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by docdeek 8y ago
This is correct. The nominally center-left party in Australia, the ALP, voted with the center-right Coalition to get this passed. On the edges of the left and the right there were voices against this, but the center (where the most people a
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Full title (too long for HN): Strange seismic waves were picked up circling the globe on November 11, and seismologists are now trying to figure out why
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Strange seismic waves were picked up circling the globe on November 11(thewest.com.au)
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>> The scientists involved (who are world-class in this field) have run the numbers on the effects of eliminating these species. FTA: "It’s unclear what would happen if the world’s disease-causing mosquitoes were done away with.
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Spanking Is Ineffective and Harmful to Children, Pediatricians Group Says(nytimes.com)
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At the end of the article it mentions he was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Good answers here: https://teachprivacy.com/10-reasons-privacy-matters/
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This seems like a cool, real-world use of the technology.
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+1 for Spark. I know there are other clients that have snooze and ‘send later’ functions, but I’ve been using Spark for a couple of years and haven’t really had any complaints.
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Liberties for kids in school are already pretty restricted. They have to attend classes whether they like them or not, they usually have to follow a dress code whether it suits their personal style or not, a lot of French schools (including
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More and more couples are reportedly divorcing over Fortnite(dailydot.com)
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"Article 11 is intended to give publishers and newspapers a way to make money when companies like Google link to their stories…” Is there anything stopping a search engine like Google choosing not to link to a newspaper? Surely they ca
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I was not aware of this - thanks for the reply.
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>> The scope of this protection extends to any natural person in the EU which can mean users, employees, vendors, partners, customers or even members of the general public. I hadn’t considered GDPR from the perspective of a company co
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The Countries Shutting Down the Internet the Most(statista.com)
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Depending on where you live you can always choose to change the religion you were raised with. Don’t like being Christian? Become a Muslim. Not happy with Islam? Why not try Buddhism? Don’t want a religion? That’s fine, too. Not everyone ha
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by docdeek 8y ago
You're right, yet almost every CV I see has a photo and DOB, and a good majority have marital status. Adding the number of children is less common, though, but all of it is irrelevant to any job I would be hiring for.
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CVs here in France not only typically include date of birth but also a photo and marital status, too. None of this is relevant to the job search but it's how things are done.
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I’ve had flights cancelled in the EU before (Alitalia, Air France) and the rights for passengers are pretty clear and consumer friendly. See: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...
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"Journalist Alexandra Heminsley noticed that neither Apple Watch nor Fitbit let you log pushing a pram as exercise, despite the fact that everything from barre to Zumba was there already. Jogging prams are absolutely everywhere now...a
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The comparison is wrong but I think it has utility in putting that trillion dollar amount into context. Most people can understand a thousand dollars (context: not life changing money but a welcome surprise), a million dollars (imagine the
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As a native English speaker living in France, I notice a lot of translations from English into French as being less-than-accurate. It's most obvious when journalists are trying to translate live. The recently concluded Tour de France w
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Big Short’s Eisman Is Shorting Tesla for ‘Execution Problems’(bloomberg.com)
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I know this is meant to feed into the whole ‘Trump is an idiot’ meme but is it really that unusual? My CEO doesn’t have the time to read a half dozen 100 page reports - he wants a two-page memo; he doesn’t want a 200 slide deck, he wants me
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Iran closer to own digital money as sanctions loom(presstv.com)
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Britain is a new food importer but that’s not entirely unusual in Europe. Sweden and Finland are both somewhere around the British level of food self-sufficiency, and even big European countries like Germany are net importers (though not to
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It's not about land as I understand it but about securing equal representation in the Senate between the republic's constituent states. The House reflects the population, the Senate secures the rights of the smaller states in the
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>> Frothy valuations are commonplace at the moment, but Netflix still stands out. To justify its current valuation, Netflix’s gross operating profits in a decade’s time would have to be equivalent to about half of all the profits made
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Can Netflix please investors and still avoid the techlash?(economist.com)
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I grew up in Australia where a jury consists of 12 people. I've lived in France for the last 12 years, though, and here the jury (when there is one) it will typically be either 6 or 9 citizens. One of the overseas territories uses a ju

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