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by andrewl 7y ago
There are many mentions and discussions of fluoroquinolones on YC News, including my own recommendation [1] to be very careful with them, based on personal experience. Also, the spelling is fluoroquinolone, not flouroquinolone. (That is, fl
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by andrewl 7y ago
But if Hitler’s rise teaches us anything, it’s that the establishment trivialises demagogues at its peril. One disturbing aspect of the present crisis is the extent to which mainstream parties, including US Republicans and British Conserva
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by andrewl 7y ago
Money affects the course a person's life takes after recovery from an illness or injury. I have two friends who started at Ivy League universities about forty years ago. Both got sick and had to leave school. One was from a very poor f
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Strike with the Band(thebaffler.com)
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Exactly. Atwood's post says "Unfortunately, we don't have a good designated place for deleted "too fun" questions to live, but all Stack Exchange content is licensed under Creative Commons in perpetuity . Which mea
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by andrewl 7y ago
This is an important article. I read several years ago about manufacturers sterilizing medical tools with radiation before they left the factory. I could imagine that the setup for doing that is too complex and dangerous for a regular hospi
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by andrewl 7y ago
This is an interview with Deb Goodkin, who is the executive director of the FreeBSD Foundation.
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FreeBSD Meets Linux at the Open Source Summit [video](tfir.io)
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I second the recommendation of A Simple Leather Belt Co. I have a brown and a black from them, and they're extremely well made. The user interface for designing your belt is also quite clear.
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Why the U.S. Army Owns So Many Fossils(atlasobscura.com)
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The author addresses that in her premise: Each assignment required a yes-no decision.
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When You Die, I’ll Be There to Take Your Stuff(narratively.com)
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I'd never heard of him. He's done a lot of interesting stuff, mostly in high performance computing. From his personal page: "Gustafson has recently finished writing a book, The End of Error: Unum Computing , that presents a
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The Most Controversial Tree in the World(psmag.com)
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You're probably right, I'm too optimistic. Perhaps the better model is army ants, or driver ants. I read they will sweep through a village and kill or drive out roaches, spiders, mice, and other vermin. The human inhabitants welco
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by andrewl 7y ago
I've wondered about that. Could small crawling robots, perhaps 3-inches long, be built to roam around houses and inside walls and under sinks and so on to seek out and kill cockroaches and other household pests? I doubt anything can de
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by andrewl 7y ago
The original Be File System (BFS) for BeOS had some attributes of a database. I'm happy to see more research being done on the concept.
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by andrewl 7y ago
The Evernote page in Wikipedia says that Evernote has 251-500 employees.
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Martin Amis Book About Video Games Shows How Difficult It Is to Write About Them(washingtonpost.com)
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Google engineer Steve Yegge said: Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf worke
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by andrewl 7y ago
Fecal transplants are still going on, and are showing good effectiveness for certain serious problems, like C. diff infections: Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent Clostridium difficile New England Journal of Medicine 2013
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The Straight Dope did a column on him in 1988: https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/904/why-the-weird-...
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Some of the World’s Most Polluted Cities Are in India. New Delhi Is One of Them(washingtonpost.com)
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The World’s First 3D-Printed Village Is Coming to Latin America This Summer(dwell.com)
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Invasive Japanese Knotweed(slate.com)
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Why the Post Natural-Age Could Be Strange and Beautiful(bbc.com)
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I want out of this body: I can’t move, talk or breathe on my own(washingtonpost.com)
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Which Surgeon You Get Matters-–A Lot. But How Do We Know Who the Good Ones Are?(medium.com)
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Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)(cs.otago.ac.nz)
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by andrewl 8y ago
For some history of teeth (not just human teeth) try the BBC In Our Time podcast episode The Evolution of Teeth : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003zbg Being a Melvyn Bragg podcast, it includes a reading list: B

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