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Edgar Allan Poe’s Cottage Is Just Sitting There in the Bronx(messynessychic.com)
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by apo 8y ago
In the early-90's I saw Vonnegut give a presentation in which he talked about his story graph idea. However, the video linked to in the article appears to end before the most interesting part. https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by apo 8y ago
I totally forgot about the scuba-mask viewport... yikes.
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by apo 8y ago
There are many sources of this problem, but I suspect the three that get the least attention are: - parental pressure to attend college - guidance counselors and school administrators pushing for college - the wholesale destruction of vocat
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by apo 8y ago
Yep, Battle Zone. It had two joysticks and greenish vectors. There was another vector 3D game called Red Barron.
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by apo 8y ago
As developers, we want to reduce fear of our code failing and increase trust in our code working well. ... The author doesn't mention the critical need for any nontrivial JavaScript project to build and maintain an automated test sui
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by apo 8y ago
I've seen the effects of teenagers + phones in US high schools first hand. Simply put, kids are distracted and overstimulated. The always connected nature of the phone ensures that critical planning skills will never be learned. Never
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by apo 8y ago
Exactly.
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Tesla in its current form has never had to weather an economic downturn. It will be subject to the same headwinds as any luxury manufacturer. Unlike other car companies that sell luxury, Tesla has no economy model. Some commenters have note
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by apo 8y ago
What to do about the entrenched scientific publishing-funding complex has been a concern since the first full text of journal articles started appearing in the 1990s. The response to date has been for funding agencies (nonprofits and govern
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by apo 8y ago
Typo, that should be "ammonia."
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by apo 8y ago
Here's some background on alternative approaches: https://cen.acs.org/environment/water/stripping-air-moisture...
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by apo 8y ago
The decomposition of urea [(NH2)2CO] produces two equivalents of ammonia for each equivalent of urea. It's not clear from the article how much (if any) of the ammonia gets consumed by the bacteria. > Is large amounts of ammonia ea
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What’s Wrong with the 2 Percent Inflation Target(bloomberg.com)
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There's a recent interview with Bol here: http://www.startribune.com/after-cancer-diagnosis-little-fre...
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by apo 8y ago
I should have qualified that with "General Chemistry." You can solve the majority of General Chemistry problems by looking at them from an accounting perspective. Neither units of money nor atoms can be created or destroyed. We us
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by apo 8y ago
On November 16, 2018, representatives from more than 50 countries are expected to make history when they gather in Versailles, France, to vote on redefining the SI, including the mole. The vote will close the book on this chapter of Vocke
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by apo 8y ago
I understand its an ERC20 token. Do you understand how Coinbase and Circle will remain within regulatory compliance (AML/KYC) regarding USDC and the obvious potential for money laundering?
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by apo 8y ago
Stablecoins appear to be the new ICO. USDC follows on the heels of the Gemini Dollar, and a raft of other stablecoins offered by fully-regulated bank-like entities. Oddly, there's nothing about regulatory compliance (AML/KYC) or f
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by apo 8y ago
The meaning of the word "stabilize" isn't clear from the article, despite being used 12 times in the body and once in the title. It would have been easy to make the article more clear. Simply explain what aspect of Bitcoin is
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by apo 8y ago
Pensions are Ponzi schemes, plain and simple, with government playing the role of Ponzi. Buried deep inside the idea of a government pension is the idea that individuals are incapable of saving for their own retirement. That government need
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Can stripping the air of its moisture quench the world’s thirst?(cen.acs.org)
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He [Billionaire Arnold] has spent more than $100 million in health-care-related grants since 2014. A million dollars went to Civica Rx, a nonprofit formed by seven U.S. hospital systems to make generic drugs. Up to $5.7 million is pledged
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by apo 8y ago
To our surprise, we found a lack of published, well-optimized, large-data hash functions. Most hash work seems to focus on small input sizes (for things like dictionary lookup) or on cryptographic quality. We wanted the fastest possible ha
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Of the 9.5 million cancer diagnoses studied between 2000–2012, researchers discovered that 42.4 percent of patients (median age 68.6±9.4 years) spent all of their money, averaging $92,098. This follows disturbing news from earlier this yea
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by apo 8y ago
The elimination of MagSafe is nearly too painful to talk about. It was magical. Now it’s dead. Here’s how it worked: The power cable was magnetic. Instead of sticking into the laptop, it connected to the side of it. If someone tripped over
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A small JS+SVG library for drawing railroad syntax diagrams, like on JSON.org(github.com)
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Amazing that: (1) the mechanism involves a detached vortex; and (b) that it's taken millennia to understand what makes dandelion seeds fly.
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A vicious cycle: easy student loan money inflates the cost of tuition, making college less affordable and increasing the demand for easy loan money. Breaking the cycle is as simple as it is counterintuitive. Abolish federal student loan gua
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Helm just works with your home network—no configuration needed. Helm connects securely to a unique gateway, which is assigned a static IP address so Helm is reachable by other mail servers and secure TLS sessions can be established. This

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