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Louis Phillippus Botes

@LouisPhillippus

I am a hard-working and driven individual who isn't afraid to face a challenge. I'm passionate about my work and I know how to get the job done.

 South Africa, Canada, USA
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Rise and fall of Eskom’s workforce dailyinvestor.com/south-afri…

Rise and fall of Eskom’s workforce

Data from inside Eskom reveals how bloated and ineffective its workforce has become.

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Unofficial WhatsApp Android app steals accounts mybroadband.co.za/news/secur… via @mybroadband

Unofficial WhatsApp Android app steals accounts

A trojan embedded in a popular unofficial WhatsApp client scrapes users’ access keys and sends them to the developer’s remote server.

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Post Office directors could face criminal charges mybroadband.co.za/news/gover… via @mybroadband
Post Office directors could face criminal charges

Post Office directors could face criminal charges

A legal expert told MyBroadband that the Post Office has broken the law and could be held criminally liable.

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South African Post Office commercially and technically insolvent dailyinvestor.com/south-afri…
South African Post Office commercially and technically insolvent

South African Post Office commercially and technically insolvent

The Post Office incurred a loss of R2.2 billion, its total liabilities exceeded total assets by R4.1 billion, and it cannot pay its debt.

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topauto.co.za/news/59638/jee… via @TopAutoSA

Jeep shows off new entry-level electric SUV

Jeep has revealed its first fully-electric SUV, which will now be the manufacturer’s new entry-level model.

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Eskom spent R680 billion – but produced less power afterwards dailyinvestor.com/business/4…
We tested the DStv Streama — with disappointing results mybroadband.co.za/news/revie… via @mybroadband

We tested the DStv Streama — with disappointing results

The DStv Streama struggles to trade blows with cheaper alternatives running on open ecosystems.

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Pick n Pay and Takealot taking the fight to Checkers Sixty60 mybroadband.co.za/news/it-se… via @mybroadband

Pick n Pay and Takealot taking the fight to Checkers Sixty60

Pick n Pay saw online deliveries surge in the past few months, even before it added grocery deliveries to the Mr D app.

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Eskom hired 18,000 extra workers in 10 years and can’t keep the lights on mybroadband.co.za/news/inves… via @mybroadband

Eskom hired 18,000 extra workers in 10 years and can’t keep the lights on

Eskom went on a 10-year hiring spree, yet manages to generate less electricity than when it had fewer staff.

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Game is shutting down eight stores — here’s what is happening mybroadband.co.za/news/busin… via @mybroadband
Game is shutting down eight stores — here’s what is happening

Game is shutting down eight stores — here’s what is happening

Game said its Everything Must Go sales are going well, and there is no end in sight yet for the stores it is shutting down.

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Canada’s Descent into Madness by @andrewjoegeorge link.medium.com/mo8aYNXIeub
Canada’s Descent into Madness

Canada’s Descent into Madness

Oh… Canada? Polls show significant racism and conspiracy theory beliefs in the true north.

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Einstein’s Defeat — Quantum Entanglement by @sarpngln in @cantor_paradise cantorsparadise.com/einstein…
How Could We Be So Wrong About Atoms, Light, and Time? by @ScottCDunn link.medium.com/DIxzdHPdhub

How Could We Be So Wrong About Atoms, Light, and Time?

Our over-simplified conception of reality is probably all that our tiny little brains can manage.

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No, Cannabis Isn’t the Harmless Substance You Think It Is by @burdensbloom link.medium.com/joaaOPEdhub

No, Cannabis Isn’t the Harmless Substance You Think It Is

Abusing the herb ruined my life

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Can Atlantis make Terraform great again? by Amine Bourouiba link.medium.com/zTYvrzudhub

Can Atlantis make Terraform great again?

Quite early at Swile, even before our switch to Kubernetes was even a thing, the Infrastructure as Code approach has been adopted as one…

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The Plan to Destroy Mercury by @EllaAlderson2 link.medium.com/KGNCFxg0dub

The Plan to Destroy Mercury

And a good chunk of the rest of our solar system, too.

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Windows Into Russia: It’s Very Bad by @MartinEdic link.medium.com/vqO9XCNBeub

Windows Into Russia: It’s Very Bad

And it’s why we must keep arming Ukraine

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Why Mathematics Is the Ultimate Language of the Universe by Sunny Labh in @cantor_paradise cantorsparadise.com/why-math…
Why Mathematics Is the Ultimate Language of the Universe

Why Mathematics Is the Ultimate Language of the Universe

From snowflakes to black holes everything can be described using math

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Changing This One Thing Would Make Solar Power Perfect by @welockett link.medium.com/V3fm7BB3gub

Changing This One Thing Would Make Solar Power Perfect

Agrivoltaics could be the future of truly clean energy.

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Ask Ethan: Why do galaxies spin? by @StartsWithABang in @startswithabang link.medium.com/ngDlULQTbub

Ask Ethan: Why do galaxies spin?

The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all…

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