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by _rpd 9y ago
http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ does a good job.
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If it hadn't gone through the highway, I doubt there would have been the flurry of "Africa splitting in two!" articles.
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Why not start an edited competitor?
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This well known process, which will play out over tens of millions of years, appears to be receiving media attention because ... > A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. Th
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They want to IPO and cash out. They have explicitly stated that this is their goal.
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apps don't have ad block. This is the only reason companies care about apps.
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One of my friends has one of these because she likes the way it helps her build a grocery shopping list over the week. She once thought of herself as a privacy activist, and is fully conscious of the hypocrisy. It really made me think twi
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Seriously, what are they supposed to do? Calculate the tax owed and then add a random amount?
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This paper[0] has capex and opex costs for three types of desalination technology - multistage flashing (MSF), multi-effect distillation (MED) and reverse osmosis (RO). The lowest costs are for reverse osmosis and are $113 million capex, $
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Admits it is vital research but "constantly confronting people who think my research will harm them is profoundly distressing." This is a very personal decision, but I'm glad for those who continue on despite the misguided a
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tl;dr: He liked this tweet from an official Marriott account, upsetting Chinese officials ... > Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan.
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The study doesn't equate intelligence with IQ ... > Intelligence, also known as general cognitive function or simply g, describes the shared variance that exists between diverse measures of cognitive ability https://www.n
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I think it's okay as long as it fails to a usable state when the internet connection is interrupted. To me, the bigger worry is having cloud connected video cameras (or microphones) in my home at all. Obviously many people are happy t
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Bain looked at the target company and thought "I can reconfigure this company so that it would be worth a lot more than the stock market currently says it is." Bain has successfully done this before, so they convince investors to
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Exactly. Profits lead to dividends, but also to taxes. As an investor, it is preferable to reinvest and keep growing the business. The trick is that mature companies have a very difficult time achieving double digit growth. Amazon (stil
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Yeah, look for a brand reboot after the bankruptcy.
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Yeah, any retailer that requires me to fight traffic, parking and morose customer service just to obtain an item that I can instead have delivered to my porch is at a severe disadvantage.
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For traditional retailers, e-commerce is an upstart that 'steals' sales from established geographically-based territories. To support the e-commerce project is to betray all established players. It cannot gain support until it i
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I disagree. Their core feature is rapid, reliable delivery of the ordered item. Other sites are cheaper than Amazon, but I don't trust them to actually deliver what I order in a timely manner. When I do shop elsewhere, I don't m
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> January 9, 2012
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Yes, you can read about it here ... http://www.leif.org/EOS/McCracken10Be.pdf tl;dr: Be-10 isotope levels in ice cores.
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Or on digital goods more generally. I can't see how it will survive a challenge at the WTO.
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Streisand is already a notable philanthropist, even if she gave away 99% of her wealth $50k still wouldn't be a huge amount for her.
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Exactly, her self-care budget is just higher than most people.
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The point is that she spent some money to help cope with grief. If she had a median net worth she would have bought a bottle of high end scotch, and no one would have so much as blinked. She spent the same relative amount on cloning her d
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Her net worth is $340 million. $50k is not a huge amount for her.
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Perhaps someone at Snopes was seeing if they had the power to get a site flagged by Facebook, even for clear satire. Not so much 'artificial stupidity' again, but 'gaming artificial stupidity for fun and profit'.
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Snopes addressing this like a serious story is surreal.
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How can DoorDash compete with Uber Eats?
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You would likely need to obtain the material via ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting and possibly large scale transmutation. Disassembling the gas giants might be enough for some designs. My understanding i

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