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Striking new evidence points to seafood market in Wuhan as pandemic origin point(npr.org)
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by corny 5y ago
Gmail is soon turning on two-step verification for all accounts. The very poor - the people who use library computers to check their email - often do not have phones at all. I truly don't know what they're going to do when all onl
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by corny 5y ago
"Quantitative" doesn't mean "empirical". I read the question to mean has google search returned _fewer_ results. Not fewer good results, but fewer results full stop. Perhaps the asker made a typo and meant "qua
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Video captures moment a plane was forced to land on a highway north of Toronto(cbc.ca)
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LittleJS – The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can(github.com)
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Ursula Franklin(en.wikipedia.org)
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by corny 5y ago
Yes, I specifically asked the optometrist for this. I measured the distance to my computer screen and they were able to give me a custom prescription. My near-sightedness is not even that bad. But switching from my regular glasses to my com
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by corny 5y ago
Prescription glasses optimized for the distance to my computer screen. I was getting eye strain after even a short time in front of the computer. The new glasses completely solved the eye strain. I highly recommend it for anyone who is near
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by corny 5y ago
Takes some practice but very comfortable: https://spongywonder.com/
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B.C. becomes first province to introduce a low-carbon hydrogen strategy(cbc.ca)
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by corny 5y ago
I wrote a command line journal called 'did' that shows me what I did on this day over the last five years (like a 5 year diary). I enter a ton of items every day which all end up in text files. Only items including an asterisk wil
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Clues for software design in how we sketch maps of cities(interconnected.org)
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by corny 5y ago
People who do not have internet or a computer at home very often print pages from the internet at their local library.
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by corny 5y ago
Just an added perspective from Canada. Right now the covid variants are causing more and more of the new cases and, in BC, the average age of someone testing positive for the variant is 30. To make matters worse, the variants could be more
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by corny 5y ago
This looks pretty good if using Laravel: https://spark.laravel.com/
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Super Soaker Modifications(sscentral.org)
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Is your butter not as soft? Pandemic is partly to blame – along with palm oil(theglobeandmail.com)
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by corny 6y ago
This is great. A note though: City Hall is probably a reference to the Frederick Wiseman film and not the Al Pacino film from 1996.
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GM announces electric conversion kit(electrive.com)
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Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980(dust-digital.com)
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Canada invests in small nuclear reactors to help it meet net-zero 2050 target(cbc.ca)
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by corny 6y ago
I think the best way to avoid gentrification is to reduce income inequality. Gentrification often does not make the community better. The original residents' favourite businesses close, unaffordable options take their place, and the cu
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by corny 6y ago
> If people are concerned about it Until more is learned about covid-19 people should be concerned. Where the disease is out of control, hospitals are filling up and many people in need of health care are suffering as a result. BTW, at l
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by corny 6y ago
> You link somewhere, the other site owner a month later decides they want to use Google Analytics, now you're linking your readers back to the web they're trying to avoid. What if instead of a direct link, there was an interme
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by corny 6y ago
From an outsider perspective (I'm Canadian), the politicalization of wearing a mask seems like a huge distraction from action that can make a much bigger difference: * staying home when even a little bit sick * physical distancing (esp
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by corny 6y ago
Or in 1980, Norco California, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norco_shootout#Legacy The police were outgunned by a group of bank robbers.
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by corny 6y ago
This looks like the same thing Etsy has been doing since early this year. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/26/21155193/etsy-advertising... Ad landing pages feature prominent links to competitors' pro
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by corny 6y ago
A propos as today is International Nurses Day.
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by corny 6y ago
Everyone has an opinion. The only opinions I am taking seriously right now are from professional epidemiologists - not doctors, nurses, oncologists, bioethicists, or economists. This article is just noise to me.
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by corny 6y ago
The point is to catch as many infected people as possible with limited available resources. When someone is found to have the virus, then contact tracing is used to identify even more infected people and to shut down local outbreaks asap. O

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