Society Tech Brief By HackerNoon

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/in-vietnam-porn-is-better-served-and-more-accessible-than-starbucks. In Vietnam, if you’re craving a cappuccino, good luck—Starbucks might take a bit of hunting. But porn, it's everywhere. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #vietnam, #starbucks, #internet-regulation, #online-mainstream-platforms, #onlyfans, #fansly, #illegal-online-activities, #illegal-online-forums, and more. This story was written by: @thefrogsociety. Learn more about this writer by checking @thefrogsociety's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. In Vietnam, if you’re craving a cappuccino, good luck—Starbucks might take a bit of hunting. But porn, it's everywhere.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/what-the-hell-is-the-mar-a-lago-accord-and-why-should-you-care. Explore Trump's bold Mar‑a‑Lago Accord—a daring plan using century bonds, currency moves, and digital assets to reshape America's economy. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #geopolitics, #mar-a-lago-accord-explained, #digital-assets, #monetary-policy, #nato, #mar-a-lago-accord, #what-is-mar-a-lago-accord, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @darragh. Learn more about this writer by checking @darragh's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The Mar‑a‑Lago Accord is a bold framework to reshape America's global economic stance. It relies on key mechanisms—strategic currency devaluation, century bonds that extend debt maturity, tariffs to boost domestic manufacturing, and a sovereign wealth fund built on assets like gold and digital currencies. By leveraging its security umbrella, the plan seeks to force allies into economic concessions and secure access to strategic resources. Is this a visionary blueprint for America's revival or a risky high-stakes gamble? Read on to uncover the details.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-university-life-as-a-software-engineer. Join organizations, auditing tough classes, choosing the right professors, here are my top tips for thriving in university. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #college, #hacked-the-college-system, #get-the-most-out-of-college, #university-life, #college-life, #computer-science, #computer-science-course, #software-engineer, and more. This story was written by: @adibshakib. Learn more about this writer by checking @adibshakib's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Join organizations, auditing tough classes, choosing the right professors, registering smartly for classes, competing in programming events, and balancing internships with research can help you succeed.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/cypherpunks-write-code-david-d-friedman-and-the-machinery-of-freedom. The physicist, economist, and legal scholar David D. Friedman fits the bill very well to be a cypherpunk, besides ‘stealing’ ideas from Tim May. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #anarcho-capitalist-society, #crypto-anarchism, #machinery-of-freedom, #cypherpunks-write-code, #cypherpunks-and-blockchain, #electronic-cash-system, #obyte, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @obyte. Learn more about this writer by checking @obyte's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. David Director Friedman was born in February 1945, in the United States, to Rose Director and Milton Friedman. He completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University in 1965 with high honors. Then, he obtained a master's degree in 1967 and a PhD in 1971 in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago. In the middle of all the teaching, he was also a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction. That’s where his cypherpunk ideas are shown to everyone.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/recollections-of-my-life-part-3. A period when I had part in a small computer businesss Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #society, #autobiography, #robert-wright, #geek-nerd, #poetry, #computer-design, #a-life-well-spent, #non-fiction, and more. This story was written by: @bobnoxious. Learn more about this writer by checking @bobnoxious's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. It wasn’t very long before I had designed and built some protoype boards like these shown here next in the old laboratory setup. Our system boards were the same physical size as the S-100 bus cards used in the Altair, but our electrical bus structure was different. I also designed the physical bus circuit board in two styles one with I think 8 slots and another with 22 slots. The connectors were nice 100 pin card edge connectors, and we let the owner of H&L Electronics, our PCB manufacturer, Ed Lewis, use and duplicate the bus circuit board.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-growing-importance-of-patient-surveys. It will help you understand what is essential to your patients which will further help you deliver quality services Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #healthtech, #patient-feedback, #patient-surveys, #are-patient-surveys-important, #cg-cahps-survey, #best-patient-surveys-practices, #hospital-tech-tools, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @zonkafeedback. Learn more about this writer by checking @zonkafeedback's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. It will help you understand what is essential to your patients which will further help you deliver quality services

