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by DrScump 8y ago
Odd how this is nearly verbatim similar to this Yahoo.com article from coindesk with a completely different author: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/opera-adds-crypto-buying-andr...
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The lesson to take away from this is ”we don’t know whether having breakfast has any effect on weight” The lesson I took was that "we don't know whether the effect of breakfast on weight is meaningful (let alone measur
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The Return of MAD Magazine and Its All-New Gang of Idiots (2018)(wired.com)
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As the quality of the included studies was mostly low, the findings should be interpreted with caution. Given that the quality of the included studies was mostly low , I choose to ignore this paper altogether, and I'm perplexe
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I'm surprised that neither the article nor comments here to date point out that the original setting was the cartoon shorts series "Milton"[0], where Milton and Lumbergh are the central characters. The film's climax with
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Somewhere, in some box, I may yet have a disc with my first BASIC programs from high school. On floppy disc. On eight inch floppy disc. (DEC PDP 11/04) I didn't keep the mark sense cards. I think.
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I started at a junior college and then transferred to a four-year University. There was a time when I was going to University where I was still backfilling some course credits to complete my Associates degree from my work at the junior coll
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Will there be 2D symbologies supported, like QRcode?
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I may be interested, but I don't see any contact info in your profile.
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Government-funded or subsidized housing.
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The legislation is here: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
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"The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado" by Robert Arthur. I first read it in maybe 7th grade, and I still remember.
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Note that I live near a few superfund sites where irresponsible local industry (thanks Intel and Fairchild!) Have you ever been to Sharks Ice (10th and Alma)? That paved-over lot across the street is the former Lorentz Barrel and Dr
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I used SVHS for audio as well (heck, I still use one for time-shifting TV). The missing piece was portability, though. For longer audio programs, I'd generally want to take them in the car or to work. I settled on a pro Sony dual-deck
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"I believe it would be better if the ProtonVPN app on my Macbook is just connected and at the same time disconnect the one on my Android tablet automatically." I think that's a horrible choice, silently removing VPN protectio
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One of: off-topic, incorrect, me-too, troll, spam I suggested such a metric for flags to dang over a year ago, and I wouldn't assume that I was the first to do so.
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(2006 study, and surprisingly not placebo-controlled)
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Still driving my 1993 Toyota pickup as a second vehicle. CA still makes me smog-test it every other year.
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For those driving through San Jose: you can still see the old railway warehouse for Hart's downtown SJ department store as you drive south on Coleman Avenue and climb the overpass just before it becomes Market street. Look down to you
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TL;DR: for oral contraceptives for women: paper suggests that taking hormones month-round and avoiding periods altogether is safe.
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I wonder if the full article brings up the fact that there are genetically-determined response levels to aerobic exercise. See Michael Mosley's "The Truth About Exercise" and the University of Bath study it refers to.
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Originally submitted in 2012, 360+ points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208 2015 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12675527
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Anyone else remember netcom.com? I was an early Netcom user. In fact, I had what they called a PNC (Personal Network Connection) account, which offered full TCP/IP connectivity and shell access. When that was killed, I moved t
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Is it rooted? That would stop OTA updates.
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Northridge Earthquake – January 17th, 1994 (25 years ago today)(en.wikipedia.org)
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My first wasn't accessible from public Internet (defense contractor). My second started in 1986, well before we had domain addressing, so a sender had to know 1) our corporate hostname, 2) my username, and 3) a well-known host to route
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This is reminiscent of the UNIX "finger" command usage from 30 years ago.
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The mortgage is fixed Only if it's fixed-rate for its full term.
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A wonderfully comprehensive article on all main facets of fasting strategies.
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what are your memories of computer shopping in the 1980s? In SV, before Fry's (the original Sunnyvale location, 2 moves ago) there were small stores all around, mistky dealing in drives and peripherals. There were two major loc

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