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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Ongoing edit war over the Wikipedia article for Benford's Law

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www.nature.com 6y ago

Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)

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legalinsurrection.com 6y ago

Hong Kongers avoid China's internet censorship with peer-to-peer mesh network

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abcnews.go.com 6y ago

2020 Democrat field wants to expand union power in Silicon Valley (except Biden)

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www.dailymail.co.uk 6y ago

Ghislaine Maxwell found living with tech CEO at secluded $3M mansion near Boston

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slatestarcodex.com 7y ago

If only Turing was alive to see this

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www.afp.com 7y ago

Poop in hand, Bill Gates backs China's “toilet revolution”

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empowertexans.com 8y ago

Texas Supreme Court decision another small victory for Airbnb

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money.cnn.com 8y ago

As hurricane Harvey slams gulf coast, Facebook and Instagram go offline

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www.reuters.com 8y ago

U.S. senators to introduce bill to secure 'internet of things'

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www.thesun.co.uk 9y ago

Swimming in a chlorinated pool may turn sunscreen into carcinogen

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www.forbes.com 9y ago

Texas governor signs bill bringing Uber, Lyft back to Austin

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www.cringely.com 9y ago

Cringely – how Amazon’s Echo Dot could make a good SIDS alarm

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www.usatoday.com 9y ago

Google's Home TV ad makes Google Home systems go crazy

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www.telegraph.co.uk 9y ago

ISIS app for children simulates 9/11-style attacks on Western landmarks

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sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com 9y ago

15% of accounts discussing US election on Twitter are bots

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www.washingtonexaminer.com 9y ago

Truck driver shortage prompts calls for driverless big rigs

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www.yahoo.com 9y ago

Chinese government flexes muscles with Uber, DreamWorks probes

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www.bravotv.com 9y ago

More People Are Using Drones to Catch Their Cheating Partners

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politics.slashdot.org 9y ago

DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts

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shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com 10y ago

GitHub: the logical next purchase for Microsoft after LinkedIn

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www.theverge.com 10y ago

The arms race for anti-drone weaponry

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www.theregister.co.uk 11y ago

SpaceX's anti-hacker tech powers UK launch of security startup

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www.theguardian.com 11y ago

Fukushima robot 'dies' three hours after entering radioactive reactor zone

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www.siliconrepublic.com 11y ago

Meet the robot insects that fly, work together and catch objects like chameleons

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www.telegraph.co.uk 11y ago

Irish farmer turns drone into flying sheepdog

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youtube.com 11y ago

Humans need not apply

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spaceflightnow.com 11y ago

100th Merlin 1D engine flies on Falcon 9 rocket

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www.csmonitor.com 11y ago

Fukushima radiation: US West Coast will likely see peak by end of 2015

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news.yahoo.com 11y ago

At Russia's request, Facebook blocks page of Putin's top critic

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I expect the company sees them as private, so that they'll only share capacity with competitors when they want to and for the right price, untilllllll ....

Some other country decides to pull shenanigans and cut / hack the cable, in which case the company will insist the U.S. gov't get involved, maybe pay for the repair. Saying it's crucial for national security.

I believe that was the commenter's point - that the designers described patronizingly virtue signal about their accessibility priorities, while their other decisions are troublesome.

Cow Magnets 2 years ago

... and for that kind of rumination, we have therapists to help out.

I can personally vouch for this.

In Morocco cats were everywhere. Cafes, high rises, farms, University, everywhere I went.

Even the airport! As we queued up to the ticket counter (this was decades ago) i saw cats wandering independently. I mused to my companion, "i wonder if they get into the secure area of the airport?"

Sure enough, after going through security and waiting at the gate, there goes a feline walking by wholly unbothered.

I wondered if cats ever got onto planes unwittingly. Didn't see any on our plane ... still wonder.

the most profitable thing to do is unfortunately to drag a problem out

... which is why our medical intitutions would rather manage chronic conditions than cure or prevent them

... and also why our "defense" institutions would rather manage chronic, unwinnable conflicts rather than see any side achieve victory (Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan) ... and also why our weapons / aid keep appearing on both sides of various conflicts

Because that's where the profit is.

I've tried that. One by one the stores near me stopped accepting batteries.

Even the municipal recycling center, where I sometimes take bags full of paper or plastic bottles, refuses to take batteries.

The local Batteries+Bulbs store is the only place left near me. For how long?

It should be FAR far easier to do.

"A booming industry of cybersecurity consultants, software suppliers and incident-response teams have so far failed to turn the tide against hackers and identity thieves who fuel their businesses by tapping these deep reservoirs of stolen corporate data."

Exactly. Heaven forbid we blame the corporations whose lax security led to the stolen data in the first place. That would make advertisers unhappy.

Scanning is pretty inexpensive. Maintaining a complex system that passes the scans? That's something different altogether.

If I take a clunker to a mechanic, how much will it cost me to hear everything that needs fixing? About $150. But actually performing the fixes? One order of magnitude greater - and that's if I'm very, very lucky!