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Secretive Air Cargo Operation Is Running in Ohio and Signs Point to Amazon (Nov)(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago|0 comments
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by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago
Spending is a lot easier than taxing. A country could just offer to buy a increasing amount of zero emission electricity and sell it on the free market until electricity was no longer generated from sources that yielded carbon. The same app
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Skype founders invent self-driving robot that can deliver groceries for £1(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago|2 comments
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by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago
Giving out mosquito nets to conquer malaria makes as much sense as giving out medical masks to conquer the flu. 77% of maleria deaths are kids under 5 according to the WHO [1]. They're giving out mosquito nets to prevent children fro
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by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago
It is possible to save a life for $3,340 by donating to the Against Malaria Foundation [1]. Helping desperately poor people is a surely virtuous thing to do and helping them efficiently by giving them money via GiveDirectly, as suggested in
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by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago
They could have or want to have servers in Chicago. They need to cache content close to users, so the probably have hardware like OpenConnect [1] all over creation. [1] http://oc.nflxvideo.net/docs/OpenConnect-Deploymen
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by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago
Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Turkish are on the list: the languages of NATO allies The languages of other many US allies are on the list as well. So, this program is at least not entirely a Bay of Pigs style plot
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by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago
In 2012 1,031,631 people became permanent residents of the United States [1]. Obviously there are paths to citizenship. But some kinds of temporary visas don't offer a path to citizenship (like intercompany transfer L visas or F studen
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Some visa holders (including H and B) can become citizens by joining US military
16 points by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago|8 comments
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by walsh-cloonagh 11y ago
This is complicated and not uniform between countries. Generally speaking in the United States: Non-profit is an misleadingly named corporate structure that really means non-stock. Delaware reasonably calls this structure a non-stock compan
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by walsh-cloonagh 12y ago
Hey Mr. Shrivastava, When I was studying chemical engineering in university, I tried to get faculty interested in engineering yogurt-producing bacteria (like L. bulgaricus) to produce Vitamin A (or an equivalent retinoid or carotenoid): a &