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by Quanttek 5y ago
I don't get the following quote: > The main idea of the non-compete agreement is that employers want to stop people from walking off the job and taking trade secrets to rival companies. If companies weren’t able to secure those prot
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Europe Plans Aggressive New Laws to Phase Out Fossil Fuels(nytimes.com)
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Europe’s startup funding set for record year(politico.eu)
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WeVerify: Open-source platform for collaborative content verification(weverify.eu)
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Europass: A framework for communicating information on skills and qualifications(europa.eu)
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Eurocrats burn out under ‘insane’ Green Deal workload(politico.eu)
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by Quanttek 5y ago
All these stations are owned by the Sinclair Group, a right-wing broadcasting corporation that is eroding the editorial independence of local stations in order to run segments like these or the "terrorism alert desk" [1]. John Oli
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by Quanttek 5y ago
Neither the App nor Google use location data. However, Google still prompts your for these permissions because, in their mind, the swapping of rotating IDs presents an indirect way of tracking somebody's location (although that data is
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by Quanttek 5y ago
The apps used around Europe, including Germany's Corona-Warn-App, do NOT use GPS. It only asks for location permissions since it utilizes the exposure notification API that indirectly tracks your "location" relative to other
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Newsrooms Need to Treat Coordinated Online Attacks on Reporters Like Propaganda(ez.substack.com)
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by Quanttek 5y ago
> harassment in online gaming is frequent and serious, even for non-marginalized people. A staggering 74% of US adults who play online multiplayer games experience some form of harassment, and 65% report experiencing some form of “severe
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Venn Diagram of LGBTQ+ and Gaming Communities Goes Here(daily.jstor.org)
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Brussels to Big Tech: Open up your algorithms – or else(politico.eu)
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European Commission to close half of its buildings as telework is ‘new norm’(politico.eu)
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Data model and interopability of Europass CVs(europa.eu)
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Why Billionaires Like Bill Gates Can’t Fix the Problems They Helped Create(nytimes.com)
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by Quanttek 5y ago
> political intervention and regulation always works out in favor of the status quo. A bold statement needs strong evidence. "Always" is already debunked with one counter-example. A look at the history of the labor movement or
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by Quanttek 5y ago
> After the inventions of writing and printing, digital communication represents the third great innovation on the media plane. With their introduction, these three media forms have enabled an ever growing number of people to access an e
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Internet and Public Sphere: What the Web Can’t Do (2014)(resetdoc.org)
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by Quanttek 5y ago
> "The non-profit root server operators might have to leave the EU and put up active measures so that no Europeans can use their root servers. They can’t afford to do all the paperwork for NIS 2." I think this is the point wher
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by Quanttek 5y ago
Shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic, a highly-influential think tank (the Bertelsmann-Stiftung) suggested closing half of Germany's hospitals because of the low bed utilization and simple inefficiencies that pop up when smaller hospit
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On Never Being Alone Again (2011)(web.archive.org)
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Surveillance, Liquidity and the Ethics of Visibility(cairn.info)
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UN catalogues ‘chilling tide of abuse’ against female journalists(theguardian.com)
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Facebook was 2x as likely not to remove Covid falsehoods in Europe than in US(politico.eu)
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EU cities contemplate life with less Airbnb(politico.eu)
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by Quanttek 5y ago
Very cool website! However, I am not sure if ad fontes media is a good source of media bias ratings. Their methodology doesn't even name all the dimensions used to rate sources and their "training manual" provides very little
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by Quanttek 5y ago
Not sure if you are affiliated with https://newscatcherapi.com/ but I just wanted to note that the "privacy bot" is horrible from a UX standpoint and likely brakes the GDPR as well. 1) if you decline, it pops up s
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Algorithms: Fairness Definitions and Their Politics(youtube.com)
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by Quanttek 5y ago
Your comment is in the surface a rebuttal of the proposal but it really does not address international criminal law (ICL). ICL is also the result of a treaty between sovereign States that agree to criminalize certain behaviors by individual

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