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Australia's covid policy of indefinitely banning citizens from leaving was the last straw for me. I won't be back.

Most Americans live in a state where unemployment benefits is easily enough for food.

> If you share anything at all over Facebook, you should expect it to be in someone's personal dossier of you, forever. No, they shouldn't, and this why we have privacy laws .

People post on facebook assuming the privacy model of facebook, where they have revokable control of who sees what they share. What do you think your friends would say if you told …

Facebook deletes the data when a user asks. OP is explicitly trying retain a copy of people's data against their wishes.

Please stop this. This is a huge violation of your friend's privacy. Just because a friend has shared something with you on facebook doesn't mean they expect it to be in someone's …

Not necessarily. One datapoint: Amazon pays fulfilment workers $15/hour in the US, but €11/hour (~$12) in Germany

That's similar performance to NASA's Gipsy solver and a couple other PPP solutions. The practical problem is PPP falls apart when there's any sort of multipath or noise, with will …

Amazon changed this because many recent lawsuits have used the fact there's no direct buyer seller relationship to argue Amazon should be liable for defective products instead of t…

Should 51% of losses come out of employees pockets?

> The law requires them to do a proper Fair Use analysis prior to lodging any complaint under the DMCA. No it doesn't

No taxes on fuel isn’t a subsidy, there’s a natural race to the bottom on fuel prices because airlines can easily put more fuel in in a cheaper country. Meanwhile, in Germany and F…

It does just stay there in a well run landfill, and microplastics mostly either come from tyres and cosmetics, or plastics that aren't disposed of in landfills. There's some poorly…

Direct Air Capture can pull carbon out of the atmosphere for ~$200 per tonne. Flying generates about 0.1 tonne per passenger-hour. We can make flying carbon neutral and it'd only b…

What's wrong with putting plastic in landfills?

> I am sure that the deletion of media files in services like Facebook has never meant to be absolute. Many of my colleagues believe the same thing that I believe: Facebook and oth…

"You just create a new Facebook at Work account to connect with coworkers. This account is separate from your personal Facebook but works in similar ways." ( https://work.fb.com )

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With the meek-amazon or meek-azure bridges it works fine, albeit slowly.

~85% of the world population are covered by mobile networks There are more people who have access but don't buy data because it's too expensive than people outside of any coverage.…

Intelligence doesn't work like that. Take AIXI, define a reward in terms of paperclips and (if it were actually computable) you will kill everything. Intelligence and any considera…

1c/GB is a tenth of the price of datacenter bandwidth, a hundredth of residential DSL or cable access bandwidth and a thousandth the price of mobile bandwidth. You're off by three …