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Corona: Seven Ways to Smash the Curve Now

By Daniel Jeffries 
Everyone knows they need to act now to stop the coronavirus.

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COVID-19: We Need More Than Data, We Need Insights!

By Federico Cesconi 
TL;DR We are managing the pandemic situation only with part of the data and not necessarily representative of reality. We must take a census of the number of positive and negative cases within a population. The officially reported positive cases contain a bias: they are cases that already manifest the disease in a more or less serious way. In the long term, the strategy of aggressive testing (South Korea model) is the only viable and sustainable to manage coexistence between the virus and the human beings until a vaccine will be available.

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Have You Contacted Your Reps to Help Block the EARN IT Act Yet?

By Freddy Marsden 
As the world finds itself preoccupied with COVID-19, the United States government is trying to pass a law to ban encryption. It's called the EARN IT act, and while it claims to combat the sexual exploitation of children online, it has potentially devastating repercussions for encryption and companies that use it to protect your privacy online.

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Experience vs. Expense? Hiring Strategy 101 — For New Entrepreneurs

By Mark Flickinger 
Most of you would agree that building a successful business is contingent on hiring the right people. Product, price, and market matter, but without the right team in place, even companies with incredible potential can stall out. However, most startup founders focus heavily on “what” they’re building, without a similar amount of attention being paid to “who” they plan to build it with.

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Inside Tron's Steem Takeover Attempt and the Birth of the Hive Blockchain

By Dan Hensley 
Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) is highly misunderstood, and underestimated when used correctly.

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4 Reasons You Shouldn't Use MoSCoW for Product Prioritization

By Scott Middleton 
I often see MoSCoW being used to prioritise product development work, but for anything mildly complex (almost anything, really), and especially any product with more than one customer, it isn’t appropriate. Here’s why.

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Lets Modularize the Open Source Ventilator Problem

By Robert L. Read 
by Robert L. Read and Nariman Poushin

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Understanding NPM Security [Deep Dive]

By Ari Noman 
The Node Package Manager, abbreviated as NPM, is the premier registry for software packages in the Node.js ecosystem and has become one of the largest registries for software packages in the tech world.  

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