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Quaternary Extinction Event(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The uncomfortable truth is that most people don’t give a shit. People generally give a shit about themselves, and often their families and friends. Less about their work. Here are some questions the author asks in interviews to get at
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by aazaa 6y ago
To summarize: 1. Web apps offer a workaround to the App Store and its restrictions. Therefore, they need to be blocked. 2. Start by requiring WASM to be signed by Apple. 3. Build out WASM functionality to be comparable with JavaScript. 4. R
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by aazaa 6y ago
Hadn't seen video[0]. From that view, it's not clear how the air pressure around the egg is increased. The end of the carousel appears to be where the laser flash occurs, but I see no way to raise/lower air pressure inside th
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by aazaa 6y ago
It would be even more interesting to compile a list of the world's most famous people that most of the world's people have not heard of. My point is that a person can be very famous around the world and still not known by many peo
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by aazaa 6y ago
Isn't that drop experiencing the same pressure as well? If so, what causes the fluid to escape?
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Instead, a laser beam burns a 0.3mm-wide hole in the shell. Then, air pressure is applied to the shell exterior, pushing a drop of fluid out of the hole. The process takes one second per egg and enables fluid to be collected from eggs
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by aazaa 6y ago
Not sure why this is here (don't follow soccer and never heard of Maradona), but the "Hand of God" incident is an entertaining read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_God and watch: https:/
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Short intro to C++ for Rust developers: Ownership and Borrowing (2017)(nercury.github.io)
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by aazaa 6y ago
Plenty of events to choose from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971 Highlights: - "A new stock market index called the Nasdaq Composite debuts." - "Starbucks, a major coffeehouse and outlet in world
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'Dueling Dinosaurs' fossil, locked up for 14 yrs, could reveal its secrets(nationalgeographic.com)
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Wilmington Insurrection of 1898(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 6y ago
The article could be improved by focusing more on the coup in Sri Lanka. Draw closer parallels to what's happening there and in the US. Maybe throw in some links for curious readers. The links I found all talk about the US, not Sri Lan
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America’s Biggest Oil Storage Hub Is Filling to the Brim Again(bloomberg.com)
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The move on Wednesday aligns the Pentagon with the congressional intent for the top special operations civilian. In the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers ordered the Pentagon to raise the assistant secretar
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by aazaa 6y ago
The article doesn't focus on what's going on outside of the phone. 14 is a pivotal age, because it's about that time that high school starts. A lot of what the author describes sounds like a girl beginning the process of deta
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by aazaa 6y ago
From the author's description of the One Item Store: > Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the final product, I think its actually really cool. But building it.. it was just a bit boring. There were lots of bugs, and I star
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Georgia election official explains how votes were found on memory card(11alive.com)
6 points by aazaa 6y ago|4 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
I never said the president called the virus a hoax. I said he sympathizes with and encourages the "hoax" perspective. And that perspective is that concern about the pandemic is a plot against his presidency just like the Russia in
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by aazaa 6y ago
Wouldn't present progressive be "Now we are engaging..."? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_continuous Either way, active can really change the meaning: "Now we fight/pursue/battle in&
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by aazaa 6y ago
Politics seems to be a factor here, but I wonder how much of this has to do with popular culture. Over the last 20 years we've been bombarded with metric tons of Apocalypse porn, a lot of it focused on killer viruses. Most of those mov
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by aazaa 6y ago
Amazing how normal this is all starting to seem. A private company sends a crew into space. The re-usable booster lands Buck Rogers-style on a robotic boat - without a hitch.
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by aazaa 6y ago
The article would have been improved by giving some insight into what changed his mind. You don't just go from what he and his brother have done to the US to: > Boy, did we screw up! Without an inkling as to how or why they screwe
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Why doesn't the United States (and other democracies) require open source voting software for all elections? One thing that's different about the US is that each state is responsible for carrying out its own elections. There
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by aazaa 6y ago
From another article written by the same author, it looks like the author mainly tried to create two-sided businesses (e.g., markeplaces/social networks): https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-failed-6-side-proje
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1876 United States presidential election(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by aazaa 6y ago|4 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
History is written by the victors. From this perspective, every successful resistance was necessary and every failed resistance was not. Take the American Civil War, for example. If you (still) believe in the cause, it was a true positive.
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by aazaa 6y ago
Imagine you're living through the events described in the essay. You know exactly where things are heading and that the situation is dire. You're willing to do whatever it takes to prevent the inevitable from playing out. What&#x2
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by aazaa 6y ago
> “I’d put the heads on pikes. Right. I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you are gone,” Bannon said in the video. Zuckerberg's argument appears
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What you need to know about when states finalize their election results(politico.com)
1 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments

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