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Wild Gunman: Resurrecting Nintendo's First Coin-Op on Its 50th Anniversary [video]

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copilot.microsoft.com 10mo ago

Test Microsoft's first in-house voice model, MAI-Voice-1

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www.infoq.com 1y ago

TikTok's Native Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Goes Open Source

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mrtornado24.github.io 3y ago

Interactive Disentangled Editing for High-Resolution 3D-Aware Portrait Synthesis

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gizmodo.com 5y ago

Scientists Discover Short-Legged Corgi Giraffes

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

Why 'The Mandalorian' Uses LED Virtual Sets instead of Green Screen

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massivesci.com 6y ago

Acres of saltwater pools in the desert are growing an algae food revolution

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www.theverge.com 7y ago

Uber says it will start delivering fast food by drone in San Diego this summer

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kotaku.com 7y ago

Shady Numbers and Bad Business: Inside the Esports Bubble

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www.technologyreview.com 7y ago

Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Squirrels eat Honda's bioplastic air filters, wiring

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geod.itch.io 8y ago

3DNES V2 Release (Original Nintendo to Virtual Reality Converter)

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

Hong Kong's Coffin Cubicles

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mashable.com 9y ago

Chinese hackers take over moving Tesla from 12 miles away

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

Meet the first car sold in America to use gasoline, electricity, and solar power

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business.financialpost.com 9y ago

U.S. to auction US$1.6M worth of Bitcoin from various cases

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phys.org 10y ago

For first time, drone delivers package to residential area

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www.kickstarter.com 10y ago

Stax: Maths Toy for Kids

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www.wired.com 10y ago

Inside the Hidden World That Handles Your Holiday Returns

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Minecraft: Working Cell Phone with Web Browser and Video Calling

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money.cnn.com 10y ago

Fed ends 'too big to fail' lending to collapsing banks

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Lexus Hoverboard: The Science

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

Inside the $499 aluminum NES that’s crafted like a Leica

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www.themorningnews.org 11y ago

The Ghost Army of World War II

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www.newscientist.com 11y ago

Baboon bone found in famous Lucy skeleton

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recode.net 11y ago

The Difference Between Uber and Airbnb

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online.wsj.com 11y ago

Taming the Wild Tuna - Why farmed fish are taking over dinner plates

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www.buzzfeed.com 11y ago

How Madewell bought and sold my family's history

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qz.com 11y ago

For $390 you can illegally buy an elite university email account

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www.kickstarter.com 11y ago

Project PERCEPTION NEURON: Motion Capture, VR and VFX

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I believe that is because when you finance a house you're financing the land+house combination, with the land making up the majority of value in most urban areas - when you finance a mobile home you are only financing the home, which depreciates (unlike the land component) - hence its a higher risk loan and therefore more expensive to finance.

FWIW The Internet's development was funded by DARPA - The U.S.'s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For better or worse defense/offense has driven significant innovation for humanity, which has created many non-violent related benefits.

Out of curiosity - you mention that in the 90's there were a number of TV shows featuring prominent black characters but there isn't anymore. Why did you decide the solution to that problem was to create a black-focused distribution platform, instead of production company focused on creating new shows of similar quality to those in the 90's - has something changed about the market that would prevent shows like those that were successful in the 1990's from being successful today?

The link I provided from the FDA says:

"There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals.

The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses."

The FDA has a page on Invermectin for Covid treatment, which provides a reminder that veterinary drugs are not designed for human consumption.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...

"For one thing, animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which can weigh a lot more than we do—a ton or more. Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans.

Moreover, FDA reviews drugs not just for safety and effectiveness of the active ingredients, but also for the inactive ingredients. Many inactive ingredients found in animal products aren’t evaluated for use in people. Or they are included in much greater quantity than those used in people. In some cases, we don’t know how those inactive ingredients will affect how ivermectin is absorbed in the human body."

The math is $1,000,000 is the average price of a house in Toronto[1]. You usually need 20% down for a house at $1M or more[2]. Therefore you need $200,000 downpayment, which at $11K / year is about 18 years, assuming no compounding (which at least today is basically the case currently in Canada with interest rates where they are).

