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Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia(sapiens.org)
195 points by danso 4y ago|128 comments
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Words Against Strangers(pudding.cool)
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by danso 4y ago
It's an interpretation from this excerpt of his biography: https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990
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by danso 4y ago
Paywall seems to be down on this article. Here's the first grafs/opening anecdote for convenience: > ONTARIO, Calif.—The unsolicited proposal from Elon Musk’s tunnel-building venture arrived in January 2020. To the local trans
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America(wsj.com)
105 points by danso 4y ago|70 comments
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by danso 4y ago
You can skip the New Yorker paywall with incognito mode, but it's also co-published on ProPublica's site: https://www.propublica.org/article/hospice-healthcare-aserac...
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Musk has sent another email to Twitter engineers warning them about code reviews(twitter.com)
10 points by danso 4y ago|0 comments
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by danso 4y ago
Thanks for making this thread. It'd be fun to have a regular Thanksgiving/Christmas Eve thread where people post cooking and other holiday-related hacks.
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WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of documents disappear(dailydot.com)
367 points by danso 4y ago|489 comments
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AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder – Slack chats reveal chaotic process(semafor.com)
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My hustle culture friend just died of a heart attack at age 32(old.reddit.com)
37 points by danso 4y ago|11 comments
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by danso 4y ago
At least Holmes had the courtesy to target Henry Kissinger, the DeVos family, and the Murdochs for her swindle.
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Sam Bankman-Fried is not good at League of Legends(ft.com)
9 points by danso 4y ago|2 comments
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by danso 4y ago
Honestly one of the most "But why?" startup ideas I'd ever heard of. I figured pg's hype for it was based in thinking it could someday be targeted for profitable acquisition by Google. But perhaps the current tech indust
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Behind FTX's fall, battling billionaires and a failed bid to save crypto(reuters.com)
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Fizz previously compromised its users’ privacy. It may do so again(stanforddaily.com)
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Rankings offer no sense of scale(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
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The future of daylight saving time is far from settled(nbcnews.com)
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Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover(cnbc.com)
9 points by danso 4y ago|6 comments
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial(propublica.org)
2 points by danso 4y ago|3 comments
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by danso 4y ago
u/lapcat accurately pointed out to me that a new account rapidly posting links is not likely "spam" by Twitter's definitions [0]. As I said in the reply, Ben hasn't yet posted the list of rules that Twitter says he
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by danso 4y ago
> The problem is not that the account triggered an algorithmic tripwire, but that the explanatory copy is a customer-hostile lie. It states in no uncertain terms that the suspension was further "carefully reviewed" to be found
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by danso 4y ago
Twitter has an "automation rules" [0] page which does indeed affirm that users are allowed to post "automated Tweets based on sources of outside information, such as an RSS feed, weather data, etc". But you're right
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by danso 4y ago
In the thread, Ben alluded to automated, possibly distributed activity: > For the record, this is a new account that has posted a bunch of links (all Stratechery interviews) in a short amount of time, from multiple locations around the
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by danso 4y ago
I've played devil's advocate elsewhere in the thread, but this is such a petty and irrelevant kerfuffle, as far as Big-Tech-Censorship goes. By Ben's own description of how the @StratecheryINT account was operated [0] -- i.e.
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by danso 4y ago
Can we know for sure that they "didn't actually carefully review anything"? Likely thousands of accounts are auto-flagged every minute(second?), and for permanent suspension (as opposed to the much more common "locked be
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by danso 4y ago
From a tweet later in the thread: https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1583062865116041229 > For the record, this is a new account that has posted a bunch of links (all Stratechery interviews) in a short amo
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by danso 4y ago
Putting aside whether the biological window has closed for your 39-year-old wife -- it sounds like the decision to not have children is a huge point of regret and constant second-guessing. Can I ask why/when you made that decision, gen
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by danso 4y ago
> More than seven months into the war, it’s hard to overstate the impact Starlink has had in Ukraine. The government in Kyiv, Ukrainian troops as well and NGOs and civilians have relied on the nimble, compact and easy-to-use units creat
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Nick Clegg, Other Meta Executives 'Inadvertently' ID'ed in OnlyFans Bribery Suit(gizmodo.com)
4 points by danso 4y ago|1 comments

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