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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925914 Our study identified that public funding accounted for 97.1-99.0% of the funding towards the R&D of ChAdOx and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. We furthermore encou
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I would argue that charging 430 Euro for their proprietary disk cables is Dell's fault.
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The entire saga was almost entirely "research".
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No one cares, until they do, and it's too late. A chain does not stop being a chain just because your master hasn't yanked it yet. Apple pulls police-tracking app used by Hong Kong protesters after consulting authorities - http
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Our study identified that public funding accounted for 97.1-99.0% of the funding towards the R&D of ChAdOx and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. We furthermore encountered a severe lack of transparency in research funding reporting mecha
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How often does the reverse happen? How often are ISP executives charged with felonies for hiding fees, misleading consumers, or charging for routers they never delivered? No, not consumers, consumer , singular, because it was one VHS tap
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You can assign a new value to math.pi in python. You can assign new values to those 'constants' defined in config files. If a value must not change for the lifetime of a program, you are unable to enforce that constraint, leading
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> Why do you need constants? How can you argue that types are necessary but simultaneously permit magic numbers? Magic numbers like Pi?
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> Yes, the site refutes this. It says not word one about "acceleration". Does it? The site says The Initiative supports the Profile of a Virginia Graduate by redefining mathematics pathways - i.e. it defines a new program by
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You must describe, in detail, every purchase you want to make, to a 3rd party. You cannot make that purchase until that 3rd party gives permission. It will then sell your transaction history to countless other private and government entitie
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The year was 2021, and everybody was finally equal.
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> Head of the lender’s risk committee categorised cryptocurrencies as ‘high risk’ That PayPal was never categorised as high risk, despite the many instances of people getting all their cash frozen, tells me all I need to know about this
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> The Victoria state's decision to sign up to China's Belt and Road initiative, with two agreements in 2018 and 2019 This vague description is the most detail the article gives on what the actual deals were. Can anyone shed mor
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> I know companies typically can't comment for legal reasons Funny how they never actually say "we can't comment due to law X paragraph Y/contract clause Z" - they just say nothing, and let us assume they have
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And if Amazon buys location data on union organizers and their contacts? If farming conglomerates buy environmentalists locations? If General Electric, or other military-industrial giants, buy anti-war activist locations? It won't stop
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The story bizarrely doesn't mention that this is not the first time he was blocked from raising donations for legal representation. His Gofundme was shut down within 24 hours, and all the donations were reverted: https://www
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> it's not like it's an unbelievable claim. The media didn’t invent that narrative. They were recklessly uncritical of an anonymous law enforcement source, while ignoring opposing evidence. From the 3rd paragraph of the article
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But it is juvenile hijinks, and did turn out to be patently false. > The NY Times headline includes relevant details to inform the reader. Lets see which details were no longer relevant once the story turned out to be false, and the
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The GP's comment is not baseless - swap White and Black, and the following title could be right out of the Mail: A Black Virginia Girl Says White Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks at a Playground - https://web.archive.org&#x
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That's literally adding an additional privacy anti-feature, and claiming it "provides control" because it can be disabled, to bring you back to the state of privacy you had before.
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FLoC provides zero control - it's just additional personally identifying data sent by your browser, making tracking easier . It does not actually prevent any existing tracking methods.
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Does that mean youtube no longer inserts ads into those videos?
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It's a big leap to go from "not 100% certain and objective" to "meaningless, entirely invented fiction".
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> Why are you using that set of genes, instead of a different set The study in question (doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2010.07.004) used ~250,000 SNPs, because those were the genes measured from previous studies. Even if all the SNPs in the
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Invention? Are the clusters on these graphs an "invention"? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320036658/figure/fi... https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ish7688voT0/TEdgg08HnTI&#x
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How is this different from allowing only "authorized" browsers on Facebook? Why does Facebook get to reach into user's computers and decide how they may process data that happens to originate from Facebook? Do I get to send
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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute
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I'm sorry, but we are constantly told what a wonderful effect immigration has on economic growth. Sergey Brin, Elon Musk, and so many more billionaires are immigrants, and there's no lack of articles telling us so [1,2]. If we app
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> disable GPS Is there no way to get GPS location, without sending it to Google? As I understand, GPS positioning does not require the phone to send any data?
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> copyright infringement Circumvention is only copyright infringement due to the DMCA, which Microsoft, as part of the BSA, lobbied for [1]. This entire incident is Microsoft's doing, from passing the initial consumer-hostile law, t

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