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Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems (2020)

A history and defence of venture capital in “The Power Law”

Stray bullet kills English astrophysicist visiting United States

Dr. Robert Epstein Talks Google Algorithms and Manipulation on Joe Rogan

As HN: Am I being instructed to do something illegal? (DEI hiring practices)

Legion Health (YC S21) Is Hiring a Clinician Operations Lead

Emergence of Life in an Inflationary Universe (2020)

Staff Engineer Communities

Hard-Core Home Bakers, This Is the Mixer of Your Dreams

Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution

The Prisoner Who Revolutionized Chinese Language With a Teacup

The Autofocus on Sony’s A7 IV Makes This Camera Shine

Now Is a Good Time to Update Your Recovery Email Addresses

The customers who repeatedly buy doomed products

Don Wilson, cofounder of the instrumental guitar group The Ventures, dies at age 88

Ukraine crisis deepens after U.K. says Russia may try to install a pro-Kremlin leader

Biden's predecessors could have felt his first-year pain

Why Tonga is opting for 'contactless' humanitarian aid

Omicron hampers Broadway. Fewer tourists are there for just a score of shows

How colleges are dealing with high COVID case counts on campus

Why rapid COVID tests aren't more accurate and how scientists hope to improve them

Simone Biles has a rival — a tiny bark beetle (but it can't stick the landing)

Mayors see cryptocurrency as a way to address income inequality

Most teachers are white. Most students aren't.

This powerful new accelerator looks for keys to the center of atoms

UK government: Kremlin has plan "to install pro-Russian leadership" in Ukraine

Channel News Asia

Yemenis struggle without internet for third day after air strikes

Armenian president resigns saying Constitution doesn't give him enough influence

Germany urges 'prudence' in potential sanctions against Russia over Ukraine

Taiwan reports new large-scale Chinese air force incursion

Thai PM to visit Saudi Arabia for first time since gem theft soured ties

Beijing Games had 72 COVID-19 cases, none athletes, among early arrivals

S Korea says Iran to regain UN vote after delinquent dues paid with frozen funds

Thai PM to visit Saudi Arabia as diplomatic relations thaw

COVID-19 latest: Omicron variant, herd immunity, worldwide vaccine access

Black women in Mississippi demand state-level pay protections

A year into Biden's presidency, where does he stand?

Sublime Ziyech strike helps Chelsea beat Tottenham for third time in three weeks

Major investor will target bosses at firms failing on climate

Welbeck earns Brighton a point at Leicester

Viking torch parade marks Celtic Connections in Glasgow

Miniature Banksy model goes on display in Newcastle

Liverpool win at Crystal Palace to cut Man City lead

Four sexual assaults on girls in south east London could be linked

Australian Open: Watch best shots as Rafael Nadal beats Adrian Mannarino in straight sets

Is the bubble about to burst for Bitcoin?

Taiwan reports new large-scale Chinese air force incursion

Police fire water cannon, tear gas at Brussels COVID protest

Timeline: Burkina Faso from popular uprising to soldier mutinies

Sudanese women’s rights activist Amira Osman arrested in raid

Thai PM to visit Saudi Arabia as diplomatic relations thaw

Uighurs in Turkey call for boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

Cameroon nightclub fire: More than a dozen dead in Yaounde blaze

The Straits Times

India unveils hologram monument to anti-British hero

Japan Cabinet's approval rating slips in latest poll

Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir 'conscious and talking'; King admitted to same hospital

Thai PM to visit Saudi Arabia as diplomatic relations thaw

Dozens of Indian turtles die in suspected poisoning

Biden offers little clarity on what's next for trade with China

Climate risk threatens property values of Australia's famed beachside homes

China says Henan officials under-reported deaths in July flood

A Shrinking Band of Southern Nurses, Neck-Deep in Another Covid Wave

Can Works Like 'Don't Look Up' Get Us Out of Our Heads?

A Tricky First Case for the Man Who Wrote the Rules on Nazi Looted Art

Social Security Opens to Survivors of Same-Sex Couples Who Could Not Marry

Ann Coulter Is Rooting for a Trump-DeSantis Throw-Down. She’s Not Alone.

Can We Turn a Desert Into a Forest?

Pakistan’s Army Is Trying to Balance the U.S. and China

Gunfire Rattles Burkina Faso’s Capital as Soldiers Revolt

Ukraine: Blinken defends Germany after Kyiv criticises Berlin over Russia stance

Clashes in Brussels as thousands protest at COVID health pass and restrictions

Nusrat Ghani: Muslim ex-minister says her faith played part in sacking from UK government

German navy chief Kay-Achim Schönbach resigns over 'ill-considered' Ukraine-Russia comments

UK claims Russia seeking to replace Ukraine government with pro-Moscow ally

Wall Street Journal

Foreign Executives in Isolated Hong Kong Head for Exit, Sick of Zero-Covid Curbs

Omicron Pressure Eases in Some U.S. States, but Infections Remain High

U.S.-Backed Forces Struggle to Contain Islamic State in Battle Over Syrian Prison

Winter Olympics Are Two Weeks Away, but Sponsors Are Keeping Low Profile

Germany's Reliance on Russian Gas Limits Europe's Options in Ukraine Crisis

Saudis Reopen Elementary Schools After One of the World's Longest Covid Shutdowns

