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This is a fantastic analysis of the different bloques within the Democratic primary. It's a must read.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/t

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Cable's Response To Surging Streaming Competition? More Price Hikes techdirt.com/articles/20190105

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Scully worries about Doggett's new videogame habit. Mulder accuses a corporate executive of being an alien.

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Networks giving Trump free airtime on Tuesday refused to air Obama’s 2014 immigration speech vox.com/policy-and-politics/20

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Don't kill yourself yet, we still need your labor!

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5.25 Million Unencrypted Passport Numbers Accessed in Starwood Breach bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

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Half of people who think they have a food allergy do not – study theguardian.com/society/2019/j

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Bart Groeneveld  

So, USB C is getting DRM.
So, one usb implementation might ignore a connection with another implementation, even whilst they otherwise perfectly implement the standard.
How is that a standard anymore?!
How is that "universal"?!

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Open registration on assortedflotsam.com is closed. Too many spambots.

Existing members can invite new members.

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Stomach virus for both me and my kiddo. Happy fucking Christmas.

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Nate Cull  

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

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Prasanna Venkadesh  

You know that a monopoly has been attained when people refer to a generic practice with a specific name.

For example asking how gmail works instead of how email works; search in Google instead of search the web; asking for WhatsApp number instead of phone number, etc.,

It is also when we realize the dangers of it and sense the need to fight back the monopolies.

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Interior Secretary Zinke resigns amid investigations washingtonpost.com/national/he

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The IRS audits the working poor at higher rates than they audit the wealthy. The concern here obviously isn't lost revenue, it's about stealing from the government by the wealthy not paying their fair share.

propublica.org/article/earned-

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Dmitri Sotnikov ⚛️  
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Matej Ľach ✅  

Google hearing Show more

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yukiame  
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My poor kiddo has had a rough month. First an upper respiratory bug, on and off coughing, then random high fevers, now conjunctivitis and ear infections.

It was a little scary the other day when I noticed he wasn't watching his cartoon, because he couldn't hear it. Later he came up to me with his truck saying the siren didn't work. It worked, he just couldn't hear it.

He's much better now after days of antibiotics. We can hold a conversation at a normal volume level.

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Is there any benefit in running a relay on a small instance?

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Orion's Maverick  

Say what you will about Edge, I've very rarely seen any criticism about it that wasn't completely valid but it's one of the few non-chromium rendering engines and the chakra engine was open sourced a couple of years ago.

Another browser once again moving to Blink/Chromium is uhhhh bad and web monoculture is garbage

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/1

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