#Facebook-Free-Basics is giving people in #Bangladesh access to upload stuff to #Wikipedia (and very little else), so they use it to share data that has nothing to do with Wikipedia and infringes copyright.
the famous/notorious “fat guys who know C++” blogpost, inspired by @jaykreps’s tweet, “You have too many hipsters, you won’t scale like that. Hire some fat guys who know C++,” about the “top engineers in Silicon Valley”.
@ccshan talks about how he and #Oleg invented #probabilistic-programming.
Wow, #Hizbullah investigating illegal internet access at Lebanese army bases etc., and also running its own illegal internet access network.
Apparently you can use a USB keyboard with USB OTG on an Android #phone, but pendrives may not work.
Gavin Andresen describes how Craig Wright conned him into believing Craig was Satoshi Nakamoto: “an administrative assistant working with Wright left to buy a computer from a nearby store, and returned with what Andresen describes as a Windows laptop in a “factory-sealed” box.” And then Andresen trusted that computer to tell him whether the signature was valid. #Bitcoin
Radical respect for children’s bodies in order to stop sexual abuse of children.
GDP growth #economics #history of the US from 1950 or so.
#video of tactile rendering of 3D features by vibrating the screen according to where your finger is in order to vary the friction