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by novia 9y ago
On the other side of the coin, Thomas Midgley, the inventor of leaded gasoline, also invented CFCs.
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by novia 9y ago
For those of you who are done with your free Wa-Po articles for this month (like me), here's an alternate source: http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article153524794.html
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by novia 9y ago
Do you have a source for paragraph 1? It definitely jibes with what I've observed in real life, but it's always nice to have a source.
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by novia 9y ago
With the animals we consume, since they are killed out of our sight, we can pretend that they are treated with respect. I'm pretty sure everyone would be disturbed by a video of a couple having sex on a freshly killed cow, which is aft
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by novia 9y ago
Often people set up trusts to care for the individuals who are unable to responsibly care for themselves. I'd imagine their UBI check would be deposited into one of those trusts instead of directly into the account of the incapable ind
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by novia 9y ago
He has since moved to a 5-by-8-foot pod in the company’s innovation center. He retreats to it when he needs to focus or switch mental gears between meetings. [...] “It’s not about status or privilege,” he says of the pod, a prototype with
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by novia 9y ago
I looked up a picture of Jonas Salk, and I can guarantee you that man got laid.
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by novia 9y ago
I interpreted the anecdote a little differently. It seemed like TJ Miller was acknowledging that the woman definitely should have preferred to have a picture with Elon Musk, but for some reason there are many people who are more interested
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by novia 9y ago
Thank you very much! I'll give it a look.
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by novia 9y ago
“Some Valley big shots have no idea how to react to the show,” Miller told me. “They can’t decide whether to be offended or flattered. And they’re mystified by the fact that actors have a kind of celebrity that they will never have—there’s
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by novia 9y ago
I understand pointers conceptually. It's the syntax (in C specifically) that is giving me trouble. I am fine with pointers in ASM.
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by novia 9y ago
This is a little off topic, but does anyone have any good resources to help me wrap my head around pointers in C? Right now they are very confusing to me.
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by novia 9y ago
Absolutely not. The OP linked to reddit to demonstrate their viewpoint was shared by women, and I was countering their argument by demonstrating that it is relatively unpopular among women on the site that they linked. I definitely understa
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by novia 9y ago
Interestingly, Abraham Lincoln was actually a republican. The party lines have really shifted around a lot.
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by novia 9y ago
There are 7126 subscribers to the subreddit you linked. A notable feminist subreddit that is actively not transphobic (that I am not going to link to because I love it and I do not want it to be brigaded) has 214400 subscribers. So your sam
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by novia 9y ago
I should think women care a lot that men are now allowed in their spaces based on an internal sense of "gender". No. We don't. Transwomen are welcome in our bathrooms, locker rooms, and spas.
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by novia 9y ago
I tried to sign but a security issue with the site prevented it.
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by novia 9y ago
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14311176
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by novia 9y ago
>During the tour in Canton, Popowycz and other Case Farms managers showed me something they were excited about, something that would help solve their labor problems and also reduce injuries: In a corner of the plant was a shiny new machi
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by novia 9y ago
>Mark was in his fifties at the time, and was still angry at his parents, his teachers, his family, society, and others he thought had failed him. That line really hit home for me.
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by novia 10y ago
Greater than 3mg caffiene per kg of body weight PER DAY can increase anxiety.
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by novia 10y ago
> "It seems that some people are optimized for famine, and some for feast. :-(" You're actually onto something there! I don't know if you've read much about epigenetics, but if a person experiences a famine, it c
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by novia 10y ago
For those who may be interested, Mealsquares do contain dairy.
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by novia 10y ago
This is extremely interesting! I have deadly food allergies which can send me into anaphylactic shock, and it is truly terrifying when it happens. I also occasionally get panic attacks, and I never thought to correlate the two. I remember i
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by novia 10y ago
> "But what else would they serve? You can’t give everyone a bibimbap [...]" That's exactly what Korean Air does. I've never had a better in flight meal. http://www.inflightfeed.com/ireviewkorean-airli
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by novia 10y ago
>Obese post-menepousal women in the study would, with a straight face, tell you that all they ate that day was a half cup of green beans. Maybe that was true and they were trying to lose weight?
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by novia 10y ago
> But, as Derwin’s order worked its way through Tesla’s manufacturing backlog, he had second thoughts. Elon Musk, Tesla’s co-founder and chief executive officer, was meeting Trump and joining committees in the new administration. The mor
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by novia 10y ago
Radiolab had a pretty good podcast explaining where these economic estimates come from and why they are important to have around. It's part 3 at the following link: http://www.radiolab.org/story/worth/ Basica
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by novia 10y ago
Seems like they should require the industry to mark crabs that have been caught with something that would last long enough to allow them to regenerate their blood supply.
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by novia 10y ago
While reading the article I was wondering, would things be better if they only bled the male horseshoe crabs? In mammals you theoretically need fewer healthy males than females to successfully produce the next generation. However, since hor

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