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I should take my timeline of Google's chat fumbles [1] and keep it updated. A lot has happened since. But Allo's stagnation has been known since April 2018 [2], and "classic" Hangouts' decline has long been suspecte
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The "man on an unidentified street in Burbank" [4] is likely on today's Lincoln Street. The railroad offers little clues; unfortunately, mileposts [5] are not visible -- the '40-30' on the sign is a speed limit [6].
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The product you got at CVS [1] is made by Impax and is an FDA 'Authorized Generic' [2] for Adrenaclick, also made my Impax. It's effectively Adrenaclick with the branding intentionally omitted, and the CVS out-of-pocket price
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It's worth noting that the Teva device that's the subject of the article is what the FDA considers an 'Authorized Generic'. From the press release [1]: > "An authorized generic is made under the brand name’s exis
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PDF page 53 of the document with canonical URI of [1], resolved by the doi.org resolver [2] to a pdf with a NIST URL [3]. [1] doi:10.6028/NIST.IR.8202 [2] https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8202 [3] https:/&#x2
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Most romaine is grown in the Salinas Valley in California, during a long growing season where product is ready from April to November [1]. In the winter months [2], coastal areas get too wet and the Sonora Desert becomes ideal. Production s
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This reminds me of how the geographical center of the US was once found by balancing a cardboard cutout [1]; an accompanying document then explains the limitations and caveats of this method and of other methods which produce different resu
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This is true: oils that have undergone full hydrogenation become saturated fats, because the carbon double bonds break and bond and with excess hydrogen until the fatty acid is fully saturated. The cis/trans distinction affects the dou
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While the 'unintended consequences' story is powerful, the article undermines its credibility by suggesting at first that palm oil's use in US biodiesel is a significant contributor to this clusterfuck, but only halfway throu
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It's not clear what 'generic' means here, or in the parent, or anywhere in this thread. But in my view, this post [1] is saying that payloads that define a complex transformation or atomic manipulation of multiple independent
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If you design in this model, 'GET transaction-uri' should get, y'know, the payload of the transaction, or a status resource, or whichever you asked for based on proactive or reactive content negotiation, or whichever the serv
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Source on the EU SME definition is: 'Evaluation of the SME definition - Final Report' [1], published 2014-03-28. [1] https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publi...
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Google's answer to this is a trifecta of AMP [1], Contributor [2], and Funding Choices [3] -- to deliver content signed by the publisher [4] from Google's CDN and display less-annoying ads in the meantime, or purchase an ad-free p
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Palm oil is largely used for three things: (1) as a feedstock for making surfactants in personal cleaners (shampoos, toothpaste, bath gel) like sodium laureth sulfate [1]; (2) as a substitute for partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (incl.
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The OSI model of licensing has its philosophical roots in a very classical notion of universal rights and freedoms. As with all absolutist points-of-view, this frustrates some pragmatic people, and/or irks those developers who want to
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The purpose of software is to teach a machine perform tasks, even when many of those tasks are to show an interface so that a human can perform a task. Design is nontrivial, but computers are powerful, so we can layer on abstractions to eas
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The author of this article is Virginia Eubanks [1], who has studied and written on this topic extensively, including a new book whose short title is 'Automating Inequality'. Although I can't be sure, I think it's reasona
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More on this point, there were a number of perfectly reasonable second tier cities in their 'final 20' shortlist already, which were lagging behind first tier cities only in transit, or, for all we know, in the amount of incentive
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To add to this, in the US the Fair Labor Standards Act governs topics like minimum wage and overtime, and it provides a number of exemption criteria [1] for managerial, professional, creative, and computer employees. Most employers take adv
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Load balancing between doors is an interesting problem. Sometimes, people have reasons for picking a particular door. They may be able to see inside and tell that there's fewer people in that part of the carriage, or they might intend
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Though it's hardly the author's point, carrying a bit of cash for outages, emergencies, and incidentals is probably smart, and then you have a bit for the exceptional busker. You can still do your day-to-day spending from a card.
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Earliest trending thread about this topic was 'Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public ' [1] linking to WSJ [2]. There's a relevant moderator post [3] on the Google PR piece thread [4], which su
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The impact of syntax is really undervalued. Syntax matters because many people are exposed to new languages through familiarity with other languages, as opposed to cramming a guide in isolation. And since programming languages are for human
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For those interested in source code, one can review Chromium's implementation of this feature in chrome_signin_helper [1], dice_response_handler [2], and adjacent source files in the /chrome/browser/signin/ folder [
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Beds take up a lot of floor area, but lifting them off the floor with expensive machinery you must install in your ceiling is hardly a compelling solution. It's the prevalence of innerspring mattresses that's responsible for conte
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The middle part of 'CAP Twelve Years Later' [1], especially the part about 'Managing Partitions', and the associated diagram, really should be mandatory reading for anyone who invokes CAP, as it drives home the fact that
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Here's how I interpret the author's points: 1. Rails was a breath of fresh air over the explicit-rather-than-implicit web frameworks of the time, but while making a splash in the startup world, it didn't seem to be embraced i
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In 1957 Procter & Gamble bought Clorox Chemical Company, which at the time made only bleach. The Federal Trade Commission challenged the merger on anticompetitive grounds -- specifically, that ownership by dominant conglomerate that mak
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Can you point out where you see timber beams in the photo? I can't even find a place where they would go; to me the deck looks like pour-in-place unreinforced concrete that sheared right off at the piers; the deck is then covered in wh
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Engineering was done by Inertia Solutions [1][2][3] from Regina, which CBC reports [4] as having the same owner as Can-Struct. Also, archive.org has partial backups [5] of can-struct.ca but are incomplete. From browsing around a bit, it loo

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