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Police say shooter’s anger over YouTube policies ‘appears to be the motive’(techcrunch.com)
72 points by ExcelSaga 8y ago|115 comments
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Everything we know so far about the shooting at YouTube’s headquarters 12(theverge.com)
5 points by ExcelSaga 8y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 8y ago
It’s a form of something called “arguing in the alternative.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative It’s very real.
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Google AI and search chief John Giannandrea steps down(techcrunch.com)
10 points by ExcelSaga 8y ago|1 comments
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The Atomic-Bomb Core That Escaped World War II(theatlantic.com)
7 points by ExcelSaga 8y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 8y ago
If you actually read the article and the many citations, it’s a strong data-based approach. If you only read the title or skim, or just react emotionally then it could hit you the wrong way. All of which is to say that this is an important
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by ExcelSaga 8y ago
You can accuse someone of anything, until they file a suit they’re just trying thuggish intimidation tactics, which is no surprise from patent trolls.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Tritium. In addition to the points made by other replies, current fusion is (mostly) D-T, and we’re nowhere near breeding T in the reactor, so it has to be made in fission plants. Tritium is very expensive, and a significant risk for nucl
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
It would explode, but for any reactor we’re likely to build in our lifetimes, it wouldn’t be anything like a nuclear bomb. We’ve had nastier explosions in natural gas refineries. There would be radiological contamination from the Tritium an
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Retailers Race Against Amazon to Automate Stores(nytimes.com)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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Atomically Thin Drumheads for Ultra-Low Power Communications and Sensory Devices(eurekalert.org)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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Automakers Sought Looser Rules but May Get More Than They Bargained For(nytimes.com)
1 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
I’d be more surprised if people working for a company like Facebook weren’t raging hypocrites. Other than stratospheric levels of cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy or just not giving a shit is the only way someone could work for them. In my e
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
More people die from accidental swallowing of a bee each year, than shark attacks.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
You have the yearly state inspection though right? At least, last I lived there you did.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Here’s a link to the original piece, but it is in French: https://www.capital.fr/entreprises-marches/netflix-en-discus...
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Netflix is ‘in advanced talks’ to acquire Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp studio(theverge.com)
5 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|4 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
I grew up in a place where the racial bias narrative of policing was just something I knew to be true. It took a long time, and a lot of statistics from a ton of sources to realize that aside from sentencing, it’s mostly that the system a
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The Completely True History of April Fool’s Day(daily.jstor.org)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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The Math of Multiboundary Wormholes(quantumfrontiers.com)
3 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
I’m not justifying the use in this article, but it does mean something. In particular “aerospace” aluminum is a particular range of alloys around 92% pure AL content. It’s use in aerospace applications is based on its thermal stability, str
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Meet an Amateur Astronomer Tracking the Falling Chinese Space Station(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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As Marketing Data Proliferates, Consumers Should Have More Control(techcrunch.com)
2 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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Huawei says it’s still committed to the U.S., in spite of, well, everything(techcrunch.com)
1 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Music is one of the few remaining areas of mass media where I think having the file on your drive is a must. I’ll buy from places that don’t let me download, and then pirate a copy to actually own . I want to support the artists, but get r
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Uber and Taxify are going head-to-head to digitize Africa’s two-wheeled taxis(techcrunch.com)
1 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|0 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Would it be safe/feasible to use a butane or propane torch for that? Would there be an issue of carcinogenic residue? If not, then a handheld torch is cheap and easy to use, and goes well last 700 degrees.
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
It’s not just the US though, the whole ultra-surveillance shtick is very much an international problem. Here in the UK it’s not that great either, and China is full on dystopia. I’m not excusing the US, but we need to accept that this isn’t
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Qatar's F-15s Will Feature New 'Low Profile' Heads Up Display and New Cockpit(thedrive.com)
75 points by ExcelSaga 9y ago|84 comments
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by ExcelSaga 9y ago
Is this going to effect them trying to shift workers from the S line to the 3 assembly line? Or is this just a matter of maintenance services doing the replacement? At the very least, this is the last kind of news they need, for sales, PR,

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