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State Tax Collectors Want You: The Wayfair Ruling Has Unleashed a Revenue Grab(wsj.com)
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by ericras 7y ago
The Suicide Prevention Hotline may go to a national center and forwarding to local 911 may be complicated.
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by ericras 7y ago
The downside is that with a mass of publicity around promoting it, some people (such as children) will get it mixed up with 911 and in an emergency there will be a delay in getting the proper help. Edit: I'm not necessarily against thi
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by ericras 7y ago
That’s not good. But as with all things in life, you have to treat it proportionally to the impact as well as weigh it against other issues. Russian nationals (who, as of last week, Mueller was unable to convince a judge were tied to the Kr
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by ericras 7y ago
Which would make it trivial to set up a candidate so that he/she could be investigated (“legally”!) by the FBI under the guise of “protecting democracy”. I’m old enough to remember when Democrats didn’t want to empower the FBI/CIA
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by ericras 7y ago
This has been my problem with the Russia story. We never get enough detail to make our own judgement of the severity of this. The media and the Democrats lump everything together under the umbrella of “Russia hacked our election/democr
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by ericras 7y ago
You would have to know more about the proposals he blocked to have an informed opinion. This is such a surface level strife of McConnell that it’s close to “why won’t he think of the children?” The article should have linked to a previous s
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Notes from Peter Thiel’s Speech at the National Conservatism Conference(medium.com)
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And the Sun Sets (2015)(tale-of-tales.com)
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by ericras 7y ago
They use illustrations to sell the point because perhaps photographs wouldn't be so convincing.
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My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption(twitter.com)
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by ericras 7y ago
It means that non-programmers can do "programming".
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Google’s Outrage Mobs and Witch Hunts(medium.com)
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by ericras 7y ago
The University of Nebraska's Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (which is housed inside the stadium) is trying to overcome the selection bias of these studies by doing a baseline scan of all football players: https://www
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Mozilla Removes Gab.com's Dissenter Plugin from addons.mozilla.org(twitter.com)
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Amazon Private Label Brands(marketplacepulse.com)
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Nuclear goes retro – with a much greener outlook(knowablemagazine.org)
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by ericras 8y ago
An unintended consequence of this: sites will use massive animated GIFs instead. Edit: yeah, i should have actually read the headline and article.... whoops
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by ericras 8y ago
ebay did have its own integrated payments early on: Billpoint. ( https://www.pymnts.com/digital-payments/2018/ebay-intermedia... ) From what I recall, the fees were much higher then PayPal and it didn’t take long fo
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Google is locking people out of documents(mashable.com)
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by ericras 8y ago
Microsoft Network was the first online service my family subscribed to in fall 1995. I recall our problem being that you had to dial in to different phone numbers for the walled garden and for the web. And we only had local phone numbers fo
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by ericras 8y ago
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Google May Step into Gaming with ‘Yeti’ Streaming Service(theinformation.com)
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by ericras 8y ago
I was watching his feed in real time the night he was banned. He wasn't directing people to do anything. He was trashing the Ghostbusters movie and called one of the female actresses a "black dude". It may have been tasteless
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by ericras 8y ago
It definitely happened, but in a much different way: mostly over the internet/www and on computers and phones. The vision in the early-mid 90s was for something like MSNBC to be an interactive TV channel, delivered by the TV/cable
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by ericras 8y ago
The CD-I (along with WebTV and some other things) was the initial step of the TV morphing into some sort of Information Superhighway appliance. MSNBC was a partnership of Microsoft and NBC that was created in anticipation of this as well.
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This house in Silicon Valley sold for $938,000 this week(twitter.com)
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Gab Mobile Apps(medium.com)
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by ericras 9y ago
Its called Regulatory Capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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SolarCity: Tesla's Solar Boondoggle(fool.com)
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