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- U.S. scales-back military exercise with Israel, making it more difficult for the Israeli government to launch a pre-emptive strike on Tehran's nuclear program http://world.time.com/2012/08/31/exclusive-u-s-scales-back-military-exercise-with-israel-affecting-potential-iran-strike/ 78 comments worldnews
- Delta Air Lines scales back changes to its loyalty program after a revolt by customers https://apnews.com/article/delta-skymiles-change-frequent-flyers-a263bf237cb2c20b01fb88c8f7ee9f14 12 comments business
- Following The Murder Of George Floyd, The Minneapolis PD Built A Large-Scale Surveillance Program https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/following-the-murder-of-george-floyd-the-minneapolis-pd-built-a-large-scale-surveillance-program/ 100 comments technology
- Scientists program microalgae’s ‘oil factory’ to produce various oils: “By directly turning CO2, sunlight and seawater into designer oils, such microalgae cell factories are carbon negative, thus farming them at a large scale can help to save our planet from global warming.” https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research_news/life/202104/t20210415_267176.shtml 8 comments science
- Descendants of FDR and His Cabinet Urge Biden to Embrace 'New Deal-Scale' Public Jobs Program https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/30/descendants-fdr-and-his-cabinet-urge-biden-embrace-new-deal-scale-public-jobs 87 comments politics
- A large scale Universal Basic Income-style program has existed in the US since the early ‘80s (in Alaska!). Came across this interactive documentary that tells the story of the creation of Alaska’s UBI program through the eyes of one of the political aides who helped shape it and secure its passage. https://frame.media/stories/alaska-model/?s-rt=7 6 comments economy
- Cpp-Taskflow: A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System at Scale https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10908 9 comments cpp
- I want to create a YouTube channel showing the nitty-gritty of programming and maintaining a web-app for 10+ years (scale: 40k monthly uniques, $20k peak monthly). What topics are of interest to r/laravel? https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/fgv6lh/i_want_to_create_a_youtube_channel_showing_the/ 29 comments laravel
- Apple introduces its large-scale gym partnership program, Apple Watch Connected https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/apple-introduces-its-large-scale-gym-partnership-program-apple-watch-connected/ 130 comments apple
- Coupling Web Scraping with Functional programming in R for Scale https://towardsdatascience.com/coupling-web-scraping-with-functional-programming-in-r-for-scale-1bc4509eef29 4 comments rstats
- How should one write a full-scale program in C++? https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/8o8q1e/how_should_one_write_a_fullscale_program_in_c/ 38 comments cpp
- A health crisis is sweeping the Philippine islands as many parents refuse to have their children immunised amid controversy over the world’s first wide-scale dengue immunisation program. http://www.theage.com.au/world/dengue-vaccine-fear-grips-philippines-after-deaths-20180203-p4yzc6.html 5 comments worldnews
- FCC scales back broadband program for low-income Americans http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/17/technology/fcc-lifeline-poor-americans/index.html 143 comments politics
- A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/10/221326-a-large-scale-study-of-programming-languages-and-code-quality-in-github/fulltext 80 comments programming
- DOJ scaling back program to reform police departments http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/15/politics/doj-police-program/index.html 6 comments politics
- Mandelbrot scaled with golden ratio fraction (program used: XaoS) https://i.redd.it/06odqf7yemwx.png 19 comments math
- A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf 13 comments programming
- Obama bans spying on leaders of U.S. allies, scales back NSA program http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/18/us-usa-security-obama-idusbrea0g0ji20140118?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=992637 3 comments politics
- The House and the Senate have each approved separate versions of the nearly $1 trillion, ten-year farm bill that scale back or eliminate programs that not only help many women farmers stay in business, but also help low-income mothers feed their kids. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/09/19/farm-bill-would-cut-benefits-for-women-farmers-and-low-income-mothers/?wprss=rss_politics&clsrd 3 comments politics
- How the NSA is still harvesting your online data. Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating 'one trillion records processed' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-online-metadata-collection 13 comments technology
- Two top Federal Reserve officials on Thursday signaled support for scaling back the U.S. central bank's aggressive bond-buying program, adding fuel to a contentious debate over how long the Fed should continue its extraordinary measures to support the economy. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-usa-fed-idusbre91j15y20130221 6 comments economy