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/recollections-of-my-life-part-1. A biography of sorts, describing my life as a geek nerd. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #autobiography, #robert-wright, #geek-nerd, #poetry, #fiction, #comics, #non-fiction, #a-life-well-spent, and more. This story was written by: @bobnoxious. Learn more about this writer by checking @bobnoxious's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. I was born at an early age a long time ago and at this juncture I am proximal to geriatric care so I am older than dust. I am however still having fun. My incept date or birthdate is coincidentally the same as that of Beethoven, that is December 16th. I like to write poetry, fiction, comics, and non-fiction technical articles. ILike to write web code and doing web development, I like designing digital hardware and writing the code to support it.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-yummypets-voice-program-is-leveraging-tech-for-animal-welfare. Yummypets, the largest online community of pets and owners, network, found a way to transform online engagement into tangible support for animal welfare Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #social-good, #animals, #fundraising, #non-profits, and more. This story was written by: @sarahevans. Learn more about this writer by checking @sarahevans's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Yummypets, the largest online community of pets and owners, network, found a way to transform online engagement into tangible support for animal welfare through its Voice program. Each month, four animal welfare organizations are featured on the platform. Users can click once daily for each organization, with each click contributing towards a goal of 165 pounds of kibble.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/what-is-next-for-america-after-trump-v-united-states. To the extent that the majority’s new accountability paradigm allows Presidents to evade punishment for their criminal acts while in office Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #us-supreme-court, #justice-jackson, #donald-trump, #donald-trump-v-united-states, #donald-trump-federal-trial, #outcome-of-trump-v-usa, #future-of-america, #supreme-court-trump-ruling, and more. This story was written by: @legalpdf. Learn more about this writer by checking @legalpdf's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The majority of my colleagues seems to have put their trust in our Court’s ability to prevent Presidents from becoming Kings through case-by-case application of the indeterminate standards of their new Presidential accountability paradigm. I fear that they are wrong. But, for all our sakes, I hope that they are right.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/presidential-immunity-whats-an-official-act-vs-an-unofficial-one. If the former President cannot be held criminally liable for his official acts, those acts should still be admissible to prove knowledge or intent Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #us-supreme-court, #us-presidential-immunity, #donald-trump, #donald-trump-v-united-states, #donald-trump-federal-trial, #us-supreme-court-news, #us-supreme-court-landmark-case, #donald-trump-immunity, and more. This story was written by: @legalpdf. Learn more about this writer by checking @legalpdf's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. If the former President cannot be held criminally liable for his official acts, those acts should still be admissible to prove knowledge or intent in criminal prosecutions of unofficial acts.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-why-the-us-president-deserves-immunity. "We cannot ignore the importance that the Constitution places on who creates a federal office." - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #society, #clarence-thomas, #us-presidential-immunity, #donald-trump, #donald-trump-v-united-states, #donald-trump-federal-trial, #us-supreme-court-landmark-case, #us-supreme-court, and more. This story was written by: @legalpdf. Learn more about this writer by checking @legalpdf's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The Constitution sets forth how an office may be created and how it may be filled. The default manner for appointing “Officers of the United States” is nomination by the President and confirmation by the Senate. The limitation on the President’s power to create offices grew out of the Founders’ experience with the English monarchy.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/what-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-has-to-say-about-trump-v-united-states. No former President has faced criminal prosecution for his acts while in office in the more than 200 years since the founding of our country. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #society, #donald-trump, #donald-trump-v-united-states, #outcome-of-trump-v-usa, #us-supreme-court-landmark-case, #clarence-thomas, #us-presidential-immunity, #clarence-thomas-opinion, and more. This story was written by: @legalpdf. Learn more about this writer by checking @legalpdf's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. No former President has faced criminal prosecution for his acts while in office in the more than 200 years since the founding of our country. If this unprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people. A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former President.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/is-a-former-president-entitled-to-immunity-the-us-supreme-court-discusses. In this case, however, no court has thus far considered how to draw that distinction, in general or with respect to the conduct alleged in particular. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #society, #us-supreme-court, #us-supreme-court-landmark-case, #us-supreme-court-news, #us-presidential-immunity, #donald-trump, #donald-trump-v-united-states, #outcome-of-trump-v-usa, and more. This story was written by: @legalpdf. Learn more about this writer by checking @legalpdf's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Despite the unprecedented nature of this case, and the very significant constitutional questions that it raises, the lower courts rendered their decisions on a highly expedited basis. Because those courts categorically rejected any form of Presidential immunity, they did not analyze the conduct alleged in the indictment to decide which of it should be categorized as official and which unofficial.