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by _rpd 7y ago
I'll also suggest http://hckrnews.com/ which helped me tremendously.
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by _rpd 7y ago
Did Facebook do the same? Did they have to actively prohibit users posting links? It seems odious.
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by _rpd 7y ago
Say they get their cartel, and negotiate a link tax of a penny per link or whatever. How does that play out? Will Google and Facebook drop news altogether? How much would that harm them? Do they just do a deal with Reuters and AP? Say th
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by _rpd 7y ago
Nuclear power can support our industrial civilization just fine.
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by _rpd 7y ago
The article says that the state is giving rebates as well ... > $7,500 in federal incentives and $4,000 in state incentives
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by _rpd 7y ago
She doesn't want to testify in a non-public forum because it could cause her activist collaborators to become suspicious of her.
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by _rpd 7y ago
If nothing else, each species is a precious example of a DNA sequence that works. We are burning the book of life. It's worth the effort to preserve.
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by _rpd 7y ago
It is based on a report by this group: https://www.ipbes.net/ The report will be published "later this year." You can access a "summary for policy makers" from this press release: https://www.
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by _rpd 7y ago
The Guardian has been using this technique intensively, and is now profitable, so I think we can expect to see a lot more of this.
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by _rpd 7y ago
How much do they want for it?
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by _rpd 7y ago
> Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew dies aged 74
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by _rpd 7y ago
> originally ran on December 7, 2015
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by _rpd 7y ago
In fact, the opposite is true, but patent examiners are imperfect.
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by _rpd 7y ago
> Assange gave assistance to Manning to log in as a different user to protect his identity as a source. Except that the "different user" was an admin account that had the needed permissions to access the data Manning wanted to
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by _rpd 8y ago
This is an incredibly uncontroversial thesis, but the article provides lots of supporting statistics and graphs.
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by _rpd 8y ago
> Actually, it's possible to remove all the extra CO2 just by planting trees The linked, peer-reviewed paper in Nature says otherwise. Perhaps you could review it and point out their mistake?
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by _rpd 8y ago
> data portability Making the friend/family graph portable would allow others to compete with Facebook. What's the state of the discussion on how to do this sensibly?
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by _rpd 8y ago
I think editors just demand a certain percentage of "X having sex Y" headlines for traffic purposes, and leave it up to the writer to fill in X and Y so that the headline can be justified.
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by _rpd 8y ago
I bet those dashes indicate how to break the words up for all different window sizes.
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by _rpd 8y ago
Alternate headline (for those who were confused, as I was): Disney has disabled user selection of the 'Park Rules' text on their website [link to page in question]
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by _rpd 8y ago
Reviews like this ... https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1... that have led to various national health systems refusing to pay for homeopathic treatment. The studies are almost univers
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by _rpd 8y ago
I see a lot of health-related signatures on the list. Is this a backlash because of the findings against homeopathy?
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by _rpd 8y ago
This 6 minute video by CGP Grey explains the different possible relationships with the EU available to the UK, and why the UK has so far rejected all of them ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agZ0xISi40E
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by _rpd 8y ago
> "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." I love Bukowski, but this quote should be attributed to Yeats or Russell ... https://quo
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by _rpd 8y ago
My understanding is that the Fed Circuit rulings were very inconsistent, so that for every patent claim there was a ruling saying it was eligible and another saying it was ineligible, with the eligibility possibly changing every time a new
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by _rpd 8y ago
For further context, Jem Bendell is one of the founding members of the political activist group "Extinction Rebellion."
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by _rpd 8y ago
Or ethical wire clippers? http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
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by _rpd 8y ago
It's less 'should' than that UBI enables the possibility of reversal of the long term rural -> urban migration trend, since this trend is driven by job seekers. I don't think it will occur (the lower your income, the
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by _rpd 8y ago
> UBI replaces all current social welfare programs we have with a single program This is the conservative argument for UBI - liquidate social security and distribute the proceeds; do more good with the same money because we don't ha
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by _rpd 8y ago
I think this is a key concern. I don't think that there is a good counterargument, but the best that I've heard is that UBI will enable mass migration to rural areas or remote exburbs (including corporate sponsored - welcome to y

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