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by pragmar 4y ago
Civil liberties and democracy are often at odds. Where states that have implemented a ban, it has been done democratically. The fact that it was done in a previous congressional session doesn't change that. Democracy and civil libertie
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by pragmar 4y ago
The ostensible motivation of a possible US/UK/Polish operation, as I understand it, was poisoning the well on peace negotiations. By removing the optionality of turning the lines back on, there is less for the Germans and Russians
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by pragmar 4y ago
Cantillon effect says it's just a matter of how "close to money" you are. So living under a central bank is good, but borrowing directly from one is best.
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by pragmar 4y ago
Makes one wonder who is setting the priorities of anonymous, I thought this was satire on first watch.
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by pragmar 4y ago
Didn't downvote the parent, but I'd be willing to bet that if the comment didn't lead with "You are living in a dream world" it'd be the same shade as other comments. Often it's not the point, but the tone
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by pragmar 4y ago
There's evidence that it was neither. Blood tests of athletes that competed in the Wuhan Military games in October 2019 point to the virus circulating earlier. The timeline that much of the conversation rests on feels kind of weak.
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by pragmar 5y ago
This happened in earlier in the year. The paper was subsequently published in The American Journal of Therapeutics. The full text is online if anyone is interested. https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Fulltext
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by pragmar 5y ago
I'd prefer my deed committed to blockchain (by a government registrar) than held in a local instance of filemaker pro, or in a paper file cabinet, is where I was going.
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by pragmar 5y ago
>>> How will blockchain make it better? You're focusing on patents. Countries operate copyright offices--clerks, submission fees, red tape, human error. With blockchain, I can produce and store an md5 of a audio file, pdf, or
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by pragmar 5y ago
Here are a couple. Identity. Once you log into a website a MetaMask address, a lot of things begin to come into focus. Create as many as you want, move contents around, etc. It's a lot more empowered than google/fb oauth feudalism
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by pragmar 6y ago
Controlling for party affiliation within the context of a negative ad campaign would've yielded much more interesting results. In all but Wisconsin, this paragraph in particular almost seems counter to their argument with back-of-napki
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by pragmar 6y ago
You're right, but the Siberian heatwave is also a weather event. It's contextualized in climate science, but let's play it out. The article says carbon is a 600x likelihood multiplier. That's one region in one season. Wh
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by pragmar 6y ago
> Has anyone found a non-criminal use case for blockchain yet? As others has pointed out, DeFi is impressive, though still mostly fueled by speculation at this point. Digital collectables is another (think digital trading cards with limi
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by pragmar 6y ago
Don't know about saas, but it would seem like you could set this up on AWS lambda, or an Azure function. Alternatively, you could write a webpage on your site that does what you need (server-side), and point Uptime Robot at that.
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by pragmar 7y ago
Also known as "sweat of the brow." The US Supreme Court rejected such protections in the 90s. I'm sure it's complicated, but copyrights are not presumed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_br
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by pragmar 7y ago
Been using self-hosted Matomo (formerly piwik) for about 6 months. It does everything I need, but mileage will vary by use case. In terms of a feature matrix, it's significantly less powerful than GA.
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by pragmar 7y ago
There was a paper by Rasool and Schneider in 1971 that was behind this, I think. "Our ways" would've been industrial particulate pollution, where a 4x increase, sustained, risked kicking off a new ice age. Schneider later ret
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by pragmar 7y ago
Definitely, there was an "albedo yachts" solution that was floated a while back. Basically kicking up mist from the oceans. It's all just theory, and the repercussions are probably not well understood, but the idea is out the
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by pragmar 7y ago
I don't know if it helps, but these are the papers the media cooling stories came from. They are peer reviewed and quantitative, but perhaps not exactly what you need (that is to say, not sufficiently predictive). Rasool and Schneider
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by pragmar 7y ago
While I don't have a good sense of the market, I think desktop has some compelling advantages. On the developer end, what would you do if you had an EC2 C5XL with a massive disk for each and every one of your users, for free? From a st
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by pragmar 8y ago
NES and the subsequent revival of the console was on account Nintendo being bold enough to invest when the conventional wisdom was that video games were a fad whose time had passed--that combined with a leap in AV quality over the Atari 260
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by pragmar 8y ago
On the work itself, if it isn't being micromanaged, there's an opportunity to adapt it to what interests you. What do you want to get better at? It doesn't matter if it's generalization or specialization, the company lik
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by pragmar 8y ago
It's possible I'm unaware of how far to the right he went. I've held a soft spot for Solzhenitsyn from his earlier literature. The KKK reference struck me as a slime and I felt compelled to reply. I'm willing to stand co
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by pragmar 8y ago
The literature stands on its own, aside from whatever personal political evolution occurred in his later years. In the 90s, it certainly appeared as though Russia was getting set up for exploitation by the west under Yeltsin. A nationalist
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by pragmar 9y ago
So Governor Ige claimed the employee pushed the wrong buttons and followed up with the screen capture showing how confusing the menu system was. With the story having changed dramatically to a misinformed, intentional alert, the state gover
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by pragmar 9y ago
I think this is the study on rats sanguy is referring to: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/areas/cellphones/ The American Cancer Society called it a "paradigm shift" in our understanding of the eff
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Feedback on WCAG 2.1 Draft(webaim.org)
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by pragmar 9y ago
There are some interesting points in the article's comment thread. >>> Amir Epstein - Money for big hits is in streaming on DSP’s. Spotify pays $7,000 per million streams. That may sound like nothing, but when artists like JB
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by pragmar 9y ago
Probably the best deep dive I've read on the cost of higher ed was published a few years ago by Robert Hiltonsmith. This addresses US universities and colleges as opposed to UK, so the issues may not be one to one and the data is a lit
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by pragmar 9y ago
Probably the most persuasive rebuttal I've read in trying to follow memo story. It has an honesty about it. So the issues with the memo are lie largely in the subtext and motivations, it seems. When framed this way, it's easier to

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