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by wombatmobile 6y ago
When money takes time to go from A to B, who do you think gets to use the money? Yes, the banks. They are all set up to make money from your money, by lending it out at attractive overnight rates. Is that a problem? Perhaps, but you&#x27
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
Ha! How about... other people?
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
How?
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
Thank you for sharing those comments, jbotz. > We don't know how common or rare sentience and consciousness are in the Universe, but because of the Octopus I believe that if ever we do encounter non-terrestrial sentience we'll
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
I read the article, andrewfinr. It seems like a serious attempt to inform us about the humanity and abilities of Robert Burrows. The reason it tends more towards clickbait than necessary is obvious from the headline: What I Learned From th
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
Right on, Jeff8. And when Teddyh says "simple numbers like a dollar amount can’t be copyrighted" he's ignoring the fact that google isn't just copying dollar amounts. Google's copying a data set which establishes a
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
How do you form an understanding about what it is and isn't recording and/or streaming? What evidence do you consider?
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
> Robert Burrows is not newsworthy without Gene Weingarten. Are you saying that in your way of thinking, newsworthiness only arises from a false, disparaging accusation?
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
What is "religiosity"? If the measure of religiosity is "participation in religious services", are we even measuring the same thing when participation can vary all the way from watching Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker on TV, t
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
Robert Burrows wasn't the worst novelist in the English language. The article makes that clear. The article includes Gene Weingarten's demeaning characterisation to get clicks. That wouldn't be necessary if Barrett Swanson
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
GUIDELINES FOR SPO2 MEASUREMENT USING THE MAXIM® MAX32664 SENSOR HUB The SpO2 measurement performance of a device must be verified before the device is released to the market. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggests using stand
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
In 1931 the Coca-Cola Company began placing Coca-Cola ads in popular magazines. Archie Lee, the D'Arcy Advertising Agency executive working with The Coca-Cola Company, wanted the campaign to show a wholesome Santa who was both realisti
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
"With Project Oberon we have demonstrated that flexible and powerful systems can be built with substantially fewer resources in less time than usual. The plague of software explosion is not a "law of nature." What then, in th
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
I think he's saying "Build it and they will come." or "The universe will provide..." and sometimes, it does. Like in Wayne's World.
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
“We have to get this message out,” Jacobson said. “We have started to be contacted by people. But … clinical partners and funding agencies who will hopefully support this work is the next step that needs to happen.” Yes! Clinical trials ar
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
"This is being conducted at a layer that is not accessible to us." -- Professor Shoshana Zubuff Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
Yes, Google's search page was a work of art that would make Edward Tufte proud. What we didn't know then is that Google would achieve exponential growth to reach trillion dollar status by surreptitiously harvesting each user'
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by wombatmobile 6y ago
One difference in the fate of Yahoo vis a vis Google, is that Yahoo didn't spy on its users and exploit the knowledge gained from spying to make gazillions from advertising. Take from that what you will. Google made money, and then Fac