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Re:ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @06:59PM (#44449722)
This is very American, The Green Book guided Black travelers to safe businesses during Jim Crow. The Underground Railroad was literally an information network to help enslaved people reach freedom. During WWII, communities helped hide Japanese Americans from internment. LGBTQ+ people created networks to find safe spaces during decades of criminalization. Native communities have long shared information about safe passage and resources.
Re:An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element on Sunday June 15, 2025 @09:25AM (#44282182)
This is part of the standards process. Incubation happened here https://github.com/WICG/PEPC now on to Origin Trials before Standardization
Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the HBB gene, not by belonging to a specific race. Race is a social construct, meaning it's defined by social factors rather than strictly biological ones. Since someone who is Black in the US often has about 20% European ancestry, how does this compare to someone who is directly from an African country? Where is the line?
Re:Charted: 50 Years of Music Industry Revenues, by Format on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:19PM (#37969232)
If I am not mistaken, over the air radio does not have to pay royalties.
Re:Microsoft Fast Design on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:37PM (#24086699)
Not quite, Ionic Stencil is library to helps build webcomponents. Since fast.design are webcomponents, they can be used in any with any framework, no wrapping required.
Re:TypeScript at Google on Saturday September 01, 2018 @10:15PM (#17895134)
I hope the work they did with the Babel team with help with this.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/08/27/types...

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Re:U.S. Launches Attacks on Syria on Friday April 13, 2018 @10:40PM (#16835578)
Yeah they are attacking ISIL part of Operation Inherent Resolve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Inherent_Resolve
Re:Electron is Harmful on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:49PM (#15762596)
I think pwa can replace many election app, MS thinks so too they are allowing them in the app store.
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