“I Wanted To Learn Computer Science so I Created My Own Degree — Here’s My Curriculum.”
How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern.
At launch, Pattern shops with custom domains were served over HTTP, while checkouts and other secure actions happened over secure connections with Etsy.com. This model isn’t ideal though; Google ranks pages with SSL slightly higher, and plans to increase the bump it gives to sites with SSL. That’s a big plus for our sellers. Plus, it’s the year 2017 – we don’t want to be serving pages over boring old HTTP if we can help it … and we really, really like little green lock icons.
Dark Something Something.
Raus aus dem Dunkeln: Warum an der Debatte über Algorithmen alle BürgerInnen teilhaben sollten.
Algorithmische Entscheidungsfindung (algorithmic decision making, kurz ADM) ist aus unserem digitalen Leben nicht mehr wegzudenken. Diese Entwicklung bringt Fragen mit sich: Darf eine PKW-Software darüber entscheiden, wer im Falle eines Unfalls zu Schaden kommt? Wer bestimmt über meine Kreditwürdigkeit? Wen ziehe ich zur Verantwortung, wenn mich die Versicherung ablehnt? Das Problem: Als BürgerInnen sind wir derzeit nicht in der Lage, überhaupt mitdiskutieren zu können, da wir über solche komplexen Themen nicht genug wissen.
Those psychologists should be punished!
Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists.
Getting outraged on others' behalf often isn't about altruism but soothing personal guilt and asserting one's status as a good person.
Mission to Ewww.
Why Astronauts Burn Their Dirty Underwear.
We don't have a laundry system, so the space station crew basically wear clothes until they smell bad, then throw them in the trash
She invented the term “mansplaining” (btw. who invented “germansplaining”?).
The Philosopher Queen: Rebecca Solnit.
The Post-Human World.
What really happens is that the self disintegrates. It’s not that you understand your true self better, but you come to realize there is no true self. There is just a complicated connection of biochemical connections, without a core. There is no authentic voice that lives inside you.
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger.
Prima Idee.
Text-Quiz als kreativer Anti-Troll-Test: Der norwegische Rundfunk lässt Leser Fragen beantworten, bevor sie Artikel kommentieren dürfen.
Beautifully done for a lot of music that won’t go anywhere.
25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going.