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Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding(elemental.medium.com)
321 points by sb057 7y ago|230 comments
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by sb057 7y ago
That's part of the issue; there is no need for commercial first-hand accounts anymore. If someone on social media is talking about a news event and provides a video documenting their presence, that is about as verified and accurate as
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by sb057 7y ago
I think some of it is surveillance related. I don't know how many times I've heard someone say, "I said something out loud, and an hour later I got an ad for it! My phone must be listening to me."
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Twitter takes down Chinese-language accounts ahead of Tiananmen anniversary(techcrunch.com)
15 points by sb057 7y ago|0 comments
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by sb057 7y ago
That's part of the problem; standard practice for Japanese companies until rather recently (as in, within the past decade or so) was to physically print out a copy of the completed game's source code and stick it in a filing cabin
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by sb057 7y ago
Bear in mind that while church organizations don't pay taxes, individual employees (including priests) do still pay income tax.
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by sb057 7y ago
No, but there is a concerted effort in the US to extend voting rights down to that age (albeit, I don't believe there's much overlap between the proponents of these two issues).
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by sb057 7y ago
Rome prefers steel-cladding on their otherwise brutalist cathedrals now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Cathedral,_Tokyo
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by sb057 7y ago
A toddler being torn apart by fascists several years before fascism was first espoused is rather remarkable.
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by sb057 7y ago
It's all definitional. If you define socialism as "the government does a thing" then practically everyone is a socialist. If you define socialism as "the government influences industry for the benefit of the people"
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by sb057 7y ago
This is the same country that has a secret nuclear stockpile (developed in partnership with Apartheid South Africa) with plans to use the threat of bombing their European "allies" as blackmail. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by sb057 7y ago
That would mean excluding Egypt, the United States, China, India, Russia, and Indonesia, or roughly half the world's population, or 3/5 permanent UNSC members.
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by sb057 7y ago
If you like that, be sure to watch Linotype: The Film, the makers of which digitized that documentary.
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by sb057 8y ago
India has also stopped accepting plastic "recycling": https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/india-plastic-wast...
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by sb057 8y ago
No it isn't; while the years is more like 500, it is nonetheless a recent innovations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_fide
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by sb057 8y ago
After all, the politicians passing this will be dead by then, or at the very least out of office, so why bother passing legislation that will actually fix stuff when you can just pass the problem to the next generation while still reaping t
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by sb057 8y ago
The real value in the 24,000 patents is not being sued by another company that patented it first.
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by sb057 8y ago
Yeah, I'm starting to think that Google+ could really pick up new users if th-oh wait... right...
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by sb057 8y ago
Per the tweets they reported on, there was no alternative. You either have to give Facebook your email password, or you don't get an account.
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by sb057 8y ago
My favorite map in his collection is the 1838 "Atlas von Central Europa", a 1:500,000(!) scale map of the entirety of northwestern Europe. [1] https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8
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by sb057 8y ago
An argument can be made that if the ability to use the web is a human right[1] then yes, governments have a responsibility to ensure their citizens can actually use it. You can make an analogy to (private) providers of healthcare denying co
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by sb057 8y ago
Does that include platforms like Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer, which: >can not accept cash donations via any payment processor >has had their domains revoked from multiple providers >is only barely able to be able to protecte
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by sb057 8y ago
That's property infringement, not violating speech.
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by sb057 8y ago
https://www.dia.govt.nz/Censorship-Objectionable-and-Restric... >Anybody found “knowingly” in possession of objectionable material can receive a maximum of 10 years imprisonment. >Every time a person downloads objecti
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by sb057 8y ago
Everyone should read the Lloyd's analysis of a potential second event [1]. >The total U.S. population at risk of extended power outage from a Carrington-level storm is between 20-40 million, with durations of 16 days to 1-2 years. T
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by sb057 8y ago
Per Terry: >God said 640x480 16 color was a covenant like circumcision. You can be uncircumcised. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mhxc9/templeo...
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by sb057 9y ago
>YouTube prohibits certain kinds of content featuring firearms. Specifically, we don’t allow content that... links to sites that sell firearms or certain firearms accessories.[1] This effectively cuts off any revenue stream other than cr
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by sb057 9y ago
>He appears to be trying to build a fairly silent machine as well, so the liquid cooling will help. One fan is a lot quieter than 2-3 fans + pump.
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by sb057 9y ago
There's still hope! https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5xvn4i/update_corebo...
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by sb057 9y ago
Ryzen doesn't have iGPU, so he had to be using a dedicated GPU of some sort.

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