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American Rescue Plan Act: Health Coverage Provisions Explained [pdf](ccf.georgetown.edu)
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“I think what happens to most people who work at Facebook—and definitely has been my story—is that there’s no boundary between Facebook and me,” he says. “It’s extremely personal.”
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Is the 20Gbps on Rocket Lake’s integrated USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 “close enough” to TB4’s 40Gbps?
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I got very strange dreams while taking Chantix (varenicline) to stop smoking. If you don’t recall any of your dreams, AND you currently smoke, you could give it a try.
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Can the js code be deployed in the same .xlsx file as the spreadsheet? Still, I’m disappointed MS didn’t implement a typesafe lang such as C# or F#.
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Yet again, reminded of the dismal fact that I can go several years before being reminded of the US’s 3800 warheads, Russia’s 4300, and China’s 300. I think step 1 is to decommission both the land and air missiles and bombs, and leave only t
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He started a Covid-19 vaccine company. Then he hosted a superspreader event(technologyreview.com)
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Hackers try to contaminate Florida town's water supply through computer breach(mobile.reuters.com)
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Helluva read. “When testing snow, Ryan said, you should never look for proof of stability. With stability the goal, you’re testing for permission to do what you want to do. Instead, you should test the snow for proof of instability. You sho
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"Most appointments offered at the major county-run vaccination sites will be needed for second doses, according to Dr. Paul Simon, chief science officer for the L.A. County Department of Public Health. At the county’s five mega-PODs, o
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L.A. County faces severe limits in first dose of Covid-19 vaccines amid shortage(latimes.com)
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So you want to tackle the mainframe?(usdigitalservice.medium.com)
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This Is How America Gets Its Vaccines(technologyreview.com)
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An ounce of cynicism is worth a pound of myopia.
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An electronic calculator. Early 1970’s, I think. Also “Chuck Yeager’s Advanced Flight Simulator” on our office 80286, around 1987.
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FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: US Military's GPS Tests(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Any chance of Apple shipping a default VPN in the base iOS image? Running the required servers might be too hard, though.
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I concur. At best, he’s shouting fire in a crowded theatre. At worst, he’s fomenting violent revolution.
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What the San Francisco Bay Area Can Teach Us About Fighting a Pandemic(newyorker.com)
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In the late 1970s Bradbury gave a talk in our town. Discussing the risk of nuclear war, he said (and I paraphrase) that nuclear weapons were actually doing humanity a service, by telling us to “Just ... slow ... down”. Wise words to a therm
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How will California prevent more mega-wildfire disasters?(nationalgeographic.com)
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“If we are to preserve freedom of online speech in the fullest sense—both legitimate freedom from the censorship whims of massive central powers, and genuine freedom for robust exchange and intellectual generation—the global town square mus
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Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics(nationalaffairs.com)
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“The team, which was also behind the earlier strategy, adapted it for swarms by getting drones to broadcast their trajectories over a wireless network. That allowed the other drones to choose routes that avoided collisions while staying in
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Matchgirls' Strike (1888)(en.wikipedia.org)
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This rings true: “Anderson's analysis shows that those born in 1891 could expect to inherit from their parents at the age of 37, while they still had children at home and when their oldest child was ‘at best only just entering the labo
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From AP https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/over-the-counter-home-test... : “Initial supplies of the over-the-counter test will be limited. Australian manufacturer Ellume said it expects to produce 3 million tes
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From 2011. “... suggests that it is possible to determine the self-expressed political attitude of individuals, at least for the self-report measure we used, based on structural MRI scans.” Seems big, if true. Has this been replicated?
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SF Bay Delta Dilemma: Fishing or Fresh Water?(sfchronicle.com)
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Starting in the 1920’s, when music and theatre first became “memorialized” onto film and vinyl, entertainment culture seems to have entered a new era: one beyond our previous textual (theatrical) scripts and musical notation. They’ll surely

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