shakyshakyshaky

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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
The fund was fed by oil profits, but has now divested from oil-centric companies and invests heavily in renewable energy.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
http://cepr.net/press-center/press-releases/report-finds-us-...
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
It's gonna be really cool to see graphene used... in 60 years, when it's possible to manufacture in sufficient quantities
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
reference for above comment: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents I, somewhat fancifully, keep two flashdrives with a wikipedia data dump on them "just in case"
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
the issue isn't even getting everyone a cellphone, it's getting a lot of people a new, almost identical cell phone every year.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
certainly it musn't be an all-time low, considering that near 0 african americans owned homes prior to 1863 and near 0 african peoples were in america in the 1600s
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
most children are using their parents' apple IDs.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
can confirm, currently maintaining presence and interaction on two accounts for each of facebook, twitter, and instagram, in order to not out myself to family and prospective employers
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
Much of the time it was used to create full screen transparent links to other videos, or other obnoxious things decreasing QoL. Still sad to see it go though.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
This type of acausal deal only works for single-target attacks. If a bad actor is searching for a victim and sees two potential targets, one of which has resolved to never cede to their demands and one who wasn't commented, they will a
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it reeks of manufactured support.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
Some More News is very much "Here's an opinion you already have, let's be sardonic at the possibility others don't share it". I'd recommend Riley J. Dennis instead, for her excellent discussion of gender and se
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
mark rober's quality has gone downhill fast. To the point of staging multiple videos and using obnoxious clickbait.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
I've known an amazon worker who worked on the amazon's choice functionality at one point- it's all algorithmic with little to no human interaction. It's also skewed towards the products amazon stands to profit the most o
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
were loyalists invited to the continental congress? Sometimes there's simply no merit in allowing certain people into certain spaces.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
It seems to me that planting historically native trees would be best for preserving cultural landscapes and identity. Ireland is absolutely beautiful, but the sheer breadth of deforested rocky landscape now being used for sheep pastures is
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
very reductive to say that africa is poor due to statism and not centuries of imperialism, both actual and economic
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
More like pitching a stall outside your local Costco, calling it Costco, and charging dimwits a fee to enter the warehouse
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
additionally, there's no real need for technically public discussions to be promoted or made more public, so it's not really a failure state if the algorithm doesn't promote a high reply rate exchange between two users exclus
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
The Jacobin has always been a fan of calling out US imperialism.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
America is incredible effective at suppressing protest. Not just as the protest is happening, but before it begins.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
Break up Verizon and AT&T.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
This article smacks of corporate apologia. A lot of jobs just genuinely suck, and no amount of cognitive dissonance will change that.
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
And as we all know, insurance companies never do illegal things
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
Now I don't like the terminology "elites" as it lends itself to populism, but in this framework it's useful. Soon enough, the elites will not be overthrowable. The advantage that the many have over the few is the retract
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
if only someone could have predicted this http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~ehrbar/cap1.pdf
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
https://github.com/yegle/your-dns fixed link also, this is a really interesting project; would you mind allowing me to interview you over IM at some point? I'm trying to improve my breadth of knowledge by doing de
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by shakyshakyshaky 7y ago
Provided a safety net? Collectively decided that education shouldn't be a gamble, and that the way we classify degrees as more or less useful is flawed? Funded more rigorous public education? Reduce the portion of labor value shaved of