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by ralph84 5y ago
No worries, Google will just sponsor a human rights award and award it to themselves to help them feel better about enabling human rights violations. They have the playbook perfected. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by ralph84 5y ago
Lol no. The reason there is not as much damaging information leaked from dictatorships, is because any leakers are guaranteed to be executed. Reality Winner and Chelsea Manning would have been executed after a 30 minute show trial in a dict
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by ralph84 5y ago
Whether ivermectin helps with covid or not, it's certainly not an advertising company's role to censor the debate.
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by ralph84 5y ago
This is by design. Progressive taxes on labor but not capital combined with comically low interest rates ensure there’s no true class mobility.
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Another shipping crisis looms on Covid fears in southern China(cnbc.com)
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by ralph84 5y ago
400 years of brain drain will do that
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by ralph84 5y ago
Catchers have gotten good at either tossing the balls out of play themselves, or doing a quick wipe of the ball before handing it to the ump. Watch how Yadier Molina rubs up the ball after it stuck to his chest protector. https:/&#x2F
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by ralph84 5y ago
Pretty much. The Statcast system that made spin rate data widely available was introduced in 2015. It took a couple of years after that for the realizations that higher spin rate = lower batting average and that sticky stuff is the easiest
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by ralph84 5y ago
They have a lot to do with each other. The emergency use authorization for the vaccines was predicated on there being no effective approved alternatives. If there's an effective approved alternative, the vaccines lose their EUA and are
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by ralph84 5y ago
> select individual investors like Boys Noize If this isn't a sign of a bubble I don't know what is.
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by ralph84 5y ago
My takeaway from the current car situation is the people running legacy automakers aren't very good at their jobs. To mispredict demand this badly and not know that you can't JIT semiconductor production shows a profound incompete
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by ralph84 5y ago
And the men in porn whose only job is to stay hard and pound away aren't objectified?
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RubyGems, Adobe and OpenAI are now GitHub secret scanning integrators(github.blog)
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by ralph84 5y ago
You don't need to qualify that with "once they get home". Chinese who talk or write about the wrong things will be hunted down wherever they are in the world. China managed to get the UAE to detain a US permanent resident for
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by ralph84 5y ago
We can only hope that someday the "I fucking love science" crowd will realize science is no less political than any other human endeavor.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Then you've subsidized all of the people who don't pay. If you ask they'll almost certainly give you a discount for immediate payment since it's still more than they'd get from the collection agency.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Yep. Uninsured rates are set with the expectation that at best they'll get pennies on the dollar when they sell the debt to a collection agency.
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by ralph84 5y ago
The elephant (no pun intended) in the room continues to be most data in the enterprise isn't big data. You don't need mapreduce when your data set fits in RAM.
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by ralph84 5y ago
This will only increase inequality by causing more middle class families to opt out of public schools.
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KKR and CD&R Close to $4.7B Deal to Buy Out Cloudera(bloomberg.com)
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by ralph84 5y ago
ITU predates the UN by almost a century. And if it had been left to ITU, the Internet as we know it wouldn't exist. Thank goodness for IANA and IETF.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Directly via bailouts and indirectly via inflation, COVID was the biggest wealth transfer to the rich in history.
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by ralph84 5y ago
You know what they say about economists, they've correctly predicted nine of the last five downturns.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Of course the established big tech player is lobbying for more regulations to slow down any potential competition.
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by ralph84 5y ago
> As a researcher, to those who backed Musk and the like on this bullshit vanity project; Fuck you, he's stealing the fucking sky from us Why does the sky only belong to researchers and not all of humanity? The number of humans inte
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Deadshot: Keep Sensitive Data Out of Code(twilio.com)
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by ralph84 5y ago
Policing fraud is the role of the government. Restitution for fraud should go to the defrauded, not speculators.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Don't piss on my shoes and tell me it's raining. Just say it: As an investor you want to keep more of the wealth employees create for you.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Most of the highest paid athletes and actors are union members. Union membership doesn't have to mean everyone is paid the same. Teachers having the same pay has more to do with them being interchangeable than being union members.
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by ralph84 5y ago
In general they also don't need your sporadic untrained volunteer time either. The volunteering events that HR departments love to organize where employees earning six figures spend hours on make work always strike me as an incredibly

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