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by notadoc 8y ago
Correct my anecdote is an anecdote. The dramatic growth of deer and rodent population, as well as ticks, is well studied however. Since you seem interested in this topic here are a few relevant links: http://www.ct.gov/caes&
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by notadoc 8y ago
I find most people are naive of the problem especially in the west coast states, unless they spend a lot of time outdoors either recreationally, or landscaping, gardening, ranching, farming, hunting, etc. You certainly want to check yoursel
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And bird of prey, fox, coyote, bear, wildcats, mountain lions, human hunters, etc. The entire ecosystem has been overmanaged to reduce predators, and the consequences are dire.
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Tick populations have surged, mostly because of mice, rodent, and deer overpopulation. And we've killed off huge numbers of natural predators to those carriers. Anecdotally, 15 years ago I used to maybe find one tick a year after fre
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by notadoc 8y ago
This article and many others focuses on Lyme in the northeastern US, but Lyme has spread to the interior and the west coast. It's in up to 25% of ticks in many western states and around the west coast. I find ticks constantly on dogs a
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by notadoc 8y ago
>( an IP address alone doesn't qualify ) You are wrong. You need to brush up on GDPR. An IP address, metadata, cookie ID, "online identifiers", etc are considered personal data by GDPR, all data that is collected by virtua
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> To claim that having to spend my hobby time implementing a bunch of extra features is just "complying with the law" is bullshit, I'm sorry 100% agree. And your situation applies to millions of hobbyists, personal website
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Hypothetically, though it looks like you also have side projects that are relevant to the topic. I would assume nearly everyone on HackerNews has or had side projects that are using similar third party data processing, analytics, ads, and p
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> Eh. Cost of 'doing business'. For fun, let's say I visited one of your personal projects websites, say something like a tax estimator, and it uses Google Analytics, maybe some web fonts, and let's say you're se
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Any US lawyers want to comment on how GDPR, a EU regulation, impacts US-based business, startups, hobbyists, etc? If it's an EU law, if they're based in the USA can they simply ignore the EU law? Or move to the USA?
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Build up, it's the only solution.
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You can also use an external keyboard to have a hardware escape key too. That's not the point.
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Makes sense for Facebook to get into, considering people have been unofficially using it as a dating service since its inception, and officially using it indirectly through third party apps. Will Tinder/Match etc make it possible to si
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The current MacBook Pro can't be scrapped soon enough. What a mess. Frankly if Apple just updated the old trusty 2015 MacBook Pro model to have 32gb RAM and a faster CPU, I'd be thrilled.
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Engaging in social media is largely an anti-social activity. How many times have you been in a restaurant, bar, or other public space, and noticed groups of people all staring at their phones on 'social' media, rather than engagin
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> I'm really curious of the huge disparity between men/women messaging one another on such platforms. Women tend to get inundated with messages where as men are typically responsible for initiating. You're basically seeing
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Everyone I know who eats organic food does so to avoid these type of pesticides.
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Given that a huge percentage of social media behavior is manufactured, staged, and almost always aimed at social signaling, it's only a matter of time before this moves beyond parody and into reality.
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by notadoc 8y ago
That's an interesting way to look at it, and the novelty factor may well have something to do with it. I suppose Touch Bar just doesn't seem particularly novel to me though, many consumer level PC laptops used to have little touch
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Framed for Murder by His Own DNA (Secondary DNA Transfer)(pbs.org)
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DNA is not infallible, and DNA transfer is so common that DNA "evidence" is not really evidence of anything at all. Here's an interesting recent story on this very topic: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontlin
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by notadoc 8y ago
> Keys stopping to work is one thing, but for me the Touch Bar and the screwed arrow keys are similarly disappointing. Apple should've seen this coming. What were they thinking? It appears they weren't thinking. The Touch Bar i
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by notadoc 8y ago
You know the MacBook Pro situation is bad when even the biggest cheerleaders of all-things-Apple say it's bad. The now three year old 2015 model remains the best Mac laptop available, it's an upgrade in every way; a wonderful work
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There's also the very old corny joke that many people attend college to get their "MRS" or "MR" degree. But there is some truth to it since many partners meet in college, if not at a job requiring a comparable educa
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Starter homes are $80,000 in Cleveland Ohio. Starter homes are $800,000 in Seattle Washington. It would be a long while before it becomes a problem.
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Smart for many reasons, the USA should do the same. Though because of lobbying and industry/gov revolving doors that seems highly unlikely to happen. Instead we'll probably be told "the science is undecided" and that we
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The Bloomberg interactive guide is interesting. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/ This statement is also interesting and I find it to be an accurate representation of most relationships tha
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The irony is all the people piling into the west coast complaining about the problem are causing the problem they then are complaining about. Instead they should all move to the midwest, south, or NE, where cost of living is a small fractio
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Great topic for discussion. I have seen this happen during and after both the dot com bust and the great recession. Timing of the layoff will certainly impact things, as does the perception of skill stagnation, but there is a component that
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The new MacBook Pro (2016 to current) is a mess on multiple levels, the entire thing should be scrapped and redesigned. The 2015 model and before remains the best Mac laptop, it's too bad they couldn't just update that to have 32G

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