Stock Guru Jim Cramer Thinks Crypto Crash Will Benefit Stock Markets
May21

Stock Guru Jim Cramer Thinks Crypto Crash Will Benefit Stock Markets

Jim Cramer, otherwise known as the ‘stock guru,’ has weighed in how the latest cryptocurrency market correction can affect the stock markets. Cramer thinks this contingency will benefit stock markets, with some investors taking profit and moving them to less volatile, less transient investments. But some volatile stocks also felt the correction in crypto, now that some tech shares are more correlated than ever. Jim Cramer Thinks...

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Njalla Takes ‘Pirate’ Site Domains Offline Following Legal Pressure
May21

Njalla Takes ‘Pirate’ Site Domains Offline Following Legal Pressure

Four years ago Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde helped to launch Njalla, a privacy-oriented domain registration startup. The company offers a proxy for domain name registrars who don’t want their personal details listed in Whois records. As such, it’s effectively operating as a privacy shield. “Njalla is needed because we’re going the wrong way in society regarding people’s right to be anonymous. With social media pressuring us to be...

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When Aussies Face a Blocked Pirate Site, 59% Simply Give Up & Don’t Try Legal Options
May21

When Aussies Face a Blocked Pirate Site, 59% Simply Give Up & Don’t Try Legal Options

After years of work and changes to the law, in 2016 an Australian court agreed to order the blocking of several pirate sites headed up by the infamous The Pirate Bay. Since then, movie companies including Roadshow Films, Foxtel, Disney, Paramount, Columbia, and 20th Century Fox have returned to court many times to have more and more sites blocked. The strategy is also being deployed by the music industry, targeting regular streaming...

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How Python 3.9 fixed decorators and improved dictionaries
May21

How Python 3.9 fixed decorators and improved dictionaries

This is the tenth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Some of these versions have been out for a while. Python 3.9 was first released in 2020 with cool new features that are still underused. Here are three of them. Adding dictionaries Say you have a dictionary with “defaults,” and you want to update it with parameters. Before Python 3.9, the best option was to copy the...

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Play the Busy Beaver Game through a simulator
May21

Play the Busy Beaver Game through a simulator

It’s hard to find a game that combines the difficulty of, say, Dark Souls with the elegance of Conway’s Game of Life. In a 1962 paper, Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó came up with just such a game, which he called the Busy Beaver Game (BBG). read more Powered by...

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