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The New New Thing, by Michael Lewis, is about Jim Clark and the companies he founded at the time. It's a good read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_New_Thing …

> ... the British health service is in favor of a system that sends data on who may have the virus to a centralised server, and puts the NHS in charge of who is contacted and when.

The Economist style guide has an extensive section on British v American English. Here's the section in the 2015 edition at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Economist…

This is a video. I didn't watch it; I'd expected something to read.

Excellent pedagogy, distilled into sensible bullet points. Applicable far beyond computer-use, which is really just an example.

Archived four hours ago: https://archive.is/Ug5Lf

Of the four previous postings of this link, only one generated more than a dozen comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22965077 Here are the submissions for the week: https:…

> I mean, it should go without saying. Yes, but I'm attracted to the idea of a T-shirt with the quote: intentionally administering cleaners or disinfectants, whether intravenously, by mouth, …

This is the first time that I've read about health/care workers being shunned and stigmatised, but I can see how it can happen. I can't imagine that this is a purely Japanese phenomenon…

As a Reg commenter points out, having been sealed up together in the confines of a submarine for nine months, these sailors are to all intents and purposes members of the same household - so perfectly…

> Nicotine may be suggested as a potential preventive agent against Covid-19 infection. Both the epidemiological/clinical evidence and the in silico findings may suggest that Covid-19 infectio…

> It is vital that, in coming out of the current crisis, we do not create a tool that enables large scale data collection on the population, either now or at a later time. Thus, solutions which all…