; Is it due to it?

knownon Google AI Researchers Lay Out Demands, Escalating Internal Fight

https://archive.vn/xCIbL

knownon Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

   1. Buy a Product
   2. Give 5 star rating as Verified Buyer
   3. Return the Product

Amazon doesn't remove my review;

knownon iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages

Workers riot at Indian iPhone factory after going 'four months without pay and being asked to work extra shifts' https://archive.is/dHNVJ

knownon Alibaba's Software Can Find Uigher Faces, It Told China Clients

The United States government, among others, has denounced the program and penalized Chinese companies that are believed to be involved. https://archive.vn/g73w1

knownon States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

Time to sack Sundar Pichai https://pastebin.com/raw/Uk7Y2dnZ

knownon Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts

Reiss, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University , argues that a diverse range of human motivations can't be forced into these categories of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. https://archive.is/57CX

knownon Show HN: Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary

I think relevancy can be improved for e.g. https://books-search.typesense.org/?b%5Bquery%5D=linus%20tor...

knownon Google outage – resolved

https://viewdns.info/ismysitedown/?domain=google.com points to 172.217.1.46

knownon Google outage – resolved

https://xkcd.com/2347/

knownon To listen well, get curious

"Make mistakes and learn! Being wrong isn't a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something." --Feynman (b. 1918)

knownon How the novel coronavirus has evolved

Curious to know how it evolved/infected prior to Dec 2019

knownon How and why to use Lynx – the faster web browser

I made some changes to Lynx code to extract relevant information and use it as Web Crawler;

knownon We can have democracy or we can have Facebook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quid_pro_quo are not listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud

knownon Will Bitcoin end the dollar’s reign?

https://archive.vn/V0X7e

knownon Covid-19 spurs national plans to give citizens digital identities

https://archive.vn/Jct1t

knownon Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids

https://archive.vn/XsM8A

knownon How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming helps

knownon The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (1986)

France meticulously trapped US in Vietnam War :(

knownon Arnold Sommerfeld

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize 84 times, more than any other physicist (including Otto Stern, who got nominated 82 times[52]), but he never received the award

knownon Billionaires Build

Bitter truth by PG :)

Indian IT industry is an exemplar;

TCS/Infosys/Wipro/HCL make money by selling software engineers, not software to clients in US/EU;

https://archive.vn/ecCtN Rishi Sunak's wife is richer than the Queen

They're running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme with tacit support from Law makers :(

knownon This is Real, That's Not

"You don't have to be famous; You just have to make your Mother proud of you" --Unknown

knownon Billionaires Build

aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running

knownon Billionaires Build

And may be with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triarchy_%28theory%29