It should be noted though that it is pretty rare to reach $175K salary in the GTA before turning 30 (Average household income in Toronto is sub $100K[3]). Therefore for the majority of people it will take more than 18 years to build up that down-payment, which could be where the number in the article came from.

[1] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/average-gta-home-price-to-top-1-m.... [2] https://www.moneysense.ca/spend/real-estate/cmhc-tightens-mo... [3] https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/to...

Bitcoin is an almost perfect exploitation of humanities fatal flaws (greed, unwillingness to acknowledge externalities - i.e. selfishness). It's that old SF-trope that the cause of many of humanity's biggest problems is humans.

Congrats!

Just a heads up, as a semi-happy webflow customer: your customer service chat bot / the way you hide methods to contact customer service is very frustrating. The first time I ran into a technical issue I almost considered just cancelling my account and moving elsewhere because I couldn't figure out how to speak/chat with a human. There are many services I spend less money on monthly that have infinitely better customer service. Ultimately a friend provided me with your support email and I got a response there, but was shocked that wasn't listed anywhere on your website that I could easily find..

Price is set by the intersection of an ask and a bid; that the fact that a minimum of two people are willing to trade something at a specified price doesn't mean that thing is "successful", or even has value to society (i.e. fine art in private collections, POGs, Beanie Babies, etc...). Nocoiner's don't have a need for bitcoin, similar to me not having a need for fine art - it has nothing to do with what the price is set at.

Bitcoin is an almost perfect exploitation of humanities fatal flaws (greed, unwillingness to acknowledge externalities - i.e. selfishness). For that reason I think demand will continue to increase for Bitcoin / it will continue to increase in value.

You are correct, I did a poor job of summarizing the linked article and should have mentioned the Bloc's role in negotiations as well. Unfortunately I can no longer update my original comment now but am glad you highlighted this, I agree the only point I was trying to make is there is more than one moving part here.

A little more context: What's not mentioned in this article is that the Liberal party, currently in power, has a minority government, and therefore needs the support of either the NDP (left of the Liberal Party) or the Conservatives (right of Liberal Party) to get things done. NDP was pushing for extending the financial aid, which is likely a significant political reason why the liberals chose to extend CERB (in addition to not wanting a massive number of evictions to occur all at once...). Here is some more info on the give-and-take going on: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-bill-impasse-1.5605937

Did you ensure your new domain was indexed before doing the switchover? that seems to be a common mistake - people just turn off one domain and turn on the second domain the same day.

I've had success with launching the second domain (resolving to the same server as the first domain), waiting for the pages to be indexed, then 301 redirecting the old domain to the new domain / submitting the request via webmaster central.

I believe re point #1, it's this study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

Abstract: "32 HCoV-19 (SARS-2) has caused >88,000 reported illnesses with a current case-fatality ratio of ~2%. Here, we investigate the stability of viable HCoV-19 on surfaces and in aerosols in comparison with SARS-CoV-1. Overall, stability is very similar between HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1. We found that viable virus could be detected in aerosols up to 3 hours post aerosolization, up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to 2-3 days on plastic and stainless steel. HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 exhibited similar half-lives in aerosols, with median estimates around 2.7 hours. Both viruses show relatively long viability on stainless steel and polypropylene compared to copper or cardboard: the median half-life estimate for HCoV-19 is around 13 hours on steel and around 16 hours on polypropylene. Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days."

It's not peer reviewed yet so reader beware

Or get lucky... lots of people stumble into business... they are not the top of their field - they happen to be right place right time, and have sufficient skill to recognize the opportunity and not screw it up

Check out this book on the topic from Stripe's publishing arm:

https://www.amazon.com/Get-Together-build-community-people/d...

"Nearly every challenge of building a community can be met by asking yourself, “How do I achieve this by working with my people, not doing it for them?” In other words, approach community-building as progressive acts of collaboration—doing more with others every step of the way.

The throughline of our book is this simple concept: “build with.” It lives in each of the recommendations we make as we take you through three stages of building a community: sparking the flame, stoking the fire, and passing the torch. "

Wouldn't this be pretty easy to confirm by monitoring bandwidth consumption on a dormant computer running NordVPN? If bandwidth consumption is exponentially higher when their VPN client is enabled, then clearly they are passing traffic through your machine...