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Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
(arxiv.org)
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I have to dispute this. A few months is sufficient to appreciate the stated concerns. A lot can happen in a few months. I am proof of the same. I think under two months is too short, however.
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In the medium to long term, the absence of logging is always more expensive than its presence.
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It's basically what happens when technically incompetent and inexperienced people wear management hats. If I was running a firm, the engineers would dictate to management, not the other way around.
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The problems of insufficient donors and that of oppression by the government are different problems. An opt-out registry solves the problem of insufficient donors. As for the government, it will find other ways to oppress people so long as
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Clean clothes, daily showers, and breakfasts can be next to go. A kid living in the jungles of South America with his/her clan/village could be better off.
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An opt-out system means that anyone (not limited to Falun Gong and other cults) who is already dead will potentially have their organs harvested except if they registered in a national opt-out registry while they were alive. Organs will the
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And therein lies the problem. It needs cultural change, perhaps forcibly, and it really has no cost to anyone alive. At least then people won't ever be killed to extract their organs.
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It's simply the absence of an opt-out system that leads to either organ shortages or forced donations. An opt-out system fixes all of this immediately.
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Why would I pay to use this open source software? It doesn't make sense to me.
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Given how expensive Slack is, and given that it's assumably not open source, the answer is an unequivocal "no". I would rather use something open source even if it has only half the functionality.
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We don't know entirely what happened here, but after reading this, maybe you should be paranoid and keep loaded guns at arm's reach after all. I am sure this family like a lot of us believed it could probably never happen to them.
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IT professional family of four found shot dead in Iowa
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Organic (natural) pesticides tend to be safer. Unfortunately, USDA has been doing a terrible job with their USDA Organic certification. It is firstly very expensive. Secondly, it is no guarantee that glyphosate is not present. This could be
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Such pesticides and other toxic chemicals not only cause cancer, but they also explain the increasing infertility in the West as explainable by germline damage in both men and women. This should worry you a lot. Please refer to: [1] Assessm
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USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides
(phys.org)
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Parsl – Parallel Scripting Library for Python
(github.com)
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Virus-packed laptop sells as artwork for over $1.3M
(techxplore.com)
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