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How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?
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The Light Phone
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39.9durability100% evidence confidence
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Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
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21.9durability32% evidence confidence
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Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)
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21.9durability32% evidence confidence
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Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)
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24.8durability39% evidence confidence
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Objective-C's niche: why it survives in a world of alternatives
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21.9durability32% evidence confidence
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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2020) [pdf]
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22.8durability32% evidence confidence
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What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?
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25.1durability32% evidence confidence
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You cannot have exactly-once delivery (2015)
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27.9durability48% evidence confidence
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Stop Using Encrypted Email
latacora.micro.blog · Learning & ideas
32.1durability55% evidence confidence
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Please don’t theme our apps
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34.9durability75% evidence confidence
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I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)
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21.4durability39% evidence confidence
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Plaintext HTTP in a modern world
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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
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26.5durability55% evidence confidence
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People suck at technical interviews (2014)
seldo.com · Learning & ideas
29.6durability48% evidence confidence
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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
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38.3durability93% evidence confidence
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Sustained discussion10.0/10
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What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school?
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21.9durability32% evidence confidence
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The housing theory of everything (2021)
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34.9durability93% evidence confidence
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The Byte Order Fiasco
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26.7durability46% evidence confidence
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Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (2012)
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21.9durability32% evidence confidence
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Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective
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36.8durability84% evidence confidence
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Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)
slatestarcodex.com · Learning & ideas
30.5durability64% evidence confidence
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Persistence13.5/20
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Why TV Lost
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24.7durability32% evidence confidence
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Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
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21.9durability32% evidence confidence
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