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Why Have Garfield Phones Been Washing Ashore in France for 30 Years?(smithsonianmag.com)
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Jack Dorsey’s Square is acquiring a big stake in Jay-Z’s Tidal(fortune.com)
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How GoodRx Profits from Our Broken Pharmacy Pricing System (2020)(drugchannels.net)
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So Today I Went Shopping for a Used Submarine (2013)(messynessychic.com)
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Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'(abc.net.au)
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Hulu will increase the price of its live TV service again on December 18th(techcrunch.com)
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by hentrep 6y ago
The DNR has actually changed tune on this recently: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2020/08/12/mich...
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by hentrep 6y ago
Does the MagSafe feature run the risk of demagnetizing credit cards and hotel keys?
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Dan Hates Spam – A Public Service Website(danhatesspam.com)
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by hentrep 6y ago
Lots of conversation on the cost of US healthcare seems hyper-focused on prescription drug prices. A report released last week seems to contradict the notion that prescription drug prices are the culprit. Yes, prescription drugs cost more i
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Google Maps gets a Covid-19 layer(arstechnica.com)
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by hentrep 6y ago
Would there not be value in pre-screening patients for SCN9A mutations to predict an increased risk of pain killer addiction? Socioeconomic factors play as role as well, but it doesn't to be so black and white.
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by hentrep 6y ago
My initial thought was that the bitcoin move was a red herring. DMs associated with the compromised accounts could be very well worth much more than $100k.
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by hentrep 6y ago
Off topic, but the linked WFLA video highlights how factual reporting takes a backseat to an insidious "breaking news", headlines-first approach. Twice we hear Mr. Buinno misstate the Twitter attack as occurring "a few months
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by hentrep 7y ago
As noted in the article, the headline is misleading. The population obviously hasn't quadrupled since Yosemite closed to visitors on March 20th. It is remarkable though to see how quickly wildlife is willing to re-enter areas that hav
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by hentrep 7y ago
If you’re willing to share, I’d love to see photos! This sounds very much aligned with permaculture philosophies (which can be extrapolated to areas of life beyond food production) [0] 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by hentrep 7y ago
While greatly overshadowed by the nuclear arms race, the US and Soviet biowarfare programs during the Cold War were absolutely terrifying. Many Soviet bioweapons scientists defected to the US toward the end of the Cold War. One of those s
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by hentrep 7y ago
Just a heads-up that you’ve listed MI twice here.
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by hentrep 7y ago
Can anyone attest to how accurate this transcription is for technical subjects? I've attempted to integrate transcription into my work life (pharma), but correcting errors related to tech jargon or acronyms/abbreviations always o
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Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA(nature.com)
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by hentrep 7y ago
Also interesting are the Blythe Intaglios along the California/Arizona border: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blythe_Intaglios
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Brazil Is an Alternate Video Game Universe Where Sega Beat Nintendo (2015)(atlasobscura.com)
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by hentrep 8y ago
Neat 3 year time lapse video from the University of Queensland: https://youtu.be/BZvsrOciU_Q And relevant Radiolab episode here: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/267176-never-quite-now
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by hentrep 8y ago
Can you link to some of your favorites?
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by hentrep 8y ago
Garriot’s autobiography was one of my favorite reads from 2018: https://www.amazon.com/Explore-Create-Pursuit-Frontiers-Crea...
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Orthoprint, or How I Open-Sourced My Face (2016)(amosdudley.com)
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by hentrep 8y ago
"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by hentrep 8y ago
The presumption in your comment is that evolution selects for brain traits which confer some sort of advantage. This ignores the fact that the modern human brain is used very differently than that of our ancestors thousands of years ago.
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by hentrep 8y ago
If you click the Reader button in the upper left of Safari, it fixes this issue.
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by hentrep 8y ago
He has publically stated that there is significant financial incentive for whoever finds the chest to report that it has, in fact, been discovered. Presumably some sort of IOU note contained within? Here is a fantastic podcast describing Fe

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