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by docdeek 2y ago
This is wild. Surely Matt isn't tweeting from the official account - marketing would not allow that, right?
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by docdeek 2y ago
> In 1900 this dataset of 282 named timezones indicated 220 different offsets (from UTC), and while some of these were integers, (e.g. Europe/Prague, Europe/Rome), the majority were not - for example Moscow was 2 hours, 30 minu
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by docdeek 2y ago
It adds important context to the post. Imagine Vladimir Putin wrote an op-ed explaining how beautiful Riga is in the summer and how he would encourage everyone to visit Latvia. On its own, that's a famous guy encouraging tourism in the
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by docdeek 2y ago
In spite of this horrible outcome, can this tell researchers anything about what causes the cancer? As in, if they know what happened (the problem with the insertion of the gene) then does that tell us anything about what might cause a canc
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Automattic Alignment(ma.tt)
27 points by docdeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
All of them? None of them? To my knowledge there have been plenty of referendums regarding the EU over the last half century but there has not been a single EU-wide referendum. There’s a list here (pp.5-6) of plenty of them which clearly no
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CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some to read articles(cnn.com)
3 points by docdeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
Malta is the other EU state with English as an official/national language.
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by docdeek 2y ago
When I was a kid in suburban Australia my parents would organize a semi-annual ‘bus-train-ferry’ trip. It was a school holiday tradition where - in hindsight - we’d do the sort of daily commute that thousands of working adults would do ever
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Pfizer's decision in the '90s cost them a stronghold in the GLP-1 market(labiotech.eu)
1 points by docdeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
This seems to be the report mentioned: https://www.larryvsharry.com/media/wysiwyg/cms_pages/Stories...
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by docdeek 2y ago
One of the exceptions in the US seems to be around the White House. For a while, when Hillary Clinton was running for President in 2008, it was possible that the US would have had a member of the Bush or Clinton families as either VP or Pre
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2024 Data: Can Your Favorite Characters Afford Their Famous TV and Movie Houses?(listwithclever.com)
2 points by docdeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
The US spent $916 billion on its military in 2023 [0]. Spending less than 1/5th of 1% of that on propaganda doesn’t seem to be a huge deal in comparison. [0]: https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/202
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Rebuilt for Today. Rediscover Reeder(reederapp.com)
1 points by docdeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
I’m a citizen of three countries. I don’t know that it is all that unusual to have multiple citizenships, particularly for the very rich (a group I am most deinfitely not a part of) who might access citizenship via investment in a country.
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The Google Bike: An In-Depth Review(dcrainmaker.com)
4 points by docdeek 2y ago|2 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
I always understood 2.1 to be the replacement rate because it would be two children to 'replace' two parents, with the 0.1 being to cover the inevitable deaths of a person before reproducing or for infertility.
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We received internal Trump documents from "Robert". Campaign confirmed hack(politico.com)
28 points by docdeek 2y ago|5 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
Road cyclists (almost all male, and many female) are professionals these days. There used to be seperate World Championship titles for Amateur and Professional cyclists on the road but these have long since disappeared in favor of elite + U
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by docdeek 2y ago
Is urgency really a dark pattern? To me it seems like basic sales and is present on everything from TV infomercials (buy now, limited stocks, only for the next 15 minutes + operators standing by) to brick and mortar sales that only last unt
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Proposed ballot measure to raise corporate taxes, give every Oregonian $750/year(oregonlive.com)
45 points by docdeek 2y ago|48 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
Correct on Mac: System Settings > Control Center > Menu bar Only > Clock Options + toggle on seconds (or just search ‘seconds’ in the System Settings, it’s easy to find)
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Lime Scooters Will Now Shut Down If Driven over Pride Flag Crosswalk(thepublica.com)
16 points by docdeek 2y ago|22 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
Very interesting. For info, the author of the tweet/article is the son of the former French president.
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Converting Traditional Hail Size Descriptions(spc.noaa.gov)
1 points by docdeek 2y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 2y ago
I don't think the GP is making any comment on whether there is or isn't a genocide, nor trying to be convinced either way. It seems they are saying - and I agree - that there is a difference between an article accusing someone of
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by docdeek 2y ago
>> The author didn't explain "how the scammer was texting her". In a comment on the article replying to someone pointing this out the author explained that she was receiving iMessages and not simple texts. The scammers
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French publishers ask Tim Cook to abandon forthcoming Web Eraser(appleinsider.com)
4 points by docdeek 2y ago|1 comments
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Uvalde Families Accuse Instagram, 'Call of Duty', Rifle Maker of Grooming Gunman(nytimes.com)
3 points by docdeek 2y ago|0 comments

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