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by aazaa 5y ago
> In my case, it was worse than expected, but, in the parlance of public health, it was "mild," meaning I didn't end up in the hospital or require oxygen. > ... > It was a miserable five days. My legs and arms ached,
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One in Three Americans Already Had Covid-19 by the End of 2020(publichealth.columbia.edu)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Antipsychotic drugs — which for decades have faced criticism as “chemical straitjackets” — are dangerous for older people with dementia, nearly doubling their chance of death from heart problems, infections, falls and other ailments. B
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The Matrix was a metaphor for transgender identity, director confirms (2020)(independent.co.uk)
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by aazaa 5y ago
From the conclusion: > This article has discussed how money is created in the modern economy. Most of the money in circulation is created, not by the printing presses of the Bank of England, but by the commercial banks themselves: banks
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Authorities race to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India(cbsnews.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> To warm up a skeptical public, Bukele has promised every citizen $30 in bitcoin if they sign up for a government digital wallet. Ahead of the launch, El Salvador bought 400 bitcoins, Bukele said, helping drive the currency price above
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by aazaa 5y ago
Kind of interesting to note how celebrities were routinely used to sell many brands of personal computers in the early 1980s, including Commodore (Vic 20). The ads for the 64 don't do that, which was almost unusual. Anyone remember Wil
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by aazaa 5y ago
And what I'm saying is that the change of appearance in this particular case is less surprising than the fact that double or triple name candidates on a ballot "regularly" occur.
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by aazaa 5y ago
Maybe the most surprising thing about this is how commonplace it is for multiple candidates to share the same name. From the article: > “Double” candidates regularly pop up during Russia’s election cycles, which can be surprisingly cut-t
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El Salvador buys 200 bitcoins as the digital currency becomes legal tender(lite.cnn.com)
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The Forbes article does a better job of explaining the case: > Shortly afterward, a person going by the name “Lucifallen21” got in touch to inquire about the ad, according to the search warrant. The IRS, without saying how, determined th
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Pandemic jobless benefits expire soon. Don't expect employment to suddenly soar(lite.cnn.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> What I’ve learnt through experience is that the number of languages I’ve learned or the specific frameworks I’ve gained experience with matters very little. What actually matters is my ability to up-skill quickly and effectively. My su
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GM shutting down production at most of its plants in North America(lite.cnn.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> So, take it from me, a historian of opioids: if you want to learn how one family and their company caused arguably the biggest ongoing public health crisis in the US, but you only have the time to read one book on the subject, it shoul
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by aazaa 5y ago
> ... On the morning of the flight, Branson, an outspoken environmentalist, appeared on the “livestream” arriving at the spaceport on a bicycle. But this turned out to be false: Branson did not pedal to work that day; the bike ride was f
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by aazaa 5y ago
It was surprisingly easy to see the connection to the movie after the fact. But I could guess none of the titles just from the poster.
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by aazaa 5y ago
It's worth pointing out that never in all of world history has such a large percentage of sovereign debt yielded a nominally negative rate. Where this ends is anybody's guess. But when the situation finally does resolve itself, it
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by aazaa 5y ago
> When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. What happens if you don't go far enough up, abstraction wise? You end up repeating yourself - everywhere. You end up with globals everywhere. You end up with God C
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Gaming companies will be barred from providing services to minors in any form outside the stipulated hours and must ensure they have put real-name verification systems in place, said the regulator, which oversees the country's vid
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by aazaa 5y ago
Maybe a shift of perspective is in order. What if the homeless "problem" is merely the most visible symptom of a modern depression that has been underway for many years? You expect a homeless problem in a depression. You expect dr
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Today, the Van Tuinens said, they're healthy, sober and doing much better. They live together in their family's Waterbury home, where they have a Sunday ritual of hiking in the woods, meditating and discussing their emotions.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The total cost of this tool is: 60$ (yearly, domain) + 60$(yearly, hosting) + more than 150 hours of programming (which would be about 4000$ from where I live). Revenue is non-existent. I've decided to leave the site ad-free becau
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by aazaa 5y ago
> That’s when Lebanon’s cryptocurrency market took off, along with the OTC system run by traders like Awad. The OTC ecosystem here largely operates using Tether, a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar and therefore subject to fewer p
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Pg-mem: An in-memory re-implementation of PostgreSQL in JavaScript(github.com)
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> The security group [in Reuters] approved the embed plan. “We were talking about the Afghan Special Forces, the elite,” said Rogers [Reuters global pictures editor]. “They had all the hospitals at their disposal, all the equipment neede
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by aazaa 5y ago
Still another application: blog comments, as is done with Utterances. > A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more! https://github.com/utterance/utt
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Amazon reportedly plans to open department stores(theguardian.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing plans to build new factories in the US and Japan I can't help but think that this massive shortage is setting up and equal an opposite reaction 2-3 years down the road: a glut as all this new cap

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