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by hnuser77 7y ago
There are some resources posted at business schools, where Bloomberg Terminal usage is frequently part of coursework [1, 2, 3]. Also the "Bloomberg Markets" magazine (frequently sold in major airports) covers new terminal features
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by hnuser77 7y ago
It seems reasonable to claim (and seems to be backed up by authorities on the issue) that most genuine sex trafficking originates from two sources: 1) visa fraud and/or human smuggling across the border and 2) domestically, broken home
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by hnuser77 7y ago
The internet, even "big tech" platforms with 1000 different ML algorithms for downranking and banning things, is just a different medium than broadcast media altogether, so there's bound to be tension between tech companies a
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by hnuser77 7y ago
For those unfamiliar with this situation: Pleroma is an ActivityPub server and frontend written in Elixir and designed for low resource consumption, somewhat of an alterative to Mastodon. One or two of the most prominent early Pleroma insta
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by hnuser77 7y ago
Speaking of building regulations and solar, I stayed in a house that was completely powered by solar and wired with DC for lights and electronics. You can't just add an AC outlet in the kitchen for a coffee grinder, though. If you have
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by hnuser77 7y ago
This completely defies logic, considering that 2 kids is replacement level fertility, the world has experienced generally consistent population growth, and most of the labor ever done in the world has been low-skilled labor.
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by hnuser77 7y ago
Cliqz plans to make money by, in the future, "deliver[ing] sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history...processed locally based on a remote repository of offers, with no personally identifiable data sent to
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by hnuser77 7y ago
People are cheering it on because there are no viable openly licensed ISAs besides RISC-V and the alternative to this move is RISC-V being crippled due to sanctions. Anybody in the US is just as free to use the ISA, and designs and fab IP c
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by hnuser77 7y ago
Perhaps it's necessary but not sufficient: if you have zero lawyers, press, or government officials on your side, marching is a great way to get thrown in jail for "rioting" and have your reputation destroyed.
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by hnuser77 7y ago
The state is the entity that signed all the free trade treaties in the first place — that enabled the outsourcing and let the production be moved out of the country — and still has the power to set tariffs and industrial policy. So the auth
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>"Indeed the conspicuous embrace of 'elite values' by journalists and academics is often little more than an aspirational attempt to remain connected to an economically distant elite...they gave professionals greater scop
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by hnuser77 7y ago
One could consider Americans poisoned by something , considering that 40% of the American population is obese (not just overweight) and sperm count has declined 50% in developed countries over the past few decades.
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by hnuser77 7y ago
I think the author's take would be that the working class can radicalize all they want, but it probably won't change anything without the support of a significant part of the 10%-0.1%. I wish he had gone into detail on why he th
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by hnuser77 7y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I'm over 6'1" and I still shouldn't have bothered creating an account.
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by hnuser77 7y ago
It looks like Bing SFW search is only Youtube, same as DDG. Only video search site I've seen lately is Petey Vid which searches the expected Vimeo, Dailymotion, but also Instagram, Twitter, Peertube, and a bunch of random non-US video
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by hnuser77 7y ago
It's a neat trick: it emphasizes that they are amoral companies required to do nothing but make money, and simultaneously that they're only companies like the thousands of other gyrating tickers on the stock market. This same au
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by hnuser77 7y ago
Technically speaking, the largest Mastodon instance is full of content that isn't exactly allowed on traditional social media (i.e. far-right extremism). See https://fediverse.network/
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Petey Vid: privacy focused video search(peteyvid.com)
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by hnuser77 7y ago
Ohio's unemployment rate is 25% above the national average, but not particularly shocking at 4.1%. It also has a GDP per capita higher than Florida and Vermont. Ohio is 16th out of 50 states for weekly church attendance.
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by hnuser77 7y ago
Right above this it says, >No school district..shall prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments Where religious expression is defined including &g
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by hnuser77 7y ago
A few comments about how a non-negligent company handles user data: * They wouldn't respond to "emergency disclosure" requests from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia about random users * The average developer has zero access to u
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by hnuser77 7y ago
There is a conceivable way for actions outdoors to be private. Just roll back the clock a whopping 3 decades. Maybe nosy old Ethel notices when you leave for work in the morning, but she's not tracking your face's position and e
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by hnuser77 7y ago
They can not. Media ownership and media content, even NPR, is not tied to electoral representation.
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by hnuser77 7y ago
This is the "dark forest" theory of the current internet, ironically posted on Medium [1]. You can put up registration barriers and such, but even being world-readable can attract negative attention. It's getting to the point
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by hnuser77 7y ago
That may be 25% of all hangings, but I imagine the rate would be lower for hangings occurred by a 6ft tall person off a 6ft tall bed post.
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by hnuser77 7y ago
Maybe not. From this article, "...it probably wasn’t American intelligence, either."
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by hnuser77 7y ago
It would be more clear for everyone to call it Microsoft Github at all times.
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by hnuser77 7y ago
My understanding was that the main reason power has to be turned off because there could be 1) vegetation contact with the power lines in windy conditions 2) power lines blowing away in the wind. California has been windy since before the i
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by hnuser77 7y ago
History is replete with the sudden removal or transfer of "private" property [1,2]. I'm not saying that this is good thing economically or morally, but when people get mad they vote for Hugo Chavez or whoever. I think this is