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The Welfare State Is Committing Suicide by Artificial Intelligence(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by otoburb 8y ago|1 comments
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by otoburb 8y ago
The Ontario law preventing children from carrying and administering their own medication was changed in 2015[1]. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-law-passes-to...
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Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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I Sold My Data for Crypto. How Much I Made(wired.com)
1 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 8y ago
You assume correctly about the anime. Then again, Harry Potter also turned into a quest to search for Voldemort's seven horcruxes, so it won't be much of a stretch to adapt Harry Potter to a location-based game.
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by otoburb 8y ago
>> [...] given that unlike Pokemon, Harry Potter isn't really a franchise defined by the location-based hunt-and-collect mechanic that drives Pokemon Go and Ingress. Pokémon itself wasn't location driven either before the l
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by otoburb 8y ago
Best practice is to host the status page on completely separate infrastructure. This adds a lot of operational overhead often seen as disproportionately low benefit relative to the ongoing effort to maintain, until rare events like this act
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On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 8y ago
Ouch. Their status page seems to be overloaded, assuming that is the correct URL.
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by otoburb 8y ago
Ironically, because of government reach and close technology company collaboration, including significant minority stakes in such companies, it would seem that malware groups operating in China have to be a lot better than their counterpart
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by otoburb 8y ago
It's not tongue-in-cheek. This is a real issue in NYC, less so the further out you go in the boroughs. To break it down further: * Dishwasher is much more common these days. * In-unit laundry: Sometimes you'll find an in-unit wash
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by otoburb 8y ago
He attended Queen's for two years and then transferred to University of Pennsylvannia to complete his bachelor's degrees in economics and physics.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
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by otoburb 8y ago
>> $15 USD must be mana from heaven. It is definitely mana from heaven, but the barriers can be somewhat high depending on the contractor's locale: 1) they need to be able to successfully navigate their own country's tax an
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by otoburb 8y ago
Wage arbitrage for software Continuing Engineering (i.e. maintenance) talent. This article is eye-opening due to the scale and effectiveness, but unfortunately not surprising.
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by otoburb 8y ago
>> And yet... it's like scaffolding in NYC[2]. Absolutely useless[3]. But if you are all for removing it, and a brick falls and hurts someone, heads will roll. This is a question of shifting liability and sharing responsibility.
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by otoburb 8y ago
I think pretty much any school district with a million+ children is going to have issues, whether school choice is implemented, or not. Mayor De Blasio kicked off an integration effort[1] in Brooklyn with plans to roll something similar in
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by otoburb 8y ago
I wonder if the economics PhD had the most difficulty due to graph axis inversion[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archi...
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by otoburb 8y ago
It was also totally foreign for us too, but after the initial shock wore off we put in some time and found other options quickly enough.
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by otoburb 8y ago
>> I simply cannot imagine (I mean those words very literally) the horrid state of affairs of making six figures and still being on the verge of poverty. NYC is rolling out free schooling for children aged 3 and up, known as Pre-3K[1
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by otoburb 8y ago
>> I guess I'm just wondering why Facebook cares if someone just wants a non committed hookup partner or not. Why do they want that burden? Probably PR and brand optics given their recent public mis-steps.
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by otoburb 8y ago
>> The English-speaking anchor, complete with a suit and tie, is modeled on a real-life Xinhua anchor called Zhang Zhao. I hope that Zhang Zhao is getting a licensing stream for the use of his likeness. William Gibson was really ahea
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by otoburb 8y ago
>> If you work at a handset manufacturer, and sit in on sales calls, and one of your team members brings up anything remotely related to this or VOIP, you might see the carrier buyers get visibly upset and literally walk out of the ro
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Who Said What: Modeling Individual Labelers Improves Classification(arxiv.org)
1 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk(taipeitimes.com)
2 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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Seoul exploring new taxes on Google(koreatimes.co.kr)
2 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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Digital and International Growth for the South China Morning Post(scmp.com)
1 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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In China, Bill Gates Encourages the World to Build a Better Toilet(nytimes.com)
5 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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NY Dept of Financial Services Grants Virtual Currency License to Coinsource(dfs.ny.gov)
2 points by otoburb 8y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 8y ago
The actual paper is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30282698 but you need to have a subscription.
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Study calls into question chemical messenger’s role in autism(spectrumnews.org)
1 points by otoburb 8y ago|1 comments

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