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9 votes
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Magnetohydrodynamics - Propelling Liquid Metal with Magnets
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Litigation gone digital: Ottawa experiments with artificial intelligence in tax cases
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Anyone see the fire on Forest St tonight?
Looks like a fire in out back of one of the vacant houses on that block. There's a bunch of firetrucks outside and they've been working for an hour or so. I'm glad the smoke hasn't blown up north,...
Looks like a fire in out back of one of the vacant houses on that block. There's a bunch of firetrucks outside and they've been working for an hour or so. I'm glad the smoke hasn't blown up north, but we're all very awake so I dunno what we're gonna do now.
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Today, Europe lost the internet. Now, we fight back
10 votes -
Should topics be bumped when posts or comments are significantly edited?
I just edited a short comment into a significantly larger one, adding a lot more and different content than before. This did not bump the post the comment belonged to. Should it?
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Honest diversity in tech report
7 votes -
Getting started with qemu
9 votes -
Watch Your Hack
6 votes -
The São Paulo taxi firm that dares to go where Uber doesn't
4 votes -
Controversial Copyright Directive approved by EU Parliament
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GCHQ data collection violated human rights, Strasbourg court rules. Spies breached right to privacy in programme revealed by Edward Snowden, judges say
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Now that the Copyright Directive has been voted through, I think it's relevant to share what type of MP's voted for this crap...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/ I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/
I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's rather shocking how someone so ignorant can have any kind of power over something that they clearly know nothing about. Here's what Danish MEP Jens Rohde had to say about the public response to the directive in a Facebook post of his from ~2 months ago:
Always pleasant when the web communists hack and spam my PC in parliament. 50,000 e-mails just yesterday containing largely identical messages - in difference languages though.
This time because I tomorrow vote in favor of artist copyright is valid on the internet as well as everywhere else.
This is not about mass surveillance.
This is not about limiting freedom of speech unless you steal others' content for commercial use.
This is also not about the so-called link tax in article 11. Bloggers can calmly continue working.
This is simply about active commercial platforms which must pay to use people's content for commercial purposes. All passive platforms, marketplaces, wikis, clouds, closed networks are exempt from this proposition that I've helped create and vote for tomorrow.
Creators can themselves ask that their content is monitored, or they can upload it unprotected. That's their choice.
Technology has NOT been considered in the proposal. That will come later.
And let me repeat for the hundredth time: spam as well as hacking is especially counterproductive to me, if you want to promote your cause.
By the way, I will never subscribe to the communist pirate opinion that FREE internet is the same as internet for FREE - no matter how much you attack my PC.
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Occitan, the language the French forbade
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Does anyone else feel like people are unreasonably impatient?
Everyday I am more surprised how impatient people are, and how ridiculous the behavior that stems from it is. The street in front of my house is a four-lane street. There is a stop sign 30 ft at...
Everyday I am more surprised how impatient people are, and how ridiculous the behavior that stems from it is.
The street in front of my house is a four-lane street. There is a stop sign 30 ft at the end of the block. Just about every morning I will back out and there will be a car that will get into the next lane and then overtake me just so they can slam on their brakes because there's a line of cars at the four-way stop 30 feet ahead. I just don't understand that behavior. Drivers in general seem so impatient and I don't know why they are always in a hurry. We have major accidents here daily.
I've been trying to get a package delivered since last Friday. The post office has been making it real hard to get due to issues on their end. This morning I got a voicemail to go pick it up at the station around the corner.
I'm in line and this woman asked if anyone is there just to pick up. So I say yes I am and I walk up and I give the guy my information. This woman behind me reaches around right next to my face and says can you get this for me? Like it isn't my turn.
They can't find my package because I was told wrong and they didn't actually have it it was out for delivery. This woman has been waiting about 60 seconds and you can hear her sighing and then she leaps to the register next to me as soon as a woman walks up asking for her package.
This woman was making a big deal about having to wait not even 2 minutes for her package.
I just don't understand why people are so impatient. I mean I was frustrated as could be about my package because they kept flip-flopping on me but I wasn't acting put out like it was the worst thing in the world.
Is it entitlement? What is it? People get mad when they have to wait in line behind one person at the grocery store who has already been rung up and is just paying at that point. I mean why are they actually getting upset over this stuff.
And they never learn. I'll be checked out and leaving by the time they are being rung up because they spent 5 minutes looking for a short line. I don't get it.
