#Technological

Historic, unprecedented, essential, are all deserved adjectives to qualify the EU Summit decision on the €750bn Recovery deal. Common debt issuance (almost Eurobonds) to fund European fiscal stimulus in a
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The @theRCN Trade Union Committee met on 1st July 2020 and have the following key messages to share with members We noted the update on National Staff Council Trade Union
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1/ One of the most intriguing scientific challenges of the century is quantum computing. Nobody knows where it's going to go, and when. 2/ The scale of the difficulty is
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"Why should I work for the ICO’s technology department?The ICO is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies
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What is freegold anyway ? FOA:By holding gold as a "free reserve asset" and not an actual "currency backing" asset, gold can be used in nation to nation trade settlement
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Copied from a friends post. Very worth the read and sharing. Hey, what else have you got to do?!!Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but you need to know
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Technology and Demons This is the core tenant of my ideology, everything is connected to this and it’s implications influence everything. Every day I see more evidence to support it.
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I watched the film "Planet of the Humans" this morning. It is awful. It scientifically illiterate, it is intellectually shallow, and relies on bogus environmental tropes like overpopulation (see below)
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Here's why I'm not impressed with either:1. Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist: He may be brilliant in that field, but the writings for which he is popularly known are
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Welcome to this discussion on whether #alternative meats can bring more to the heartland than just burgers. Moderated by @LATimes’s @aminawrite, and featuring... featuring: @TheBTI's @alexjmssmith,@ASU_SFIS's Christy Spackman, @St
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1) Imagine a society where it was almost universally accepted that it was okay to take something from you, without your knowledge, and gives it to someone else.That is the
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As a service to students and the greater good, if your institution is considering a contract with Turnitin or any remote proctoring software company, I will gladly take a meeting
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This thread is very interesting, but it furthered my view that suppressing the epidemic with "test and trace" is a pipe dream. It would require a degree of competence on
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This is going to sound insane but I absolutely promise you it's true. The first use of the word "accelerationist" that I've been able to identify is in a sci-fi
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1. I don't think anyone not personally involved can really litigate the interpersonal drama between Bari Weiss & her colleagues. Let's just say there are conflicting stories. What's more interesting
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Thread/China sees standards as next front in power competition. “The strategic game among big powers is no longer limited to market scale competition or that for technological superiority. It is
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