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by frank2 6y ago
And the current treatments for hepatitis C have mild side effects and usually eradicate the infection even if the infection has been going on for 20 years.
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by frank2 6y ago
1M confirmed cases; actual cases are many times higher than that.
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by frank2 6y ago
I don't know what qualifies as "decent" for you, but instead of an image, I'd vastly prefer a plain old blockquote element combined with whatever html one uses these days to specify a monospace font.
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by frank2 6y ago
The code in the OP are images, e.g., cannot be cut and pasted.
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by frank2 6y ago
>I wish they’d all agree to just stop trying I don't need all site owners to stop trying, I just need one usable browser that ignores the attempts.
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by frank2 6y ago
Deno is much like node (uses the V8 engine, does not require a browser) and was created by the man who created node.
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by frank2 6y ago
I can't recall ever seeing three hyphens used to signify an em dash in a document published on the net. (I added the word "published" to account for the possibility of the existence of a markup language I am unaware of that e
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by frank2 6y ago
I always thought that Microsoft's commitment to keeping old binaries running on new versions of Windows is the reason their HiDPI support is suboptimal and that if you use only apps that use the latest text-rendering API, the experienc
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by frank2 6y ago
Mac text rendering is blurrier than Windows text rendering (and I have learned of no way of changing that despite my having used a Mac for 10 years). Worse, if for some reason you want to change the size of the elements on the display, the
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by frank2 6y ago
Because there has been more time to collect and analyze the data about the previous ones.
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by frank2 6y ago
For the past 7 years Ukraine has suffered from poor national security even though there has been very little risk of its ceasing to exist as an independent nation. Ditto Syria even though even if Assad's government had fallen, Syria wo
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by frank2 6y ago
(I don't know Taleb personally.) One of my parents is narcissistic. I believe that Trump is narcissistic, er, more narcissistic than .97 of the population -- let us say the US population since that is the only country I've lived i
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by frank2 7y ago
When you picked WeWork out from the pool of many thousands of companies valued at 40 billion usd or more two years ago, you had the benefit of hindsight, which we don't have on the question of whether Tesla is currently overvalued by t
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by frank2 7y ago
The stock market disagrees with you: The market cap of Tesla is 137.2B in contrast to GM's 29.8B, Ford's 19.6B and Daimler's 32.3B. Source: https://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/markets/usmarkets&#
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by frank2 7y ago
Proof that voters don't bother to read the page behind the link.
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by frank2 7y ago
Antibodies are produced by the humoral arm of the immune system, but there is another arm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell-mediated_immunity Basically this other arm tells infected cells to kill themselves, and they
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by frank2 7y ago
Once you understand basic Lisp, (e.g., have worked the first half of the Little Lisper or the Little Schemer or the first few chapters of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) the official Emacs Lisp manual [1], M-x describe-fu
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by frank2 7y ago
I don't understand the connection between your experience with a fluoroquinolone and fast tracking. 9 years ago, most of the fluoroquinolone antibiotics had already been on the market for many years.
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by frank2 7y ago
>As to your last point, you can always fire up a new Emacs process and do your highly experimental customization there I guess I didn't feel confident in my ability to adhere to that policy (of making changes only to the secondary E
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by frank2 7y ago
Sure, but then every time the user does anything that might scroll the point off the screen, he has to remember to C-<SPC> C-<SPC> first. Installing a new habit that has to activate before such a wide range of editing operations
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by frank2 7y ago
You are taking the point of view of a web developer, not a web user: a web browser gives a web site's developer a lot of control over the experience of a visitor to the web site; the visitor has some control over his or her own experie
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by frank2 7y ago
According to Wikipedia, the territory now called Mongolia was conquered by White Russians in 1920. Before then it was controlled by the Chinese Republic and before that the Qing dynasty (the rulers of which were ethnically neither Chinese n
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by frank2 7y ago
Structural unfairness in the Senate is a weak argument for splitting the Union. Once the Union is split, Russia, China and probably other countries start playing one fragment of the former Union against another. The reason the Chinese gover
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by frank2 7y ago
Are you volunteering?
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by frank2 7y ago
I think the critical need is access to the data on the dead Mac. After all, the owner of the dead Mac is still able to post to HN.
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by frank2 7y ago
>MATLAB which is even more simplistic [than Python]. The person you are replying to didn't call Python simplistic (and it certainly is not simple IMHO), they called it slow.
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by frank2 7y ago
I suggest that the third factor is US policy. Before World War II, Britain had its trading empire, France had its empire, Japan had its empire, etc. Oceanic trade between nations not in the same empire ran a high risk of the cargo simply be
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by frank2 7y ago
>The big "eating" cells (do not know the proper english name) macrophage
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by frank2 7y ago
No need to apologize. If you didnt catch my meaning then probably many other readers didnt either.
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by frank2 7y ago
Right, now look at where "from" and "to" are in my sentence. During and for years after WWII, the US was a major net exporter of oil, which is why I felt the need to specify the approximate start (some time in the 1950s

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