Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers — and ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data

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Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers pressherald.com \| points: 466 \| comments: 404

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ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data accc.gov.au \| points: 365 \| comments: 76

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Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 wsj.com \| points: 348 \| comments: 285

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Cracking down on research fraud undark.org \| points: 322 \| comments: 194

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How to pay your rent with your open source project plausible.io \| points: 312 \| comments: 163

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Apache Arrow 1.0 arrow.apache.org \| points: 279 \| comments: 89

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Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices vocodes.com \| points: 264 \| comments: 105

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How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers arxiv.org \| points: 259 \| comments: 350

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50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels bitmason.blogspot.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 98

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One company’s plan to build a search engine Google can’t beat protocol.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 314

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The code I’m still ashamed of (2016) freecodecamp.org \| points: 240 \| comments: 126

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The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with drewdevault.com \| points: 230 \| comments: 241

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Are we in an AI Overhang? lesswrong.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 207

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Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy fs.blog \| points: 216 \| comments: 93

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Harry Eng, the Master of the “Impossible Bottle” puzzlemuseum.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 86

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Writing a file system from scratch in Rust blog.carlosgaldino.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 43

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Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power bbc.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 120

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It’s easier to manage four people than one person staysaasy.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 64

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The Rise of Synthetic Audio Deepfakes nisos.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 41

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Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise polluted environments k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de \| points: 168 \| comments: 75

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