lionsdan

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by lionsdan 6y ago
Some history as recounted by Olin Shivers http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html
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by lionsdan 6y ago
The same thing happened to me, I started getting Cosmopolitan and InStyle unsolicited. It happened shortly after my college-aged daughter bought a small Coach bag (using a credit card on my account), so I assumed they determined our househo
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by lionsdan 7y ago
https://biteswiththebeatles.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/aunt-je...
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by lionsdan 7y ago
Since Iowa holds a caucus, not a primary, it does not apply to New Hampshire's law. Iowa's law says the caucus must be "[a]t least eight days earlier than the scheduled date for any state meeting, caucus, or primary that cons
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by lionsdan 7y ago
This was the closest I could find for a starting point: "Shefki Mati, 44, an Albanian American businessman, is training volunteers for the Kosovo Liberation Army at camps in Albania." https://www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F
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by lionsdan 7y ago
Probably referring to the contents of this: https://quillette.com/2019/06/05/superior-the-return-of-race...
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by lionsdan 7y ago
Similar story from 1993 "Some of Mr. Lynch's best picks came from watching his three teen-age daughters shop at a nearby mall,..." https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-03-09-19930680...
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by lionsdan 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Smith_(chef)#Sexual_abuse...
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by lionsdan 8y ago
It's been an issue for a long time. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/papers/sre.txt
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by lionsdan 8y ago
> 80% of radio stations in the U.S. are owned by one company(iHeartMedia, formerly ClearChannel) They own the most, but it's not 80% (perhaps they cover 80% of listening markets). They own about 850 stations[1] out of roughly 10,000
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by lionsdan 8y ago
I use it daily, connected to a work Exchange server, though supplemented by the Outlook Web client for more HTML-rich content.
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by lionsdan 9y ago
Is that still the default precision displayed in Excel?
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by lionsdan 9y ago
I may not be understanding how you're categorizing the failure modes of a pacemaker in an MRI. Here's a review that describes a lot of what can go wrong. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC44755
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by lionsdan 9y ago
For a pacemaker in an MRI, it's not being made of metal by itself that's unsafe, it's that the rapidly changing magnetic fields during the scan may cause it to malfunction. But not looking up the MRI conditions under which a
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by lionsdan 10y ago
It evolved into The Computer Language Benchmarks Game. https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org
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by lionsdan 10y ago
I wonder if the versions there are a typo. In the linked issue it says "in the mean time we are stuck with Racket 6.2" Still not the most current version but much closer. https://github.com/soegaard/whalesong&
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by lionsdan 10y ago
There are hundreds of public wedding details on theknot.com as well.
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by lionsdan 10y ago
Your link didn't work for me. I think this is the one: http://www.webmd.com/news/20110420/the-10-most-prescribed-dr... It's also should be noted those top five are "[t]he 10 drugs on which we spent
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by lionsdan 10y ago
Sometimes they do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBvpxhsa_Y&feature=youtu.be...
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by lionsdan 11y ago
I think http://www.france24.com/en/20151004-dark-side-nobel-prizewin... may be the original.
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by lionsdan 11y ago
About 96% of dietitians are women. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17314627
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by lionsdan 12y ago
USA = 3.8%, Nigeria = 0.5% http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS/countr...
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by lionsdan 12y ago
From the article: "But Nigeria’s army...still wields considerable power. A fifth of Nigeria’s nearly $30 billion budget goes to the armed forces." That's almost exactly the same percentage as in the USA[1]. [1] http:/&#
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by lionsdan 12y ago
They are also valuable for Tom Swifties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty#Examples
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by lionsdan 12y ago
This name is also used for a Chicken Scheme to Javascript compiler. http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/spock
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by lionsdan 13y ago
I've always assumed that any pronouncement from a government or corporate entity should be interpreted with the narrowest possible reading. Every phrase like 'we do not intend to' or 'we presently have no plans to'
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by lionsdan 13y ago
Lucky you don't live in Iowa. The Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Twins, Cardinals, and Royals are all blacked out. That can be up to 40% of the entire schedule on many nights.