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Reddit's executives are still walking a thin, shaky tightrope as they update the site's content policy. Today, CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman posted a small update on Reddit's new moderator tools and rules for policing the site's worst communities — which could spell one of the biggest shifts in the site's history. He stayed to chat about what the changes would mean.

And the inevitable question came up: "How do you feel about hosting what may soon be the biggest white supremacist forum on the internet?"

Horrible, actually, but I don't think you can win an argument by simply silencing the opposition.

Another user pointed out a seven-year-old comment in which Huffman said that "we've always banned hate speech, and we always will."...

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Washington motel closes after possible Legionnaires' report Longview Daily News LACEY, Wash. (AP) — Thurston County health officials say a Super 8 Motel in Lacey has voluntarily closed while officials investigate a possible outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. Over the past month, three cases of the disease have been confirmed with ... and more »

Orange Is the New Black’s third season opens on the eve of Mother’s Day. Motherhood and what it means has weighed heavily on the inmates of Litchfield over the past two seasons, and now it’s used both to reintroduce the characters we’ve come to love and remind us of the inherent tragedy in their incarceration. Dayanara (Dascha Polanco) is struggling with the crushing reality of having a baby with a prison guard. Black Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore) hates children, unable to deal with the fact that she herself is a mother.

But it takes 11 minutes for us to finally make our way to Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), still the show’s top-billed character, and as she talks with a guard about her future, she seems cut off from problems plaguing...

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cykon hat darauf hingewiesen, dass Wizzair heute Geburtstag feiert und so jeder 2. Sitz bei einer Buchung kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt wird. Komplett kostenlos ist es jedoch nicht, denn man spart die Fluggebühren für den 2. Flug (inklusive Steuern, anderen Abgaben und ein kleines Handgepäckstück), muss jedoch eine Bearbeitungsgebühr von 8€ zahlen.

• Jeder 2. Sitzplatz gratis bei Buchung mit Wizzair – Aktion nur heute

Um an der Aktion teilzunehmen, müsst ihr bis Mitternacht gebucht haben. Eine Buchung kann bis zu 6 Personen beinhalten, 3 Flüge werden dann rabattiert.

Abflughäfen in Deutschland sind:

• Hamburg, Nürnberg, Dortmund, Köln, Frankfurt Hahn, Memmingen und Friedrichshafen

Insgesamt fliegt Wizzair nach Osteuropa, wer also einen Kurztrip planen möchte, sollte sich heute noch mit der Buchung beschäftigen. Wer die genauen Bedingungen lesen will klickt hier.

frank249 writes: In the Star Trek universe, transparent aluminum is used in various fittings in starships, including exterior ship portals and windows. In real life, Aluminium oxynitride is a form of ceramic whose properties are similar to those of the fictional substance seen in Star Trek. It has a hardness of 7.7 Mohs and was patented in 1980. It has military applications as bullet-resistant armor, but is too expensive for widespread use. Now, there has been a major breakthrough in materials science. After decades of research and development, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has created a transparent, bulletproof material that can be molded into virtually any shape. This material, known as Spinel (magnesium aluminate), is made from a synthetic powdered clay that is heated and pressed under vacuum into transparent sheets. Spinel weighs just a fraction of a modern bulletproof pane.

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An anonymous reader writes: English teacher Michael Godsey writes in The Atlantic what he envisions the role of teachers to be in the future. In a nutshell, he sees virtual classrooms, less pay, and a drastic decrease in the number of educators, but thinks they will all be "super-teachers". From the article: "Whenever a college student asks me, a veteran high-school English educator, about the prospects of becoming a public-school teacher, I never think it's enough to say that the role is shifting from 'content expert' to 'curriculum facilitator.' Instead, I describe what I think the public-school classroom will look like in 20 years, with a large, fantastic computer screen at the front, streaming one of the nation's most engaging, informative lessons available on a particular topic. The 'virtual class' will be introduced, guided, and curated by one of the country's best teachers (a.k.a. a "super-teacher"), and it will include professionally produced footage of current events, relevant excerpts from powerful TedTalks, interactive games students can play against other students nationwide, and a formal assessment that the computer will immediately score and record. I tell this college student that in each classroom, there will be a local teacher-facilitator (called a 'tech') to make sure that the equipment works and the students behave. Since the 'tech' won't require the extensive education and training of today's teachers, the teacher's union will fall apart, and that "tech" will earn about $15 an hour to facilitate a class of what could include over 50 students. This new progressive system will be justified and supported by the American public for several reasons: Each lesson will be among the most interesting and efficient lessons in the world; millions of dollars will be saved in reduced teacher salaries; the 'techs' can specialize in classroom management; performance data will be standardized and immediately produced (and therefore 'individualized'); and the country will finally achieve equity in its public school system."

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Liebe Urlaubspiraten, bei Airberlin Holidays haben wir soeben ein richtig geniales frühbucher Schnäppchen für die Karibik gefunden!

Für nur 999€ pro Person bekommt ihr 14 Tage Curacao im einfachen aber guten 3-Sterne Hotel "Rancho El Sobrino & Blue View Appertments" (88% Weiterempfehlungsrate) inkl. Hin- und Rückflüge mit Airberlin und dem Transfer zwischen dem Hotel und Flughafen.

Am günstigsten sind die Reisen im Mai und Juni mit Flügen ab Düsseldorf. Ein ganzes Stück teurer sind Abreisen von anderen Flughäfen und zu anderen Zeiten.

Besonders interessant für alle Taucher unter den Urlaubspiraten: Seit November 2013 ist die deutsche Tauchschule "Dive'n Berlin" in dem Hotel vertreten.

Falls ihr Curacao ein wenig erkunden wollt, findet ihr einen günstigen Mietwagen bei Billiger-Mietwagen.de. Um vor Ort kostenlos Geld abzuheben, haben wir zudem eine Übersicht über die besten Kreditkarten für euch zusammengestellt.

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Laut einem Weibo-Eintrag soll das Gehäuse des Huawei P8 aus einem Porzellan-Unibody gefertigt sein. Auch der Preis wurde genannt.

 Despite the brand recognition of Italian luxury fashion brands like Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, and Valentino, there is no online aggregation of exclusively Italian luxury fashion. 500 Startups-backed Italist is trying to change that. The Italian luxury fashion retail market is worth $21 billion, according to Italist founder Raffaele Giovine, and a third of that comes from independent… Read More

With iOS 8, your iPhone or iPad can now have a local file system like the one Android users have. Store files for use offline, access them in any updated app, and save files directly to the file system from other apps.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday embraced a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration system put forward by a bipartisan group of senators, saying it was "largely consistent" with his own principles for immigration reform.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for the government from the top tiers of retirees, the administration revealed Friday....