- Programming and Scaling | Alan Kay via ltu http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4325 8 comments programming
- Startups @ Scale: Programming an early warning system for your app http://owocki.com/2011/06/18/startups-scale-build-an-early-warning-system/ 7 comments programming
- First Large-scale Citywide Bicycle Sharing Program in the U.S. http://denver.bcycle.com/tabid/99/itemid/16/news.aspx 9 comments bicycling
- A Senior Pentagon Advisory Group Warns Obama That Current Budget Is "Not Sustainable," And He Must Scale Back Some Of The Military's Most Prized Weapons Programs http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/11/10/pentagon_board_says_cuts_essential/ 5 comments politics
- First Internet-scale programming courses http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20071008_ibm_univ.html 2 comments programming
- Hacking group Anonymous interrupts Russian state tv programs with footage of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine https://kyivindependent.com/uncategorized/hacking-group-anonymous-interrupts-russian-state-tv-programs-with-footage-of-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/ 14 comments worldnews
- Trump Opens Door to Cuts to Medicare and Other Entitlement Programs | The president signaled a willingness to scale back Medicare, a shift from his 2016 platform of protecting entitlement programs. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/us/politics/medicare-trump.html 19 comments politics
- The Australian government-funded Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority drastically scaled back surveys of coral bleaching in the middle of an unprecedented two-year marine heatwave, as its monitoring program almost ran out of money. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/02/governments-reef-monitoring-stalled-during-crisis-bleaching-event-as-funds-dried-up 3 comments worldnews
- China and Russia are using the Trump Era as an opportunity to scale back human rights programs at the UN http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-russia-looking-to-scale-back-human-rights-programs-at-the-un-2018-7 10 comments politics
- Edward Snowden says he has offered to return to the United States and go to jail for leaking details of National Security Agency programs to intercept electronic communications data on a vast scale http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/e/eu_britain_edward_snowden?site=ap&section=home&template=default&ctime=2015-10-05-13-50-39 8 comments worldnews
- WTO Ruling Against India's Solar Push Threatens Climate, Clean Energy: "The U.S. should be applauding India’s efforts to scale up solar energy—not turning to the WTO to strike the program down." http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/27/wto-ruling-against-indias-solar-push-threatens-climate-clean-energy 12 comments worldnews
- Holder looks for answers on overcrowded prisons: "Holder is arguing for scaling back the use of harsh prison sentences for certain drug-related crimes and expanding a prison program to allow for release of some elderly, non-violent offenders" http://bigstory.ap.org/article/looking-answers-overcrowded-prisons 21 comments politics
- Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s: The scale and longevity of a data storage program run by the government in partnership with AT&T was unmatched by other government programs, including the N.S.A.’s gathering of phone call logs. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?hp 14 comments politics
- IAEA Report 'Does NOT Assert That Iran Has Resumed A Full Scale Nuclear Weapons Program' http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/08/364519/white-house-iaea-report-iran/ 31 comments worldnews
- And then there was this. Germany's top court will hand down a verdict on a decade long court case arguing that the ECB is overstepping its authority with the QE program. If the court rules against the ECB then to quote : "mayhem of a previously unseen scale will descend on Europe and the world". https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-04/ecb-s-qe-plan-faces-german-ruling-as-focus-is-on-fighting-virus 64 comments wallstreetbets
- Stinky sausages made of cane toad flesh scattered from helicopters in wide-scale trial researchers hope will give native animals fighting chance. They were developed as part of taste aversion program to try to prevent native species like quolls from being killed by toxic toads. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-16/toad-sausages-dropped-from-helicopters/9857520 55 comments worldnews
- In 2015, São Paulo implemented a large-scale program to reduce road speed limits. The lower speed limits led to a 20% reduction in road accidents. Within 18 months, an estimated 104 fatalities were averted. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/s0047272720300190 3 comments science
- The White House is considering a second sharp reduction in the number of refugees, as low as 25,000, who can be resettled in the U.S., picking up where President Trump left off in 2017 in scaling back a program intended to offer protection to the world’s most vulnerable people https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/us/politics/trump-refugees-reduction.html 11 comments worldnews
