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541.
The Great Nutrient Collapse(politico.com)
46 points by jdkee 4y ago|12 comments
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Did GoogleAI Just Snooker One of Silicon Valley’s Sharpest Minds?(garymarcus.substack.com)
3 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
It is affirmative-action, rebranded. The U.S. Supreme Court will likely strike down race-based admissions at higher-ed institutions in the next term, so HR and other gatekeepers will be exploring novel ways to racially balance groups per th
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by jdkee 4y ago
Looks like an opportunity for a very juicy labor lawsuit here.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Like Begich Towers in Whittier, AK? See https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-01-04/begich-tower...
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by jdkee 4y ago
FTA: "The jury acquitted Martin of inciting a riot and reached no verdict on whether she threatened officers' lives. Her legal team was "elated" when jurors found her guilty only of breaching the peace, punishable by no
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by jdkee 4y ago
Too bad the UK doesn't have the US First Amendment's protection of free speech. Being rude in one's speech is no grounds for arresting a person.
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by jdkee 4y ago
The constant drumbeat in the news media of the royal family's dedication to "service". How is gorging on the public's teat while maintaining a $25 billion family "business" that is exempt from UK inheritance ta
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Hollywood Sold Out to China(theatlantic.com)
8 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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The Distinctiveness of Human Aggression(thecritic.co.uk)
1 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Wow, I just received a copy of Civilization for the Amiga in the post yesterday. I haven't played it since the early 1990s, I am looking forward to firing it up on the Amiga 1000 this weekend.
552.
by jdkee 4y ago
Americans overwhelmingly prefer single-family detached homes when given other options. How is choosing a higher-quality of life option “wasted”?
553.
The Philosophy of SimCity(theatlantic.com)
4 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
554.
by jdkee 4y ago
That is odd, I thought Moog was employee owned? See https://audioxpress.com/news/Moog-Music-Is-Now-a-Company-Own...
555.
If You're Scared of Competition, the World Will Eat You Alive(jasonpargin.substack.com)
6 points by jdkee 4y ago|2 comments
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Why the Soviet Computer Failed(youtube.com)
5 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Why? Let them pay market rates for water.
558.
by jdkee 4y ago
That is why the market should be used as an efficient distribution mechanism.
559.
by jdkee 4y ago
The Interface is a criminally underrated book. Same with the Cobweb, under written by him under the pseudonym Stephen Bury.
560.
by jdkee 4y ago
Obligatory. https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-...
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by jdkee 4y ago
Q: How do you distinguish Long COVID from similar diseases like fibromyalgia? https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fibromyalgia/...
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by jdkee 4y ago
"I just have the impression that Kesey was the reckless one performing "acid tests" en masse on an unsuspecting public." Speaking of tests on the unsuspecting public... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by jdkee 4y ago
“ It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was i
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Restaurant to be built controversially in San Francisco's 'public' park(sfgate.com)
1 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
565.
by jdkee 4y ago
"One could argue the Great Depression was the last such restructuring of the American system." A better argument would be the case that American involvement in WWII resulted in a larger restructuring of American lives. Women enter
566.
by jdkee 4y ago
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." -Oscar Wilde
567.
by jdkee 4y ago
"He was watching one of Lev’s two thylacine analogs through the kitchen window.…Now it turned, in its uncanine fashion, its vertically striped flank quite heraldic, and seemed to stare at him. The regard of a mammalian predator neither
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by jdkee 4y ago
Jack Welch comes to mind. "The New York Times business columnist James B. Stewart wrote in 2017, “Hardly anyone considers Mr. Welch a management role model anymore, and the conglomerate model he championed at G.E. — that with strict di
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The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver(atlasobscura.com)
4 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making(propublica.org)
7 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments

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