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Google is shutting down its mobile Shopping app(theverge.com)
18 points by sb057 6y ago|13 comments
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For anyone looking for an interesting rabbit trail, they may want to read up on Eastern Orthodox calendars and their controversies; specifically, the Revised Julian calendar, which is effectively a more accurate Gregorian calendar. https:&
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>Conservative Alabamans Bessemer voted about 5:1 in favor of Biden in the 2020 election. https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/election-dat...
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>It’s 10 or 15 minutes from Healthcare/Banking center clad Birmingham. Notoriously easy industries for the working class poor to get into.
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>A similar system is in use on Mount Athos. Liturgically, both Catholics and Orthodox (and I believe various other more traditional Christian denominations) refer to dawn as the first hour, roughly midday as the sixth hour, etc.
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>The most expedient actions would be fourfold: >Halt foreign entities trading in dollar cash-equivalent crypto assets. >Add Chinese and other foreign cryptocurrency exchanges hiding in tax-havens to sanctioned entities lists. Lunac
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While the energy consumption of proof-of-work is indeed an issue, for many trust-critical crypto projects (including effectively all crypto currencies ) proof-of-stake has even bigger problems, as was demonstrated a decade ago when BTC was
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The $300K cost is actually calculated to be just below the amount it would cost extra to sail around the cape, adjusting for other factors, of course. There's actually a robust and competitive market for intercontinental shipping canal
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Page 37 (PDF numbering) of this 1958 research paper reproduces a version published in an 1883 issue of 'The Athenaeum': http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1958/...
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Fast Factoring Integers by SVP Algorithms: “This Destroys the RSA Cryptosystem.” [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
14 points by sb057 6y ago|4 comments
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>Why don’t more people use USDC anyway? USDT got there first.
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Google Pressed in Lawsuit to Dump Telegram Just Like Parler(bloomberg.com)
2 points by sb057 6y ago|0 comments
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India's constitution is the largest national constitution in the world, and second-largest overall, only behind Alabama's, which has a whopping 951 amendments and nearly 400,000 words as of January 2021.
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You're thinking of Medicaid and general vaccines. The coronavirus vaccines specifically have no costs for any individuals.
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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust >An amateur pilot, the then-teenager flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, being tracked several times by Soviet air defence and interceptor aircraft. The Sovie
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That's been tried before with intensely-debated political issues in the United States; didn't turn out too well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_rule_(United_States)
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An inexpensive and/or used Android phone paired with an attachable or BT gamepad.
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Quoting the article: >On January 7th, I reached out to the Administrative and Technical contacts listed for .cd on [ https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/cd.html ].
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They relied on patient's memory being accurate in a study about Parkinson's ?!
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>Well what is your suggested response? If someone is committing crimes, then arrest and prosecute them.
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>I am positive the FBI has been actively soaking in this information along with the Internet Warriors, but this is how they are going to officially track down. Would that not be massively unconstitutional? Surely law enforcement isn&#x27
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The thing is, I have personal experience with CRS (specifically headaches), and have since I was a small child when I had never even heard of it or MSG. Obviously it isn't MSG (I use it as a seasoning more than salt and pepper), but am
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Here's a two-second method to determine whether TSLA is overpriced: currently, their market cap is $659B. The combined caps of Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, BMW, Honda, General Motors, Ford, and Nissan is only $629B. So u
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AI Economist: Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies(blog.einstein.ai)
4 points by sb057 6y ago|1 comments
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Interesting and telling that they are willing to put up hosting content from Sega, Sony, Disney, AT&T, Activision, Konami, EA, Capcom, ZeniMax, Toei, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, and many other (often litiguous) companies, but th
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Another gem: >Those records show that McKinsey was helping Purdue find a way “to counter the emotional messages from mothers with teenagers that overdosed” from OxyContin.
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Is anybody going to post the "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences" quote? How about that xkcd strip? Or a comment about how, as a private company, Zoom can allow or disallow whatever it wants on its platform?
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>The world isn't going to end and I need to stop worrying that it will. Debatable, but even if it is, you still shouldn't waste your time worrying about it.
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>He also exposed international spying capabilities that endangered our people and our allies. Really, like what?
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Japan declared war and invaded Asian British colonies simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_declaration_of_war_on...

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