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by martey 7y ago
> This solves one problem and introduces about ten other massive issues with underrepresented populations, protected classes, and stalking. I think the author already considered this. From the article: "An account on a public med
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by martey 7y ago
The author isn't suggesting that their proposed social network be run by the government, and there is no legal obligation for private non-profits who accept government funding to refrain from censorship. Later in the article, the autho
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To appreciate 23rd-century English, look back 200 years(nytimes.com)
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The School(esquire.com)
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by martey 7y ago
See https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi... , which was posted to the Twitter blog at approximately the same time as this post.
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by martey 7y ago
> The articles available so far focus a lot on the economic incentives involved in slavery and how the American economy was boosted because of it. This is incorrect - only two articles out of twelve (about American capitalism and the s
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by martey 7y ago
You stated that you don't want to "diminish this piece", but then go on to describe American slavery (this project's sole focus) as "one particular (and, indeed, relatively small-scale) instance". Your comment
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by martey 7y ago
> Nothing is said about what killed him... From the article: > If the Plough provided him with a home in Boston and a community that was his own, it also helped him toward his demise. When he died at 60 in 2017, booze played a starri
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by martey 7y ago
The very first link in the article is the original source - a press release from Wisconsin's Department of Health: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/news/releases/080219.htm
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by martey 7y ago
From https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/indoor-p... Recently, Waring and his colleagues reanalyzed all 195 studies that have examined whether houseplants can filter the air. They found
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Cryptocurrency Was Their Way Out of South Korea’s Lowest Rungs(nytimes.com)
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As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)(thetransportpolitic.com)
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by martey 8y ago
Yes, but you can compare the cost of car ownership in NYC versus the cost of relying on the subway. I think the fact that New Yorkers think the L line closure is so momentous belies the idea that they would prefer to eliminate their "g
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by martey 8y ago
Since Dallas has a completely different population density and size than NYC, you're making an apples-to-oranges comparison. Do you have data that using the MTA costs more than having a car in NYC?
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by martey 8y ago
I think the focus on New York City's L line closure is the least important part of the article. Far more important is the idea that standard public transit (subways, buses, etc.) is more efficient than any new solution (Uber, Lyft, sco
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It's Time to Fall in Love with Stuffy, Crowded Subways(medium.com)
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Amazon Is an Infrastructure Company. The HQ2 Bids Were Reconnaissance(nymag.com)
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by martey 8y ago
Incremental brownouts only work well if there is mechanisms to ensure that your service's users realize that the brownout is a deprecation warning. By default, pip doesn't show the contents of HTTP error messages [1], so users aff
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by martey 8y ago
From the website of the lead author: http://www.ericaboothby.com/s/The-Liking-Gap.pdf
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The Real Heroes Are Dead (2002)(newyorker.com)
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Customers Died. Will That Be a Wake-Up Call for China’s Tech Scene?(nytimes.com)
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Chocolate, bioterrorism and the birth of Brazilian funk(engadget.com)
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by martey 8y ago
The cover story in this month's Wired is about Tezos: https://www.wired.com/story/tezos-blockchain-love-story-horr...
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Cryptocurrency mining rigs are just PCs – so why won’t Stripe let you sell them?(theverge.com)
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Privacy Tool UBlock (Not UBlock Origin) Adds User Tracking Feature(soylentnews.org)
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by martey 8y ago
https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf > Based on these insights, we conduct a thorough quantitative and qualitative analysis of unintended content on Bitcoin’s blockchain. Although most data originates from ben
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by martey 9y ago
More recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/nyregion/an-inmate-and-a-...
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by martey 9y ago
My name isn't Marty and suggesting people haven't read the article is explicitly mentioned as something to avoid in this site's guidelines. I think a good faith reading of the article (and my earlier comment) would suggest th
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by martey 9y ago
From the Wikipedia article you mentioned: > Two subspecies, the West African giraffe and the Rothschild giraffe, have been classified as endangered, as wild populations of each of them number in the hundreds.
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by martey 9y ago
SEEKING WORK | Washington DC or remote I have a wide variety of experience in multiple areas of the web development lifecycle, including: - creating, maintaining, and refactoring Django web applications - writing Python web scraping s

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