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SpaceX

Watch Rocket Lab’s first launch of 2020 take an NRO payload to orbit

Rocket Lab’s first mission of the year, and 11th commercial flight overall, is planned to take off this afternoon from New Zealand and bring a payload from the National Reconnaissance Office to orbit. You can watch the launch, “Birds of a Feather,” right here…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Moravec‘s Paradox

PETA Calls for Punxsutawney Phil to Be Replaced By Robot Groundhog for Groundhog Day Duties

Famous weather prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil, the beloved woodchuck who emerges every Groundhog Day to foretell how much more winter to expect, should be retired and replaced by a robot. That’s the plea from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world’s largest animal rights organization, which is trying to…

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Boris Johnson

‘Dawn of a new era’: UK’s Johnson ‘respectfully’ marks Brexit day

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hail Brexit day on Friday as “the dawn of a new era” and pledge to unite Britain in an address to the nation which he hopes will draw a line under years of angry debate over the European Union. On the day…

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Maduro

Colombia rejects Venezuelan proposal to resume diplomatic relations

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia rejected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's proposal that the two countries resume diplomatic relations on Thursday, amid a dispute over a fugitive former Colombian congresswoman who was captured in Venezuela.Maduro abruptly cut diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia last February after Colombian President Ivan Duque helped Venezuelan opposition…

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Ukrainian Revolution

Ukraine & the Obama/Biden Grip on Corruption that Was a Silent Counter-Revolution

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Hi Mr Armstrong,I so much appreciate your lifetime of work and dedication to the Truth. I really appreciate so much your history lessons and deep connected objective lessons into the cumulative interconnecting web of this world …

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Electric Scooter

Lyft lays off 90 people as it aims to achieve profitability

Humanity needs new ways to sustainably move around. Lyft confirmed on Thursday that it will cut 90 people from its enterprise sales and marketing teams, or around 1.6% of its 5,500-person workforce, as it aims to achieve profitable growth. Weve carefully ev…

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Monsanto

US EPA reaffirms that glyphosate does not cause cancer

CHICAGO: The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday (Jan 30) it finished a regulatory review that found glyphosate, the most widely used weed killer in the United States, is not a carcinogen.The conclusion reaffirms the agency's stance on glyphosate, the key ingredient in Bayer AG's Roundup, despite judgments by US juries…

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Bushfire

Video shows fast-paced Australian bushfire overrunning firefighters within seconds

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

Trump’s impeachment defense is relying on the surprising potency of straight-up lies

We called former President Bill Clinton "Slick Willie," a sobriquet intended to communicate, per its inventor, Paul Greenberg, that Clinton was a "dissembler." This is not, he toldThe Washington Post in 1998, the same thing as a generic liar. "This is a parti…

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Aral Sea

Show HN: Using Pandas/WebGL/SQLite to map a million new sister cities

Sister cities/city twinning fosters explicit international camaraderieImplicit international camaraderie (an encyclopedia editor edits 2 pages) is abundantOver a million places in Wikipedia have mappable coordinatesSee on a …

bubmagJanuary 30, 2020

Watch Rocket Lab’s first launch of 2020 take an NRO payload to orbit

PETA Calls for Punxsutawney Phil to Be Replaced By Robot Groundhog for Groundhog Day Duties

‘Dawn of a new era’: UK’s Johnson ‘respectfully’ marks Brexit day

Colombia rejects Venezuelan proposal to resume diplomatic relations

Ukraine & the Obama/Biden Grip on Corruption that Was a Silent Counter-Revolution

Lyft lays off 90 people as it aims to achieve profitability

US EPA reaffirms that glyphosate does not cause cancer

Video shows fast-paced Australian bushfire overrunning firefighters within seconds

Trump’s impeachment defense is relying on the surprising potency of straight-up lies

Show HN: Using Pandas/WebGL/SQLite to map a million new sister cities

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