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by mcguire 4y ago
" “Late term” abortion typically refers to abortions obtained at or after 21 weeks, however it is not an accepted medical term, nor is there a consensus around to which gestational ages it refers. Members of the medical community have
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by mcguire 4y ago
A lot of mechanics still use the old recommendation of 5,000km/3,000miles while modern vehicles and modern oils mean that doing that is wasting resources.
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by mcguire 4y ago
The cars in question hit the mannequin. The car was driving in FSD mode for 100 yrds before it hit the mannequin.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" From 1976-1980 to 2015-2016, the geometric mean blood lead level (BLL) of the US population aged 1 to 74 years dropped from 12.8 to 0.82 μg/dL, a decline of 93.6%. Yet, an estimated 500 000 children aged 1 to 5 years have BLLs a
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by mcguire 4y ago
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1003231 " On the basis of distance to airport coefficients, children living within 500 m, 1,000 m, or 1,500 m of an airport had average blood lead levels that were 4.
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by mcguire 4y ago
From [1]: " “I don’t think I’ve ever had a case like this,” he said Friday. “Usually, abortions are performed in hospitals, and doctors are involved, and it’s not the type of stuff that occurred in this case.” "
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by mcguire 4y ago
Well, also this: " Still, Meta has remained largely silent on how it will moderate abortion content in general. However, users recently noticed that Instagram and Facebook posts about acquiring abortion pills such as mifepristone were
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by mcguire 4y ago
The unfortunate truth of PG's claim is that: Odds are you are not the right sort of person. You're not at the leading edge. The field isn't so much changing as spinning in place. Sorry. But he carefully doesn't say that,
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by mcguire 4y ago
" who wants to be "the brains" behind something which is not of his own? " Them as don't want to live in cardboard boxes but don't have some part of the resources necessary to "create something great"
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by mcguire 4y ago
This is really not a helpful reply. To make rummy a good metaphor for this discussion, you need to modify the normal $1/point rummy gambling rules; say making gin gives you $1000 bonus from the house or something. (There's a resem
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by mcguire 4y ago
Bridge is a weird game in that the actual play of the hand is almost unimportant. You can lose the game by playing the hand badly, but you can only win consistently in the bidding. Which is why abstract and complicated bidding systems domin
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by mcguire 4y ago
" The merger agreement contained no references to false or spam accounts, and Musk didn't ask Twitter for any information to verify the number of spam accounts before signing the merger deal, Twitter said. "To the contrary, M
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by mcguire 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_sales_ban_in_Singa...
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by mcguire 4y ago
No chewing gum in public among other things.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" The Singaporean government banned Wired upon the publication of the issue. The phrase "Disneyland with the death penalty" came to stand internationally for an authoritarian and austere reputation that the city-state found d
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by mcguire 4y ago
The article also discusses stupidity as an attribute of people, not actions. I assume anyone who has had any experience with the world at all has "cause[d] losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gai
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by mcguire 4y ago
As an aside, averages don't work that way. The average (mean) can vary greatly from the median, which is the central value, due to outliers. For example, " Median individual income in the United States was $44,225. Average individ
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by mcguire 4y ago
The third law: " A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses. " Are you a stupid person if you do this once? Twice? Fre
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by mcguire 4y ago
What does "isolated region" mean to you?
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by mcguire 4y ago
On the other hand, it doesn't have the heavily implied threat of "that's against policy".
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by mcguire 4y ago
I've noticed people often have bizarre notions about "politics". Politics is simply the way people in groups come up with decisions. How you and your friends decide where to go for dinner? Politics, whether it's voting o
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by mcguire 4y ago
Is taking out an ad for an unrelated candidate legal? Can a person or a business do it simply because they like the candidate's policies?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Well, yeah, but that's so you don't hire someone unattractive, or worse the wrong kind of person.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" That's not a matter of disrespecting that person; it's a matter of disrespecting pronoun pins on principle. " Pardon me, but what? You expect the persons wearing the pin to not feel disrespected? Or that the pin will b
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by mcguire 4y ago
" I have a personal opinion that pronouns are not important. " The point of respect is that your personal opinions are not important; the opinions of the person on the other end of your communications are.
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by mcguire 4y ago
dang routinely does so when moderating things here in HN. It's explicitly in the guidelines.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" For team leadership, it's much better to open up communication, and create team practices called ways-of-working. Team values are big-idea statements of what teammates hold as important. Example: We value courage, collaboration,
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by mcguire 4y ago
Hardly! If you put an object in empty space, without any other objects nearby, it will be completely unaffected by gravity. Unless the object is large enough that its own gravity can overcome its structural or material resistance to being c
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by mcguire 4y ago
Why would you hate it? It's just some words, part of a social interaction. You're and adult, you don't have to have every social rule explained to you in great detail every day, right? How often do you have to be told, "
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by mcguire 4y ago
" teach people to resist semantic stop signs and not use them " Why would you do that? What's wrong with them?

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