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by aazaa 6y ago
From the story I linked: > When officers Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt and Randy Roedema stopped Elijah McClain on his way home, one telling him that he was "being suspicious," according to police body camera video. McClain
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Police stopped Elijah McClain on the street in suburban Denver last year after deeming the young Black man suspicious. He was thrown into a chokehold, threatened with a dog and stun gun, then subjected to another law enforcement tool b
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by aazaa 6y ago
Science doesn't "prove" hypotheses - it disproves them. For this to work, a hypothesis must be falsifiable. Most pseudoscience (and religion) makes non-falsifiable claims, meaning they are incompatible with scientific disco
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by aazaa 6y ago
The move seems to be specifically in response to the recent court order: > Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman ruled Monday [August 10, 2020] that Lyft and Uber's thousands of contract drivers should be given the same protections an
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by aazaa 6y ago
Where else? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt One hundred years from now, nobody would suspect that the original meaning of the term "Rust Belt" had something to do with industrial decline.
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Inland hurricane-like storm sweeps US midwest, leaving widespread damage(theguardian.com)
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by aazaa 6y ago
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention W3Schools, because that's another model that has existed in parallel with, and may actually predate MDN. It has incredible Google juice, seems to be as resilient as an army of cockroa
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by aazaa 6y ago
Facepalm - I botched the interpretation of that one badly. No ill intended - I actually interpreted it as she was let go for some reason. Fortunately, I'm wrong. Doesn't look like a comment can be deleted.
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by aazaa 6y ago
> One thing I want to clarify: I was the engineering manager for this team. I didn't lead strategy for Rust — that's @nikomatsakis. And together with @luke_wagner I supported @linclark in leading strategy for Wasmtime and Wasm
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by aazaa 6y ago
A small study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17426097/
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Vitamin D is a big deal. Recent studies have shown that patients with low Vitamin D levels are more likely to die from Covid-19 than their Vitamin D-rich counterparts,(1) and deficiency in the vitamin has been linked to seven of the te
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by aazaa 6y ago
> So allow me to make a modest proposal: build in a donations function in Firefox itself — for instance by adding a simple “Please support us” message to the update page you get to see whenever you update the browser, and by adding a Don
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Birthright Citizenship in the United States(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 6y ago
Let's say the USD/gold devaluation was the cause of everything. What would be the mechanism to cause stagnation of real wages while real GDP keeps climbing steadily?
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by aazaa 6y ago
> If there is to be any hope for in-person schooling not only in the fall but in the spring—when a safe vaccine, even if one exists, might not be fully available—a rapid change in course is necessary. Consider how much is riding on a vac
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by aazaa 6y ago
> A Facebook spokeswoman said the group was removed for "repeatedly posting content that violated our policies". At this point Facebook, Google, and all other operators of similar platforms should be viewing their hoard of user
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by aazaa 6y ago
> That was when I said to my wife: If we do not have children, we will move somewhere where there is a porch. The children who need love will find the porch. They will know how to find it. We will be as much parents as we want to be. I h
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Fed's Kashkari suggests 4-6 week shutdown; US Congress can spend big on relief(reuters.com)
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by aazaa 6y ago
> 82 percent of articles published in the humanities are not even cited once. No references to source data. Hard pass.
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Hygiene Hypothesis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 6y ago
> ... I have $450K in cash burning a hole in my pocket. First, the urge to put money somewhere could be a problem. Examine why you feel this way - closely. It could be you're letting emotions take over and that's rarely a good
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The semver trick (2019)(github.com)
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> Congress has approved trillions of dollars in stimulus to help U.S. households and businesses get through the pandemic, and another package is now being negotiated on Capitol Hill. One key component—an extra $600 in weekly jobless bene
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by aazaa 6y ago
> So far, the group can’t say if their vaccine works or not. They haven’t published results showing that the vaccine leads to antibodies against the virus, which is a basic requirement for being taken seriously in the vaccine race. Churc
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Misattribution of Arousal(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 6y ago
The author makes the following claims: > In truth, the terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with. The basic obligations of the AGPL which set it apart from other licenses are as follows: > - Any derivative works of AGPL-license
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by aazaa 6y ago
Seems inconsistent with IRS guidance, which treats bitcoin as property, not money.
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by aazaa 6y ago
Wikipedia maintains a list of films now in the public domain. de Havilland's films are of the right age to be on the list, but don't appear to be. Most of the films on the list got there from failure to renew the copyright, a requ
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by aazaa 6y ago
This is a surprisingly well-produced video given the likely audience. That said, a similar line of reasoning was also applied to Microsoft in the 1990s and Internet Explorer, which was distributed for free. I didn't buy the argument th
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Self driving cars rev their engines for their own Indy 500 race(post-gazette.com)
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