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Diabetes risk in later life if fetus born during famine(duckduckgo.com)
2 points by a3n 2y ago|1 comments
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by a3n 2y ago
Study of people born during Ukraine's Holodomor - Soviet inflicted famine of '32 - '33 - confirms other studies showing increase of diabetes and obesity in later life. I heard this on the Science podcast. First result in the
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by a3n 2y ago
"That's a nice box of cash you used to have there."
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by a3n 2y ago
Sometimes products are kept artificially rare, to keep their price up. Diamonds. (I suspect) Ozempic and its cousins. If consumers were a relatively rare commodity, then products would have to work extremely hard to compete for them. For ex
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by a3n 2y ago
Interesting true story. It reminds me of this interesting false story, that should never be lost under layers of internet geologic sediment. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/smithsonian-barbie/
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by a3n 2y ago
On the flip side, The engineers get to spend the budget in any of many reasonable directions.
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by a3n 2y ago
Hexadecimal?
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by a3n 2y ago
Slavery accepted by the enslaved.
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by a3n 2y ago
At 17, I was a lot boy at a motorcycle dealer. Push the bikes out, push the bikes in, gopher this and that. Sometimes after work the mechanics would get me high, and we'd sit out back and watch the ocean. It was nice.
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by a3n 2y ago
It's sounding like Boeing and NASA ignored the most important lesson from Challenger: Don't launch if you know there's a problem. And for the same reason: political and business pressure.
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by a3n 2y ago
> Curtis Yarvin has laid out a critique of American democracy: arguing that it’s liberals in elite academic institutions, media outlets, and the permanent bureaucracy who hold true power in this declining country, ... You know, childless
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by a3n 2y ago
Marketer: "But we'll always have the United States."
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by a3n 2y ago
Just call it "AI2000!"
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by a3n 2y ago
Proof of concept. They're probably planning and designing something much more lucrative. Why else bother with silly money?
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by a3n 2y ago
This is why senators give a damn. They see right away it touches them, and they want to do something about it right away.
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by a3n 2y ago
It seems like "banana" could become the modern version of "rubber duck." Engineers used to supposedly put some ridiculous feature into a design. A manager would then, supposedly, see the feature, question it, and order t
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by a3n 2y ago
To reduce some of the risk, hand injuries while opening the can, you could first put it in a can cozy.
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by a3n 2y ago
The party of small government created Space Force when we had a perfectly good Air Force, and now wants to create some number of new agencies when we have a perfectly good DARPA.
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by a3n 2y ago
Can we also teach AI how to avoid nuclear blackmail?
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by a3n 2y ago
T2 diabetic. Metformin, and Trulicity. Although Trulicty has been hard to find recently, so I'm doing without and working harder on my management practices, which is working well. I am not a doctor and I don't know you. Interestin
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by a3n 2y ago
Counter-suggestion: Dive totally into the Windows world. My background was star-nix, and when i found myself having to use Windows, I always did something like Cygwin, gvim, etc. Which worked fine. But it necessarily limited my expertise in
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by a3n 2y ago
When she worked for free, was it up hill, both ways? These kids today.
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by a3n 2y ago
Ah, Firefly fans.
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by a3n 2y ago
Or carbon butter. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=carbon+butter&t=fpas&ia=web
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by a3n 2y ago
And some day we'll eat them too.
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Last Universal Common Ancestor Lived 4.2B Years Ago(sci.news)
2 points by a3n 2y ago|0 comments
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by a3n 2y ago
Two egregiously rich people are getting married. BFD.
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by a3n 2y ago
No I don't. This situation is acute, and will spread. The only way Germany was stopped in 1945 was by a collective decision to defeat them militarily, by multiple participating countries. That won't happen this time around, becaus
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> “The CEO, COO and CTO were all let go that day. We can only speculate they got packages,” one source said. “But some employees who had been there for 9-10 years and weathered the storm through the former founder, working 15 hour days –
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by a3n 2y ago
> “It sometimes seems as if the modern worker spends more time talking about work than actually working.” I used to quip that various Agile rituals weren't work, they were work about work.

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