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by Quanttek 7y ago
How are they "the criminals"?
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Ask HN: Personal knowledge management/note-taking: How do you do it?
3 points by Quanttek 7y ago|4 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
What mass surveillance programs has the EU (not individual member states, like the UK or Germany) been funding "for decades"? The EU doesn't even have an intelligence service. The only entity I could be thinking about is Fron
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EU Commission considers facial recognition ban in AI ‘white paper’(euractiv.com)
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Pressure on FAA to approve its 737 Max jets backfires for Boeing(theguardian.com)
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Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible way to measure NGO effectiveness(nonprofitaf.com)
1 points by Quanttek 7y ago|3 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Are there similar, "true WYSIWYG" LaTeX clients that are not web-based but native for one's platform? I know about Lyx but it's honestly quite disappointing in comparison to this project
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Pretalx was also mentioned in the comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Because Blackboard was used as example, I just wanted to note that there are also open-source alternatives: A larger number of German public universities use ILIAS instead https://www.ilias.de/en/ . While it has its qui
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Now, a protest by "a dozen to 30" employees is unlikely to change Blizzard policy, even with the public backlash. While employees staging walkouts could actually hamper Blizzard's ability to make money, when each employee is
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Code is here: https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/crabgrass (readme is quite lackluster) Live instance can be found here: https://we.riseup.net/
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Crabgrass: Communication tools for grass-roots organizing(we.riseup.net)
2 points by Quanttek 7y ago|1 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
That "flexibility" means precarity as the majority of gig employees do this full-time: >In California, the legislation will affect at least one million workers who have been on the receiving end of a decades-long trend of outso
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by Quanttek 7y ago
> without public input Not true. From the article: > The city of Fremont started developing a proposal for a new navigation center, and asked residents for input. Elected officials and staff organized three public meetings about the p
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Silicon Valley man launches a hunger strike against housing the homeless(medium.com)
11 points by Quanttek 7y ago|17 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Because people in this thread are (as usually) unable to read the article before commenting, here the relevant excerpt: > But according to a new study published in Royal Society: Open Science that attempted to replicate the findings of
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Ask HN: What are your favorite educational non-tech podcasts?
53 points by Quanttek 7y ago|39 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Agreed but I wouldn't try to infer from a stock photo to the substance of the story. The vast majority of vapes used, especially those by young adults and teens, are not black vapes.
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Surviving a Conversation at a WeWork(newyorker.com)
1 points by Quanttek 7y ago|0 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
The cookie warnings are not a consequence of the GDPR (remember they've been there before) and also only need to be done when you have non-essential cookies on your site (i.e. tracking, ads)
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America’s Achilles’ Heel: The Mississippi River’s Old River Control Structure(wunderground.com)
1 points by Quanttek 7y ago|0 comments
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Oh yes, right. Thank you for your help!
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Super fun so far, thank you! Can someone explain to me why this was called an "excellent move"? https://imgur.com/a/Fyg4PuW I eliminated a night but I feel like the pawn could eliminate my bishop easily. See
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Where does this arbitrary distinction between the physical and nonphysical realm come from? Who says that it would only be immoral to handle sth physically you don't have permission for? On what basis does this moral theory exclude th
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by Quanttek 7y ago
lone_haxx0r is not making an argument about free speech. He is just demonstrating his utter lack of knowledge about law, philosophy, society, and politics. Where does this distinction between physical and "digital" actions come fr
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Cars took over because the US legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives(citylab.com)
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Study finds gains in faculty diversity, but not on the tenure track(insidehighered.com)
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When “Bright Futures” Fade: Paradoxes of Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda(researchgate.net)
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by Quanttek 7y ago
What the hell dude? First of all, this survey shows how widespread bullying, sexual harrassment, and exclusion is for women (and foreigners) at Max Planck (quite representative of academia) and your first reaction is "but what about me
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by Quanttek 7y ago
There is no factual basis to these allegations though. And besides your first sentence and the first half of the second sentence, the rest is completely unsubstantiated. Your comment on feminism and her perspective has no bearing in reality

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