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First-ever water cuts declared for Colorado River in historic drought(lite.cnn.com)
9 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
> How did a government with 350,000 soldiers, trained and equipped by the best armies in the world, collapse so quickly? A better question: how did the (arguably at this point) most powerful country on earth fail to understand even the m
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Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States(kff.org)
11 points by aazaa 5y ago|8 comments
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Auto-Antonym(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
Long story short - hype and broken promises. About security. About scalability. About proof of stake. About code is law. About the world computer. About deadlines and timetables. All the way to the very beginning of the project, although th
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Voyager Station(voyagerstation.com)
2 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
This bit from Wikipedia is kind of amusing and suggests MTV may have been an MVP: > ... Occasionally the screen went black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR.[20] MTV's lower third graphics near the beginnings and en
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Writers at the FT ponder how to spend their day while equity and commodity markets vacillate listlessly. ... This is what a lot of people don't get about market bottoms. Nobody cares. It's not like they hate an asset class. T
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Remember back on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood when he would take you to a factory and show you how pencils or umbrellas are made? I love that stuff, so I thought maybe you might like to see what I spent the past year on. You can read this
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by aazaa 5y ago
> When I finally did user interviews, I uncovered that an unusually high amount of people have “travel funds”: separate bank accounts they use for travel. I ran a statistically significant survey for the United States. I found that more
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Falling U.S. Treasury yields were adding to pressure, she said, adding: “If U.S. Treasury (yields) were much higher... we would have been talking about a different kind of level.” This is a global phenomenon. Real 30-year yields are st
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by aazaa 5y ago
My point is that regardless of the country, one must assume that it has already gone "Full Big Brother." Any country that has done so is unlikely to make an announcement. Both motive and opportunity already exist.
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by aazaa 5y ago
I feel dumb not knowing what a "Wiper" is, especially with that headline and the odd writing style of the article (the term "epic troll" gets thrown around a lot and is not what I'd expect to come from a security re
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Edit: I'm not worried about my physical safety, I'm just asking about protecting my privacy online if the government decides to go full on Big Brother. What makes you think it hasn't already?
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Demand for the so-called RRP facility has surged since the Fed boosted the offering rate on it to 0.05% from 0% last month as a flood of cash continues to overwhelm the U.S. dollar funding markets. That’s in part a result of central-ba
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CDC: Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections in Massachusetts(cdc.gov)
31 points by aazaa 5y ago|32 comments
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China’s tech giants slammed for second day as Hang Seng dives(marketwatch.com)
2 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
> While it doesn’t sound like the automaker plans to release a production version of the vehicle, it did confirm that it will use it as a platform to develop its new electric architectures... I knew it. What is it with these EVcompanies
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by aazaa 5y ago
If you hid the cation, there's no way I could tell, either.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> As we walk through the city, Johnston offers a small disclaimer, putting out in the open what he calls his one “debatable” act of spending, post-31st birthday. If you count a gift card that someone gave him back in 2012, which he used
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by aazaa 5y ago
I'm saying it doesn't work as a paragraph to do that. The article makes the reader work to figure out what this thing is.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> A more inclusive representation is to recognize a spectrum between the non-living and the living—a “grayness” resulting from the protracted evolutionary process that gave rise to life. The meaning of "grayness" would appear t
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Back in the late 90s when I was just starting Moonfruit, the world’s first SAAS website builder, creating your own website was hard. From setting up your own server, to working with an ISP, to getting a content delivery network and int
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by aazaa 5y ago
Ah, this explains why don't remember seeing Teletext: > Adoption in the United States was hampered due to a lack of a single Teletext standard and consumer resistance to the high initial price of Teletext decoders. Throughout the pe
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by aazaa 5y ago
Where do I find payment rates/plans information? On the "Pricing" page: https://juliahub.com/lp/pricing I see Free, Pay as You Go, and Contact Sales. Clicking the middle option, I see that I must be logg
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by aazaa 5y ago
I'm equating "product" with "revenue-generating product." A bit presumptuous, I know, (the objective of a company is to make money from those who buy its products and services, where products and services are someth
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Julia Computing, founded by the creators of the Julia high-performance programming language, today announced the completion of a $24M Series A fundraising round led by Dorilton Ventures, with participation from Menlo Ventures, General
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by aazaa 5y ago
The most enduring lesson about the Dot Com bubble was not the bubble itself, but rather how little the bursting of the bubble registered in real time. Go back to any popular press in early March 2000 and you'll find little hint that th
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by aazaa 5y ago
> “You put an ad out and nobody even interviews,” Wilderotter said, echoing Barrios. That's because you're not offering enough money. Raise it by 20%, 50%, 200%. Keep raising it until you get qualified applicants. You will even
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, he wrote that cryptocurrency is “an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulat

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