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by snomad 5y ago
Isn't remote work obviously good for the environment, especially in the big cities like SF and Seattle? Shouldn't Google, MSFT, Apple, et al be encouraging more remote work - given their size their local impact on rush hour traffi
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by snomad 5y ago
We don't even need a carbon tax per se; we just need consumption based tax system (as the US had until 1913), instead of a productivity based tax system.
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Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report(nypost.com)
438 points by snomad 5y ago|269 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
I prefer a paginated inbox, its that way in gmail for me (maybe I turned on some setting years ago?). The pagination is a nice break and lets me know I am done, everything on back pages has been previously processed.
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by snomad 5y ago
I wonder how long until Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea develop nuclear weapons. Won't be good for the world, but can't blame them.
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by snomad 5y ago
Yeah... > The plant, which is one of 30 in the U.S., employs about 850 people. Yet, officials said, only about 20 — approximately 2% — averaged over 60 hours per week. > "Our records indicate 19 employees worked 84 hours in a giv
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by snomad 5y ago
How many years was he in forced isolation by that point?
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by snomad 5y ago
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-50th-anniv...
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by snomad 5y ago
Actually, they had an outage when Catalina was released because Macs phone home before starting 3rd party software. https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/15/apple-explains-addresses-mac-...
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The 50th Anniversary of Starfish Prime: The Nuke That Shook the World(discovermagazine.com)
3 points by snomad 5y ago|0 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
That is an odd statement. Do you believe non-capitalist societies can't put forth a hundred justifications for facial recognition? If so, how do you explain communist China's extensive surveillance / camera system? How about
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Twitter restricts account of expert who mocked China leader(apnews.com)
7 points by snomad 5y ago|0 comments
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YouTube took down videos by group documenting human rights abuses in China(theverge.com)
16 points by snomad 5y ago|5 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
If you haven't heard of him before, you may want to read up on Harry J. Anslinger[0]. Joe Rogan also has a really in depth episode on him. He was deputy commissioner of the federal department that oversaw prohibition. when that ended,
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Court Documents Show U.S. Government Directed Big Tech to Censor Public(ncdailygazette.com)
3 points by snomad 5y ago|0 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
> Honestly what confuses me is what special distinction does time get to make it not considered a dimension like the others? My less-than-a-layman understanding is that it really is just a physical point/plane - but as 3-dimensional
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by snomad 6y ago
The whole thing feels like scammy / tulip mania, but I think it is worth pointing out that Bitfinex repaid $550 million Feb 5. Though nothing comes up right away, I think the next trial date w/New York is Sept 2021.
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by snomad 6y ago
Or, they just do a better job of covering up for each other, choose to enforce the law less frequently, arrive to reported crimes slower, etc...
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by snomad 6y ago
BTW, they do have a JS API. Been using it a lot recently, fairly easy and straightforward https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/develop/...
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by snomad 6y ago
Off topic, but only 2 weeks until perseverance reaches mars https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tITni_HY1Bk&list=PLTiv_XWHnO...
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by snomad 6y ago
Nitter has RSS feeds. Better UI too
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by snomad 6y ago
Similar explanation was posted Jan 28 on twitter by Silent Cal[1]. This article and the twitter thread do paint a very plausible explanation. And is easy to accept. OTOH, a potentially far more nefarious, yet plausible, underlying motive wa
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by snomad 6y ago
> What's funny is this is pointing out big holes in the "but it's 150% shorted" story. Not sure I follow. The hedge funds are shorting the stock, debt holders are converting to stock, Retail (and plenty of big players
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by snomad 6y ago
Agreeed. And there are several obvious laws without touching 230. Off the top of my head - Ban businesses engaged in online advertising from compiling real world data / mixing physical world data with the online profiles of users - Ba
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by snomad 6y ago
Are they not familiar with the euphemism treadmill? http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/08/ableist-language-and-th...
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by snomad 6y ago
https://whdh.com/news/amazon-pushing-for-milestone-union-vot... Amazon said that at its Bessemer facility, 2.88% of Amazon’s 7,575 employees and third-party workers at the facility — or 218 people — tested positive dur
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by snomad 6y ago
A McDonalds double cheeseburger meal costs $8. I remember when that was 3.99 not too long ago. Somehow I doubt that price difference is captured by the official 1 - 2% inflation rate.
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by snomad 6y ago
Seems we have dialed back manned missions, but the rovers on Mars, the satellites orbiting Jupiter (Juno) and Cassini, reaching Pluto (New Horizons), and asteroids (Hayabusa) and soon to be James Webb Telescope are all very exciting and rep
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by snomad 6y ago
works the same way at the president / provost / dean level at universities
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by snomad 6y ago
At a certain level of daily MAU, (say 100k?), every single post most be manually checked before becoming available to the public. They should be checked for a) child porn b) violence c) doxxing They are free to run algos to auto reject, sor

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