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/trump-v-united-states-what-was-the-opinion-of-the-court. The case concerns the federal indictment of a former President of the United States for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #society, #donald-trump, #donald-trump-v-united-states, #donald-trump-federal-trial, #us-supreme-court, #us-supreme-court-news, #us-supreme-court-landmark-case, #us-presidential-immunity, and more. This story was written by: @legalpdf. Learn more about this writer by checking @legalpdf's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Trump v. United States Court Filing, retrieved on July 1, 2024, is part of HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series. The case concerns the federal indictment of a former President of the United States for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. Trump moved to dismiss the indictment based on Presidential immunity. In his view, the conduct alleged in the indictment, properly characterized, was that while he was President.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/nafo-claims-another-high-profile-victim-fighting-back-against-disinformation. The information war with Russia has demonstrated what a powerful weapon ridicule can be against a Moscow bent on undermining Western aid to Ukraine. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #ukraine, #nafo, #information-warfare, #russia, #disinformation, #what-is-nafo, #hackernoon-top-story, #war-against-disinformation, and more. This story was written by: @davidivus. Learn more about this writer by checking @davidivus's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Every individual behind a computer who logs on every day and posts memes ridiculing Russian disinformation and propaganda is playing a much larger role than they realize. The NAFO fellas, from across the political spectrum and from around the world, are all united by the cause of Ukraine and its fight for freedom.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/blind-auditions-of-the-voice-expose-gender-bias-in-hiring-practices. Study uses 'The Voice' blind auditions to reveal gender bias in hiring, showing contestants are more likely to be chosen by opposite-gender coaches. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #gender-discrimination, #hiring-bias, #gender-bias-in-hiring, #opposite-gender-bias, #machine-learning-in-hiring, #the-voice-study, #gender-favoritism, #hiring-culture, and more. This story was written by: @precedent. Learn more about this writer by checking @precedent's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Using 'The Voice' blind auditions, a study reveals contestants are 4.5% more likely to be selected by coaches of the opposite gender, highlighting gender bias in hiring.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-and-the-rise-of-meaningful-connections-current-dating-app-market-trends. One of the most intriguing trends in the dating app market is the integration of artificial intelligence. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #society, #dating-app, #future-of-dating, #ai, #trends, #ai-in-dating-apps, #ai-dating-algorithms, #using-dating-apps-safely, and more. This story was written by: @asmbl. Learn more about this writer by checking @asmbl's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. During the COVID-19 pandemic, dating apps experienced a surge in users. Match Group, which owns over 45 dating brands including Tinder, Hinge and OKCupid, reported an increase in subscribers and downloads in its second quarter 2020 earnings. Industry giants Match Group and Bumble have collectively lost over $40 billion.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/darpa-wants-to-activate-drugs-in-human-brains-with-near-infrared-lights. Discover DARPA's cutting-edge AWARE program leveraging near-infrared light to activate and deactivate drugs in the brain Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #healthtech, #darpa-aware-program, #photoswitchable-drugs, #drug-activation-with-light, #military-research-and-tech, #temporal-selectivity, #pharmaceutical-innovation, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @thesociable. Learn more about this writer by checking @thesociable's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. DARPA is putting together a research program to shine near-infrared light into people’s brains that if successful, would be able to activate and deactivate drugs in their bodies on demand. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a special notice for its Alert WARfighter Enablement (AWARE) program, which aims to help increase alertness following sleep loss.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/decentralized-society-ubi. A decentralized system of money, governance transactions, and more all in one easy UX. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #democracy, #decentralization, #universal-basic-income, #sharding, #decentralized-society, #fluid-democratia, #economic-systems, #ubi-digital-currency, and more. This story was written by: @djcampbell. Learn more about this writer by checking @djcampbell's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Fluid Democratia is a fully integrated decentralized socio/economic system based on a decentralized ledger. It incorporates a new currency, P2P lending, currency exchange, Land registry, liquid democratic resources, and infrastructure. The aim is true freedom with sustainable prosperity. All users will be identified to ensure only one universal payment per person.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-great-rethink-transforming-capitalism-from-the-ground-up. Revolutionary ideas in mental models, performance, business, and entrepreneurship. Reimagine capitalism with insights from F500 guru Tina Berger. Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society. You can also check exclusive content about #capitalism, #entrepreneurship, #great-rethink, #capitalism-reformf, #business-transformation, #regenerative-economy, #system-change, #interview, and more. This story was written by: @scottdclary. Learn more about this writer by checking @scottdclary's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The pursuit of profit, the very engine of our capitalist system, has become its Achilles' heel. We've become so obsessed with the bottom that we've sacrificed everything on the altar of short-term gains. Forget the "Great Reset," what we need is a Great Rethink.