#Database

In the 1960s, the UK Public Records Office (now the National Archives) decided to sample and then destroy a large collection of shipping papers--crew agreements which were labour records documenting
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There are so many BIG stories going on, it's impossible to keep up. For example, I entirely missed *this* until today: The Trump administration's efforts to obscure (& who knows
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There should be a saying, in an old man’s voice that goes like this:Being for “profit”, isn’t the same as being for “prophet”And being “not for profit”, does not mean
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1/ Read our new report, “Getting to the Source of Infodemics: It’s the Business Model.” Targeted advertising is exacerbating today’s misinformation infodemic, threatening democratic discourse and public health. https://www.newameric
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As the coronavirus spread across the world in early 2020, millions of people found themselves trapped in what is now understood to be one of the most dangerous places during
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"Superresolution" AI is weird - it can't recover info that doesn't exist in the low-res input so it invents detail.This is PULSE, whose task is to find a high-res image
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How To Get Free Data On Airtel-Free Airtime HackA thread https://www.techkibay.com/how-to-get-free-data-on-airtel-free-airtime-hack/ Buying data always sucks but we gonna be revealing the trick to getting free data on your Airtel Line.
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Great question! In Donna's hypo: The worker may be disqualified from benefits at any of a half-dozen levels of review of her claim, and The worker's benefits will be interrupted
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We hear that the Digital Green Certificate (DGC) is good news as it will enable "safe free movement". Safe free movement is great news, the technical proposal not so much
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We've all heard that #COVID is an "extinction event" for local news, but what about the bright spots where local news is making a difference? We've worked on a Civic
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It's been a while since I did a book stats threadAnd since I can't stop thinking about this *awful*, racist quote from the #rethinkingdiversity reportI've spent some time thinking about
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Leon Goretzka is on steroidsThis is what Bayern fans don’t want you to know!Bayern is feeding their players with steroids, a thread!!! Ok, now that I have your attention I
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The Sell out of Australia to Communist ChinaChina owns so much of Australia already - we could be classed as a vassal state of the #CCP. Chinese philosophy is one
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If this were audio, I would be shouting.Thread follows (LOUD)On July 10 @HHSGov issued a #COVID19 report in which it was announced the @CDCgov would no longer be collecting epidemic
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The question isn’t whether or not the virus came from a lab, the question is whether it was intentionally released or leaked out accidentally. If it was intentional, here’s why
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Just finished watching the fantastic #IDWeek2020 session “Top Papers in Medical Mycology” by Drs. Jeniel Nett and @PeterGPappas, highly recommend watching. They covered notable papers, and I took a stab
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