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by DrScump 7y ago
Your insurer doesn't give you online access to your proof of insurance?
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by DrScump 7y ago
I have a '94 Toyota Pickup(right before they rebranded them to the Tacoma) I have a '93 SR5 pickup with the single cam V6, bought brand new in '94 (only difference from the '94 is the third brake light, AFAIK).
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by DrScump 7y ago
A compelling film about a young female Pakistani squash player's passion for sport in defiance of the Taliban, with the support of her family. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8742930/
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The War to be Her (2018 film)(pbs.org)
2 points by DrScump 7y ago|1 comments
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T-Mobile customers can see a real live A/B test contrasting well-trained, thorough domestic support personnel versus an offshored organization that seems incented to simply dispose of calls as quickly as possible. I have a particularly
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(2010)
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So, do the famous test kits show positive for either strain or just one? If either , does it distinguish between the two for independent reporting?
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425648
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How about "Re-envisioning the archaic dependence on a deprecated, transportation-dependent zeitgeist into a frictionless, Cloud-leveraging Utopia! "
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I don't see it in the submitted article, either. Why are you being disingenuous about this?
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The Steely Dan song "Kid Charlemagne", from the album The Royal Scam (1976), is loosely based on Stanley. "I think the people down the hall know who you are."
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why should a non-invasive diagnostic test require any sort of approval? Because false negatives are worse than no test at all / unknown.
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See also Consumer Reports' take on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438654
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"Taking so long "?! Moderna shipped their vaccine a mere 42 days after the genome was published. This ain't exactly 3D-printing a prototype phone case we're talking about.
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I have 6 phones. Am I 6 people?
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This probably dates to 1966, given when the film "Doctor Zhivago" was in theaters.
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I gave up when it said my proper capitalization of "Captain Hook" was wrong and only "captain hook" was considered correct.
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The most recent submit was over a year ago. This one had the most commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040707
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"On the internet, nobody knows you're a bison."
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VTA’s Contract Missteps Risk Derailing Diridon Station Project(sanjoseinside.com)
2 points by DrScump 7y ago|0 comments
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More Git lost than Git hub .
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Oh, that's just evil . The Minesweeper game (Briansweeper) always kills you on first click.
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I have first-hand experience with such a case, and I disagree. I avoided hitting a kid that I think any AI would have killed. I'm driving southbound on Fair Oaks in Sunnyvale, approaching Arques. On the corner is a mini strip mall with
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by DrScump 7y ago
There's an original light bulb from 1901 in continuous use at a Livermore, CA fire station: https://www.centennialbulb.org/
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"Now"? I had a friend who bought a home in Manteca. Another moved to Ripon. Both worked in Sunnyvale 5 days a week. They decided to form a vanpool. One drove to work, the other homeward. They soon filled the vanpool with paying pa
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by DrScump 7y ago
Surprisingly to me, they include details on the organ that use to be in the Melody Inn in Los Altos, my dad's favorite place to take us for pizza when I was a kid. http://www.theatreorgans.com/florida/ellenton&#x2F
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by DrScump 7y ago
The wonderful Robert Arthur short story "The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado" is a great take on this theme.
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Lots of overhead to set up but minimal marginal cost to deploy for multiple use cases and audiences. It wouldn't surprise me if scammers package their strategy/toolsuite and resell the mechanism to other scammers. Ticket brokers b
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Dude. It's a novel . A 40-year-old novel.
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In the 1980s, I read a book ("The Third World War" by General Sir John Hackett, IIRC) that speculated on how a West vs Soviet war might unfold. Facing conventional-forces defeat, the Soviets launch a single nuclear missile as a &q

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