A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video] — and Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis

Issue #120 — August 05, 2020

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A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video] youtube.com \| points: 746 \| comments: 130

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Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis mathoverflow.net \| points: 467 \| comments: 82

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Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot medium.com \| points: 436 \| comments: 226

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The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary underjord.io \| points: 405 \| comments: 253

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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017) thelawproject.com.au \| points: 390 \| comments: 374

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In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved nngroup.com \| points: 388 \| comments: 397

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We quit our jobs to build a cabin outsideonline.com \| points: 387 \| comments: 319

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Why is America stuck with bad headlights? caranddriver.com \| points: 348 \| comments: 455

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Django 3.1 djangoproject.com \| points: 319 \| comments: 179

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27-inch iMac gets a major update apple.com \| points: 279 \| comments: 494

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Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk bleepingcomputer.com \| points: 247 \| comments: 155

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Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities bloomberg.com \| points: 238 \| comments: 245

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Endless Doom Scroller endlessdoomscroller.com \| points: 230 \| comments: 103

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TikTok and the Sorting Hat eugenewei.com \| points: 228 \| comments: 165

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Treating children for worms yields long-term benefits, says new study news.berkeley.edu \| points: 224 \| comments: 146

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Let’s build a full-text search engine artem.krylysov.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 39

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Unlearn rotation matrices as rotations kodkodgames.gitlab.io \| points: 212 \| comments: 88

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EU launches probe into Google-Fitbit takeover bbc.co.uk \| points: 196 \| comments: 78

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Apple revoked longtime Mac developer’s code signing certificate with no warning twitter.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 162

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Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads (2019) theverge.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 60

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