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by overkill28 2y ago
> Carrington founded and directs Berklee College of Music’s Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice in Boston. She’s also a Zildjian artist What do you think they study at the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice ?
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by overkill28 2y ago
The clips reminded me of how great The Grizzly Man soundtrack is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man_(soundtrack)
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by overkill28 3y ago
His wife doesn't think it was him ( https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/1364325186372304904?t=yY... ) and the original Bitcoin code/executable was Windows based whereas Sassaman was known to Mac/Linux
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by overkill28 3y ago
I'm anyways skeptical of those who refer to "the media" or "the West" as a single entity. "Much of the press saw U.S. troops as defending a pro-Western populace against a deeply unpopular Taliban insurgency. Bu
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by overkill28 3y ago
Yeah my first guess on #74 was 7.7 miles away (!) so I thought for sure I would get it. But it turns out that the flag location is actually 14 miles away according to Google Maps, and the multiple photos "of the same place" are ov
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by overkill28 4y ago
> There was one problem, though: Hua knew that G.E. would deny permission to give the talk if he asked, which he was supposed to do. “Since G.E. is a high-tech company, it is difficult to get approval even to present at conferences in th
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by overkill28 4y ago
I'm considered a "young worker" by this articles definition, and have worked in the tech industry my whole life. Like many of my generation I came of age and entered the workforce during America's worst economic crisis s
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by overkill28 4y ago
> BlockFi has said it had “significant exposure” to FTX and its sister company Alameda Research LLC, including taking a $400 million credit line from FTX U.S. that also gave FTX an option to buy the company. > > BlockFi was one o
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by overkill28 4y ago
That's not my recollection at all. College kids of all stripes were dying to sign up for it as it rolled out school-by-school.
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by overkill28 4y ago
Does ibuprofen actually help with alcohol induced headaches? I've found the only things that can cure a hangover are time or more alcohol.
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by overkill28 4y ago
The medium article omits it, but the per the NY Times all the employees were actually hired by a contractor: > He said ASG, not Google, hired contractors for the GDS team, adding that it was fine for him to “encourage people to apply for
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by overkill28 5y ago
The problem is that "first past the post" voting systems inevitably lead to two party dominance. Change the voting system across a super majority of elections and we will likely get additional parties. But until then third party v
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by overkill28 5y ago
Yeah much of the quality content for recipes and product reviews have moved to video, and two of the most popular platforms to host it on (Instagram and TikTok) are walled gardens.
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by overkill28 5y ago
Quick- name as many other companies in this market as you can. Heck name a single product comparison shopping search engine.
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by overkill28 5y ago
There are some serious caveats here: > seven out of every eight cars bought and sold in Norway a used car. The NAF’s numbers show that of the 357,176 ownership registration changes so far in 2021, electric vehicles only accounted for 12
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by overkill28 5y ago
The way I describe it to friends and family is that there are basically two levels of protection: - Protecting yourself from rub of the mill malware that is looking to make money off of you. You can do this pretty effectively by always upda
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by overkill28 5y ago
FYI the source for this data is "a colleague and... every student I asked".
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by overkill28 5y ago
Thanks, couldn't figure out how to follow the Twitter thread to the end. This is a really cool idea, but I would have much preferred to learn about it as a blog post or YouTube video.
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by overkill28 5y ago
You're patching over problems with short term solutions instead of investing the time and effort to fix it "the right way". Like when you need to fix all the support columns in your building, but instead of spending millions
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by overkill28 5y ago
And the first, relatively mild warnings on cigarette packages probably didn't convince many to quit, nor did posting calorie counts on fast food menus make everyone switch to salads. But hopefully it's the start of a drumbeat wher
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by overkill28 5y ago
> "For years, urban developers have been talking about “15-minute cities”—accessible downtown neighborhoods where residents can satisfy just about every food, drink, beauty, entertainment, and fitness need with a short walk or bike
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by overkill28 5y ago
Pine nuts are pretty common in Mediterranean cuisine https://www.thespruceeats.com/thmb/ccOvmaY71HiTZ9EOOk9cnxOsG...
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by overkill28 6y ago
The odd thing about this situation though is the geographic location of Brooklyn: on an island. Why would a significant amount of traffic from outside Long Island be going across the harbor to Brooklyn, especially given all the major switch
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by overkill28 6y ago
If you follow thing-centric instead of people-centric subreddits and ignore the default ones you get a pretty good experience.
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by overkill28 6y ago
I still don't know why they stuck the "Java" name on JavaScript. Very confusing when the two languages are completely unrelated. > Java programs and JavaScript scripts are designed to run on both clients and servers, with
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by overkill28 6y ago
Reading Rainbow? That's where I first learned about it. You can see the clip here: https://youtu.be/Fl32aV3RcpE?t=1176
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by overkill28 6y ago
I wonder if instead of it being a technical solution it will be a social one. That maybe in the future we will look at people constantly hooked on their phones and posting on social media the way we now look at smoking. E.g where it was onc
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by overkill28 6y ago
That may be true but it's not relevant to this accident. It was a British made plane using British standard screws. The mechanic just used the wrong size bolt from the same standard. It's not like he was trying to find a metric eq
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by overkill28 6y ago
> Who says apple hasn't built a viable alternative already? Wouldn't it be ironic if the DOJ case fell apart because Apple released it's own search engine?
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by overkill28 6y ago
The Gaetan Dugas thing seems to dominate every discussion about And The Band Plays on which is too bad because the book is like 600 pages long, tracks dozens of real life individuals, has tons of incredible primary source material, and give

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