hackerNews

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Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook (www.ft.com)

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Modern C, Second Edition (gustedt.wordpress.com)

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Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking (torrentfreak.com)

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In JavaScript, it's faster to parse JSON than to initialize the Object directly (v8.dev)

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Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018) (tannerchristensen.com)

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The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation (www.ft.com)

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.su (en.wikipedia.org)

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Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers (www.vice.com)

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Show HN: I made a jobs board for developers without degrees (https://nocsok.com)

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Microsoft AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles (github.com)

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Asciicker – an online 3D game demo rendering to ASCII text (asciicker.com)

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How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters (www.nytimes.com)

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New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard (neo4j.com)

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Pure Bash Bible (github.com)

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Crash Course, How Boeing's Managerial Revolution Caused the 737 Max Disaster (newrepublic.com)

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Welcoming Semmle to the GitHub Family (github.blog)

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Going Fast Slowly (varnish-cache.org)

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Navy Confirms UFO Videos Are Real and Should Not Have Been Released (www.nbcsandiego.com)

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Memcached 1.5.18 can now recover its cache between restarts (github.com)

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Reddit has been down for nearly two hours (reddit.statuspage.io)

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IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer (techcrunch.com)

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Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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Linode Shut Down a Newspaper (mg.co.za)

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Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages (https://www.publisheet.com)

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T. Boone Pickens Farewell Letter (boonepickens.com)

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Google Fi Unlimited Plan (fi.google.com)

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AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile (steveblank.com)

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Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog (www.bloomberg.com)

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Kubernetes 1.16 Is Released (kubernetes.io)

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Launch HN: Dashblock (YC S19) – Turn Any Website into an API (item?id=21006475)

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How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018) (bustbyte.no)

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200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week (www.cbsnews.com)

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The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Show HN: Rust Toolchain for iOS Bitcode (github.com)

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Using TLA+ for fun and profit in the development of ElasticSearch [video] (www.youtube.com)

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How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’ (www.nytimes.com)

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Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking information (www.swissinfo.ch)

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Egypt’S 1.8 Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion (spectrum.ieee.org)

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At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer (tashian.com)

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Show HN: Python Tests That Write Themselves (timothycrosley.github.io)

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Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: Jepsen Tested, High-Performance Distributed SQL (blog.yugabyte.com)

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Requests moved to Python Software Foundation (github.com)

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We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF (medium.com)

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Repo companies have passively scanned & uploaded locations of 9B license plates (www.vice.com)

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How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork (www.wsj.com)

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Linux Terminal Goods (diego-pacheco.blogspot.com)

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Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business (hbr.org)

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KaiOS (en.wikipedia.org)

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Using Apple's Combine Framework (heckj.github.io)

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Blogging Like a Hacker (2008) (tom.preston-werner.com)

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Young People Are Going to Save Us All from Office Life (www.nytimes.com)

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Advanced hackers are infecting IT providers in hopes of hitting their customers (arstechnica.com)

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Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet (www.propublica.org)

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Who needs qubits? Factoring algorithm run on a probabilistic computer (arstechnica.com)

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Talk to People on the Telephone (www.theatlantic.com)

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Whole Foods Will Cut Health-Care Benefits for Nearly 2k Employees (www.grubstreet.com)

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The American Brain (waitbutwhy.com)

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Andrew Mason’s Descript Snags $15M, and Acquires Lyrebird (techcrunch.com)

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Trump strips California of power to set auto emission standards (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Quietly another drug candidate disappears (blogs.sciencemag.org)

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Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble (royalsocietypublishing.org)

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Ask HN: What are some architectural decisions that improved your codebase? (item?id=21005372)

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A Reflection on the Departure of RMS (medium.com)

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ImageNet Roulette (imagenet-roulette.paglen.com)

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London’s Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Binance.us opens for US customers today (http://Binance.us)

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Uranium Chemistry (2008) (carlwillis.wordpress.com)

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Securing Software, Together (github.com)

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Hyperinflation and trust in Ancient Rome (notesonliberty.com)

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Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)

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Economists don’t understand much about the macroeconomy (qz.com)

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The New York Times shutters NYT en Español after three years (www.niemanlab.org)

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The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal (edition.cnn.com)

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Lost in Translation: Writing treaties in two languages can lead to problems (www.historytoday.com)

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Toilet paper startups (www.fastcompany.com)

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WeWork cofounder demanded employees be fired because she disliked their 'energy' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box (techcrunch.com)

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California Promises to Fight EPA Plan on Car Standards (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Anatomy of a Coyote (www.caracaschronicles.com)

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Fed cuts rates on 7-3 vote, gives mixed signals on next move (www.reuters.com)

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A high-performance, zero allocation, dynamic JSON Threat Protection in pure Go (github.com)

