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Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?(nytimes.com)
3 points by docdeek 5y ago|2 comments
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Judaism thrives on new tech. That doesn’t mean Impossible Pork should be kosher(blogs.timesofisrael.com)
2 points by docdeek 5y ago|0 comments
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FitGirl, the Repack ‘Queen’ of Pirated Games (2020)(torrentfreak.com)
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Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? (2011)(wired.com)
14 points by docdeek 5y ago|5 comments
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by docdeek 5y ago
Headphones (including earbuds) are illegal to use while riding a bike or an electric scooter in France. Police in my city regularly set up 'warning weeks' where they'll stop and caution people to remind them before fining sco
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by docdeek 5y ago
It’s interesting to look at the percentages. Across the countries surveyed three-quarters believe the future is frightening and more than half (56%) believe humanity is doomed, but less than 40% are hesitant to have children. Perhaps it is
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by docdeek 5y ago
The paragraph after also notes that even this record production is below demand: "For cereal production, FAO projected a record world crop of 2.800 billion tonnes in 2021...That would be below world cereal use of 2.811 billion tonnes..
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Is Ford about to change bicycle derailleurs forever?(cyclingnews.com)
3 points by docdeek 5y ago|2 comments
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UCSF's customized 'brain pacemaker' successfully treats severe depression(fiercebiotech.com)
1 points by docdeek 5y ago|0 comments
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France goes after Amazon’s books business(politico.eu)
12 points by docdeek 5y ago|6 comments
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Tour de France Winner's Bike Has Blockchain Technology for Theft Prevention(cyclingtips.com)
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by docdeek 5y ago
I wonder how this would work in practice as I have a hard time imagining it. If I launched a new business, how would I promote it save for advertising? Must I only rely on word of mouth from satisfied customers? How do I let people know I e
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by docdeek 5y ago
>> Who were they giving the laptops to? Other leaders. Leaders who were coming to visit [UAE] sheiks... “Thanks for coming. Just as a sign of our appreciation, here’s a bunch of stuff.” One of those things happened to be a laptop. We
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by docdeek 5y ago
> What are the examples of successful withdrawals? Australia or Canada, perhaps.
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by docdeek 5y ago
Are the white-sided dolphins that are at issue here endangered? Wikipedia says they aren’t, ranked as ‘Of Least Concern’ on the conservation scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_white-sided_dolphin
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by docdeek 5y ago
I think it is so that it can be seen in bright daylight. The amount of the light that would make it to the eye would be a lot less than that.
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Uber ordered to pay taxi drivers damages in France(rfi.fr)
1 points by docdeek 5y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 5y ago
Some years ago I wrote a conference paper [0] pointing to the clear difference in security screening for a flight from Lyon to Paris, and the same journey taken by TGV. The train would have more people on board but no screening of passenger
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by docdeek 5y ago
I heard about Colvin in an episode of The Newsroom during a typically engaging Sorkin-penned monologue: "March 2nd, 1955. A young black woman is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Alabama. Civil Rights
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by docdeek 5y ago
Title seems to be "How to spot the difference between a real climate policy and greenwashing guff"
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Nirvana sued by baby from Nevermind album artwork for alleged child pornography(perthnow.com.au)
1 points by docdeek 5y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 5y ago
Airplane wheel well stowaways have a 3 in 4 fatality rate [1]. Clinging to hope like this is the end result of a desperate decision from people who are clearly very desperate. So incredibly sad. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by docdeek 5y ago
> Clearly the US is exempt from the war crimes laws, and that needs to change. The US is not exempt from laws relating to war crimes. While it is not a member of the ICC, it is bound to the laws of war as is any other state.
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by docdeek 5y ago
> It should also be noted that anything above basic social security isn't free nor included in said high taxes, so you'll have to pay out of pocket either for a complementary insurance or for the hospital if you need it, althou
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by docdeek 5y ago
I found this article pretty disappointing. > there is a long way to go in encouraging passengers and freight off aircraft and into train stations 75% of intra-EU freight is by road, and the proportion of intra-EU air freight is already d
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by docdeek 5y ago
Would be happy to contibute to something like that for France, though there are a couple of different ways of setting up a freelancer business that impact that number here.
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Mailchimp Is Exploring a Sale at $10B-Plus Valuation(bloomberg.com)
40 points by docdeek 5y ago|31 comments
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by docdeek 5y ago
> But with 55% of the population fully vaccinated there have been calls to stop spending taxpayers' money on a subsidised scheme that now mainly benefits those who are not yet vaccinated even though vaccines are available for all. S
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European startups are booming. So why is Brussels still obsessed with Big Tech?(politico.eu)
2 points by docdeek 5y ago|0 comments
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Climate Change Doesn’t Cause All Disasters(wsj.com)
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