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Text: Surprise: Your password and 2 factor authentication (the code sent via SMS to your phone supposedly to protect your account) won’t stop people stealing money off your credit card via your Uber account If the value of your currency has changed in the meantime relative to the one you were charg...

Text: Somewhere in my regular haze of dozens of daily googles, something seemingly-not-strange-at-all was actually so strange that it managed to bubble up to my attention. I was in the middle of playing the video game, Breath of the Wild and I couldn’t figure out how to do something, so I reached for m...

Text: In the United States, women only got the vote in 1920. Racial segregation only ended in 1964, and same-sex marriage was only legalised in 2015. As recently as 2003, same-sex sexual activity was illegal in fourteen US states. Given that 50% of Americans are women, 28% are non-white, and around 5% ...

Text: [info]Updated Jan 2021 with a new, simpler recommended method for blocking Android ads[/info] Ads on websites and in apps are annoying enough, but apps that pop up a 30 second video ad while you’re going about your business are much harder to put up with. While there’s browsers that block ads on...

Text: Reddit and Twitter are both large, anonymous social networks, but it’s only Twitter that is notorious for venomous abuse campaigns, rape threats, and death threats, often directed against prominent women, LGBTI people, and racial minorities. What is it about Reddit that keeps people safe from the...

Text: Just like the web doesn’t require you to have a direct connection between your laptop and the website you want to access, lightning doesn’t require you to have a direct connection between you and the person you want to pay. Instead, you only need a channel with one node that is connected to the n...

Text: What’s so good about SegWit Firstly, it increases the amount of transactions that can fit in each block. Since each block takes about 10 minutes to be created, this means that more transactions can be processed per second. The amount of fees that Bitcoin users pay depends on how hard it is to get...

Text: A stock market bubble bursts when companies go bust. A real estate bubble bursts when people can’t pay their loans and homes are foreclosed. So when does a cryptocurrency bubble burst? Let’s talk Bitcoin for now, and get the obvious out of the way. The price is decided by the market, by supply a...

Text: Well known for his philanthropic work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates is also a human being - one who frequents Reddit, it turns out. When business people or celebrities take to Reddit, they’re usually there to peddle their wares or talk about their latest movie. While Bill...

Text: If you’re organising your game objects in a hierarchy and you have at least a mildly complicated game, you’re doing it wrong. The reason is your objects will be far too varied and complicated in form to be accurately represented as such. The alternative is a component model. This is very basic. I...

Text: Hypothetical: if you knew for a fact, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if you invested one month of effort, that you would end up with, say, a million dollars, would you knuckle down and do it? Or continue binge watching The Good Place? The goal in question can be anything. Maybe you want to buil...

Text: Since its earliest days, the core of Google’s search algorithm - and its greatest innovation - has been ranking a page by the amount and quality of the links pointing to it. For almost as long, businesses have fought to climb to the lucrative top positions on search result pages, with some resort...