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US Congressional Budget Office annual report projects continued economic growth, but federal deficits and debts reaching levels not seen since just after World War II
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Misteramazing doesn't understand music theory
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Copenhagen fashion week announces radical sustainability goals – hopes to transform it into a platform for advocacy with tough new environmental requirements for participants
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The deadliest disaster in maritime history happened seventy-five years ago this week: Thousands of German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank
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Many Kentucky jails prop up their budgets by selling e-cigarettes to inmates. Some jailers, or their friends and family, are making money while jails overlook the health concerns of vaping products.
5 votes -
My Chemical Romance announce full reunion tour
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Australians wanting to take part in the government’s evacuation plan out of Wuhan may have to pay $1000 in order to get to Christmas Island
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Komodo ActiveState IDE Now Free
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Staff at Ottawa County Jail in Oklahoma mocked a sick man and denied care as he begged for help, video shows. Days later, he was dead.
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Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois
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SolarRoof.Cool — A crash course on Tesla's Solarglass roof, Powerwall, and sustainable energy systems, from the perspective of an owner.
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The oral history of Prince’s Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show
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Deciphering the genetic diversity of leaf shapes
5 votes -
Do you use Github Actions for continuous integration?
I recently came across an article about setting up automated builds (installation, code quality check, running tests) using Github Actions. I've since found a few more articles excitedly promoting...
I recently came across an article about setting up automated builds (installation, code quality check, running tests) using Github Actions. I've since found a few more articles excitedly promoting the feature and, from my personal testing, it seems to work quite well.
I was wondering if others had begun using this feature for their own projects, or had tried it and disliked it and used something else. Is there any broader community consensus towards which tasks it's best-suited for and when to use something more robust?
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'Utter chaos': Coronavirus exposes China healthcare weaknesses
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Victoria's Attorney-General Jill Hennessy has written to Australia's governor-general, asking him to overturn men’s rights activist Bettina Arndt's Order of Australia
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YouTube: bad? - Shannon Strucci's musing on YouTube, fan toxicity, issues with takedowns, and the ups and downs of a YouTube career
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The Pedestrian - Launch trailer
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Jupyter Notebooks in the IDE: Visual Studio Code versus PyCharm
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MoviePass and its parent company have both filed for bankruptcy and will liquidate their assets
6 votes -
Transparent and verifiable electronic elections are technically feasible, but the techniques used are not actually viable for running most elections—and definitely not for remote voting
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
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Why do cartoon villains speak in foreign accents?
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Gay asylum seekers seeking protection in Australia were asked by government officials if they could pretend to be straight to avoid persecution in their home countries
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Know Your Vote – A primary source collection of candidates' platforms
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First images from the National Science Foundation's Inouye Solar Telescope show the surface of the sun at the highest resolution ever
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Upcycle Windows 7
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The Big Dig jazz show, episode 7: The Spy Who Funked Me
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A disturbing number of people think Coronavirus is related to Corona Beer
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NPR is asking the State Department to explain its decision to deny an NPR reporter press credentials to travel with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on an upcoming trip to Europe
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Why was Singapore kicked out of Malaysia?
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On the 200th anniversary of his death, George III’s collection of more than 3,000 military maps, views and prints in the Royal Collection have been made publicly available online
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An adult’s guide to social skills, for those who were never taught
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How sustainable is a solar powered website?
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The fight to make bad jobs better
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Why are drink coasters flat?
A drink coaster goes under a glass or cup, and is intended to catch any condensation or spillage from the glass, to protect the tabletop underneath. But most coasters are flat.* Any liquid that...
A drink coaster goes under a glass or cup, and is intended to catch any condensation or spillage from the glass, to protect the tabletop underneath.
But most coasters are flat.* Any liquid that gathers on them can roll off the edges onto the table. Some coasters are made of a water-absorbing material, like cardboard or cork, but some are made of materials that repel water, like metal or ceramic or plastic.
I ask this because I recently discovered a small coaster-like tray with an upraised lip around the edge. Strictly speaking, it's not a coaster, but it's exactly the right size to be used as a coaster - and, with the upraised lip around the edge, it actually prevents liquid from escaping onto the table.
So why are coasters flat?
(I bought some of the lipped not-coasters to use as coasters. This design makes sense to me. And they happen to look nice as well.)
* It was only while researching coasters online prior to making this post that I discovered that some coasters have lips. Every coaster I've seen in real life is flat.
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Visualizing disinformation networks on Twitter: Watch six decade-long disinformation operations unfold in six minutes
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Designing the simulation of the wild and wonderful Planet Zoo
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Scroll: A subscription service partnered with major websites that removes ads and many trackers, and pays sites based on your usage
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What are your hobbies?
What sort of things do you do for fun and entertainment?
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You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local.
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Godot 3.2 has been released
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Two defunct satellites will narrowly avoid colliding on Wednesday evening, passing each other just fifteen to thirty meters apart while travelling at 14.7 kilometers per second
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NICE choses not to recommend esketamine for treatment resistant depression
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Create a Logline
Per @mrbig: What is a logline?: a brief summary (25 to 40 words) of a story for film, television or book that states the central conflict and an emotional "hook", with the purpose of stimulating...
Per @mrbig:
What is a logline?: a brief summary (25 to 40 words) of a story for film, television or book that states the central conflict and an emotional "hook", with the purpose of stimulating interest (Wikipedia).
A logline is evaluated not exactly for what a story is (since it does not contain a complete story), but for what it can be. Suggestions usually seek to maximize the dramatic potential of the idea.
Create a Logline, and you can chose to reply to others with your interpretation of how their stories would go.
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Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
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Jumpshot, a subsidiary of antivirus company Avast, is selling users' web browsing data to many of the world's biggest companies
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How Finland starts its fight against fake news in schools – country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information
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Smaller TN waterways lose protection under new EPA rule
3 votes