Delinquency rate rises among people in their 20s

The number of customers aged between 20 and 29 failing to pay off credit loans soared in June, fueling concerns that unemployed young people with low credit and little collateral to offer will emerge as the highest-risk borrowers amid the virus-triggered economic crisis. Read more

最让台积电忌惮的对手,为什么是三星电子?

过去些年来,在先进的晶圆制造领域,台积电、三星电子和英特尔可谓“三分天下”。台积电是纯粹的晶圆代工模式,在全球晶圆代工市场上占据龙头地位,为苹果、华为、高通、联发科、英伟达、AMD等客户提供芯片代工服务。 Read more

10B

Nearly 7 years ago now, I started a little pet project to index data breaches and make them searchable. I called it “Have I Been Pwned” and I loaded in 154M breached records which to my mind, was rather sizeable. Time went by, the breaches continued and the numbers rose. Read more

jordwalke

MacOS 8 as an electron app. Cool project from @felixrieseberg https://t.co/Po6XM4zbdq Read more

Fun with binary data and SQLite

This week I’ve been mainly experimenting with binary data storage in SQLite. sqlite-utils can now insert data from binary files, and datasette-media can serve content over HTTP that originated as binary BLOBs in a database file. Read more

AIIB to approve USD 3 billion loans in the next 12 months

NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): As part of its effort to improve connectivity, Beijing-based multilateral funding agency AIIB is looking to provide loans worth USD 3 billion for various large infrastructure projects, including Delhi Meerut Rapid Rail, Mumbai Metro Rail and Chennai Peripheral Ring Road Read more

Visually Syncing Your Mac’s Desktop

Earlier today, I had a short twitter conversation with Lauren Herda (she illustrated my first three Mac app icons). I tweeted about symlinking my Mac’s Desktop folder into Dropbox to work around some iCloud Drive problems that had been plaguing me. Read more

Chapter 4: The Big Cycle of the United States and the Dollar, Part 1

This is Part 1 of a two-part chapter on the US Empire and its path along the archetypical big cycle of dominant powers. It covers the period up through World War II. In Part 2, we will cover from the beginning of the new world order right up to this moment. It will be out […]