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9 votes
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
8 votes -
Black Lives Matter mass movement spreads internationally: US ruling class on the defensive
14 votes -
How and why GraphQL will influence the SourceHut alpha
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Arizona's COVID-19 spread is 'alarming' and action is needed, experts warn
8 votes -
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
18 votes -
System of a Down - Toxicity Cover by Halocene, Lauren Babic, and Violet Orlandi
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
12 votes -
Daniel Radcliffe responds to JK Rowling's latest tweets about gender identity
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Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement on its board of directors
18 votes -
Australian actor Meyne Wyatt supports Black Lives Matter with powerful monologue on racism on Q+A
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 10
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
11 votes -
We mapped where Customs and Border Protection drones are flying in the US and beyond
8 votes -
Fujifilm will spend $928 million to double capacity at a drug manufacturing facility in Denmark, which it has pledged to use in producing COVID-19 treatments
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A neat introduction to representation theory and its impact on mathematics
5 votes -
After ten years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
33 votes -
Swedish prosecutors have named Stig Engström as the man who killed former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, ending years of mystery
5 votes -
What are your most obscure finds that are musically excellent?
14 votes -
How many hours per day are you working?
If you are tracking your time, how many hours of focused work are you doing per day on average? What I mean with focused work is only the time that you are working. Not counting the time you take...
If you are tracking your time, how many hours of focused work are you doing per day on average?
What I mean with focused work is only the time that you are working. Not counting the time you take a break, not counting the time you go to the bathroom, not counting the time you get up to drink water, etc. If you don't stop your time-tracker during non-work activities, please mention it.
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Changing the world with drones – Helena Samsioe is widely known as the 'Drone Queen' since founding GLOBHE in 2015
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No coronavirus cases from community transmission in two weeks, New South Wales Health confirm
Article: No coronavirus cases from community transmission in two weeks, NSW Health confirm Context: New South Wales has recorded 31 new coronavirus cases in the past 2 weeks, but all these new...
Article: No coronavirus cases from community transmission in two weeks, NSW Health confirm
Context:
New South Wales has recorded 31 new coronavirus cases in the past 2 weeks, but all these new cases have been in returned international travellers. Returned international travellers are forced to spend 14 days in quarantine (in 5-star hotel rooms) before being let loose on the Australian populace. So, these cases are not contributing to the pandemic in Australia's population.
New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, has achieved zero community transmission. Most other states and territories have already achieved this, or are very close to achieving it.
The worst state in Australia for community transmission is Victoria, which has 1 or 2 cases of community transmission turn up every couple of days.
On another note, there are reportedly 432 active cases of coronavirus infections across Australia (or 450, depending on the source). However, that number of active cases exceeds the total number of new infections recorded across the country for the past month. I believe it's likely that some health departments (notably NSW's) are failing to follow up recovered cases, so that recoveries are understated and active cases are overstated.
Elimination of the coronavirus in Australia was tantalisingly close leading up to the protests last weekend. We're still waiting to see the outcome of those.
Fingers crossed!
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Clubhouse - Buzzy new "spontaneous social" app | How does social capital work in context of live audio
3 votes -
Razer’s Kishi turns your phone into a Nintendo Switch lookalike that can play Google Stadia
5 votes -
‘A hot, flaming mess’: Georgia primary beset by chaos, long lines
9 votes -
The educational standardization trap
10 votes -
Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
10 votes -
Entire Roman city revealed using ground penetrating radar
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Does anyone else feel like it's really weird to be right here in the moment?
It feels so strange. I am right here in time. Not in the past, when I screwed up some stuff. Not in the future when I'll be living somehow, whether like a good adult or somehow else. It just feels...
It feels so strange. I am right here in time. Not in the past, when I screwed up some stuff. Not in the future when I'll be living somehow, whether like a good adult or somehow else. It just feels strange to be so aware of it. So aware of the moment, of the fact that I am currently typing stuff into a textbox on a website, hoping someone else relates to this feeling.
21 votes -
Cheesy Medieval/Fantasy cover of "What is Love"
10 votes -
Britain about to pass a significant landmark—two months of coal-free electricity generation—as renewables edge out fossil fuels
18 votes -
Noam Chomsky explains the best way for ordinary people to make change in the world, even when it seems daunting
20 votes -
Eminem - Evil Twin (Instrumental)
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Building a viable future in Destiny 2
8 votes -
Kathy Sullivan becomes first human to have been in space and at full ocean depth, participates in first call between International Space Station and DSSV Pressure Drop
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chardetng: A More Compact Character Encoding Detector for the Legacy Web
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South Asia emerges as a new coronavirus hotspot as unsustainable lockdowns start lifting while limited testing obscures the true size of outbreaks
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Has your local climate gotten noticeably warmer in your lifetime?
I was just thinking, it does seem that where I am summers and winters are hotter than they used to be (I'm in the northern Midwestern US). Actually this winter we had a few days where it got over...
I was just thinking, it does seem that where I am summers and winters are hotter than they used to be (I'm in the northern Midwestern US). Actually this winter we had a few days where it got over 60 degrees(!) and I do feel like it snows less than when I was a kid. But I've only been alive for less than 2 decades and I don't think the global temperature has actually risen a lot in that time? So I'm curious, has anyone else personally felt the affects of climate change in their own climate? And if so, since when?
edit: I also remember seeing lots of fireflies when I was younger. Haven't seen one in years.
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The impending doom of expiring root Certificate Authorities and legacy clients
6 votes -
Ending my relationship with Cards Against Humanity and Max Temkin
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Confessions of a former bastard cop - An essay by a former police officer on why police are like this
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?6 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
7 votes -
Death of a typeface
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Bill and Ted Face the Music | Official trailer 1
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Do you think there will be a 'silver lining' or any long-term results from these protests?
I think the biggest effect of this will be that a lot of white suburban Klobuchar-ites will be more apprehensive of keeping the police as it is and a lot of progressives (like me, I always thought...
I think the biggest effect of this will be that a lot of white suburban Klobuchar-ites will be more apprehensive of keeping the police as it is and a lot of progressives (like me, I always thought it was a class matter disguised as a race one) will take identity politics and racism more seriously and see themselves as privileged white people because it's become pretty hard not to. There will also be a lot of people in poor countries who will relate to the experience of being brutalized by the police and see the US as increasingly like them. I'm Brazilian and I honestly can't really see how is the US any better than my country anymore and in my state I scarcely see the police with more than batons and only in Rio de Janeiro (where drug gangs hide in the mountains and the state government is run by the party led by a former military officer) is the police really comparable.
Organizers might see that strength in numbers does little against FOX News and other media outlets so serious organization (proper mottos for example) might be taken more seriously.
Black people might be energized enough by this to turnout at an equal rate to white people despite the institutional barriers, which hasn't happened since Obama.
17 votes -
Apple plans to announce move to its own Mac chips at WWDC
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My favourite football game – when Denmark beat Uruguay 6-1 at the 1986 World Cup (Michael Gibbons, co-author of "Danish Dynamite" with Rob Smyth and Lars Eriksen)
7 votes -
Donald Trump administration to make it easier for hunters to kill bear cubs and wolf pups in Alaska — A ban against luring mothers from their dens with doughnuts and other treats will be lifted
8 votes -
Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 9
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
14 votes -
IBM exits facial recognition business, calls for US police reform
20 votes