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Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database(nature.com)
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Dark matter search yields technique for locating heavy metal seams(phys.org)
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Texas Startup Claims Biggest Advance in Electric Motor Designs in over 100 Years(jalopnik.com)
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> common web bugs in Blackboard's Community Engagement software and Follett's Student Information System, including so-called SQL-injection and cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities About 5,000 schools, about 5,000,000 records o
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Teen hacker found bugs in school software that exposed millions of records(wired.com)
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Back in the 1970s I hitched across the US about 3 times, over various routes, and all of Heren’s story rings true to me, especially the huge variety of drivers willing to offer rides. About a third to a half of the people who picked me up
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- Our waiter, Bob, was really good. Bob took our order, brought our food, and kept our beverages filled. Bob is a great waiter. <signed> totally-not-Bob.
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Or, for a pre-split alternative, foam water pipe insulation: https://www.homedepot.com/p/M-D-Building-Products-1-in-x-72-...
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Pollens, bones, coproliths, footprints, and many “extremophile” micro-organisms which could advance our understanding of unfamiliar biological processes.
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Not military or enforcement, but well-known, and published: https://newskete.org/dog-training
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> lower quality leases are being thrown into securitization pools Shocked, shocked, do you hear me! Not to snark at this poster, but in general, if we learn anything from experience in markets, we learn: People want higher returns withou
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Be careful with that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_Go...
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It may not change this encounter much, but it could change the orbit just enough for some future earth-orbit crossing - as could the gravitational effect of any of the other planets, their moons, and all the other asteroids change the orb
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Salvaging the German High Seas Fleet Wrecks of Scapa Flow (2005)(addiator.blogspot.com)
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NYT title, but Epstein is not the important part of the story. > The articles in praise of Mr. Epstein came about partly because of an online publishing model adopted by some news organizations that relied on outside contributors who oft
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Jeffrey Epstein Pitched a New Narrative. These Sites Published It(nytimes.com)
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While Frost is beautifully right here, of course, there is a mild irony in that many of the rocks in New England walls were brought there by repeated glaciation, so cold both made the walls possible, and, as frost-heave, both surfaces burie
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by dmckeon 7y ago
Try findmnt(8) like: findmnt --df --types
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Or appear every 13 or 17 years, like some cicadas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas#Lifecycle
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The judge's order makes the sequence of the case and the methods of the defendants much clearer: https://www.scribd.com/document/139843902/Prenda-Sanctions-O... edit: and has numerous easter eggs for Star Tr
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Luckily, this was far from population centers - epicenter about 10 miles from Ridgecrest, a town of 30,000 people just south of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, and just east of US 395, about 80 miles east of Bakersfield. Informative U
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> I would not want to be on the receiving end of that! If things go wrong, you would not want to be on the sending end, either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion
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Remove the food, but also clean away the formic acid pheromone trail that each ant leaves, and they will forage elsewhere instead of following their path to where the food was.
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For SV folks who want to see a (not operational) Fresnel lens, there is one nearby at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_Point_Lighthouse
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Previously posted at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701806 Thanks to HN poster acqq for finding the source paper: http://www.oseagiuntella.com/resources/GM_SLEEP_june2017.pdf "Sunset Time
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Living on the wrong side of a time zone can be hazardous to your health(washingtonpost.com)
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Another sets of examples is that of Christian missionaries in foreign lands and remote monasteries trying to get permission to stretch the rules about fasting days to accommodate local wildlife. Beavers and capybara spend much of their tim
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Depending on the wooden sign material, and the desired life expectancy of the sign, close kerning might leave a narrow bit of word that could warp and chip away after a few years of exposure to the elements.
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Suppose an existing company, not a startup, but an Fortune 1000 or so, wanted to shift to this model going forward. How would they approach it?
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The real longevity plan for plugs is not X,000 cycles, but “Will it work until I lose it?”

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