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4,416karma·3,765submissions·August 18, 2015
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Alberta needs a pathway through a foreign country to get their oil out right now. Existing pipelines lead to the US, and the Keystone XL expansion Obama halted, Trump resumed, and Biden halted. An ind…
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>I would never ask for them since its so cringe. But SAT scores correlate to IQ at .81 The combination of these two phrases is the equivalent to "I hate Trump, but ..." in another context…
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Source: < https://np.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1u92ll4/vis... >…
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I apologize on Twitter's behalf for it no longer obliging in hiding events that go against The Narrative(TM). But, as we've been discussing, Bluesky is always happy to censor as much as you …
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According to the media and on Reddit, since Musk bought Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads have collectively gained 70 bazillion users on seventeen different occasions, and have caused Twitter to …
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> Recently a Harvard president, Claudine Gay was sacked. But Gay's PhD was not revoked.
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Context: Until very recently, Sweden had no language, income, employment, or skills requirement for citizenship, of which permanent residency was a pathway for. It now , as of 2026, has some basic re…
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>France and Germany and the Netherlands may compete with each other to attract VC and tech firms, but they're ultimately no more capable of preventing each other from getting a runaway success…
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>You don't think US states compete with, undercut and stifle each other? Compete with each other, yes. But all US states take pride in Silicon Valley being American. No EU project for its own …
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>That being said, Canada is also getting skilled workers it did not pay to raise, educate and train. As raynier said, Canada's diminishing per-capita GDP does not in any way reflect this. It i…
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RCA owned NBC until 1986, when it was bought by GE. GE soon exited the TV business, but retained NBC for another two decades.
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> Palm wat
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>One of her colleagues, a thoughtful and senior policy officer whom she likes, implies during a lunch shortly after the Vance speeches that he thinks you probably don’t need vast data centres to ma…
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I've seen a lot of Germans talk about getting Starlink, for both the speed (400Mbps down) and stable uptime.
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Edited by me from "Software stocks wrap up best month since 2001 as talk of ‘SaaSpocalypse’ subsides"
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How do you like the Ally X versus Steam Deck?
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As others have told you, there is no evidence that increased school funding in and of itself results in better results. Contrary to what is often said, there is no shortage whatsoever of funding for p…
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What would you say the ratio is? 10:1? 20:1?
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> I think the power of the 64 was its' limited BASIC I am torn about this. Forcing people to use machine language for anything serious makes sense. The 10,000-strong C64 software library exist…
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What you and hiddenthrowaway wrote is consistent with my understanding, that Canadian FAANG offices are staffed mostly with those who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa, plus the odd local wh…
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I've heard Canada described as three mining companies standing on each other wearing a trenchcoat.