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by casefields 7y ago
40,000 die on our streets every year. Our pants are quite dry.
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All you need is a handful of small court claims to wake Netflix up. They'll spend a magnitude more on sending Netflix employees to represent them, than all these prorated refunds would cost.
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That is essentially the point in Gladwell's famous article "In the Air | Who says big ideas are rare?" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/12/in-the-air
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>With the help of experts in network theory and precedents from history, Ferguson argues that the printing press had similar consequences for 16th-and 17th-century Europe as the personal computer and the Internet have for the world since
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PBS Series – “Networld”(youtube.com)
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Whenever posts like this or BellingCat pop up, they always seem stupidly easy. Is this really some special skill that I didn't realize I had? It feels like it's just a visual aspect to someone's Google-fu ability, with a dash
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Tracking Phones, Google is a Dragnet for the Police: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-loc... Mirror: http://archive.md/UV9px
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Or just get one of those carnival weight guessers. They get surprisingly good from practice.
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Mirror: http://archive.md/fyPMl
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Mirror: http://archive.md/Mc6PL
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I read The Coming Plague in the 90s: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balan... These aren't hard predictions.
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>What he did say was also almost entirely wrong. There will be a coronavirus testing site, not from Google but from Alphabet sister company Verily. “We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing,” Google tweete
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So that's what I feel on massive sound stages that are dark after we are done shooting for the day.
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Mirror: http://archive.md/oFjix
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You should try signing up on Nextdoor. This isn't a hard problem, nor would anyone be forced to verify themselves if they don't want to.
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They are 2 for 2 already: >The teams have proven they can meet this ambitious timeline in previous trials using the influenza and Zika viruses.
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This article says there are currently 4 P3 teams: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/da...
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AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis(vice.com)
7 points by casefields 7y ago|0 comments
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NYC did have air taxis: https://youtu.be/8nbz5VFilxY
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The reason people are trying to downplay H1N1 is because they hate the flu comparison. People understand the risks and accepted deaths, from the flu. That bothers the doom and gloom folks.
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PBS just aired an American Experience episode based on the book: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poison-squa...
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Ignoring search warrants, pulling strings: How Tesla avoided an OSHA inspection(usatoday.com)
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Celebrating the death of a group different than yourself, is not better than a racist or bigot. I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
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Wikipedia has Cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
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Good eye. It's called the October Effect: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/octobereffect.asp
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That's why we elect representatives. Vote them out if you don't like what they do. Also, your more than welcome to let them know how you feel: https://bos.lacounty.gov/About-Us/ContactUs
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The government also has a monopoly on violence. Google doesn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
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It was always amusing when people made fun of him for that quote.
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My sibling is a journalist in DC. New hires at her paper get check marks right away. Seems like there's still a point-man that these new organizations contact. This is ripe for aa interesting article, but who wants to be the bad guy an
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Interesting. Looks like you've got 3 systems with expected snowfall heading your way in the next 14 days: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/finland/helsinki/ext

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