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wcerfgba
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I am wondering the same question. I suppose if the decay is totally random throughout any given volume of uranium, then separating it out would have to be chemical or electromagnetic or something?
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Is there a threat model? This does not seem to provide any metadata anonymity: if you ask a relay for someone's pubs, they know you're the person asking for it. Perhaps this could be layered with onion routing through relays to so
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Except many of these groups do have specific and actionable demands. For example, here are Insulate Britain's demands: 1) That the UK government immediately promises to fully fund and take responsibility for the insulation of all soc
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I don't read it as sexual at all, I just read it as moe.
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I find the volume of ideas I have far outstrips my time to write meaningfully about most of them, so now I have a Backlog page on my website where I can just post a single paragraph and leave the idea floating there. That way I have a recor
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This and Usborne Kid's Encyclopedia are forever etched into my brain.
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I started using Zotero to store papers I found for my PhD research, and now I use it as my bookmark manager as well. I make extensive use of tags, and you can add notes, relate items, store snapshots, ...
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Nope. Per Wikipedia: > The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Foo
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Men's World Cup
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Lots of advice here about things you can do, but remeber that your work is relational : you and your company can work together to find a solution that works for you. I see this as a JEDI (justice, equality/equity, diversity, and inc
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A little under 2 years since it was acquired by Twitter. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/making-tw... Shame, I loved Revue, it was a great product. If they could release their code for
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Abolish Money (2020)
(jpreston.xyz)
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Thanks for sharing your story. I am curious what you would do next time if you found yourself asked to build something that you found unconscionable? Would you refuse to work on the project? Other engineering disciplines have a strong focus
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Oh I didn't know that, cool!
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Make DMs Safe
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If Mastodon's search functionality isn't federated, how are you supposed to find out about cool hashtags like this without manually exploring dozens of instances on a regular basis?
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Wow I had no idea that magnetic north was so wibbly!
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I like Yishan's reframing of content moderation as a 'signal-to-noise ratio problem' instead of a 'content problem', but there is another reframing which follows from that: moderation is also an outsourcing problem
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> Grid north is the blue line on an OS map that points to the North Pole. > True north is the direction of lines of longitude that also converge at the North Pole, but this varies from grid north as it reflects the curve of the earth.
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Electrical Network Frequency Analysis
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Educational video on YouTube from popular trans creator removed on grounds of "sex and nudity" policy, despite video not containing anything like that.
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My Video Got Taken Down and I'm Livid [video]
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Thanks jakobdabo, I asked the same question a couple months back but it didn't get any traction. :) * nettime < https://nettime.org/info.html > -- discussing the intersections of art, technology, and politics * SIM
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Doesn't freedom of association also entail freedom of non-association? If an organisation doesn't want to provide an individual with a platform, then they are executing their freedom of association. I'm not advocating for som
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> Censorship is all these characters need to gain new followers. No, they also need a platform to make people aware of their existence, their views, and to recast their censorship to be in their favour. The whole point of no-platforming
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This was hilarious, thanks for sharing!
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There's something ironic about a centralised entity complaining about other centralised entities... If you look at Matt's conceptual framework, you can find the implicit frame around his argument. It's not really "imposs
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Digital commons, the political, and social change
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This was so fantastic to read. You are both clearly operating well beyond the expectations our society sets for ~16 year olds. At some point, please could you write about your journeys, what the enablers and barriers were, and what advice y
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I've found Hanno's Lean Validation Playbook very useful in the past: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/07/a-lean-approach-to-...
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