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We Will Obey the Giant Robots That Are Coming to Direct Our Traffic
An 8-foot-tall robot got drivers to fall in line. Here’s a look at the science of why humans are willing to obey robots.
The video is in French, but you still get how the robot works.
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Map of preventable disease outbreaks shows the influence of anti-vaccination movements
…it is packed with evidence — both empirical and anecdotal — that illnesses humanity worked out how to halt fifty years ago are again a threat in the west.
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THE END OF KINDNESS: WEEV AND THE CULT OF THE ANGRY YOUNG MAN
Read this. Now!
It’s good to be reminded that the internet is not just this big happy place once in a while. Speak up the next time you see behavior you do not agree with! I myself am guilty of often moving on and thinking, it’s ‘just’ the internet. But at the end of the day there are still mostly human beings on the other end.
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The Technical Interview Is Dead (And No One Should Mourn) | TechCrunch
Fortunately, “better than the old way” is a very low bar, and most good developers casting about for a new gig would far rather work on a real paid interesting project for a week than spend a day regurgitating code on a whiteboard.
So true.
The only real problem is that it doesn’t scale. Google, for instance, would need to find literally thousands of one-week audition projects every year for its candidates, which is probably not realistic.
One more reason I dislike big companies.
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Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion (by TEDtalksDirector)
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Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen! (by TEDtalksDirector)
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Commissioned painting. One of my favorite recent works, I think. :)
Check out her other work on http://alicexz.tumblr.com. Hard work pays off it seems.
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Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city (by TEDtalksDirector)
I so want to do this, but how to start?
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Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really? (by TEDtalksDirector)
Towards the end are some pictures of a cable built on an African beach.