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Palantir's 'Meritocracy Fellowship' Urges High School Grads to Skip College's 'Indoctrination' and Debt
Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 "to encourage students to not stick around college." (College students must drop out in ord...
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How a Secretive Gambler Called 'The Joker' Beat the Texas Lottery
"Can you help me take down the Texas lottery?"
That's what a London banker-turned-bookmaker asked "acquaintances" in 2023, reports the Wall Street Journal. The plan was to buy "nearly every possible number in a coming drawing" — purchasing $1 tickets for 25.8 million possible combinations, si...
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FSF Urges US Government to Adopt Free-as-in-Freedom Tax Filing Software
"A modern free society has an obligation to offer electronic tax filing that respects user freedom," says a Free Software Foundation blog post, "and the United States is not excluded from this responsibility."
"Governments, and/or the companies that they partner with, are responsible for providing...
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Do Cognitive Abilities Predict Performance in Everyday Computer Tasks?
"Researchers say that a person's intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed," writes SciTechDaily, "so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use."
A new study has found that general cognitive abilities, such as perception, reas...
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Torvalds Celebrates Git's 20th Anniversay. Is It More Famous Than Linux?
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds, writes Its FOSS News.
Among the other revelations: He says his college-age daughter sent a texting saying he's better known at her CS lab for Git than for Linux, "because they actually use Git for everything there." W...
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