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12 votes
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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
10 votes -
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
4 votes -
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
8 votes -
What if the US were treated like the rogue nation it is?
12 votes -
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.
9 votes -
With alternatives stretched and neighbors angry, Seattle police return to arresting sex workers
9 votes -
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
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Jamal Khashoggi, one year later
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LCCS: The LCD/CRT hybrid from JVC
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Cube World wasn't worth the wait
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GTA Online is six years old today, a look at GTA Online over the years
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What are you reading these days? #29
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. Notes We're coming up on #30! Exciting! Previous...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
Notes
We're coming up on #30! Exciting!
Previous topics
Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
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Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The $2,000 phone of the future is here—please don’t break it
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How a big enough news story — like impeachment — could warp the polls
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Hypothetics: let's say it takes 1/100 of the current fuel to take a spacecraft out of Earth's atmosphere. What happens?
This is obviously a thought-experiment, but maybe an interesting one. Let's say we get a super-efficient, eco-friendly alternative fuel that can do whatever rocket fuel does now with 1/100 of the...
This is obviously a thought-experiment, but maybe an interesting one. Let's say we get a super-efficient, eco-friendly alternative fuel that can do whatever rocket fuel does now with 1/100 of the cost, 1/100 of volume and 100% more efficiency. What does it change in the short term?
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Video games don't lead to violence...
@bbcnottingham: Goose smashes through taxi window https://t.co/RThaDIRumk
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Denmark's new government to boost spending after years of austerity, following a campaign pledge to reverse years of cuts by previous administrations
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Flight shame could halve growth in air traffic – Swedish concept of 'flygskam' appears to be spreading
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Norway's massive wealth fund got the go-ahead to sell oil and gas stocks worth $5.9 billion
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How big oil of the past helped launch the solar industry of today
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A woman has been killed and ten other people wounded in a sword attack at a vocational school in the Finnish city of Kuopio
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'At what point does malfeasance become fraud?’: NYU Biz-School Professor Scott Galloway on WeWork
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Snowden in the Labyrinth
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Count the overall time someone spends on Tildes
1. The Idea Counting overall time would be awesome already. In order to avoid overloading the servers, you could just count every 5, 10 hours or something like that. As a plus (I have no idea how...
1. The Idea
Counting overall time would be awesome already. In order to avoid overloading the servers, you could just count every 5, 10 hours or something like that.
As a plus (I have no idea how hard this is, please forgive me), there could be graphs showing how much time you spent by day, week, month, year, etc.
This would be a good way to help Tilders prevent Tildes addiction (on the other hand, there would have to be some mechanic to prevent people from gamyfying this...).
This time count would be entirely private to each user by default, but there would the option to display it.
2. The Reason
I find that knowing how much time I spent on something helps me be more productive. It's the entire reason for the existence of tools such Rescue Time, Waka Time and Toggl. If I know how much I spend on a platform, it's easier to control my addiction to it. These other tools are heavy and focused on billing hours. That's not my use case. I know this might seem silly, but it makes a lot of difference for some people. 7.2% of the world's population has ADHD. I happen to be one of them.
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Rx - An extensible pixel editor inspired by Vi
9 votes