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by jweir 6y ago
This has always been the case. Thomas Jefferson called newspapers a “polluted vehicle.” Hearst and yellow journalism. Mcarthy is was not a high point in journalistic integrity - the press propelled him before Murrow took him down.
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Look at Perdue University - no change in tuition in 9 years. What are they doing right? https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q1/purdue-anno...
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Elm Optimize Level 2(discourse.elm-lang.org)
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Aveva to Acquire OSIsoft for $5.0B(osisoft.com)
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Nor did the Swiss invent the cuckoo clock - more likely Bavarian.
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Zélus is a modern language inspired in part by Lucid. I have been intrigued by this language, but have yet to get the time to try it out. https://zelus.di.ens.fr/
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Methane breaks down much faster than carbon and methane leaks can be mitigated. You don’t have to have them.
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I posted this, besides a good story, to discuss security and jewelry. Here is a beautiful device that exists to provide security and a signature. Now, I use my phone for 2FA and I have used some ugly devices as well. But nothing as beautifu
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Gold signet ring was unearthed by a farm labourer(mobile.twitter.com)
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by jweir 6y ago
Very different than how console games worked. On the old consoles, say the SNES you had up to 16 palettes each with 16 colors to use for sprites or backgrounds - although for sprites one color would be transparent.
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A Compassionate Carnivore’s Manifesto(unherd.com)
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I used it as my CLI calculator, just like the articles title. I used to use Ruby for this, but Julia is more concise but still readable. Concise enough I have written useful applications that can fit in a tweet.
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Caveat - this study may be wrong and needs to be verified. https://mobile.twitter.com/UNMC_DrKhan/status/12574400820191...
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by jweir 6y ago
Perhaps even more relevant. If there was already a down turn. I noticed a number (4-5) for pre-foreclosures in Berkeley right before the shutdowns started. Now there is a freeze on foreclosures in Ca, right? What’s going to happen when it i
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by jweir 7y ago
I had one of the first generation Roku boxes. And all it did was play Netflix movies. Which was why I bought it. But then one day I turned on my TV and the Roku has upgraded itself. Now I could watch Amazon, Netflix and other channels. It w
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Seattletimes produced a printed newspaper working 100% remotely(twitter.com)
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Colorado's first drive-up Covid-19 testing facility in Denver, free of charge(mobile.twitter.com)
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Sneezing Dogs, Dancing Bees: How Animals Vote(nytimes.com)
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Former Microsoft engineer convicted of stealing over $10 mill in digital value [pdf](secretservice.gov)
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by jweir 7y ago
Can products even be protected in this manner? This seems way outside the scope of copyright protections and seems entirely wrong, but IANAL. Can anyone add some background to this that is? edit: barrkel posts a comment that links and exp
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Mormon food bank a private welfare system (2009)(sfgate.com)
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Complex Function Plotter(dynamicmath.xyz)
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by jweir 7y ago
And here I thought maybe there was a new Defenestration in San Francisco https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/defenestration
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“Customer support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time”(twitter.com)
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Hourly Electric Grid Monitor(eia.gov)
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Australia fires: Aboriginal planners say the bush 'needs to burn'(bbc.co.uk)
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by jweir 7y ago
Google’s sustainability pledge appears not to apply to trade shows. https://sustainability.google/
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Google pours the concrete for its exhibit in the LVCC parking lot at ces2020(mobile.twitter.com)
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The Google AI mammogram paper is FLAWED. Want to learn why?(mobile.twitter.com)
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David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’ [2008](villagevoice.com)
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