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The Vacate Manifesto: How Today’s Technology Can Solidify Abolitionist Goals
12.4.2020
20 years ago the cypherpunks of the new internet era came up with vast ideas describing privacy, anonymity, and encryption. Some of them brought these ideas to practice. ***The following is a featured manifesto written in 2015 by Jamie Redman that first appeared on the website notbeinggoverned.com...
Bill Gates varoval před pandemií již v roce 2015. Podívejte se, jak přesně ji tehdy předpověděl
18.3.2020
Velkou pozornost budí v posledních dnech přednáška „The next outbreak? We're not ready“ zakladatele Microsoftu Billa Gatese, kterou měl v roce 2015 na konferenci TED. Ačkoli trvala necelých devět minut, Gates během ní v podstatě předpověděl situaci, které dnes musíme čelit.
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Innovation Can’t Keep the Web Fast
31.1.2020
Every so often, the fruits of innovation bear fruit in the form of improvements to the foundational layers of the web. In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published standard in an effort to update an aging protocol. This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort...
Crypto Payments on Darknet Markets Doubled for First Time Since 2015
29.1.2020
The share of total incoming cryptocurrency transactions on darknet markets has doubled for the first time since 2015, according to Chainalysis
Palestinian Militant Group Has Received 3,370 Bitcoins in Donations Since 2015: Report
20.1.2020
The report from an Israeli organisation claims the group used bitcoin to avoid sanctions, offer a degree of anonymity to donors and enable cross-border money transfers
Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL
6.12.2019
As is the rule in WebGL, anything that seems like it should be simple is actually quite complicated. Drawing lines, debugging shaders, text rendering… they are all damn hard to do well in WebGL.
Isn’t that weird? WebGL doesn't have a built-in function for rendering text. Although text seems like...
Bitcoin Moves 30% in December Since 2015 — Will 2019 Be Different?
30.11.2019
Bitcoin has shown to be volatile around Christmas as BTC price has seen major moves every December for the past four years
Getting Started with GraphQL
20.11.2019
GraphQL was developed by Facebook in 2012 to power up its mobile apps. Since open-sourcing GraphQL specification in 2015, it gained a lot of popularity and is now used by many development teams, including giants like GitHub, Twitter or Airbnb. Why so? And what exactly is a GraphQL? Let's take...
A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer
28.10.2019
The distance between Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and every other major browser is an increasingly gaping chasm. Adding support for a technologically obsolete browser adds an inordinate amount of time and frustration to development. Testing becomes onerous. Bug-fixing looms large. Developers have...
Ethereum in Its First Big Bear Market Like Bitcoin in 2015, Analyst Says
21.8.2019
Cryptocurrency investor and Placeholder partner Chris Burniske says Ether is weathering its first mainstream bear market, similar to Bitcoin in 2014-15
Fidelity’s Charity Arm Has Received Over $100 Million in Crypto Donations
19.8.2019
Fidelity Charitable reported receiving more than $106 million in crypto donations since accepting bitcoin in 2015
Bitcoin’s Big Price Drop Is the Latest in a Long History of Flash Crashes
28.6.2019
On Wednesday, June 26, the price of BTC came close to reaching $14K. One hour later, it had dropped by close to 18%. Such events are known as a flash crash, a moment in time where a rapid-sell off happens and often times a few exchanges become inoperable. Over the last few years, especially when...
Bitcoin Price Eyes Chart Pattern That Kicked Off Bull Market in 2015
13.6.2019
Bitcoin is about to see a key bullish cross of two moving averages the first time in nearly four years
Coming Next: Bitcoin Correction and Best Buying Opportunity Since 2015
26.5.2019
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Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
Bitcoin surged to a 2019 high of USD 8,373 on May 16. And on that same...
Microsoft Announces a New "Windows Terminal"
6.5.2019
I am a big fan of Windows (shame shame shame). I’m usually the only Surface in a sea of MacBooks. I love both platforms and work on both. My kitchen laptop is a 2015 MacBook and I’
Brontosaurovi potvrdili jméno až v roce 2015. Práskal ocasem jako bičem
4.5.2019
Brontosaurus, tedy v doslovném překladu „hřmotný ještěr“, patří k nejznámějším a nejpopulárnějším dinosaurům vůbec. Celosvětově je sice populárnější mnohem mladší teropodní dinosaurus tyrannosaurus, například u nás se mu však brontosaurus minimálně vyrovnává. Další články k tématu:Jak se největší...
Revisiting prefers-reduced-motion, the reduced motion media query
30.4.2019
Two years ago, I wrote about prefers-reduced-motion, a media query introduced into Safari 10.1 to help people with vestibular and seizure disorders use the web. The article provided some background about the media query, why it was needed, and how to work with it to avoid creating...
That Time I Tried Browsing the Web Without CSS
24.4.2019
CSS is what gives every website its design. Websites sure aren’t very fun and friendly without it! I’ve read about somebody going a week without JavaScript and how the experience resulted in websites that were faster, though certain aspects of them would not function as expected.
But CSS. Turning...
React Starter: React Prerequisites and 4 ES6 Things to Know
2.4.2019
JavaScript has come a long way in the past decade, especially with the ES6 update.
JavaScript’s standardized name is ECMA Script and this version came in 2015. It was named ES2015 o
Perfect Image Optimization for Mobile with Optimole
14.3.2019
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In 2015 there were 24,000 different Android devices, and each of them was capable of downloading images. And this was just the beginning. The mobile era is starting to gather pace with mobile visitors starting to eclipse desktop. One thing is certain, building...