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by DrScump 8y ago
(1989)
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As grocery chain is dismantled, investors profit but pensions are short millions(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by DrScump 8y ago|2 comments
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by DrScump 8y ago
I'm not looking for work and I keep getting calls from people and agents ... because of this unusually strong tech employment market. When this boom ends, the 40+ should expect to be the first cut. Again. Just like in 1992, 200
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by DrScump 8y ago
the clerk handed across an empty plastic cup, thumping hollowly on the counter, another job outsourced to the customer. I seriously disagree that moving the drink fountains out to the customer is a disadvantage to the customer. I l
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by DrScump 8y ago
From May 2017, 2000+ points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299628
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by DrScump 8y ago
The results showed no association between vitamin D levels over a lifetime and the risk of fracture. Actually, the paper says mostly the exact opposite: "There is high quality evidence that vitamin D plus calcium is associa
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by DrScump 8y ago
TV audiences were measured through surveys. ... and live metering services like Nielsen, who installed their own metering hardware in participating households' TVs and VCRs and polled them daily over a dedicated phone line.
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by DrScump 8y ago
BTW, the 1991 WNET film "The Last Train Across Canada"[0] featured a journalist taking one of the last transcontinental Via Rail (Canada's national railway system) trips, including a side trip up to Churchill (on Hudson Bay),
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by DrScump 8y ago
Also from NYT: "How to Delete Facebook and Instagram from Your Life Forever" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215171 240 points
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by DrScump 8y ago
This MASH episode[0] tells the story of a World War 1 tontine of which Colonel Potter is the last survivior. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638372/
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by DrScump 8y ago
The origin is a long story, but I've been using it online for 30 years.
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by DrScump 8y ago
I check for updates manually when I'm on fast, unmetered WiFi but will next be on slower or metered service, given Microsoft's penchant for huge downloads in the background. I shouldn't be punished for that.
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by DrScump 8y ago
cost money, C and other languages did not Only in the UNIX world, where C was a freebie. When I first got into C, pricey Microsoft C and MASM were needed for MS-DOS development. Turbo C, gcc, etc. came later.
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Some people have slightly squashed skulls thanks to Neanderthal DNA(newscientist.com)
1 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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Childhood Human Growth Hormone treatments may have spread Alzheimer’s proteins(newscientist.com)
2 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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Free Printable Posters, Infographics Celebrating Voyager's Interstellar Voyage(voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)
6 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 8y ago
Projected into two dimensions, they are.
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Spray-on bioresponsive immunotherapeutic gel for post-surgical cancer treatment(nature.com)
2 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (77 Years Ago Today)(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 8y ago
This is just survey data with no objectively-measured details, apparently. "Excess" sleep is often associated with low quality sleep, which is often associated with other negative health factors such as obesity, shift work, sl
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Universal flu vaccine remains ‘an alchemist’s dream’(sciencemag.org)
8 points by DrScump 8y ago|1 comments
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Cosmic cacophony of colliding black holes continues (gravitational waves)(sciencemag.org)
1 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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Bands of martian rock could solve the ‘faint young sun’ paradox(sciencemag.org)
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23 skidoo (phrase)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Salar de Uyuni(en.wikipedia.org)
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How to Irritate People(en.wikipedia.org)
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California's Oroville Dam: Repair bill now tops $1B(mercurynews.com)
1 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments
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The Complete and Utter History of Britain(en.wikipedia.org)
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Vajont Dam(en.wikipedia.org)
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Indiana Solicitor General: It's Constitutional to Seize a Car Speeding by 5 MPH(reason.com)
6 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments

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