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by DrScump 6y ago
$4,000 doesn't seem adequate if they could gain access to Starbucks card data. Given a card number, they could purchase using its entire balance, repeat ad infinitum.
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by DrScump 6y ago
Problem is, there are genetics that make some low responders to cardio for weight loss (see the University of Bath study). Years ago, I built up from never really running to 6+ miles at a stretch... but soon hit a plateau that I could neve
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by DrScump 6y ago
On https://www.mightyhealth.com/faq.html at least.
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by DrScump 6y ago
Why does your "Contact Us" link just go to the FAQ page?
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by DrScump 6y ago
I've actually used their firmware update procedure to flash the update to my Samsung Blu-ray player when I got a movie that had unsupported codecs or something. The procedure (download a gzipped directory onto a USB drive, insert into
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by DrScump 6y ago
People, just look at modern LRO imagery of the six Apollo landing sites. And try to explain the laser reflectors we use to measure distance to this day?
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by DrScump 6y ago
ISPF on TSO (IBM mainframes), assuming that punch cards and mark sense cards don't count. In doing cleaning and purging on the house, I just found something I forgot I had: an ISPF implementation for use on MS-DOS!
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by DrScump 6y ago
Okay, one more: "Calypso", Suzanne Vega: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhJIZZcNQPA Steely Dan's "Home at Last" is another interesting turn on Odysseus.
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by DrScump 6y ago
Album: The Pat Metheny Group (called the "white album" because of its plain white cover with just the four names of the players). Side one of the LP was just "San Lorenzo" and "Phase Dance". The former still gi
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by DrScump 6y ago
In preference over December ?
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by DrScump 6y ago
MAD had great ads... for its own subscriptions. When I was a kid (and subscriber!), their ads had a common theme "Why kill yourself... because you missed the last issue of MAD at the newsstand?" combined with a cartoon of a new in
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by DrScump 6y ago
You provide a link that directly contradicts your claim. First of all, the Geneva Conventions (plural) are about treatment of prisoners of war , not agents or munitions used. Your given link refers to the Chemical Weapons convention , b
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by DrScump 6y ago
Plus, your organization had to pay for CPU cycles and I/Os. a la carte.
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by DrScump 6y ago
How are you going to get your debugging help now? StackOverflow doesn't exist. Real Men and Real Women read core dumps. And they actually communicated with each other. Plus, turnover was less, so you had institutional knowledge
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by DrScump 6y ago
Extremely serious and wholesome hit from 1960 Wow, I know nothing of Stewart's work before Silly Wizard .
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by DrScump 6y ago
I think cubicles originally became "uncool" in contrast with offices , then tech bro management took the anti-cubicle fervor in a direction that favored them over the individual contributor, ultimately increasing the contrast bet
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by DrScump 6y ago
They aren't spraying to kill the sterile flies.
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by DrScump 6y ago
Sterile male flies were released to reduce successful matings of queens.
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by DrScump 6y ago
In their general "journalism" pool (i.e. aside from Nova and Science Friday ), NPR/PBS journalism has a really low bar for science knowledge. There's a new PBS science show hosted by a "journalist" (rather t
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by DrScump 6y ago
As it turns out, owls and mice are not always enemies: https://www.pbs.org/video/film-school-shorts-program-owl-and...
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by DrScump 6y ago
It matters with respect to the parent comment quote about helicopter travel itself being unsafe, while statistics show it's safer than fixed wing GA.
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by DrScump 6y ago
Santa Clara county already took federal funding for commitments to 2031 (and spent all that long ago). No way can they afford to reimburse that.
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by DrScump 6y ago
This is a USA Today article, and it opens with: 'Kentucky’s “stand your ground” law allows its residents to use deadly force against intruders they believe are breaking into their home.' That's a flat lie. "Stand your gr
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by DrScump 6y ago
We apologize for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
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by DrScump 6y ago
You refuse to save lives S/he's already been a living bone marrow donor , presumably already saving a life at considerable risk to oneself (it's surgery for the donor). That's already enough to deserve immunity
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by DrScump 6y ago
I was referring to the classic "Real Aviators Fly Taildraggers" sticker.
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by DrScump 6y ago
San Jose Reid-Hillview is being closed, Not for another decade at the earliest. I suspect that the next departure of one of the 3 pro-closure Supervisors will flip the 2031 strategy, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by DrScump 6y ago
All helicopters: ~0.7 And how many of those were from equipment failure, rather than pilot error? The famous helicopter crashes that come to mind (e.g. Kobe, Bill Graham) were not from mechanical failure.
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by DrScump 6y ago
I’ve flown about 20 types of small taildraggers You're the 20X Real Aviator(tm), then.
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by DrScump 6y ago
GA flights need to be within 2 or 3 hours (or ~1 hour commercial flight) to even save time). GA can compete in routes that are poorly served (infrequent and/or overpriced). I read a story a couple of years ago where a group of

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