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by bell-cot 9mo ago
I'm sure "Why Boys Are..." gets the clicks - but if you actually care about fixing the problem, in a country where gender differences & favoritism are political hot buttons, and even students at elite universities are poo
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
??? Neither my comment, nor the prior one, had anything to do with fintech. Concerning "innovation" in financial systems, done by relative outsiders, with little experience or incentive to keep the system stable: Given the track
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranyl_acetate - so easily distinguished from espresso. OTOH... https://www.google.com/search?q=far+side+comic+culture+of+am...
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Quoting more: > "I got the idea of using espresso as a staining agent from the circular dried stains in used coffee cups," says Claudia Mayrhofer, who is responsible for ultramicrotomy at the institute. During preparation, she
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
What does "infiltrated by bots" mean? I'm sure there are some users running scripts, bots, and/or ai's here. Others are obviously just here to pitch their product, or seem like shills for various things. But overa
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> How did Visa & Mastercard manage... I'd bet a combination of: - Got through before the red tape ramparts were nearly as thick as today - Ungentle arm-twisting by the US Gov't... at Visa & Mastercard's behest - Am
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> The are not IT people. They are not farmers - but it's their job to make sure that their countries have secure supplies of safe food, long-term. They are not electricians - but it's their job to make sure that their countries
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yes, nice, true. But sadly, it feels like pigs will be singing Handel's Messiah before Europe's leaders get off their fat asses and actually do anything about their problems.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Sounds more like an easy business opportunity than a crisis. Register a few "wiki-quiki.info"-flavored domain names, tune a cheap ai to summarize Wikipedia articles, set up a cache for those summaries, and make your money by runn
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Speculation: SpaceX has considerably better data than what they disclose, and offer free of charge. The USSF enjoys full access to that better data, for $[TOP_SECRET]/month.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
True. But McD may decide that the services in developer-friendly Small Township are just as good, for their use case. And Smallville residents may be content to drive another 500 yards down Smallville-Littleton Rd., to spend their money a
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
"Doing that would fail to align with the company's current priorities. And by the way - you're fired." -Catbert
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Smallville is entitled to a no-exceptions policy. OTOH, if Smallville seems too unfriendly to developers, the latter may decide to build outside the city limits. Which might become a problem over time, by holding down Smallville's com
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
A test of SpaceX's awareness & response would be ample reason.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
There are valid uses. McDonalds may not want Burger King to know they're planning to build a new location in Smallville, 'till they actually break ground, or vice versa. Don't blabber to everyone that the City wants to ex
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
The most important news is in the subtitle - > Wisconsin has now joined several states with legislative proposals to make the process more transparent. Legislative or constitutional, good democratic government really needs limits on ho
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
A point I don't notice being made - Try assuming that the target audience for this research is clinicians and nutritionists working with general population patients - particularly patients who really need cholesterol-reducing interve
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
For those who haven't done much cooking - this bubble-busting trick works in a wide variety of situations. Very useful. Some proteins seem to have a similar effect - but I haven't tried to narrow that down, and don't know th
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Kudos to the NYT for being up front with the fact that Yale is just matching similar deals from Harvard, MIT, UPenn, Princeton, etc.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Humans generally find "food safety expert sickens guests with tuna salad he left out overnight on warm countertop" to be a far more damning charge than "fire safety expert sickens ... warm countertop". Dig up a live mic
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> The agency chief's warnings come one week after the European Commission presented a proposal to overhaul its Cybersecurity Act legislation. The bill would allow the EU's cyber agency, based in Athens, to expand its personnel
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
You can study anything from accounting to zookeeping in college, and the real world will fall far short of the ideals ("best practices") you were taught. What matters is that you learned a good amount of the reasoning behind those
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yes. But there is a very long and winding gray spectrum between a belligerently entitled layabout, and "your daily work output no longer excuses your continued consumption of our oxygen, meatbag".
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
A fascinating and wonderful group. But perhaps a better accounting of them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
No need for someone to be an author: > People generate vast amounts of written material through emails, reports, messages and online communication. With appropriate safeguards for privacy and consent, subtle changes in writing style coul
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
THIS . And not just for Vitamin D. Not everyone absorbs / metabolizes / excretes vitamins or minerals in the same way. Learning whether or not you're an outlier can be done either the safe way, or the dangerous way.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Old family wisdom - "People fall at every age. But getting back up gets harder every year, and the time comes when you can't."
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> Being 100 and still capable of working is a blessing A much under-appreciated blessing. At any age. Over the past half-ish century, I've visited any number of elderly relatives and friends who were living in the US's long-te
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Munger's Law - Agents know they'll never get recognition or promotions by rounding up hothead wannabes.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
The article talks about masses of 10^17 to 10^23 grams being prime candidates for detection. (And also about 10^14 gram ones - in their final stages of evaporation, and thus a different sort of detection problem.) If I'm not fumbling

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