31 votes -
Ink cartridges are a scam
18 votes -
Americans want to believe jobs are the solution to poverty. They’re not
36 votes -
The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security
21 votes -
Manhattan district attorney's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
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Is anyone interested in a discussion thread for Bojack Horseman season 5 once it's released?
Needless to say I'm very excited and would definitely talk about it if others want to. That being said, r/BojackHorseman is still going strong so another thread over here may be redundant. Let's...
Needless to say I'm very excited and would definitely talk about it if others want to. That being said, r/BojackHorseman is still going strong so another thread over here may be redundant. Let's vote on this.
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Reddit has banned the QAnon conspiracy subreddit r/GreatAwakening
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What is a favorite book of yours, and why should people read it if they haven't?
I know it's about impossible for me to come up with a favorite of all time, so pick one of your favorites, and tell the rest of us why we should read it!
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Starting to experiment a little with using data scraped from the destination of link topics
This is very minor so far, but I think it's good to have a topic devoted to it so that people have somewhere to discuss it, instead of having it come up randomly in topics that it applies to. I've...
This is very minor so far, but I think it's good to have a topic devoted to it so that people have somewhere to discuss it, instead of having it come up randomly in topics that it applies to.
I've recently started scraping some data about the destination of link topics using Embedly's "Extract" API (Embedly was kind enough to give me a reasonable amount of free usage since Tildes is a non-profit). You can put in the url of an article/video/etc. on that page to get an idea of what sort of data I can get from it, if you'd like to see for yourself.
I've only just started tinkering with it, and so far the data is only being used in two small ways:
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Tweets now display the entire text of the tweet on the topic listing page, similar to the "excerpt" from text topics. You can see an example here.
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On topic listings, the date that an article was published will be shown (after the domain name) if the publication date was at least 3 days before it was submitted. There are a few examples in the recent posts in ~misc
I'll probably adjust this threshold, but I'd like it to be an amount of time where the age of the content might feel "significant". It would also be possible to just show this info all the time, but I think the topic listings are already fairly cluttered so it's probably best to hide it when it's not interesting/significant.
As I said, these are very tiny changes so far, but there are lots of other possibilities that I hope to start using before long. I've mentioned this before, but something I'd really like to do overall is try to bring in more data about the links where it's possible to be able to show things like the lengths of videos and so on.
Let me know if you have any thoughts about it or notice any issues, thanks.
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A series of suspicious money transfers followed the Trump Tower meeting
15 votes -
Eddie Kendricks - Ain't No Smoke Without Fire (K-Melson Edit)
3 votes -
Good news: Remote work is more accepted. Bad news: You might not want it.
22 votes -
Banda Black Rio - Mr Funky Samba (1977)
4 votes -
FDA cracks down on Juul and e-cigarette retailers
8 votes -
On The Sidelines Of Democracy: Exploring Why So Many Americans Don't Vote
10 votes -
Whole Foods workers are moving to unionize
15 votes -
Why I let my daughter wear makeup to school
13 votes -
The Julia Language Challenge
4 votes -
US House Democrats’ top priority if they win in November is a sweeping anti-corruption bill
18 votes -
Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google
15 votes -
Americans want to believe jobs are the solution to poverty. They’re not.
12 votes -
My Review of 5/3/1's Pervertor Template
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Earliest known drawing found on rock in South African cave. Researchers believe the pattern on the fragment of rock is 73,000 years old, but are perplexed as to what it might represent
6 votes -
Natasha Aponte, woman who tricked thousands of men on Tinder, explains purpose behind dating competition
12 votes -
Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots - Amen Corner (2004)
3 votes -
Feedbin goes private by default, explains design desicions to enhance user privacy
10 votes -
North Carolina didn't like science on sea levels…so passed a law against it
12 votes -
LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command
13 votes -
100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.
11 votes -
D.C.-Based Pro-Israel Group Secretly Ran Misleading Facebook Ads to Target Pro-Palestinian Activist
5 votes -
Writing a simple SQL interpreter in Julia
7 votes -
Hurricane Florence isn't alone: Four powerful storms seen from space in one day
9 votes -
The startup world’s cuddly, cutthroat battle to walk your dog
5 votes -
Facebook punishes liberal news site after fact check by right-wing site
10 votes -
Democrats Don’t Care About Policy Compromise Anymore — Just Like Republicans
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Year for setting of Star Trek: Picard show established; storyline teased by Executive Producer
16 votes