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>> So closing the gap to make universities free to the public would involve (in most cases) more than doubling the current level of state/federal funding. Or, a mix of increasing the level of state/federal funding and clo
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The publicly available case docket where trial documents will be posted: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/united-states-...
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>> Who holds their phone up and takes a photo then wants to know it was a photo of? >> Great for the vision impaired. Yes, this is great for the estimated 285 million vision impaired people around the world[1]. [1] https:&#x2
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>> We had people driving around with our phones logging to a laptop. They basically drove all over the country, trying to cover as much land as possible, and the phone(s) would then attempt to connect to different base stations. Mobi
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Fencing weapon sheaths (sabre, epée or foil).
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>> In reality, Canada and the U.S. have a "common market" of sorts that allows talent to move back and forth fairly easily. Unfortunately, it's not really a two-way net-zero exchange, but majority one-way from Canada t
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>> that is unless wages shift. Wages will have a much harder time heading up unless the federal government implements a moratorium on immigration, both temporary visas (e.g. foreign students) and permanent residence permits. The only
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by otoburb 3y ago
British Columbia realised just how serious of a problem housing is, going so far as to implement an updated provincial housing policy aimed squarely at densifying Vancouver[1], even though technically it applies to the entire province. [1]
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>> The long and short is that our population has grown faster than our supply of housing, COVID being an unfortunately timed disruption which further strained that supply. Nothing was built for almost a year, but the population contin
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>> If you invested in the development of say, Akron Ohio with the goal of tipping the scales and starting flywheel of metropolitan growth and your bet pays off not only will you be filthy filthy rich but you'll create brand new e
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> My neighbour goes to Toronto daily and woof… he leaves at like 5am to avoid the traffic. And therein lies the rub. The 401 and 403 (heck, even the QEW and most other major highways) were (and still are!) so congested that it was a
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by otoburb 3y ago
Do you mean that there are a lot of Ontarians temporarily staying in Alberta for less than 183 days, or that a lot of those newly minted former-Ontarians Albertans arrived in the last 90 days[1]? [1] https://www.alberta.ca/t
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by otoburb 3y ago
The GitHub link is: https://github.com/ghostfolio/ghostfolio The premium hosted edition of this service isn't inspiring confidence if their front page, presumably residing within the same cloud infrastructure, can
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> AHK is one of the apps which locks me into using Windows. Hammerspoon[1] seems to be the best option for macOS. [1] https://www.hammerspoon.org/
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by otoburb 3y ago
Kyle Mitchell is a developer-turned-lawyer who wrote a short blog post on this topic[1] where the second paragraph predicted article headlines like the OP submission: "I’m sure there will be links like “Court Rules AI Art Can’t Be Cop
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> [...] and speak in front of people without saying "um" and "like" every two seconds. You just added a third skill -- public speaking. You're right that the bar shouldn't be so low, but we are where we
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I'd venture a guess (possibly, a poor one) that most students who would/could be seeking accelerated math can already read. Writing, at least for my kids, is the skill that has required much more parental involvement and has not b
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>> Right. In which case you may as well meet at an airport hotel with good meeting rooms. Japan Airlines recently launched a "rent clothes" offering for overseas travelers.[1] This would dovetail nicely with your idea of me
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>> Sure it does. I can't comment on other jurisdictions, but the United States has a section of legislation called the Civil Rights Act Title VII[1] codifying that discrimination on the basis of a variety of factors (age include
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by otoburb 3y ago
The SEC agreed to review, but as far as I understand this has no bearing on whether they'll approve (or not). I'm not sure why this is news; I thought this is part of the SEC's standard review process?
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As usual, Matt Levine has a great article[1] on this topic. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-14/ripple...
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>> Maybe it's explained better in the actual ruling, anyone have a link? The docket[1] has the ruling[2], but there's very little additional detail provided beyond the focus on "blind transactions" to invalidate o
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>> [...] what changes should we expect to see in the short term? The article mentions that since the company definitively sold unregistered securities to hedge funds and sophisticated buyers (without registering with the SEC), a jury
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Community college is very affordable across (most/all of) America, and I understand also in many European countries. Some states (New York state is an example) are trying to provide a 4-yr college degree for free under certain income-b
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Could the same be said for serious student-athletes (e.g. Division 1)? My understanding is that most Div1 collges have pretty stringent/strict minimum training schedules in order to maintain scholarships and team slots.
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>> When my kid was young and I was out with him the other parents (invariably women) treated me as an oddity and assumed I would be incompetent. That didn't happen to me but I live in a large city where I've come across (ma
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I don't see it that way either, but many other people find it very difficult to separate the message from the messenger, just as you've done from my (brief) comment. >> Haven't you ever seen a man in prison, pleading wi
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>> [...] both of those thing aren’t problems with developers though—theyre management problems. Sounds like the sister team had a better manager in some aspects of "managing" (e.g. managing the message up the chain) compare
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Cosby's criminal conviction(s)[1] undermined much of what he championed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_case...
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The "Great Resignation" label implies that such men are not working at all. But I'm not sure whether such economists have thought about whether the informal economy[1] is growing in proportion to the number of men who have &q

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