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by dmckeon 7y ago
Back when Pons & Fleischmann made their claims, the best indicator of widespread acceptance was the commodities futures market for platinum (and perhaps palladium - don’t recall if there were Pd contracts then). It was interesting to c
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Opportunity for a lottery system: pay some significant fee, put in a few weeks hauling trash down from high camps to earn a 10 to 15% chance at trying to summit during the next season. Unlucky entrants are welcome to pay fee and cleanup to
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by dmckeon 7y ago
If you manage a site that supports reviews or comments from unverified posters (here, non-patients) consider the ways your site could be exploited.
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Doctor posted online in favor of immunization. Then opponents targeted her(bostonglobe.com)
3 points by dmckeon 7y ago|1 comments
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No more metallic mylar balloons? Good riddance. https://www.powerprotectionresource.com/articles/439843-myla...
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For $20 US a year for an app, robocalls are down to a few a month from several a day on each of a VOIP and cell line. Nomorobo, Robokiller, and several more - do some research, read some reviews, and pick one. I only wish it was as easy to
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by dmckeon 7y ago
Feral hogs are a significant problem for farmers in more than a dozen US states, causing about $1.5 billion per year. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/ope... https://www.wil
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by dmckeon 7y ago
California drivers do tend to not “keep right”, partly because the highway designs that Caltrans uses tend to prefer angled-merge on-ramps rather than parallel acceleration lanes. Drivers soon learn that the rightmost lane often has congest
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Note that plague is still an issue in the US in the states including the Rocky Mountains and west of them. See maps at: https://www.cdc.gov/plague/index.html
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by dmckeon 8y ago
https://www.thespectrum.com/story/life/family/2015/04/05/sto... > In 1871 the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a “Statistics of Fences In the United States.” At that time, it noted t
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by dmckeon 8y ago
The thesis is intriguing, but I wonder how urban dwellers and television scheduling contributes to the sleep times.
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Living on the wrong side of a time zone can be hazardous to your health(washingtonpost.com)
14 points by dmckeon 8y ago|3 comments
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> Scholars agree that these were different scribes copying the poem, not two different poets. Which suggests that some of the perceived homogeneity may stem from the scribal style, rather than the oral style.
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The first part of which (up to the flaming ship funeral) borrows from Ibn Battuta. http://muslimheritage.com/article/ahmad-ibn-fadhlan-northern...
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by dmckeon 8y ago
With my sympathy for this tremendous loss, but could you comment on the accuracy of this report on the amount of lead metal in the spire (or is it the entire roof?) > The 3-meter-tall statues are being sent to southwestern France for wo
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by dmckeon 8y ago
People could be called for jury duty either in the state/county/local court system, or the federal court system. Few criminal cases go to a jury trail, since >90% of them plead out (aka plea bargain: plead guilty to lesser cha
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by dmckeon 8y ago
I wonder what proportion of judicial districts or jury pools are managed by external companies, and how concentrated their management is - if some large proportion is managed by some very small number of companies.
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by dmckeon 8y ago
1) front and rear-facing dash cams to defend against damage claims 2) configure cars to track phone usage, time-stamped, and downloadable thru the OBD port. If driver is sole occupant, some use of phone would be provable. No good for off-
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Did UpCodes make any attempt to approach the copyright holder regarding licensing for republication or redistribution? edit: FTA: "UpCodes did not ask ICC to license the code"
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by dmckeon 8y ago
> In the first month following the S/360 announcement, customers worldwide ordered over 100,000 systems. Orders equal to 5 times the installed base in US, US, EU, and JP, at a development cost of $50k/order [5 billion $/10
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by dmckeon 8y ago
The series of videos from Scott & Nate Wadsworth, aka "Essential Craftsman" with several featuring Cy Swan, are good example of some of the best YouTube has to offer: great content for makers and DIY folks, well produced, well
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by dmckeon 8y ago
If your situation is seriously rural, it might be a few days between trips into town (or to your P.O. box), so while you could get different media at Redbox on every trip, you would have to plan to overlap returns and requests on Netflix (p
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Newspaper stories used to have a “dateline” which gave the place-of-origin and the date the story was written, usually followed by the writer’s name. The AP style guide had detailed rules, abbreviations, and even disambiguation - which Por
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Why? This is science reporting, not tabloid journalism. We don’t need to know the marital status, gender preference, dietary restrictions, previous relationships, etc. Good writing about science is plenty. And “spouse” is a fine word if
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by dmckeon 8y ago
There were only 193 entrants at Boston in 1948, with a winning time of 2:31, and the entrants count did not break 1000 until 1968 with 1014.
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by dmckeon 8y ago
For Chicago to Los Angeles, in June, I’m seeing pricing for two people at USD 286, 358, 688, or 723, depending on seating or roomette, for direct or via Texas, and 1109 max via Sacramento & the coast. Granted, I may be misreading the
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by dmckeon 8y ago
I hope your family member is recovering, but if the police officer had not reached you from the officer’s phone, would they have tried calling you from your family member’s phone? Was your number in your family member’s phone tagged with a
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by dmckeon 8y ago
> I don't submit change of address forms, as the USPS sells the data from those to spammers. It may no longer be valid, but at one time there was a hack for this - permanent COAs were sold, on 9-track tape, IIRC, but temporary COA
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by dmckeon 8y ago
> I had entreated chastity of thee and had prayed, "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet." For I was afraid lest thou shouldst hear me too soon, and too soon cure me of my disease of lust which I desired to have satisf
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by dmckeon 8y ago
Sales, and sailing.

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