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Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers
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It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
If America wants to make civilian airplanes here, the government must step in, take over Boeing, and then design a competitive industry.
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Can we protect land for nature and carbon by simply buying it up?
This blog post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: hazel grove, Devon. Land ownership in Britain is highly concentrated and unequal: just 1% of the population own half the land in England, while in Scotlan…
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Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York
Advocates for better Internet access are breathing a sigh of relief in New York as the State Assembly nixed a budget bill amendment that would have undermined the state’s municipal broadband grant program.
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Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
Welcome to this post, in which we’ll be taking a trip through the wild and bumpy ride that has been Vitamin D & sunlight research over the past few decades, and what it might mean for COVID-19. As with my previous post, before any non-specialist attempts to write something on COVID-19, we should wonder: are any actual…
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Assange Hearing Day 7
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH This morning we went straight in to the evidence of Clive Stafford Smith, a dual national British/American lawyer licensed to practice in the UK. He had founded Reprieve in 1999 originally to oppose the death penalty, but after 2001 it had branched out into torture, illicit detention and…
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Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm
Research has confirmed for the first time that people with active gambling accounts who receive regular ‘free bets’ and other direct marketing offers place a lot more bets, spend far more, and suffer greater related harms than gamblers who have opted out of such offers.
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On privacy and control
I have 15+ years of software engineering experience across different parts of the tech stack including networking libraries, congestion control, performance improvements, Backend, and Android development.
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Where is my von Braun wheel?
In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away.
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Aligned to whom?
You are relying very heavily on the priors of the model to do a good job for you. What happens when you cannot judge whether those priors are good?
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Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission because it failed to comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)....
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Anatomy of an internet argument
Social media isn't toxic, most people just haven't figured out the game (yet)
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Remarks on AI from NZ
Last week I participated in a panel discussion on AI as part of a private event in New Zealand.
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Nobel Prize winning biochemist says all biofuels are nonsense
Similar posts from ClimateSanity Taking Measure of Biofuel Limits 9/24/2009 Biofuels Leading to Disasters 12/28/2011 Hartmut Michel won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on photosynthesis. …
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Shitty Software Kills People
How the public healthcare system in Italy is using software to support the vaccination effort is appaling. I’ve spent a good part of the last 30 years trying to convince people that software is imp…
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On-demand learning comes at the cost of conceptual understanding
Everyone has heard about the so-called “types of learning styles” auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and so on. And almost everything has been said about it. But what if there is a different categorization of learning? Maybe one that gives more inside? Well, I think there is. This time we split the act of learning just…
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Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
Personal website of Samuel Burer, Tippie Rollins Professor of Business Analytics, University of Iowa.
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Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker
A short introduction to p2p social networking with Rotonde & Beaker Browser.
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How likely is the NSA PRISM program to catch a terrorist?
Recent revelations about PRISM, the NSA’s massive program of surveillance of civilian communications have caused quite a stir. And rightfully so, as it appears that the agency has been grante…
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Governments shouldn’t have a monopoly on Internet governance
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (1990)
On March 1, 1990, the offices of Steve Jackson Games, in Austin, Texas, were raided by the U.S. Secret Service as part of a nationwide investigation of data piracy. The initial news stories simply reported that the Secret Service had raided a suspected ring of hackers. Gradually, the true story emerged.
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