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by Jerry2 7y ago
Whenever I see a news story about Amazon workers and robots, I'm reminded of Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent [1]. It has spawned a bunch of funny (or sad?) "Amazon Wagie Cage" memes as a result [2][3]... an
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Lyft Faces Sexual Assault Lawsuits That Could Tarnish Image(bloomberg.com)
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Something Big Seems to Be Going Down Near Area 51 This Weekend(thedrive.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
This page has a lot more photos including manuals: https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Commodore/CBM900 The part about the OS caught my eye: >Commodore chose the Mark-Williams "Coherent" clone for the CBM900 w
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YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the Line of Free Speech?'(theguardian.com)
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US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s over ‘atypical’ cracking(defensenews.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
Of course they did! NSA issued an RFP for Skype intercept in 2009 [1] and everyone assumed that MS took them up on it: > An industry source disclosed that America's supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) is offering "billio
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Netflix at a Crossroads: Hollywood's Dominant Disrupter Adjusts to Growing Pains(hollywoodreporter.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
Bless you. And this reminded me to donate to Archive again. Please, folks, donate to Archive so we don't lose all the amazing things they've archived over the decades. As for LJ, so sad to see them go. I was a subscriber since 201
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The New York Times Company tanks 20% after saying ad revenue will decline next Q(markets.businessinsider.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
This paragraph made me smile: > Elsevier alleges that “one senior library official has repeatedly pointed to illegal sources of articles, including a Russia-based piracy site.” > We are unaware of any library employee who has been di
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SFSU shutters popular Chinese cultural program under pressure from feds(sfchronicle.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
> What does "lawless by design" mean? It's a euphemism for sites that are not censored and still allow free speech. Matthew Prince used to support freedom of speech but he's abandoned that concept a while back.
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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range(techradar.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
The first article that reported this [1] has way more info on what he did with the money and how he fenced it and how he was caught (this is auto-translated so I have no idea how accurate it is since I don't speak spanish): > The sc
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Pornography sites found to be riddled with trackers from major tech companies(nytimes.com)
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Berkeley becomes first U.S. city to ban natural gas in new homes(sfgate.com)
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How Philadelphia Became the City That Bombed Itself(philly.curbed.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
The reasons why you consider Baidu not as good are probably not technical, but are due to censorship and Baidu's abandonment of non-Chinese websites and pages.
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Russia launches major new telescope into space after delays(apnews.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
It's quite shocking to me how many social science and social psychology experiments have been debunked in recent years. It's as if the whole field is filled with false research. They should do what psychology has done and start a
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Mobile OS Alternatives to Android in 2019(itsfoss.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
Huawei incident has taught that Android is proprietary too. Any country that's at odds with the US will eventually find out that Android will be blocked to their companies too.
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How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil(nytimes.com)
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Justin Verlander Says MLB Is Juicing Baseballs to Goose Up Offense(deadspin.com)
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Facebook Fought Fake News About Facebook(bloomberg.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
> Those who bear the brunt of that abuse aren’t just the impatient and impulsive. More than 50 percent of people still can’t differentiate between an ad (redirect or not) and an organic result on Google. Some reasarch [0] suggests the f
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Mystery of NSA leak lingers as stolen document case winds up(apnews.com)
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Democracies to lose global economic dominance as authoritarian capitalism rises(cnbc.com)
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by Jerry2 7y ago
Absolutely fascinating! After watching all that CGI, I wanted to see an actual machine in action and came across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrZ3G0tAzY it's by the company that makes these massive bori

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