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Meal-kit delivery teardown: Blue Apron vs. HelloFresh
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Peter Rahal started RxBar out of his mom’s kitchen — then sold it for $600 million. Life on the other side of the entrepreneurial fantasy.
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Things chefs do that you should not do: Just say no to lemon zest, “ripping hot” pans, and the ice bath
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PostgreSQL 12 released
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A walk in Hong Kong - HK protests from point of view of a tourist
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The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in the US South
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SQL queries don't start with SELECT
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Sauropod Studio closes, laying off around 20
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Jews and Muslims in Sweden outraged over call to ban male circumcision
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashes at Hartford airport; at least seven reported dead
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Politics and the English language
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US hits Scotch whisky, Italian cheese, French wine, and other European products with 25% tariffs
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Why is Tildes not on Github?
Let me make a possibly unpleasant question: why is Tildes only on Gitlab? Do you self-host? Is it because of Microsoft? Or idealistic reasons (that I would totally 100% respect)? Github and...
Let me make a possibly unpleasant question: why is Tildes only on Gitlab? Do you self-host? Is it because of Microsoft? Or idealistic reasons (that I would totally 100% respect)?
Github and Microsoft may be "evil", but that's where everybody is. I'm 99% more prone to post an issue on Github than on Gitlab. I know it's "wrong", but that's also true and not just for me. Couldn't Tildes have at least some presence on Github? Is it possible for a mirror to get issues? (I really don't know, honest question). And why not just move to Github, mirror to Gitlab and have some super-reliable backup?
This would give Tildes more exposure (maybe Tildes doesn't want more exposure right now. That's entirely understandable). But Github is where things happen, and I really want Tildes to happen. And, even if Github ever turns evil (or already is), couldn't we just fork/transfer/whatever to someplace else? Or just use the backup? What's the downside?
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Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead collaborator and lyricist, dead at 78
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Social Networks or Social Nightmares? with Roger McNamee, Max Schrems and Evgeny Morozov
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Tabletop Weekly Discussion #3 - What's one of your favourite games?
This is a recurring thread in ~games.tabletop where we can talk about board games in a fun way. Feel free to discuss boardgames in any way you want, but I like to add a bit of a hook each week to...
This is a recurring thread in ~games.tabletop where we can talk about board games in a fun way. Feel free to discuss boardgames in any way you want, but I like to add a bit of a hook each week to spice things up. Here's my hook for this thread:
What's one of your favourite board game and why?
Edit: I made the question a bit less hard to answer - instead of your absolute favourite, pick a favourite, and talk about it.
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The story of the IBM Pentium 4 64-bit CPU
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Four police officers killed in knife attack at police HQ in Paris
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Norway's fifth and newest Unicef ambassador is 15-year-old Penelope Lea – the second-youngest ambassador of all time and the first climate activist to be chosen
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Finland's papers are dominated on Thursday by President Sauli Niinistö's extraordinary meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump
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Lua 5.4.0 (Beta)
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Interview with Hou Yifan, the number one female chess player in the world, on growing up as a prodigy in China, the gender gap and more
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Frostpunk | Official season pass trailer + first DLC "The Rifts" available now
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‘I am not my husband's handbag’ – Iceland's first lady, Eliza Reid speaks out about her incredibly weird job
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Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum
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Red to green: The stark evolution of Christchurch's abandoned acres
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For drivers, roads are safer than ever – but for people on foot, they are getting deadlier. Car companies and Silicon Valley claim that they have the solution. But is that too good to be true?
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Five tips for journalists on covering trans and nonbinary people
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Beard Board offers a rare avenue for constructive aesthetic feedback among men—minus the machismo that often accompanies it
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Elevator hacking: From the pit to the penthouse
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A federally sponsored anti-terrorism fusion center in Oregon helped police track environmental activists
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What if the US were treated like the rogue nation it is?
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Who favors unbreakable commercial encryption?
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360° view of Hong Kong’s National Day turmoil: Thomas Boarder shot a 360° frontline, 2k-resolution feature from the protests on Hong Kong Island, taking a blast from the water cannon in the process.
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Interview with one of the developers of Interslavic: the constructed language used in "The Painted Bird" which aims to be mutually intelligible with all Slavic languages.
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With alternatives stretched and neighbors angry, Seattle police return to arresting sex workers
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A new study posits that tsunamis triggered by the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 washed a deadly fungus onto the shore
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How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to PostgreSQL?
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The sun sets on We - The story of WeWork's IPO postponement and CEO ouster
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Watch enthusiasts/collectors
Do we have any watch enthusiasts or collectors on here ?. I’m more of an enthusiast than a collector, i do owned a couple but wouldn’t call it a Collection.
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Anyone watching the F1 race in Sochi, Russia today?
If so, any thoughts before, during or after the race? If not, feel free to ask any questions about the sport or motor racing in general, if you'd like to beef up the ole knowledges. ( Discord...
If so, any thoughts before, during or after the race?
If not, feel free to ask any questions about the sport or motor racing in general, if you'd like to beef up the ole knowledges.
( Discord server invite for more action : https://discordapp.com/invite/dCnYaSw )
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The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
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How a double-free bug in WhatsApp for Android could be turned into a remote code execution vulnerability
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Doctors working for the Department for Work and Pensions must respect a service user's pronoun choice
This is a bit complicated. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these...
This is a bit complicated.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these benefits are for people who cannot work because of disability. In order to qualify for some of these disability benefits you need to have a medical assessment with an "independent" doctor. This doctor is independent from the patient. They're employed by companies who are paid by the DWP, so there's supposed to be some kind of arm's length arrangement there.
A doctor was employed by one of these companies to do this assessment work for the DWP. He was a committed Christian. He held that he would not be able to refer to people by anything other than the gender they were assigned at birth.
The DWP is clear: you must respect a person's choice of pronouns.
The General Medical Council (the registrant body for doctors in England) is also clear: you must not impose your personal views upon your patients, especially if it's going to cause distress.
This doctor was spoken to about his beliefs. He declined to change his stance. He lost his job. He took his employer to employment tribunal for unfair dismissal based on discrimination against his protected characteristic: his religious views.
He lost his case.
Here's the legal document: https://christianconcern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-Resource-Judgment-Mackereth-DWP-Others-ET-191002.pdf
It's pretty long! 42 pages! The last pages give a summary.
You'll notice the URL. He was supported by the Christian Legal Centre. I won't say anything about them, but I'll link this page which gives some useful information: https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2018/04/on-the-naughty-step-the-questionable-ethics-of-the-christian-legal-centre/
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To make Later Alligator, Smallbu had to wrestle with game design
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Elizabeth Warren's new remedy for US corruption: A tax on lobbying
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Charming pixel art game Yes, Your Grace re-emerges after years of silence
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CSS is weird because it's solving a weird problem: what does it mean to design for an infinite and unknown canvas?
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Microsoft Surface Neo first look: The future of Windows 10X is dual-screen
9 votes