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- A decade of developing a programming language https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/a-decade-of-developing-a-programming-language/ 139 comments
- Trump could miss deadline to set a quota for refugees arriving in the US in 2021, putting the decades-old resettlement program at risk https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-could-miss-deadline-to-set-refugee-quota-resettlement-program-2020-9 5 comments politics
- Decades of Suspicions: Did German Companies Aid Syrian Chemical Weapons Program? http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-companies-suspected-of-aiding-syrian-chemical-weapons-program-a-1014722.html 3 comments worldnews
- Republicans to propose $40 billion cut over decade to food stamps program http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/02/19831109-republicans-to-propose-40-billion-cut-over-decade-to-food-stamps-program?lite 15 comments politics
- Programming 2.0 - "...programming has changed radically in the last decade." http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/programming_20.html 4 comments programming
- British Parliament votes to renew nuclear weapons program for 3 more decades http://mobile.reuters.com/article/iduskcn0zy2m8 7 comments worldnews
- After 2 Decades Moscow, US End Nuclear Cooperation Program http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150120/1017108681.html 14 comments worldnews
- The measure calls for $40 billion in cuts over a decade to the federal food stamp program http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/18/223627228/house-bill-would-cut-40-billion-from-food-stamp-program 149 comments politics
- Delayed By A Decade - Dassault (Rafale) CEO Says Its Sixth-Gen Fighter Program Might Take Off In 2050 https://eurasiantimes.com/rafale-ceo-says-its-sixth-gen-fighter-program-2050/ 101 comments europe
- Saudi Press: We Must Have A Military Nuclear Program Within A Decade http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8671.htm 33 comments worldnews
- US Drone Program May Have Helped Turkey Kill Kurds for Over a Decade https://truthout.org/articles/us-drone-program-may-have-helped-turkey-kill-kurds-for-over-a-decade/ 18 comments politics
- US Drone Program May Have Helped Turkey Kill Kurds for Over a Decade https://truthout.org/articles/us-drone-program-may-have-helped-turkey-kill-kurds-for-over-a-decade/ 8 comments worldnews
- "Through this program, code-named Hemisphere, police tap into trillions of of phone records going back decades." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/and-after-what-we-learned-about-hemisphere-program-after-suing-dea 3 comments privacy
- Netanyahu Claims 'Iran Lied' About Its Nuclear Program, but Israel Has Been Lying for Decades https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/netanyahu-claims-iran-lied-but-israel-has-been-lying-for-decades-1.6052474 39 comments politics
- Trump's Nominee to Oversee Superfund Program Spent Decades Fighting EPA Cleanups on Behalf of Polluters https://theintercept.com/2018/03/29/epa-superfund-scott-pruitt-peter-wright/ 4 comments politics
- (AP) -- For the first time in more than a decade, the federal government is funding sex education programs that aren't based solely on abstinence http://galvestondailynews.com/apnews?report=/dynamic/stories/u/us_sex_ed_revised 507 comments science
- Conservative Austerity Created the Mask Wars | Decades of attacks on public programs have led us to a point where we’re arguing about personal responsibility in the midst of a pandemic https://newrepublic.com/article/158359/conservative-austerity-created-mask-wars 145 comments politics
- In the 1960s Soviet Russia trained an all-female space squad in total secrecy. One of these cosmonauts — Valentina Tereshkova— became the first woman in space. But the existence of the all-female program itself was classified. Moscow shut the space squad down and hid its existence for decades. https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/the-first-women-trained-to-conquer-space 141 comments space
- In the early 1960s Soviet Russia trained an all-female space squad in absolute secrecy. One of these cosmonauts — Valentina Tereshkova — became the first woman in space. But the story of her crewmates was classified. Moscow shut the program down, and hid its existence for decades. https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/the-first-women-trained-to-conquer-space 172 comments history
- "This Republican budget throws 27 million Americans off health insurance, slashes $5 trillion over the coming decade from programs that help working families, cuts taxes on the richest Americans and raises them on working families with kids." http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-budget-throws-27-million-off-health-insurance 59 comments politics
- Biden administration announces new funding to make homes energy-efficient | A decades-old home weatherization program has become central to the administration’s plans to cut Americans’ power bills and lower fossil fuel emissions https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/03/30/biden-energy-efficiency-homes-climate/ 8 comments politics
- Biden administration announces new funding to make homes energy-efficient | A decades-old home weatherization program has become central to the administration’s plans to cut Americans’ power bills and lower fossil fuel emissions https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/03/30/biden-energy-efficiency-homes-climate/ 3 comments climate
- Ending College Affirmative Action Could Have Ripple Effect for Black, Latino Students| As affirmative action programs face their biggest threat in decades, experts say Black and Latino students would experience fewer job and financial opportunities. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/ending-college-affirmative-action-could-have-ripple-effect-for-black-latino-students/2624206/ 40 comments politics
- Psaki: "The President ran on and won the most votes of any candidate in history on a platform of boosting funding for law enforcement after Republicans spent decades trying to cut the COPS program...the President ran on increasing that funding." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/07/02/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-director-of-the-national-economic-council-brian-deese-july-2-2021/ 46 comments politics
