Asparagirl

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by Asparagirl 5y ago
At least with tulips you could plant a nice garden. And if you could keep the deer and voles away, they would slowly multiply over time, with no quantitative easing needed at all, just sun, rain, and good soil.
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
The ice-nine of crypto.
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Some amount of the “hot money” — maybe not millions, that’s too unwieldy, but a good amount — can be used to purchase closed-loop gift cards, on websites that allow purchase with BTC. If those cards are from major retailers like Target or A
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
I agree with the author that we need to see more examples of larger, older plants to get an idea of what our lil plant bbs could be someday. Fortunately there are some great Facebook groups for different genera, and of course there’s https
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
This is a fantastic article: informative, well-written, thoughtful, human, and funny . And it’s especially interesting to see it posted here at HN, because while reading it I kept thinking there are some solid lessons here about entreprene
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Bernie Madoff was the chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange . Being a known entity with cred doesn’t mean anything.
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
wen mark-to-market?
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Was coming here to say this. Bennett and Cas are well-informed and run a fabulous podcast, give deep dives on crypto history and its shady characters. If digging into True Financial Crime is your thing, with lots of “wait, that CAN’T be tru
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
In just the past month, insiders at Coinbase dumped millions and millions of dollars of their stock in the company. How many of them knew about the Wells Notice from the SEC before they sold, but before the news was public? (Among the major
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, believe it or not! Instagram has been a big driver of houseplant sales; people see other people showing off their plants and their “shelfies” (plant shelf selfies), in gorgeous glamour photos, and it drives
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
Even today, within what could be called the “fancy houseplant” community of garden enthusiasts, we hear stories about Indonesian farmers purposely and repeatedly putting houseplants through airport X-Ray machines to try to induce variegatio
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by Asparagirl 5y ago
As a Jewish genealogist who got involved in direct-to-consumer genetic genealogy testing very early on (14+ years ago), this is one of my biggest fears. Genetic signatures for endogamous populations, in particular, are really easy to pick o
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
Is the admin password “emet”?
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
So it’s the mRNA version of !important in CSS?
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
No, my thirty-five-year old sister-in-law was given remdesivir twice during her stay in a Los Angeles hospital during the December wave, and while she had early stage covid pneumonia she was not in the ICU.
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
This is a really fun read. Good balance of tech details and dry humor.
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
This is also a plot point in the Broadway musical (and its movie adaptation) “Chicago”. It even gets a great song, full of double entendres, “My Baby and Me”.
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
Half of the US fought for the right to own other humans as property. You are very, very sheltered if you think large numbers of people aren't capable of holding terrible ideas and performing horrific acts.
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
Yup, I purposely follow some blogs and Twitter accounts of awful people, to see what they're up to. Keep your friends close, and...
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
Depending on the family member(s), it’s autism and mild developmental delays with their commonly-associated GI issues and lowered gut motility (and semi-inflexible eating patterns leading to a not-very-balanced diet), and/or good old “
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by Asparagirl 6y ago
Oh yes it is. Polyethylene glycol is sold widely as Miralax! Half the people in my own household use it regularly to...well, stay regular.
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by Asparagirl 7y ago
If you set up crowdfunding to cover the costs of the dev work, I know people who would chip in.
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by Asparagirl 7y ago
As someone who has built search interfaces for a decade now, these are so gorgeous. Really, really nice. But...do you think you might ever write an adaptor for people to use them with Apache Solr, rather than ElasticSearch? makes puppydog
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by Asparagirl 7y ago
Immigrants, they get the job done!
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by Asparagirl 8y ago
Cersei Lannister was not available for comment.
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by Asparagirl 8y ago
I don't know that, I'm sorry, but you can e-mail them or Tweet them and find out.
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by Asparagirl 8y ago
They also got volunteers to take radiation readings in and around the Santa Susanna Mountains near Los Angeles, to verify that radioactive waste from an old reactor meltdown there was not kicked up during the recent wildfires. (It was not,
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by Asparagirl 8y ago
People should check out Safecast, which is a citizen-led open data network for monitoring and publishing radiation readings, including an open API: https://blog.safecast.org/ They're using low-cost open hardware, inclu
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by Asparagirl 8y ago
I missed that and I am an idiot. Mea culpa.
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by Asparagirl 8y ago
This is a useful site, but you should probably disclose on it somewhere that you're getting affiliate revenue from every person clicking through and signing up for Coursera courses through your links...

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