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The history of celebrity: from Bernhardt to the Kardashians (www.the-tls.co.uk)

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The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal (www.cnn.com)

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Reddit Is Down (reddit.statuspage.io)

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Before He Spammed You, This Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox (krebsonsecurity.com)

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GM drops workers’ health care during strike, a sign UAW impasse could drag on (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Our Journey to the First Paying Customer (monolist.co)

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Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns (www.newyorker.com)

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How to Track Objects in AR with ARKit 3 (vrgamedevelopment.pro)

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Show HN: RSS/Atom Feed Reader in Go (github.com)

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Language Both Enraptures and Deceives Us (nautil.us)

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RideCheck: Connecting you with help when you need it (www.uber.com)

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The Warren Buffett Inspired Keyword Strategy That Built a 180k Visitor Blog (medium.com)

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Edward Snowden: DOJ lawsuit over tell-all book is “good for Bitcoin” (decrypt.co)

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To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution (www.theguardian.com)

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The FBI Tried to Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone Network (www.vice.com)

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Brain may not need body movements to learn virtual spaces (medicalxpress.com)

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Chinese Communist Party’s Campaign to Purge “Disloyal” Uyghur Scholars (bitterwinter.org)

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Project Ihmehimmeli: Temporal Coding in Spiking Neural Networks (ai.googleblog.com)

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Who Feels Satisfied About Money? (www.theatlantic.com)

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Top Chinese State-Media Editor Complains About Internet Access, Deletes Post (www.bloomberg.com)

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How New York City Became Silicon Valley's Biggest Rival (www.ny1.com)

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Show HN: Koyeb – A Global Cloud Storage Platform (https://www.koyeb.com)

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When homework is busywork (2009) (www.latimes.com)

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Show HN: Conduct a Step-by-Step Risk Assessment, Together with Your Project Team (teamsuccess.io)

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Amazon S3 Introduces Same-Region Replication (aws.amazon.com)

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College admissions scam: Chinese parent arrested in Spain for bribery (edition.cnn.com)

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Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets promoted (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Donald Knuth – Programming Quotes (en.wikiquote.org)

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This Article Is Spying on You (www.nytimes.com)

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Richard Stallman and the Fall of the Clueless Nerd (www.wired.com)

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India bans e-cigarettes citing youth health concerns (techcrunch.com)

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Weird Science (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

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Scientific breakthrough may eventually allow many blind people to see (www.cbsnews.com)

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Ludwig: A type-based declarative deep learning toolbox (arxiv.org)

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Critics Challenge the Health Benefits of Alternative Meats (www.bloomberg.com)

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Wait QuickTake? Apple recycles another term from its past (bytecellar.com)

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28 percent of consumers use CBD products daily or as needed (www.theshelbyreport.com)

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Optimizing scenes for better WebGL performance (2017) (www.soft8soft.com)

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Cascadia Code, an OSS coding / terminal font with ligatures from Microsoft (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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Python Is Eating the World (www.techrepublic.com)

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Huawei is about to unveil the Mate 30 without Google services (edition.cnn.com)

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Gnome 3.34 Release Notes (help.gnome.org)

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Bartleby, the Safe-Spacer (www.the-american-interest.com)

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Viking berserkers may have used henbane to induce trance-like state (arstechnica.com)

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Telecommunications Breakdown: How Russian Telco Infrastructure Was Exposed (www.upguard.com)

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AI can’t protect us from deepfakes, argues new report (www.theverge.com)

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RMS resigns from MIT and FSF over Epstein comments (www.theverge.com)

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Ninth Circuit Finds ‘Uncomfortable Facts’ Are Not State Secrets in CIA Ruling (www.law.com)

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Don't sacrifice the right ideas to win the right words (drewdevault.com)

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The Problem with Sugar-Daddy Science (www.theatlantic.com)

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Why Silicon Valley Pushes the UBI Narrative (beta.trustory.io)

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The Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components (1952) [pdf] (www.sns.ias.edu)

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Vintage Prototype Macintosh Portable M5120 Shown Off in New Photos (www.macrumors.com)

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In Pakistan's warming mountains, farmers fish for a new living (news.yahoo.com)

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Show HN: Releaseflags, Feature Flags as a Service (https://releaseflags.com)

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GitLab Acquisitions Handbook (about.gitlab.com)

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Two Brothers Started a $4.8M/Year Motorcycle Parts Manufacturer (www.starterstory.com)

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Big Tech’s Disingenuous Push for a Federal Privacy Law (www.eff.org)

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Common Excuses Why Developers Don’t Test Their Software (hackernoon.com)

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SpaceX wants to buy out residents of a small Texas hamlet (www.businessinsider.com)

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Documents reveal how Russia wiretaps phone companies (techcrunch.com)

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Circuits of chemicals could carry out calculations (www.chemistryworld.com)

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