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Short Answers to Hard Questions about Health Threats from Hurricane Harvey(nytimes.com)
1 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments
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What Harvey victims can do right now to protect their finances(money.cnn.com)
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What to Do When Facing a Floating Ball of Fire Ants(npr.org)
1 points by Mz 9y ago|2 comments
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DriveSavers offers free data recovery services to Texans affected by Harvey(chron.com)
1 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments
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by Mz 9y ago
We don't really know what the future of Houston will look like post Harvey. Only time will tell how applicable the comparison to Galveston is in various metrics. Humans are notoriously bad at predicting the future.
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Pizza Hut workers deliver free pizza by kayak to Harvey victims(nydailynews.com)
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by Mz 9y ago
Saying it will never be the same is not the same as saying it will leave the global stage. I can't fathom where that leap of logic comes from. The only point I was making is that cities can be permanently significantly altered by a
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HISD students to receive three free meals a day for 2017-2018 school year(khou.com)
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Texas governor reportedly accepts Mexico’s offer to help after Harvey(kdvr.com)
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The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California's Wildfires(nytimes.com)
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Houston offers a grim vision of Los Angeles after catastrophic earthquake(latimes.com)
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by Mz 9y ago
For anyone thinking the pronouncement that Houston will never be the same is mere hyperbole and hand-wringing: At one time, Galveston was a prominent, prosperous city. Then it was hit by a hurricane and was never the same: https:/&#x2
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Robots won’t steal our jobs if we put workers at center of AI revolution(theconversation.com)
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Harvey knocked out a significant portion of the nation's oil refining capacity(latimes.com)
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Six-Second Commercials Are Coming to NFL Games on Fox(nytimes.com)
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Prying Apart the Mighty Bite of a Malaysian Trap-Jaw Ant(smithsonianmag.com)
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Flood insurance policies in Houston plunged before Harvey(chicagotribune.com)
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“We've covered our sponge up”: Harvey reveals problem decades in the making(cbsnews.com)
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by Mz 9y ago
If I was his kid, I wouldn't listen to him either. His kid no doubt knows what a blowhard he is. I dropped out of college at age twenty. I went back later. Neither of my sons felt compelled to go. It is fine to argue against the idea t
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by Mz 9y ago
You are not crazy (see other excellent comment). They are evil little beasties. I have been enjoying the descriptions here, like nasty little balls of hate and invasive species made of spite. Those are much more poetic and apt descripti
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by Mz 9y ago
Insurances are not bets Origin story for Lloyd's of London: The patrons bet, for example, on whether Admiral John Byng would be shot for his incompetence in a naval battle with the French. He was. The gentlemen of Lloyd's would
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by Mz 9y ago
My recollection is that you tend to not have just one bite. They are quite aggressive and tend to attack in groups. If you look at pics on the web of fire ant bites, they typically show many bites. Unless you are talking African Killer Bees
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by Mz 9y ago
You have obviously not been bitten by a fire ant. Their name was not inspired by their red color, but by their burning, venomous bites which leave huge weeping pustules. If you are allergic or sensitive, it is worse. If you had ever been bi
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Homelike, a German startup that helps business travellers, picks up €4M Series A(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments
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by Mz 9y ago
They clearly should all be packing flame-throwers. When I was growing up in Georgia (last century), we would douse fire ant mounds in gasoline and light it. (This is no doubt illegal now.) We called them ant roasts. /heathen
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by Mz 9y ago
FYI for anyone interested: There is a google group called Blind Dev Works. It is run by a blind developer. (I am co-admin, but it is his group.) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/blind-dev-works
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by Mz 9y ago
The people who most need healthcare tend to have low incomes because they are chronically ill. So, no, that Boom! fundamentally does not work.
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by Mz 9y ago
Yes, but health insurance worked differently before Obamacare. Insurance companies simply did not cover chronically ill people or people with preexisting conditions, thus they were able to arrange a "bet." Obamacare removes the el
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by Mz 9y ago
bam medicade for all. That is called single payer, government provided coverage. I would support that. That is not remotely what Obamacare does. Obamacare requires private insurance to cover people with pre-existing conditions and it requ
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by Mz 9y ago
I am aware that the existence of trees tends to promote rain, so, no, it isn't an absolute, black or white thing. My medical condition is genetic in origin. I have reversed a lot of my symptoms and, yes, maintaining my improved conditi

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