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Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western patients who can afford it.”
This is a video by Zack Struver about Senator Bernie Sander’s proposal to expand Veterans access to patented medical inventions. The video discusses both the proposal by Senator Sanders to give the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the authority to… Continue Reading →
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Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10
At Microsoft, we are deeply committed to protecting our customers’ privacy. This includes providing clear choices and easy-to-use tools that put you in control of how your information is collected and used. Trust is a core pillar of our More Personal Computing vision, and we are working hard to make sure Windows 10 is…
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LLM discourse needs more nuance
With this write-up, I want to outline my current thinking around large language models like OpenAI's chatGPT.
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Is English a “creole Language”?
September 28, 2024 @ 5:50 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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"If you're over 30, you're a slow old man" – Zuckerberg. He turns 30 tomorrow.
Came across this article: on SFGate the other day, relating the difficulties of older workers finding employment in Silicon Valley. 40 is the new 60 down there. I would usually file this under &#…
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Native American restaurants
Although there has been growing interest in exploring native foodways in the past twenty or so years, it seems there’s been little research into the history of Native American restaurants, that is,…
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RFC 9518 – What can internet standards do about centralisation?
RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards has been published after more than two years of review, discussion, and revision.
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Google responds: Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our an...
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The importance of communities around software
I've done a lot of activism for software freedom, over the years. At first it was purely for software freedom and related topics, (such as security, autonomy and privacy) but eventually this has evolved into something more holistic. I believe that the software I use should be held to higher ethical standards than only…
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Rewarding Neglect and Punishing Investment in Struggling Neighborhoods
In cities all over America, we deter people from revitalizing neighborhoods by punishing them with higher taxes for improving their property. A change in how we tax property could fix these incentives.
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Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal
What patterns do we see in RUM data during the April 28th power outage in Portugal and Spain?
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Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC
A potential $50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.”
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Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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$1M VotePlz Sweepstakes
The 2016 US Presidential election feels like the most important one so far in my lifetime. No one able to vote in the US should be sitting this one out—we have a major choice to make. With some...
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Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work
...also don't tell lies. But I'm getting ahead of myself already. I keep running into people online who openly say that they use AI to do their writing for t
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EFF Files Brief in Case to Hold IBM Responsible for Facilitating Apartheid
EFF defends rights in the digital world. But what about when the digital world enables violations of human rights? We think that’s important, too. That’s why we filed an amicus brief in In Re: South African Apartheid, a case that seeks to hold IBM's headquarters in New York responsible for...
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U.S. Surnames with No Vowels
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
The consequence for minor lapses in judgment shouldn’t be death.
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ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying
ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying as strange and unusual characters with minimal prompting.
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Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight
We’ve heard some questions and concerns following our recent Terms of Service and Privacy Policy updates. We are thankful our community cares enough to