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- Gas Pump Skimmers – learn.sparkfun.com
- Skimmers which are attached to petrol pumps internally and then use Bluetooth to get the recorded card details out to the bad guys: finally, the killer app!
(tags: Bluetooth hardware crime skimmer credit)
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comments.- How Swing Dancing Faced Its Sexual Assault Scandal | VICE Sports
- A well researched article on the Steven Mitchell business.
(tags: dancing lindyhop lindy crime rape conduct)
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comments.- Paris Review – Art of Fiction No. 226, Hilary Mantel
- Interview with the author.
(tags: fiction books hilary-mantel interview) - There is no catastrophe so ghastly that America will reform its gun laws
- Tim Kreider’s essay from 2014 is still true, it seems.
(tags: tim-kreider guns crime america)
Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently
comments.- What Long Hours Really Mean | We Are Mammoth
- Via Hacker News, where there’s the usual debate about all this. Previously I’ve read research which says you can get gains out of doing it for short bursts but must then rest: longer periods of overtime end up producing less, not more. This article is more about the cultural impact, though.
(tags: work programming hours overtime business productivity) - Questions to ask your potential employer | Hacker News
- Linked to the Hacker News thread rather than the original post as the commenters at HN came up with some good additional ones.
(tags: work software jobs interview interviewing) - Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 4 of ∞) | Slate Star Codex
- Scott at Slate Start Codex points out that there’s no good evidence that those “Don’t be that guy” posters have reduced the incidence of rape.
(tags: society crime advertising posters rape statistics)
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