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How the CIA Used Brain Surgery to Make Six Remote Control Dogs(newsweek.com)
1 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
When the state department tells you to write a story you write the story, or face the real prospect of the end of access which will be the end your journalism career. Not an ideal system for anyone, except the state department.
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Verizon says to shed 10,400 jobs by mid next year(reuters.com)
189 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|193 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I doubt his kind of "dangerous" thinking will be allowed to be spread for much longer in our corporate dystopian internet. It's just a matter of time before speech daring to criticize the corporations will be considered a sec
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Terms like "market" and "gold rush" are probably too generous, more like "pyramid schemes unraveling".
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I'm pretty proud of how I got rejected from Google, how I laid into several of their products as bad and slow and missing important features. Now that they've incorporated most of my feedback into those products I go around and br
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Big Tech Embraces Big Censorship(thestranger.com)
15 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|1 comments
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Richest 1,000 families in Britain have doubled their wealth since the recession(theguardian.com)
37 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|8 comments
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Market Moves Suggest a Recession Is Unavoidable(bloomberg.com)
95 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|112 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Anti-trust. Anti-monopoly. We needed to revive these movements five years ago.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Move
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Faraday Future furloughs hundreds more employees as it runs low on cash(theverge.com)
1 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
There's a lot of informal sharing of info about employees between the tech giants in the area. I don't think they are sharing the lists but people call eachother. The speed with which we are building this "you're either
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
The weird song and dance of luring developers by offering so much personal data to them for free in the early days of Facebook's API always creeped me out. I remember thinking about this all the time back in 2007-2010 or so and wonderi
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Well you know, that whole enabling genocide thing is arguably as bad as poisoning people. Should we just not criticize corporations until the death count gets to a certain threshold?
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
It's a link to a commentary podcast, not sure which "actual story" you're referencing but there have been several negative stories about Facebook which they talk through and that's kind of the point of the podcast.
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Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’(recode.net)
135 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|79 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
"Tech will always need to act in a quasi-governmental manner, making judgments on political speech and operating teams in parallel to the U.S. intelligence community," No, absolutely not Alex. The fact that these massive tech mo
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This page is hilarious, and reminds me of the early days of both open source and cloud services when everyone thought you needed some complicated sounding new phrase & acronym to be taken seriously. Just because that's the way IBM,
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Nvidia nurses 'crypto hangover' as demand for mining chips evaporates(cnbc.com)
3 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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Amazon deal will disrupt plans for affordable housing on Long Island City(politico.com)
3 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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Bay Area Workers Told to Stay Home as Smoke Billows from Fires(bloomberg.com)
1 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This is like something a stoned frat boy would come up with as their first attempt at a mission statement.
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SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites(fastcompany.com)
438 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|280 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I know and work with a lot of millionaires and a couple billionaires, once you get to that level of eliteness they view using a computer as a boring chore for a technician, like fixing the plumbing or paying the bills, something they are fa
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Super informative, thanks
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
So bury all the cables/equipment underground? I'm sure costs are substantially higher to do so, but we could add other infrastructure along these underground lines as well if there was a shred of political will to accomplish this.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
In finance the actual growth rate is rarely looked at that much, but the rate of change of the growth rate is scrutinized to the nth degree.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I don't know much about the EE side of the world, but surely there is a way to design grid/transformer equipment such that the circuit can be interrupted immediately when a pole falls over or whatever. Is this possible? Is it just
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Uber’s sales are dramatically slowing even as the ride-hailing company is spending more to fuel global growth, particularly in its food delivery business. Revenue growth of 38 percent in the third quarter was almost half of what the growth

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