throwaway_20357

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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Yes, it was harder to prove or disprove a claim when information was not as readily accessible as it is today. For the same reason, the likelihood of even becoming aware of any "fringe theories" without digital communication was m
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
That was in 2008. The block lasted 2 days ( https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/lawmaker-apologize... ).
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
There is also the Meta Content Library and API ( https://transparency.meta.com/en-gb/researchtools/meta-conte... ) although that seems to contain only a subset of the data.
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
I would say "link blogging" is how weblogs started: Relatively short logs of your accomplishments or mysteries you had solved that day or just musings about one's recent discoveries on the web published on the web. It was an
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
A lot of it comes down to the attitude that product quality (at least when it comes to a product's longevity aspect) is less and less valued because the low quality alternatives became so cheap. Or, as someone put it here once: "I
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
This might have been true in the past but from anecdotal evidence a lot more people seem to actually shop on their mobile phones nowadays where switching between tabs is less convenient. They build their item shortlist using shops' wis
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Here is the timeline: https://www.cio.com/article/304397/the-hp-autonomy-lawsuit-t... Lynch was convicted in a civil case in the UK in 2022 but the damages have still not been announced yet.
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
The original KPMG due diligence is still online: https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/06/14/kpmg_due_diligence_report_...
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
It depends on what you want to do with the data. It can be easier to just stick nicely-compressed columnar Parquets in S3 (and run arbitrarily complex SQL on them using Athena or Presto) than to try to achieve the same with shell-scripting
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by throwaway_20357 3y ago
I think there is little hope of normalizing relations with Russia, so unfortunately these "Western assets" need to be written off anyway. A large part of them ($98bn) came from Cyprus which might just be round-tripping Russian mon
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by throwaway_20357 3y ago
Was all over the news in Germany today: https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article245860994/Archaeologie... https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/3000-jahre... https:/
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by throwaway_20357 4y ago
What's the difference between this and Google offering YouTube or Analytics for free (and at a loss) for years? What's the difference to SaaS companies never turning a profit and operating at a loss for their whole life?