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I think this is true of their men's clothing, but not necessarily their women's. My girlfriend's Uniqlo clothes have not lasted as long as mine and they are visibly more cheaply made. For example, one trip, we bought the same
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I watch dogs through Rover and they do have mechanisms to lock you in. The primary one is that your rank in the search results is strongly affected by repeat transactions and the number of repeat customers is listed prominently in your prof
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NPR is tracking dozens of items. The full table is further down in the article. "NPR's basket was based on the 2018 lists of tariffs the White House imposed on imports from China, Mexico and Canada as well as China's retaliat
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By that logic, should we not confine the residents of West Virginia to their home state as its coal-based economy collapses? Or should we allow them to move to other parts of the country to seek jobs so that they can lead happier, more prod
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If you are comfortable learning from examples, http://bl.ocks.org is excellent. It includes a wide variety of charts, many created to demonstrate a particular concept in D3 or a specific technique. For example, this [1] might be
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Patent US7525207B2 - Water-based data center (Google LLC) https://patents.google.com/patent/US7525207B2/en Google's [...] floating data centers off US coasts (2013) https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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It's interesting that Agent Smith (mis)conceptualizes nature as a sort of machine like the Matrix. Nature maintains a stable equilibrium (like the Matrix is designed to) and animals plug themselves into this machine and help maintain s
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There are risks inherent to climbing, but I would not agree that it is incredibly dangerous. In the US, an average of 30 people die annually in climbing accidents. It's difficult to find a denominator to put that number in perspective,
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I worked outdoors for ten years of summers and now I have worked ten years indoors as a programmer. I often fantasize about going back outdoors again. What I miss most is how easy it is to start and stop working. Starting your workday is as
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Not so, since the ACA requires health insurers in the individual and small group market to spending 80 percent of their premiums on medical costs. This creates a perverse incentive wherein the only way to increase profits is to also increas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinator
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> Bethesda suggested there had actually been a slip-up when implementing BethesdaNet support, and that logging in should have been an optional step from the get-go. Also, prior to the re-release, Bethesda accidentally removed Doom and Do
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Not that I agree or disagree, but that is simply an ad hominem attack.
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This is a game of whack-a-mole. Given enough data, the ML system will just find other characteristics or groups of characteristics that act as proxies. It might unfairly penalize candidates in ways that are impossible to detect by human eva
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A recruiting tool used by Amazon developed a bias against women despite not being told candidates' genders. It penalized candidates who were graduates of all-women's colleges and also those who had the word "women" in th
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The Mediterranean Sea has a surface area of 2.5 million sqkm, while the Strait of Gibraltar is only 14 km wide. If the Med were an Olympic-sized swimming pool, the strait would be hose 4cm in diameter[1]. Even if the dam were built such tha
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They touch on that briefly at 8:10 in the video. The rings aren't perfect cylinders; the top and bottom are angled so that each ring is slightly longer on one side. (I.e. They resemble radial slices of a torus.) If each ring is rotated
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It is the users who are censoring the pages by choosing to use an ad blocking browser. I don't think the fact that Brave is offering an alternative revenue stream taints their browser's ad blocking capabilities. It is a feature th
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I wonder if he reserves that score for SpaceChem. He revealed in a talk[1 @ 19m20s] that he has never personally beaten the last level. Instead, he just proved it was possible using pencil and paper. 1. https://www.gdcvault.com&#
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Two phyla of animals use a gastrovascular cavity[1] in which food enters and waste exits through the same orifice. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrovascular_cavity
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Sam Zeloof [1] is a high school student who produced an integrated circuit in his garage. He says that the gate size is 175μm, but he has produced test features as small as 2μm. Looking at the photos of his lab, he has probably invested ten
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I'm really surprised that someone with only 6000 followers can command such high rates. I know from listening to podcasters that they make around $20-30 per 1000 listeners per ad. She's earning between $50 and $130 per thousand (p
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I think that was borrowed from 1984, which was published way back in 1949! “Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, bu
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Keep in mind that a drink is defined as 14g of alcohol. A drink of wine is four to five fluid ounces, but most people pour much more than that when they have a glass at home. It's similar with beer. A 12oz bottle of 5% ABV beer is a dr
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A service called Loop[1] is currently being trialed that delivers goods using all reusable (not just recyclable) packaging. The service also picks up the used packaging. It is a collaboration between Walgreens and Kroger. 1. https:/&#
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Back when people used phone books instead of search engines, businesses would choose names that would be listed first alphabetically[1]. Even now, there are three unrelated AAA Plumbing businesses within 10 miles of me. 1. https:/&#x2
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For a few weeks in 2016, my neighborhood was transformed by Pokemon Go. Children were everywhere. They roamed in twos and threes on every block; dozens gathered in the park. I couldn't believe that my neighborhood was home to so many k
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Pure profit margin (otherwise known as net profit margin)
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Wow, great work so far. This is really interesting. My guess is that they were moving content out of some proprietary early-2000s CMS around 2015. Instead of carefully parsing the storage format and extracting the text, they dumped it and t
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In fact, there are several cards that give extra points or cash back when used at grocery stores and gas stations.

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