- In the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice. In the next decade, they will do assembly-line work and maybe even become companions. And in the decades after that, they will do almost everything, including making new scientific discoveries https://moores.samaltman.com/ 65 comments artificial
- Gpg4win: An example of excellent software, still updating after many years! Anyone have other good software examples? I have been using this program for DECADES, and it has never let me down. I would love to learn about any other GOOD software. Such as Foobar2000 or other music playing softeare https://www.gpg4win.org/ 7 comments software
- In the early 1960s Soviet Russia trained an all-female space squad in absolute secrecy. One of these cosmonauts — Valentina Tereshkova — became the first woman in space. But after she returned to Earth, Moscow shut the program down and hid the existence of her female squadmates for decades. https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/the-first-women-trained-to-conquer-space 4 comments space
- A Filipina maid was executed this week in Saudi Arabia, a death that an advocacy group called “another casualty of the Philippine government’s decades-old labor export program” https://nyti.ms/2uxrcs6 99 comments worldnews
- House GOP Budget Cuts Programs Aiding Low- and Moderate-Income People by $2.9 Trillion Over Decade https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/house-gop-budget-cuts-programs-aiding-low-and-moderate-income-people-by-29 11 comments politics
- A key House appropriator hinted Tuesday he may block another funding increase for the Department of Veterans Affairs next year, noting more than a decade of steady spending boosts for veterans programs. http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/capitol-hill/2016/03/02/house-appropriations-va-budget-2017-fight/81220918/ 3 comments politics
- "...Americans can expect over the next decade to pay over $13 trillion in, what amounts to, private taxes imposed by insurers on behalf of the government that mandates that we have health insurance. Add to this, another $5 trillion that under the Clinton health program we can expect to pay..." http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2016/01/chelsea-clinton-is-confused-about-single-payer.html 53 comments politics
- The GOP budgets proposed in Congress would cut about $5 trillion over the next decade. The overwhelming burden would fall on programs that boost working families: education, Medicare and Medicaid, college aid, job training, medical research and rebuilding roads and bridges. http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/236658-stark-choices-peoples-budget-vs-republican-plan 321 comments politics
- Senate GOP budget to break with Paul Ryan’s blueprints: Senate Republicans will not include detailed plans to overhaul entitlement programs when they unveil their first budget in nearly a decade this week, according to GOP sources. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/235699-senate-gop-budget-to-break-with-paul-ryans-blueprints 18 comments politics
- Ron Wyden: "For years, officials of intelligence agencies like the NSA, as well as the Department of Justice, made misleading and outright inaccurate statements to Congress about data surveillance programs — not once, but repeatedly for over a decade." http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1215-wyden-backdoor-for-cell-phones-20141215-story.html 229 comments politics
- The Justice Department has released two decade-old memos which offer the fullest public airing to date of the Bush administration’s legal justification for the warrantless wiretapping of Americans’ phone calls and e-mails — a program that began in secret after the 2001 terrorist attacks. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/legal-memos-released-on-bush-era-justification-for-warrantless-wiretapping/2014/09/05/91b86c52-356d-11e4-9e92-0899b306bbea_story.html?tid=hpmodule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394 34 comments politics
- Nearly two decades ago, a landmark study found that by age 3, the children of wealthier professionals have heard words millions more times than those of less educated parents, giving them a distinct advantage in school and suggesting the need for increased investment in prekindergarten programs. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/us/language-gap-study-bolsters-a-push-for-pre-k.html?hp&_r=1& 3 comments politics
- Health Care Solution is Simple: Single-Payer | It is far from rocket science. What this country simply needs is a single-payer national health insurance program that covers all American citizens from the day they’re born to the day they die - just as other advanced countries have done for decades. http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/dave_zweifel/article_e26dbb61-a1d2-5a03-86b6-ff2e6524596f.html 575 comments politics
- For decades, supporters of a strong American space program have dreamed of an American president throwing the weight of his office behind sending humans to Mars, developing a new deep space vehicle and the heavy lift booster to carry it beyond the Earth http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-buzz-aldrin-has-high-praise-for-obamas-space-program-goals/19442999 7 comments science
- The Pentagon budget has more than doubled in the last decade, to over $800,000,000,000 per year (almost *ten times* what health care reform would cost), yet talk of cutting it remains taboo. One reason: It's a giant government jobs program immune to GOP taunts of "Socialism." http://www.cnn.com/2010/politics/02/24/fact.check.pentagon.irpt/index.html?hpt=c2 119 comments politics
- NASA is putting the finishing touches on plans for its first new aeronautics research program in almost a decade knowing that any shift away from human spaceflight will increase the pressure to produce results aircraft manufacturers and operators can use. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/nasa090409.xml&headline=nasa%20aeronautics%20research%20program%20ready 28 comments science