Human folly for 02017-07-29

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• Hexagons (redblobgames.com):

  Hexagonal grid coordinate system #tutorial from Amit Patel

• I bought my first Bitcoin (thereformedbroker.com):

  #Bitcoin #predictions from a financial trader who just bought his first Bitcoin. “I used Coinbase, which from what I gather is the “safe” way to buy, sell and store.”

• China Apple censorhip (nytimes.com):

  #Apple #censorship of VPN apps due to #China policy against freedom of speech. #politics #human-rights

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Discussion thread on today’s #Ethereum #security problem: #Augur’s REP contracts had a fatal bug. This one was fixed without any theft. The auditors blame Serpent

• British hacker Lauri love rather kill go US prison (telegraph.co.uk):

  #Lauri-Love threatens #suicide; discussion of the #politics charges against him and against Gary McKinnon, and the history of LulzSec

• Love on trial (richardansett.blogspot.com.ar):

  Photograph of #Lauri-Love and his girlfriend Sylvia Mann. #NSFW in the USA.

• Sci hub s cache pirated papers so big subscription journals are doomed data analyst (sciencemag.org):

  #Sci-Hub has 97% of Elsevier papers and 69% of all papers, according to Daniel Himmelstein’s PeerJ paper.

• News (ring.cx):

  "Ring" is a GNU #decentralization software project; it just hit 1.0

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  #Ring is apparently not very stable or usable yet. #decentralization