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Not that is possible to detect gender but I suspect the bulk of those users are female since they are the most repressed. http://www.thenational.ae/business/telecoms/uae-top-for-fema...
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I had 26,000 share in a company TouchCommerce that got bought out by Nuance for about $250-million. I netted about $9,000. What did I learn? Start your own company is best. second best is to license a trademark or a patent to the startup to
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Imagine if news media gets so bad (DNS spoofing etc.) that you need a need private key to verify what is "certifiable news!"
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I cannot find a "white paper" or policy outline on UBI. I have read OpEds on the subject in the NYT and WSJ and watched Milton Friedman explaining his "negative income tax" on YouTube and that has been the most detailed
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Raspberry Pi’s Pixel for PC and Mac breathes new life into old computers
(techcrunch.com)
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Ooops. I should have referred to the Economies of scale rule instead. Perhaps 10-people could manage 2000 payouts whereas as the population grew to 200,000 or more regional offices and support staff would grow and inefficiencies would becom
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Finland's population is 5.439 million, It may work for 2000 people but will it be workable and scale up to 10-million, 50-million or 100-million people? I believe the "square cube law comes into play. Square cube law: https:
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Amazon’s deal to put an Echo in all Wynn Las Vegas hotel rooms []
(recode.net)
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Why have a drive train that can "talk" or take commands from a phone at all? One would think that an air gap or air wall will be would be job one.
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Android Malware Used to Hack and Steal a Tesla Car
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I just purchased this, thank you for posting it.
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I think what the article missed is that content creation is the most profitable business model. Jobs' first billion was due to a creative invention whose equity did not end on opening night, foreign distribution and DVD sales but rathe
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Scientifically, will 'Soylent' ever be as good as milk, yogurt, fruit or soup? I don't think so.
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Yep, it's expanding symmetrically in all directions in that the distances may increase between bodies but the masses such as suns and planets do not grow. http://nautil.us/blog/the-universe-expanding-symmetrically-
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Would a dodecahedral lattice explain why the universe stays symmetrical while expanding?
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North Korean Defectors to Create Government in Exile, Paper Says
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Los Angeles is going large on the concept of body cameras: [... The LAPD already has about 860 cameras, purchased through private donations. Last year, the LAPD negotiated a contract with Taser International to provide thousands more as wel
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Ironic for circa 2016 it is the poor in the US that generally have more children yet the goal oriented machinery within us males churns on. [ edit: Adding a statistic to validate the above assertion: https://www.statista.com
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Along with body cameras better training and specialized units to deal with those suspects who are ostensibly mentally ill would save a lot of time, money and lives. 30 UK police subduing a mentally ill man carrying a big knife: https:
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To upgrade challenging neighborhoods in New York, developers along with the city politicians created spaces for artists with reduced rents for a specific amount of years. By bringing in artists in the neighborhood would become "trendy&
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My mother was a closet racist but I loved her very dearly. She donated to many charities, set up fund raisers for drug rehab centers and always picked up the check no matter how many people were at the table. I separated her bad judgement k
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There you have it, de facto testimony (by her own admission) that she was incompetent to do her job and one should wonder if she should be granted a more complicated position as President.
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If you presume everything she told the FBI was true then she was woefully incompetent to be a Secretary of the state and should not be allowed near the oval office. If some or all have proven to be lies then she should have been indicted.
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There appears to be more evidence that dogs are self aware rather than not: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-pe... Newer studies illustrated with MRI scans that dogs can com
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If you are paid to "like" something when you could care less and pose for a photo like you "love it", that's not an endorsement, that is a de facto legal bribe.
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does…" — Jean Paul Sartre (Existentialist philosopher) Following your passion[s] may or may not be bad advice but predicting the
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Ironic that he became an opera singer and a TV host which is just the sort of occupations he was slamming people for pursuing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe#Early_life
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Though very amusing and quite charming, I would hate to be driven to the hospital on a gurney bed attached to a bicycle or have the fire department arrive on tandem bikes with fire ladders.
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Let's stretch the imagination and presume this hyperbole is true, if so, it would be nothing more than the moral equal of doping.
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More the reason to put him with children his own age for Jeremy would have to learn new skills on how to navigate with kids below his maturity and intelligence. YMMV
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