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by DrScump 7y ago
anti gun laws were enacted to prevent black people from getting any real power in the era when segregation existed CA was never a "Jim Crow" state with legally-enabled segregation, but there was plenty of de facto segreg
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by DrScump 7y ago
weapons... capable to kill (a lot of) people A rental truck was used to kill 86 and injure 458 in one incident (Nice, France, 2016). That's a greater toll than most USA mass shootings since then combined . The Murrah Build
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by DrScump 7y ago
since radar and transistors were invented there a half century ago. Radar was not an SV invention. There were many attempts at radar worldwide, but I (an SV native, BTW) would credit the UK first, especially with their invention of
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by DrScump 7y ago
It's possible that your 6yo is a supertaster.
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Isn't that basically the same as microfracture surgery in humans?
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Methane outgassing is a known issue within the Shoreline Amphitheatre itself! It's built on a former dump. During the earliest events there in the 1980s, concertgoers seated on the lawn set it afire when trying to smoke! (And, yes, it&
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by DrScump 7y ago
Women and 18-21 year olds got the right to vote after the 14th Amendment To clarify: After , but not as a result of. (See Amendments 19 and 26)
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more completely rid itself of cancerous cells by consuming them I don't think that's the mechanism of action.
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the body would preferentially reserve all glucose for the brain No, because the brain can use ketone bodies as fuel. Some other organs (such as the heart) cannot.
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by DrScump 7y ago
(2013) Original submit, 350+ points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14289212 Here's an excellent interview of Jonti Horner by John Batchelor on this topic (free podcast): https://audioboom.com/pos
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mutated ? Or were the wrong strains simply chosen for the vaccine due to poor predictions?
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This parallels the Twilight Zone Episode "The Silence"[0] which itself has roots in Chekhov's "The Bet" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_(The_Twilight_Zone...
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(in German)
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by DrScump 7y ago
The native link should be used instead of a Twitter reference: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/09/panama-canal-works.html
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21111251
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I met someone out of area on EH in 2012, and we communicated for a couple of years. We both quit EH. Many months later, I found them still using her (quite attractive) photo in their advertising.
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This is why I really miss Craigslist personals, where I could put my writing skills and humor to use.
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It was just submitted less than half an hour earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21067349
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One of the worst was right across 10th St. from Solar4America Ice (formerly the San Jose Ice Center, home training facility of the Sharks).
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& DIY surveillance systems became affordable? You're claiming that the presence of cheap surveillance systems increase the occurrence of theft ? City governments in SV don't seek to have property crime prosecuted here
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Plus, you guys drive on the wrong side of the road.
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Check your browser for unexpected add-ons.
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All links are Amazon affiliate links (&tag=whatsonweibo-20)
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This is their 8th "Show HN" for this in the last 13 days.
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When I was a kid in the 1970s, I remember there was a group that was doing a ballot proposition petition drive to allow greyhound racing in California. They had a greyhound with them, wearing a vest that said, "Please let me race in Ca
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by DrScump 7y ago
Me, too. Plus, I sleep really well.
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It's unclear to me why step 1 assumes a diagnosis by a doctor different from any eventual provider. For friends of mine who have had hormonal treatment difficulties (PCOS, thyroid, etc.), it's been getting an appropriate diagnosi
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Service Bureaus, which would do mainframe job processing for smaller companies that couldn't afford their own computer, used to be a thing.
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My first computer was an IBM AT-compatible Zenith with an 80286. I bought an Intel AboveBoard memory board to fill out conventional memory to 640K and add extended memory. At the time, there was a promotional mail-in coupon for a free 80287
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by DrScump 7y ago
(2013; content from 2003) Original submit, 100+ points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5683611

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