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Hong Kong bans documentaries depicting protests

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 15:30

Hong Kong now officially bans documentaries that depict the massive protests.

Some will be released by underground groups.

A San Francisco thug is charged

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 15:30

A San Francisco thug is charged with manslaughter for escalating a nonviolent encounter with Sean Moore to the point of killing him.

Big banks pledge to reduce

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 15:30

450 big banks and investment firms will pledge to reduce greenhouse emissions,

but it looks like that pledge lacks firm requirements.

Facebook to delete a billion faceprints

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 15:30

*Facebook to shut facial recognition system and delete 1bn "faceprints". *

How significant the deletion of the faceprints is depends on how hard it would be to regenerate each one.

Woman spent 7 hours in er

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 15:15

A US woman went to a hospital's emergency room and waited 7 hours without being seen, so she left. The hospital charged her $700 for that.

Just imagine what they might have charged is someone had actually looked at her problem!

The root of this problem is the structure of the US medical system, which pressures each clinical unit to try to gouge patients. We need to replace it with a national medical system funded by the federal government.