Omicron Cases Put New Zealand on Red Alert, Leader Ardern Cancels Wedding

Head of Germany Navy Resigns After Saying Russia Would Never Return Crimea

Julia Cameron Says You Can Get Creative Indoors

Found Objects of Desire

The Genius of Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story

The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, January 23, 2022

Sunday Reading: A Cultural Review of the Aughts

Putin, Ukraine, and the Preservation of Power

USAID Contractors Denounce Agency’s Betrayal of Thousands of Afghans Who Carried Out Its Mission

Pipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition

Dealogic: Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet announced more acquisitions in 2021 than in any other year in the past decade (CNBC)

Analysis: AR/VR startups raised nearly $1.9B in Q4 2021, more than any quarter ever, making 2021 the second-best year for AR/VR funding at nearly $3.9B raised (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

Berlin-based Lendis, which helps companies set up and manage employees' equipment and software for hybrid work, raises an €80M Series A in equity and debt (Patricia Allen/EU-Startups)

How longstanding disagreements between the FCC and FAA over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the lead up to the 5G C-band rollout in the US (Wall Street Journal)

EU Parliament passed Digital Services Act, including provisions banning targeted ads based on highly sensitive personal data, limiting dark patterns, and more (Luca Bertuzzi/Euractiv)

How UK stage theater companies are using AR and VR to broadcast productions to viewers at home as the pandemic pushes companies to experiment with new art forms (Andrew Dickson/New York Times)

How advances in semiconductor fabrication equipment are being applied to producing nano-scale microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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'Billions' is the latest TV show to create a PR problem for Peloton

Workers at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software end strike action following union push

'Dark Souls 3' security hole lets attackers hijack your PC

Steam Deck will support games with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat software

Macquarie's Viktor Shvets Explains Why Inflation Will Eventually Be Extinguished...Along With Growth

Anonymous Officials Claim There's An Evil Russian Plot Again But The Evidence Is Secret Again

Goldman Sees "Risk" Of Fed Rate Hike At Every Meeting, Predicts $2.5 Trillion In Balance Sheet Shrinkage

"A Catastrophic Moral Crime" - Bari Weiss & Bill Maher 'Say The Quiet Part Out Loud' On Leftist COVID Policies

Democrats' Fight For Voting Rights Is A Fake Issue

Russia Responds To UK's "Very Dangerous" Coup Allegations

'Disinformation, Extremism And Violence': All Eyes On DC 'Defeat The Mandates' Rally As Organizers Caution Against Bad Actors

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Inflation surge could push the Fed into more than four rate hikes this year, Goldman Sachs says - CNBC

Activist Investor Nelson Peltz Buys Stake in Unilever - The Wall Street Journal

Activist Investor Nelson Peltz Buys Stake in Unilever - The Wall Street Journal

Bitcoin drops to six-month low as investors dump speculative assets - Ars Technica

How BlackRock is managing 'the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime' - Yahoo Finance

Federal Reserve decision, Microsoft and Apple earnings: What to know this week - Yahoo Finance

Intel’s ‘mega fab’ in Ohio rings alarm bells in Oregon - OregonLive

Intel’s ‘mega fab’ in Ohio rings alarm bells in Oregon - OregonLive

Outside the Box: ‘Net zero’ pledges can amount to greenwashing. This is the better way to reduce deadly carbon emissions

Market Extra: Is the market crashing? No. Here’s what’s happening to stocks, bonds as the Fed aims to end the days of easy money, analysts say

: Bad news for first-time buyers: Mortgage rates rise to pandemic-era high

The Moneyist: ‘I worry this woman may bleed him dry’: My secretive, evasive father is remarrying shortly after my mother’s death — without a prenup

Crypto: Bitcoin slumps with stocks and is now down 50% from all time high

The Big Number: A record 8.75 million people missed work because COVID is in their house

: Black lawmakers rebuke McConnell over comments on voting rights: ‘We are American’

Wall Street Journal Business

Kohl's Can't Find Relief From Investor Pressure

Activist Investor Nelson Peltz Buys Stake in Unilever

Your Hotel Concierge Is Probably a Texting Robot. Srsly.

Foreign Executives in Isolated Hong Kong Head for Exit, Sick of Zero-Covid Curbs

Companies' U.S. Pension Plans Are More Overfunded Than They Have Been in Years

Inflation Poses Risks of Faster, Less Predictable Fed Rate Increases

Train Robberies Are a Problem in Los Angeles, and a Blame Game Has Ensued

Winter Olympics Are Two Weeks Away, but Sponsors Are Keeping Low Profile

A Shrinking Band of Southern Nurses, Neck-Deep in Another Covid Wave

Can Works Like 'Don't Look Up' Get Us Out of Our Heads?

The Week in Business: A Big Bet on Gaming

Documentary Critical of Disney, From the Disney Family

‘Miserable and Dangerous’: A Failed Chinese Promise in Serbia

Passenger Exposed Buttocks and Threw a Can During Flight, Prosecutors Say

Kohl’s Receives $9 Billion Offer Backed by Activist Investor

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master, Dies at 95 - Tricycle

GitHub - leswright1977/PySpectrometer: Raspberry Pi Spectrometer

Fly.io – Free Postgres Databases (and free storage volumes, up to 3GB total) | Hacker News

100R — off the grid

How Twitter could take NFTs mainstream - The Verge

webassembly: the new kubernetes? -- wingolog

Everything Must Be Paid for Twice

Not Your Normal Jukebox Musical

Barge Chillling Beach

At-will for me, but not for thee

The noise started at the beginning of November

AI assisted drawing with hardware acceleration.

The Cockroaches were playing the long game

Game developers at Raven Software unionize

"There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time."

New NFL-Military Partnership Sends First 1,000 Fans To Stand For National Anthem Off To War

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