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by 13of40 8y ago
There was an interesting time in the mid-90's when computers and internet were gaining some steam, in which used book stores would pay top dollar for any computer related book, no matter how niche or obsolete. They've wised up co
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by 13of40 8y ago
I was bicycling to work today and passed by a cardboard box on the trail that had some books in it. I circled back around to get a closer look and found...a couple of dog-eared paperbacks with a Danielle Steel novel on top and a VHS tape t
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by 13of40 8y ago
I think they actually do get a property tax break because it's farmland.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Hmmm...can't edit, but: I just looked at this again, and it's interesting to note that the Kindle version has an A rating and the print version has an F rating, even though they appear to share the same set of reviews. Scroll dow
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by 13of40 8y ago
The Art of the Deal has an F, with 57% low quality reviews. "Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved."
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by 13of40 8y ago
I really wonder with angle grinders, for example, how many are bought to do a one-off job and then set on a shelf for 20 years, versus being used daily until they break. Maybe Harbor Freight is just selling something appropriate for it&#x2
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by 13of40 8y ago
But those aren't differences in the same way that mutations are. The chromosomes passed on by the grandmother are identical to those received by the granddaughter, unless you're talking about spilicing genes between chromosomes.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Sorry for the ELI5, but if the differences aren't due to [genetic] mutation, how do they get passed on to future generations?
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by 13of40 8y ago
And all this time I thought he was an emperor tamarin.[1] [1] https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02140/mo...
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by 13of40 8y ago
I think this is the right way to look at it. The twitter bot didn't give this information to law enforcement, because unless they're idiots they've been monitoring and archiving this from day one.
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by 13of40 8y ago
The last jet ski I rode had a pretty candid warning label on the back about this.
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by 13of40 8y ago
I just got back from vacation in Germany, and while I was doing research for the trip I found a spa near one of the places I was staying that does radon therapy. From what I could gather on the web site, you sit for multiple sessions in a
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by 13of40 8y ago
I remember reading back in the Bush era that when he travelled abroad he used a porta-potty so the Russians couldn't analyze his poo.
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by 13of40 8y ago
I guess I was imagining that it was the kind that comes pure in a glass vial, but it's probably more like this: https://www.imagesco.com/geiger/radioactive-sources.html These are a lot like the description of the
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by 13of40 8y ago
I think the cesium is probably more dangerous than the plutonium, because it ignites spontaneously in air and explodes in contact with water. If the crackheads who have it break open the container, we'll probably know who they are pre
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by 13of40 8y ago
Public but anonymized, with timestamps might make for some interesting data.
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by 13of40 8y ago
No comment.
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by 13of40 8y ago
I took Ritalin for a few years, then stopped about five years back. I've found that for straight programming work, pomodoro works about as well for staying focused and making incremental progress on projects.
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by 13of40 8y ago
If my electrician installed half of the single switch circuits with the switch upside down I wouldn't ask him to come back for the next job.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Or, more realistically, that you wouldn't feel comfortable having read back to you in court.
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by 13of40 8y ago
Something kind of eye-opening for me was that I recently found an Android setting to make my phone (a OnePlus 5T) vibrate whenever any app requests location data, and even with location access denied to everything, it still vibrates about o
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Sensory illusions in aviation(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 13of40 8y ago
Half a year back I got a check from American Express for $50-ish because of some accounting issue they had. Bank error in your favor. Unfortunately, the local meth heads stole it out of my mailbox and I only got the check stub when someon
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by 13of40 8y ago
"I'm hard of hearing." Prove that I'm not. At that point it's one dark pattern against another.
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by 13of40 8y ago
The thing that galled me was that the link I was originally following was to an image. That's a little bit of a deal breaker.
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by 13of40 8y ago
I'm vacationing in Germany right now, and as a news aggregator junkie I'm amazed at how much content is just blocked, with nearly everything else having dark patterned UI that either inconveniences or punishes you if you don'
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by 13of40 8y ago
> lead piping...US As opposed to some other countries where they have whole villages dedicated to recycling car batteries by hand[1] and still use leaded glaze on their food dishes[2]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/envir
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by 13of40 8y ago
A couple of years ago my wife and I rented a condo in Hawaii, and ended up going to one of those one morning. Coincidentally, it turned out to be at the same complex we were renting from and the example unit we toured was identical to our
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by 13of40 8y ago
I wrote a Tetris game for the TRS-80 in the early 90's. To save on CPU and memory, I directly represented the state of the board, including the "cup" the pieces fell into, in video memory. On the first run I accidentally on
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by 13of40 8y ago
Honestly curious: Why wouldn't you just liquidate all of it and invest in some mutual funds?

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