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Bluestein

11,068karma·5,744submissions·June 10, 2020
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  So, after decades of lurking, I decided to join. Please be gentle :)
PS. Lions. MD116.-
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"Nano makes money efficient for a more equal world - simple to pay with, easy to accept and open to all. Nano is fee-less, making it practical and inclusive for everyone in the world.Without rely…
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"Banks now create most of our money supply and need to be made public utilities, following the stellar precedent of the Bank of North Dakota, which makes below-market loans for local communities …
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"Radioactive waste and toxic mining byproducts will remain deadly for thousands of years – maybe forever. Generations in the distant future will need to know about the places this stuff is buried…
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"Hodl (/ˈhɒdəl/ HOD-əl; often written HODL) is slang in the cryptocurrency community for holding the cryptocurrency rather than selling it.[1] A person who does this is known as a Hodle…
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"A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting from the use of potentially abusive labor transfer programs."
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"Unnamed congressional staffers have accused Apple of trying to water down an anti forced labor bill that would place obligations on US companies to ensure their supply chain was not involved in …
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"[...] November, when Sinead Quinn, a hairdresser from West Yorkshire, was issued with fines totalling £17,000 for breaching national lockdown rules, put into place in an attempt to slow the rate…
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"The volatile virtual currency has gained more than 170% this year amid stock market turmoil. On Wednesday Bitcoin jumped 4.5% to as much as $20,440 buoyed by demand from large investors keen on …
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"Killer robots are weapons systems that, once activated, would select and fire on targets without meaningful human control. They are variously termed fully autonomous weapons or lethal autonomous…
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"In this lecture, Stanford University President John L. Hennessy leads a discussion with Stanford Engineering Hero Morris Chang, an innovator and entrepreneur who revolutionized the semiconductor…
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"Over the past ten months most people in the rich world have participated in the biggest shopping revolution in the West since malls and supermarkets conquered suburbia 50 years ago. The pandemic…
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"Above the din of chat-shows, dramas and documentaries streamed to blaring voice-activated speakers, a louder sound can be heard: ker-ching. On December 29th Spotify, an audio-streaming service, …
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"At the annual Web Summit conference, the founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, geneticist Pat Brown, said he is confident their mission to 'completely replace the use of animals as a food te…
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"You’re sitting in a chair, looking down. As you might expect, you see your body below you: arms, lap, and bent legs. But it’s not 'your' body, it’s a virtual one created by Mel Slater,…
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"As a keen badminton player Ugandan Catherine Nakalembe wanted to study sport science at university but a failure to get the required grades for a government grant set her on a path that led her …
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