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Activists seize control of Seattle neighborhood, declare “autonomous zone.”(city-journal.org)
16 points by aazaa 6y ago|31 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
I wonder to what extent this attack was related to work-from-home. The hasty manner in which many companies were forced to adapt + open up their computer networks to accommodate working from home may have created opportunities for attacks l
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that about 400 volunteers participated in the serology tests, lower than the 1,000 volunteers that were sought, but enough to provide statistically relevant data about how the
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There Isn’t a Single Down Stock in the S&P over Last 10 Weeks(bloomberg.com)
14 points by aazaa 6y ago|2 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The virus has not mapped neatly onto American political narratives, either. While some questions remain about their accounting, Georgia and Florida—where leaders opened up early and residents seemed relatively defiant of public-health
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Robert Williams (first robot fatality)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by aazaa 6y ago|1 comments
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Redlining(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
This post appears to be part of an experiment in "micro posting": > Usually, I try to aim for a certain standard of quality in my writing, and this can really hold me up from writing about something I want to write about. >
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Bed Bath & Beyond, Famous Footwear, H&M, and the Gap, AMC and Regal movie theaters, and 24 Hour Fitness gyms have all missed payments, jeopardizing the stability of their property management companies and municipal governments
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by aazaa 6y ago
> ... We had very poor test coverage in the areas most in need of refactoring because they were the oldest code, written before we established good test practices. That's probably not a coincidence. I like to ask those most strongly
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by aazaa 6y ago
> A good question to ask yourself early in the process of thinking about an idea is “could this be huge if it worked?” There are many good ideas in the world, but few of them have the inherent advantages that can make a startup massively
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by aazaa 6y ago
This action concerns, among other things, U.S. Code § 230. > Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 (a common name for Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996) is a landmark piece of Internet legislation in the
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by aazaa 6y ago
The origin of homochiral building blocks (amino acids, sugars) is certainly an old mystery. But it doesn't seem to be a very deep one. By that I mean that there are many physical processes that could have initially led to a small prefe
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by aazaa 6y ago
I'm curious what the perceived endgame is here. Is it to sink a specific company? Send a message to a country with clear military aspirations? Reshore the semiconductor industry? Play to the president's political base? What? If th
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Garden-Path Sentence(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
In the past, the reason seems to have been fear of high inflation. Conjure trillions of dollars into being every year, and you'll end up with roaring inflation and one heck of financial hangover. The country lived through such an episo
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by aazaa 6y ago
> It seems crazy to require that technically talented people should be forced to spend time doing something - report writing - at which they're not gifted, but how else can the world benefit from their brilliance? Without communicat
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First Liquidity, Then Solvency(seekingalpha.com)
3 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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The Best Investment in the World(jpkoning.blogspot.com)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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Early data show Moderna Covid-19 vaccine generates immune response(statnews.com)
3 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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Special Drawing Rights(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Among the antibodies showing neutralizing activity, one antibody stood out for its ability to completely block SARS-CoV-2 infection of healthy cells in the experiments. STI-1499 completely neutralized the virus infectivity at a very lo
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Hard Science Fiction(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
Control-f on "cure". Nothing. Very misleading title.
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Private Equity Ruined a Beloved Grocery Chain(theatlantic.com)
7 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
The best way to bring back blogs is to start with your own. It looks like this is the author's fourth post and s/he hit a home run with the top post on HN. But that's rarely how things work. The thing few people tell you when
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by aazaa 6y ago
> “The consensus seems to be, ‘Don’t worry, the Fed has your back,’ ” Druckenmiller said in his presentation. “There’s one problem with that: our analysis says it’s not true.” No, investors haven't lost their minds. They are betting
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by aazaa 6y ago
Point 2 in the conclusion states: > Academia, like any other working environment, is full of prominent, successful, well-connected bluffers. The striking thing is not that a decorated professor and A/Chairman @WhiteHouseCEA made a s
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Ron Johnson Killed J.C. Penney but Has Since Become a Retail Guru (2019)(observer.com)
3 points by aazaa 6y ago|1 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
Interesting article, but it could have done a better job of explaining the chemistry. Remdesivir is a prodrug, meaning it must be metabolized (chemically processed) in the body to the active form. Think of it like this: R-OPX -> R-OH -&g

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