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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
Around half the original pool were excluded, mostly as they quit the questionnaire partway through. It seems believable that process would result in a larger part of the pool having ADHD. It'd also help explain the disparity in musical
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
I use this method and have only broken one phone in ten years because of it...
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
The act is federal, as that points out the fees are decided by the smaller groups.
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
Don't FOIA requests charge you for the manhours it took, or is it just the data transfer cost? It might vary by state now that I think of it. I wonder how much these cost. Saying these requests constitutes a felony is ludicrous, hopefu
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
She was a police informant, and surely any looming indictment would happen in the ~5 years since this started.
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
I'm surprised it hasn't indexed some speed runners notes and is able to recreate them. I wonder how it'd do if you asked it to compete in the "any%" speed run category.
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
I wonder if this will impact Denmark's spot at the top of the corruption perceptions index. Last years rankings still has them at first, but it's hard to say when the data was collected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
>But then again who knows, maybe its a memory of a dream experienced late Or that sounds like the kind of event your uncle would tell you about when you were a few years older. Probably every time he saw you. I know I have several childh
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
You have one memory of all the time before you could walk, and it just so happens to have been caught on film? You don't find that suspicious?
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
The author provided a source showing they had a factory where they paid workers with disabilities ten cents a frame, the "likely" is that they can't prove how many frames the people could make in an hour. They assume less tha
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
Hobby Lobby openly admitted to falsifying documents to smuggle in artifacts. I've never seen anything suggesting they take your fourth point seriously, at least not before the courts got involved. And, as mentioned in the article, poin
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
Destroying mummies to see if they reused parchment while making them is nearly as egregious as the nineteenth century practice of grinding up mummies as a panacea. It'd be like smashing Fabergé eggs just in case one had something hidde
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
>Did they get a $338m grant? That was the year their lawsuit with Verizon finished and they got paid their remaining due for the Yahoo search deal. Related, I think most their money from 2017 also came from Yahoo.
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
>Maybe they will find out you don’t need $555M a year to make a web browser. The only other browser spends significantly more than that. If it's so much cheaper, you'd expect organizations like Microsoft to have stayed in the g
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
This makes it sound like the FBI was unaware they were dealing with a mafia don. They knew and didn't care, it benefit them.
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
> I seem to remember a story of a mafia don who turned out to be an informant, which seems wild to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
I still wish more games, and UI as a whole, had "press tab to see what you can interact with."
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
Sites can load Ruffle on their own too, see https://archive.org/details/flash_loituma
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
>, a vulnerability that leadership failed to address. My recollection is of leadership repeatedly trying to address it, generally for the community to get furious at them and say they shouldn't remotely think of anything except Fire
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
>I’m not informed enough to analyze the real cost of developing a web browser. Then why post strong comments about how much funding Mozilla needs? The calculus is very different. IE could be developed at a 100% loss for the company if it
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
They spend well over 200 million a year in software development, and they've made those investments presumably expecting this revenue issue. Building a browser is expensive, that's why there's only two of them. Even Microsoft
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
They just lost a monopoly case because they paid Mozilla all that money, this theory has always made little sense and sticking to it now makes even less.
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
The complete C&C bundle with all open sourced games and several others is currently $6 on Steam, if you need the art assets https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39394/Command__Conquer... Hopefully this causes
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
That cursive is perfectly legible. One bit of particular note is the father bet $1000 in cash for each prediction, while the son would owe him $1000 in "podcast services." I wonder if that part is covered in the podcast, it could
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
>My parents have a place in the German countryside and they are practically self-sufficient in terms of energy. I would definitely want to take the opportunity to visit them, catch up with them, use the time in a socially productive way,
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
Yes, with proper planning drunken bonfires are fine, I've enjoyed several. One hastily put together without the benefits of electricity is less likely to be properly planned. Hundreds if not thousands of groups doing the same thing ens
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
Even ignoring crime, a curfew probably helps the health care and firefighting sectors significantly. I can easily imagine my friend group using a blackout as an excuse for a drunken bonfire.
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
It feels like any discussion about transporting ice from Norway should at least mention "the world's greatesr greatest publicity stunt" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_block_expedition_of_1959
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
"Fastest completion of an RPG videogame?" You can beat Pokémon Blue in ~1 minute, and I'm sure there are countless other similar examples. Guinness being in this area at all is bizarre to me, but it probably sells books.
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by boomboomsubban 2y ago
Recent related threads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062

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