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by wsc981 5y ago
I believe these people generally get asked to join company boards due to their network. In a way these people function as lobbyists of the company.
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by wsc981 5y ago
> I'm sorry that the reality I experience does not line up neatly with the one you want to believe Might it not be fairer to state the sentence either as this: > I'm sorry that the reality I want to believe does not line
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by wsc981 5y ago
I think a lot of people that like big government, people that tend to call themselves liberals, these people generally don't like (or even hate) crypto. Maybe these people feel this way because they feel the government needs to protect
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UK Gas Price Crisis and More Food Problems on the Way(youtube.com)
1 points by wsc981 5y ago|1 comments
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by wsc981 5y ago
I'm just happy that HackerNews hasn't generated into a groupthink platform like what Ars Technica devolved into. Check the comment sections over there on articles regarding COVID and perhaps it's more to your liking and perha
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by wsc981 5y ago
>This was an exceptionally long blog post to say “we don’t want to be vaccinated and have no recourse if we refuse during a public health crisis. That certainly is one way to read it.
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Covid Pass in Lithuania: How vaccine mandate laws have upended my family's life(txti.es)
18 points by wsc981 5y ago|28 comments
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by wsc981 5y ago
Perhaps something to do with this? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/sec-probing-activisio...
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by wsc981 5y ago
Thanks it works now. I ain't a web dev but it seems like some nice examples. I also like the black-on-white UI, reminds me of classic Macintosh systems :)
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by wsc981 5y ago
The Cells example doesn't seem to work properly on my Mac in Safari: https://7guis.bradwoods.io/cells/
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by wsc981 5y ago
Can you explain why you feel these testimonies are fabricated? You’d need a lot of courage as a doctor to go against the general opinion in politics and media. In guess one could check if these doctors are real (checking LinkinIn and other
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by wsc981 5y ago
Performance-wise I understood that their BASIC interpreter ran atop an interpreter in another language, which made BASIC quite slow. This at least seems to have been a questionable idea. But I liked my TI-99/4A and it got me into progr
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by wsc981 5y ago
TI Extended Basic had CALL PEEK and CALL LOAD that could be used for similar purposes, from what I’ve read: https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/Programming#Useful_CALL_LOAD... But you are correct, the base unit didn’t have
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A collection of modern games for the TI-99/4A(tigameshelf.net)
145 points by wsc981 5y ago|48 comments
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by wsc981 5y ago
One member of the Dutch royal family even owns about 500 apartments (IIRC) in Amsterdam.
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by wsc981 5y ago
Just from the point of view of some manager: perhaps worked many years at a company with the ultimate goal of entering C-suite. Maybe gave up other good opportunities for this goal. In such situations it must suck a lot to see your power an
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by wsc981 5y ago
> I question the wisdom of somebody who started refactoring and replacing systems right after massive layoffs in an industry that was crippled by the pandemic. Well wisdom is gained from experience and it seems the author learned a few
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India's Ivermectin Blackout – Part III: The Lesson of Kerala(thedesertreview.com)
16 points by wsc981 5y ago|0 comments
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by wsc981 5y ago
> Why would that increase infertility? Indeed ... wasn't it supposed to cause blindness?
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by wsc981 5y ago
I guess when I think of a consultant, in my mind it's implied a contractor. I think most people in The Netherlands would think the same and maybe it's a language or culture thing. Yes, I did mean contractor.
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by wsc981 5y ago
Yes I meant freelance consulting. People working at big consulting firms are just employees.
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by wsc981 5y ago
Based on my own experience as both an employee (~10 years) and consultant (~5 years) in The Netherlands, I'd say in The Netherlands generally the more experienced, more skilled workers tend to go into consulting. Most consultants I wor
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by wsc981 5y ago
> In 2019, Nuvia was founded and later acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4B. Apple’s Chief CPU Architect, Gerard Williams, as well as over a 100 other Apple engineers left to join this firm. More recently, SemiAnalysis broke the news about Ri
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Lawsuit against US Department of Health regarding Covid vaccines [pdf](fossaorg.files.wordpress.com)
4 points by wsc981 5y ago|1 comments
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Pol Pot's Secret Bunker(youtube.com)
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by wsc981 5y ago
Actually most people with COVID needing extra healthcare are obese: https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-items/2021/patients-who-ar... Also from March 2020: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/202
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by wsc981 5y ago
> For example, if someone refuses a vaccine, should an emergency room be free to refuse care? Currently, they can not due to EMTALA. Should not refuse care. A lot of people have unhealthy lifestyles (eating lots of processed foods, sug
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by wsc981 5y ago
> Imagine how much Bitcoin we could mine with that kind of energy source... Not much more nor less, since the amount of Bitcoin generated every 10 minutes is controlled by an algorithm independent on how many machines are mining.
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by wsc981 5y ago
Link with correct time: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2257
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by wsc981 5y ago
Larry Ellison wasn’t mentioned in the article, but he apparently also setup a foundation with the goal to prolong life: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc

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