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by simula67 8y ago
Another example of bad Pulitzer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty#The_Pulitzer_Pr... Walter Duranty was misreporting on Holodomor for the New York Times and still won a Pulitzer prize which has not been re
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Google may have been exaggerating these numbers. From https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expeditin... > Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are le
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Have you tried Everipedia : https://everipedia.org/ ?
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Isn't vk more popular than Facebook in Russia ?
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Those are not the only things that cause needless suffering in this world
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> Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance What about communism ?
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Kodak and Fujifilm faced a similar dilemma when digital photography emerged. Fuji adapted while Kodak collapsed. But there market forces where at work. Usually when a company faces issues like this it is very difficult to adapt because exis
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A Failure to Adjust(thebulwark.com)
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IPMI implementations seems to be a mess in general Mathew Garret did an excellent presentation on the security horrors he faced with IPMI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZeUntdObCA Does anyone know if RedFish implementat
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Or maybe it will end up like OpenStack
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Reid Hoffman denies knowledge of funding disinformation in Alabama Senate race(techcrunch.com)
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Researchers Propose a Decentralized Search Engine Built on Ethereum and IPFS(trustnodes.com)
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Czochralski process was discovered by accident(en.wikipedia.org)
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I doubt it was lack of vision. For a long time, one of Google's most important competitive edges was it's efficient infrastructure. With AWS coming in and Google moving to become an AI company, data probably became a more serious
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IANAL You can sue Google for damages if someone uploads a copyrighted movie to youtube. You can sue Google for libel or slander if someone posts disparaging statements about an individual to Blogspot or Youtube Since Google has a lot of mon
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I think the reasons are : 1. It's free ( if you already have Internet on your phone ) 2. It's very easy to use and fast 3. The multimedia experience is better than MMS 4. Group chats 5. Network effects ( Some companies provide cus
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Windows' treatment of Window management is the right approach IMO. A window is the proper abstraction for an activity, not an app. In MacOS the dock mushes all activity on the app on all spaces into one app icon, and then you have to h
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You don't need to speculate. There is a research that shows it does hurt lower skill workers : http://www.nber.org/papers/w12663.pdf
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> one mystery remained. How was this malware infecting victims, and how was its creator spreading it around. > The attack vector included the scanning and identification of externally facing services, to include the Apple Filing Prot
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HN hug of death ?
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I don't like the idea that Google or any other entity can control how I think by presenting only one side of a story when the other side may have a reasonable objection, because it does not fit the politics of the operators of a platfo
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It is if Google wants DMCA safe harbour protections
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Not just privacy though. The larger point of starting the GNU project was to allow for freedom to prosper. Stallman understood an important thing about software : it is a great servent, but a terrible master. He realized that being unable t
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Can Google cookies be deleted ? This seems to have gone too far
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I don't think this is proof that Fox lies more than CNN unless you can prove this is the comprehensive list of all statements made on both networks. Read about the leftward movement of Politifact here : https://mediabiasfact
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Can anyone recommend good resources on writing a compiler from scratch ?
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John Stossel did a section on highly paid teachers in South Korea : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMPfY_YDsE Some numbers : http://ncee.org/what-we-do/center-on-international-education...
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> Alexandria ocasio Cortes go from a bold new voice to being portrayed as a know-nothing (in a pretty sexist way) in about 6 hours Are you kidding ? She said US military was given $700 billion increase that they didn't ask for. She
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Citations please
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https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=henriiik...

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