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Sun, 28 Feb 2021

Janet Yellen on Jobs, Debt, Taxes, Climate and Cryptocurrency: “...the amount of energy that’s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering.” [As opposed to the very small amount of energy used in the existing financial system?]

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Fri, 26 Feb 2021

Biden administration conducts air strikes in Syria [The anti-war left is a distant memory. Remember Cindy Sheehan?]

http://sobr.org/gYN

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Tue, 23 Feb 2021

“For every $100 spent by Australian advertisers today, $49 goes to Google and $24 to Facebook, according to the country's competition watchdog.”

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Sun, 21 Feb 2021

Exclusive: White House working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers [I think this pretty much kills the “they are private companies and can do what they want” argument.]

http://sobr.org/gYb

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Mon, 15 Feb 2021

A Texas-Sized Gas-for-Electricity Swap: "...winter peak would be 'nothing the grid couldn’t evolve to handle,' according to co-author Joshua Rhodes." [This is what happens when government incentivizes a market to move too fast.]

http://sobr.org/gXr

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Tue, 09 Feb 2021

Emergency valve cover gasket replacement. Not what I was wanting to spend time on right now. But at least it’s dead simple on this truck.

http://sobr.org/gWu

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Mon, 08 Feb 2021

Yellen (on stimulus checks): “Asked about the risk of over-stimulating the economy and generating inflation, Yellen said: ‘We have good tools to deal with that risk if it materializes.’” [What are these magical “tools” exactly?]

http://sobr.org/gWq

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Sat, 06 Feb 2021

Nigeria Central Bank urges its banks to close accounts of crypto users: “Sub-Saharan Africa is currently home to the second-largest peer-to-peer Bitcoin transaction volume in the world behind North America”

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Wed, 27 Jan 2021

Working from home is losing its effectiveness, bank execs say.

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Thu, 21 Jan 2021

Current U.S. Coronavirus Surge Has Peaked, Some Experts Say: "We are coming down, slowly. This is very good news — very good news."

http://sobr.org/gUz

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Sun, 10 Jan 2021

Bitcoin Miners Saw 33% Revenue Increase in December

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Ticketmaster fined $10 million for breaking into rival’s systems: "Ticketmaster employees repeatedly accessed a competitor’s computers without authorization using stolen passwords to unlawfully collect business intelligence..."

http://sobr.org/gRR

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Wed, 06 Jan 2021

Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back • The Register

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Wed, 30 Dec 2020

Washington’s Secret to the Perfect Zoom Bookshelf? Buy It Wholesale.

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Sun, 27 Dec 2020

Old is Solid; New Gets Talked About.

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Wed, 23 Dec 2020

Ripple CEO Warns SEC May Sue Company Over XRP Sales - CoinDesk

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Tue, 22 Dec 2020

BioNTech has 'scientific confidence' vaccine will work on UK COVID-19 variant, says CEO [“Scientific confidence” 😐]

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Thu, 10 Dec 2020

YouTube: “...we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections.”

http://sobr.org/gOV

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Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard: “‘Once they are no longer associated with ESF-8 they are no longer authorized to access the multi-user group,’ the FDLE affidavit said. All authorized users use the same user name and password.” 😳

http://sobr.org/gOU

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Sun, 06 Dec 2020

Antiviral drug 'Molnupiravir' blocks COVID-19 virus within 24 hours: Study | Business Insider India

http://sobr.org/gOy

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