A minor scandal unfolding in the Swedish election highlights a way to influence news narratives: Google allows you to set headlines for news articles in search results by paying for adwords placements of legitimate articles. This is being used by political operatives in Sweden to make it appear that news stories have headlines that the political parties themselves write.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
Most mainstream databases implement some form of “incremental” backup. If you’ve already performed a backup, subsequent ones can be done by only transferring what has changed since your last backup. It’s a clever optimization. But it turns out, in many cases a full backup is much faster than an incremental one.| Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech