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by blahedo 3y ago
This line, buried deep in the article, is what completely boggles my mind: > We tell customers to wash their outerwear, regardless of whether it has PFAS or not, after every three to five significant uses and to re-waterproof every thre
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Solar storms, ice cores and nuns' teeth: inside the new science of history(theguardian.com)
9 points by blahedo 3y ago|1 comments
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by blahedo 3y ago
> Most people hit the standard deduction, Is this still true? After they raised the deduction and capped the sales/local tax deductions (and some others too I thought), I assumed a lot of people that used to hit the standard dedu
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by blahedo 3y ago
I've ridden almost all of the long-distance Amtrak lines and not seen what you describe. There are "long stops" where there are crew changes and refill and restock, but they are not primarily for passengers to visit the trai
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When Louis Vuitton tries to make you change your brand name(bbc.com)
2 points by blahedo 3y ago|0 comments
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The revenge of the video game manual(theguardian.com)
2 points by blahedo 3y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 3y ago
Your last paragraph suggests your understanding of US healthcare is entirely theoretical. In practice , COBRA is frequently so much more expensive that it wouldn't be affordable even if you hadn't just lost your job. In practi
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by blahedo 3y ago
> like single digits F Wait, so in conditions that wide swaths of North America reliably get every year, the car doesn't charge? How is that not a deal-breaking problem?
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by blahedo 3y ago
> Chains are for snow. They’ve got nothing to do with clearance. Yes, and you were the one who mentioned chains in response to clearance issues. GP was asked to provide examples, and did. That's not arrogance.
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by blahedo 3y ago
> ... sufficient bus routes running ... * cries in American * Your entire premise ("duplicating public and school buses") assumes a public bus infrastructure in the first place. That... is not in general a good assumption for
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by blahedo 3y ago
> which usually isn't the case Where do you live? There are many, many places in the US where it is indeed usually the case. (Possibly depending on your definition of "far away")
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by blahedo 3y ago
> apparently too feeble In my county the kids are not permitted to walk or bike to the school; they can only take the bus or be driven (and they have to be picked up by a parent or someone on an approved list). I assume that stops whe
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by blahedo 3y ago
Way back in 2008 or so, shortly after the "ribbon" arrived in the MS Word interface, I was teaching a CS class that had a unit on UI, so we spent a bunch of time deconstructing it and comparing it to the menu-based interfaces we w
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by blahedo 3y ago
Yes! It is as a direct result of that book that I now know without having to look it up that a ksec is about a quarter hour and a Msec is on the order of a fortnight, which comes in handy when doing back-of-envelope estimation more often t
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Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes(gizmodo.com)
26 points by blahedo 3y ago|10 comments
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by blahedo 3y ago
I had to view them in maximised full screen to see the comparison, but it looks really good. Interestingly the scaled-up version of the IBM logo has made the right edges of the B stripes be—quite understandably—flat legs of a trapezoid rat
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by blahedo 3y ago
Firearms are the second-leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the US. 15%. [0] [0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1804754
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by blahedo 3y ago
My county's schools actually forbid kids from walking to school. Must be dropped off/picked up, in a car, by a parent. Ugghghgh
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by blahedo 3y ago
The interesting and relevant parts are a few paragraphs down: > That natural problem, he said, was exacerbated in the post-Vatican II period by a tendency to install speakers in churches that emit sound simultaneously from a variety of
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by blahedo 3y ago
Fun historical note: Mac keyboards until the late 90s or so had the bumps on the D and K for the middle finger. In a vacuum either's a reasonable choice but going back and forth was always fun.
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by blahedo 3y ago
Yes, but remember that the polite fiction of the rideshare companies is that they're providing a service to the drivers by connecting them with riders. So the gp's point is a sound one even in this context.
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by blahedo 3y ago
Wasn't Barcelona's metro mostly either new or newly rebuilt as of 1992? Spain may not have had an ADA equivalent at that point requiring great accessibility at that time, but that's still way different than all the century-o
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Elon Musk and company take x handle from its original user(mashable.com)
3 points by blahedo 3y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 3y ago
> in Chicago. ... And the sad thing is, in this respect Chicago is less bad than a lot of other towns and cities in the US and way less bad than many (most?) cities in other countries, including many that are much more progressive th
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by blahedo 3y ago
As also pointed out in some other threads: it's less that it's dispositive evidence, and more that it corroborates. If you have what seems like a good linguistic theory backed by language phylogenetics or other linguistic-only ev
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by blahedo 3y ago
Even before trackpads were good enough, scroll wheels were a thing (and I still prefer them). Your dismissive "mostly a progress indicator" is burying the lede: yes, I've seen scrollbars as primarily progress indicators fo
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by blahedo 3y ago
At Brown it was common to applaud at the end of the last lecture of the semester, which I always thought was nice, but usually not a standing ovation. Haven't seen it elsewhere.
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by blahedo 3y ago
Fellow IMSA alum here, also underage (skipped 3 grades). I'll cosign most of what atdrummond says here, but shift emphasis: to me and the majority of my friends (many of whom I'm still in regular contact with 30 years later), it
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Twitter is purging inactive accounts, including people who have died(chicagotribune.com)
8 points by blahedo 3y ago|7 comments
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by blahedo 3y ago
> In other words: trigger warnings are counterproductive in that they cultivate sensitivities instead of counteracting them. Or, they give people with a sensitivity a moment to fortify themselves, or delay reading/looking until th

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