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by bayouborne 4y ago
There is an excellent book on this that methodically walks the reader through the subject. Empire of the Scalpel The History of Surgery By Ira Rutkow
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by bayouborne 5y ago
I've used the dotEPUB extension for Chrome now for several years and its generally excellent. Can be config'ed to save to epub or mobi.
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by bayouborne 5y ago
In the last 6 months Vizio's stock price has fallen from ~$20 a share to Friday's close of $9.06. They'll get more from progressively fewer until they have nothing at all.
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by bayouborne 5y ago
"You can legally come back to the same supermarket in the future." Incorrect, you can be trespassed and thus legally prevented from coming back to the same supermarket in the future.
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by bayouborne 5y ago
“furniture designers, incredibly, are not taught during their formal training how to calculate the deflection in an ordinary bookshelf when it is loaded with books,” ― J.E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
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by bayouborne 5y ago
Since (at least in the Glock's case) the polymer frame is the federally defined and controlled 'weapon' and everything else (barrel/slide/trigger-assy/etc) simple accessories that anyone can own, it would seem
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by bayouborne 5y ago
Using Google's Public Nameservers 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 is presumably a similarly huge exposure too.
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by bayouborne 5y ago
U-Haul does this too, maybe it's sector-wide. Anecdotally, they appear to have no equipment reserve. If, at crunch time at the end of the month, a rental customer does not return the vehicle at a scheduled time then that means a previo
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by bayouborne 5y ago
There are a ton of local feed and seed stores in at least parts of the southern US (Ala, Tenn) that are thriving.
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by bayouborne 5y ago
I've been living out in the country for the last year and I can say that out here nights do have different qualities depending on the phase of the moon, etc.
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by bayouborne 6y ago
It's ironic that it's situated in Serenbe, an exclusive $300k-$1M+ 'new urban community' that, despite its efforts to appear otherwise, is designed for anyone other than the common person.
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by bayouborne 6y ago
"What if every time you shopped online you could see yourself in the clothes?" What if every time you shopped online you could see a version of yourself you'd indicated you want to be (via a thousand small web interactions) i
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by bayouborne 6y ago
My first job in the early '80's was for a phototypesetter manufacturer. Logically, the NSA had one of our machines for in-house use. Whenever there was a issue with the machine I flew up to Virginia to look at it. My experience w
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Other good examples of lightweight, character-based interfaces like HN's?
4 points by bayouborne 7y ago|1 comments
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by bayouborne 7y ago
Netflix should make its API more widely available. 20 Instantwatcher/Flickmetrix type sites, all of which would likely window into the NF dataset differently according to their creators' preferences, would seem to more adequately
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by bayouborne 7y ago
Everything old is new again. I remember reading articles about the mold and fungus trapped in laminated window layers on Mir. The fear then, was that we were creating virulent super-strains.
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by bayouborne 7y ago
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/maryl...
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by bayouborne 7y ago
ah, thank you.
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by bayouborne 7y ago
"The effect implies that a hypothetical doubling of advertising expenditure would result in a 3% drop in life satisfaction. That is approximately one half the absolute size of the marriage effect on life satisfaction, or approximately
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by bayouborne 7y ago
As you can see by everyone's responses, you've been sidetracked -- exactly TurboTax's objective.
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by bayouborne 8y ago
re: "..essentially all this does is provide law enforcement a means to potentially quickly identify violent criminals via physical traits" Perhaps today at 3:00 EST it may helping law enforcement identify violent criminals, but to
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by bayouborne 8y ago
I thought your comment was going to be about UV concerns..
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by bayouborne 8y ago
- yep, Atlanta here, Google Fiber needs to be added to this list.
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by bayouborne 8y ago
It's a little off-point, but I can't help to note a bit of unmentioned fallout to exploitable voting machines -- I early-voted last week in Atlanta and again (as on every other voting day in Atlanta for the last 7-8 years) the vot
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by bayouborne 8y ago
I just came here to say 'Bring back the Razr'
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by bayouborne 8y ago
I stopped reading when he attempted to conflate 1,580 psi at the battery (source) level, with blast pressure of 20 psi on a (target) concrete structure damaging it.
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by bayouborne 9y ago
Yes, or a strong-box that interlocks with a closed exterior door. Amazon's no longer content to just metaphorically want access to our homes and lives, now they actually want in..
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by bayouborne 9y ago
So, Israel Hacked Kaspersky, and discovered Kaspersky had been helping hack NSA tools, which in part show NSA was hacking Iran..
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by bayouborne 9y ago
Wasn't Fizzbin a made-up game [or a winning hand] Capt Kirk used w/the gangsters in one episode? I'm too old.
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by bayouborne 9y ago
..exactly, if that's the author's title, there's an agenda.

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