Stories by leoc

Michael Pettis: Global savings imbalances cause trade wars and income inequality

New UK government rushing through increased user tracking on government websites

We only had one photograph of the entire Earth–until 2015 (2018)

New research about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them

A wave of Japanese single-slice toasters costing over $250 US

Human Input to Computer Systems: Theories, Techniques and Technology (2011 WIP)

The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged

Review of /Newton the Alchemist/

The Domesday Project: The BBC’s 1980s “Google Earth” on LaserDisc

Graphics programming recommendation thread

Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video]

Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video]

Adi Robertson's Verge Review of the Magic Leap One

A large proportion of Amazon's US fulfillment-centre workers are on food stamps

Teenager in US informs on MS-13, is deported to El Salvador where MS-13 awaits

Fitbit aggregate data maps out Western military activity in Africa and Middle East

Three Questions About Each Bug You Find (1989)

A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (1984)

Did a U.S. university teach North Korea to track down dissidents?

Living in the Nakagin capsule tower (2013)

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