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by subculture 8y ago
Today in California a person can walk into a Target Pharmacy and get 2 doses of the Narcan spray for less than $100, without a prescription.
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by subculture 8y ago
Dairy production absolutely requires raising animals for slaughter. There is no beef industry without the dairy industry. Like mammals, cows produce milk as food source for their offspring - the dairy industry ensures that cows are always p
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by subculture 8y ago
I couldn't read the full article, but the Mobile Passport app has improved my traveling experience through passport control. On a recent trip from Europe to SFO, the regular line for US citizens was really long, the Global Entry kiosks
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by subculture 8y ago
Time to disrupt the notion of 'delivery': Sign up to drop off a package or two and get access to the internal city streets for x hours. What could go wrong?
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by subculture 8y ago
How will this change the discussions around net metering? Part of the offset of costs for solar were supposed to be the ability to sell excess back into the grid. And what happens when the grid no longer benefits from new electricity genera
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by subculture 8y ago
Has Google said one way or another whether Smart Compose will take into account your personal writing style? For it to be acknowledged as a really great feature in practice I assume that it should.
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by subculture 8y ago
Came to say something similar. There was a discussion a couple of weeks back on Metafilter about using this technique to modify comments within Word files. Handy knowledge to have: https://ask.metafilter.com/320606/Remo
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Is China Becoming a Black Mirror Episode? (Social Credit)(youtube.com)
7 points by subculture 9y ago|0 comments
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by subculture 9y ago
Yep. In places outside of the US, like Indonesia, Facebook IS "the internet": https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...
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by subculture 9y ago
Which were the great UX ideas? I think I missed them... The fact that you had to move your head or phone just to see the time was bad. The 'peek' gesture which required moving your head to the side and looking sidelong at the phon
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by subculture 9y ago
And bikes. They're working with cities around the Bay Area to sponsor bike shares. I can see the biker/trip data also feeding into their data lake. If they can make meaning through all that data, it seems like a good long bet.
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Bitcoin’s energy usage is huge – we can't afford to ignore it(theguardian.com)
83 points by subculture 9y ago|70 comments
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by subculture 9y ago
Reminds me when Gawker went down and Tom Scocca wrote: Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A bil
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by subculture 9y ago
Some pollution, sure, but not all. One of the top causes of pollution and global warming is from meat production.And it's cheaper for multi-national companies from China to import pork from the US rather than slaughter them at home: h
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by subculture 9y ago
Yeah, and Impossible purposely sells these in the meat aisle because they want to complete against the meat burgers, not against veggie burgers.
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by subculture 9y ago
If you have BBC iPlayer, "Carnage" is a recent mockumentary set in 2067 that explores a similar topic - the end of meat.
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by subculture 9y ago
Even if everyone who eats meat ate it in the same way (as a luxury) it would do little to put a dent in the industry and environmental impacts. The beef industry is sourced by the dairy industry. Even ensuring that the luxury meat is only s
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by subculture 9y ago
A surprising number of Americans think that cows just produce milk all the time and 'need' to be milked. As opposed to them being, well, mammals, who only lactate after pregnancy and are thus regularly inseminated in rape racks (i