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by pgrote 4y ago
>Outside of war efforts, have societies ever made sacrifices for the greater good? Ozone depletion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion
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Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive – How will they interpret the past?(theatlantic.com)
6 points by pgrote 4y ago|10 comments
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California Is an Island(youtube.com)
1 points by pgrote 4y ago|1 comments
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JPL tries to keep Voyager space probes from disconnecting the longest phone call(latimes.com)
39 points by pgrote 4y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Live Shopping will be going away on October 1, 2022(facebook.com)
1 points by pgrote 4y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Drive is ending on December 31, 2023
6 points by pgrote 4y ago|1 comments
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by pgrote 4y ago
>don't understand what NBER is. There is a consideration that NBER isn't the issue. yes you are correct, they make a determination. I think the difference this time is that you have what was commonly accepted among normal peopl
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by pgrote 4y ago
>That's not how recessions work. I am unsure the point you are making. My point was related to mindset and I should have clarified. If a group of people, normal non economic expert citizens, believe a recession is here they change t
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by pgrote 4y ago
That the definition of a recession has always been 2 quarters of negative GDP. The administration now believes there is nuance in the numbers, so what was the accepted definition in the past is no longer. The fact the media on whole has dec
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by pgrote 4y ago
I was also under the impression it was from 1835. It is actually 1,835 modern hospital price lists.
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by pgrote 4y ago
>local news that has shifted to be digital. Our local newspaper has a few actual journalists reporting on what is happening in government at city, county and state level. Just a few since all the layoffs. Sports is hanging on, but has be
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by pgrote 4y ago
We have done this for workstation refreshes (Windows 10) and it works marvelously. Reliability has been fantastic. We keep 2 machines as spares for parts and have experienced an issue with one power supply. PC Health Check reports it doesn&
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You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazon app on Android(theverge.com)
177 points by pgrote 4y ago|167 comments
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Kids Are Far, Far Behind in School(theatlantic.com)
7 points by pgrote 4y ago|2 comments
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Apple Delays and Modifies Its Return to Office Plans(nytimes.com)
6 points by pgrote 4y ago|0 comments
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by pgrote 4y ago
>How does one even know if the Vitamin C is Vitamin C? Good question. For the last few years I've subscribed to Consumer Lab. They have a rigorous testing program for vitamins and supplements. https://www.consumerlab.com&
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New options for removing your personally identifiable information from Search(blog.google)
2 points by pgrote 4y ago|0 comments
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by pgrote 4y ago
It is a fantastic service. It is a little concerning Google hasn't touched it since it matured. $17.99 for commercial free YT for a family is a bargain considering how much we use it. I have to think there is a major price increase com
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Twitter Moderation Is Biased Against Misinformation, Not Conservatives(techdirt.com)
8 points by pgrote 4y ago|0 comments
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by pgrote 4y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I should have specified I turn on sync through Google Drive once a month and not a direct copy. Going forward if I stay with Google Drive I'll need to switch off sync and just do a direct manual copy.
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by pgrote 4y ago
I use Google Drive as a trailing safety backup. Client installed on a machine that updates once a month with all the files from drive. Manual process. In case something happens and a folder gets wiped off of Google Drive I can walk over and
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by pgrote 5y ago
I wouldn't consider that misinformation. At the time those statements were made it was thought the vaccine would prevent transmission. Not a medical expert, but I always thought the reason you got a vaccine was to prevent infection. Me
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Sold by Amazon program shut after WA Attorney General’s antitrust investigation(seattletimes.com)
1 points by pgrote 5y ago|0 comments
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by pgrote 5y ago
We subscribe simply because it is the only service that works on family plans without any friction on Echo devices. Tried to get Pandora and Spotify to work, but there was always a problem or the skill would fall apart over a period of mont
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by pgrote 5y ago
Pandora isn't on the list, but I am unsure they are global. When they were purchased by Sirius I wanted to move to a Sirius subscription, but found out they would not port over your Music Genome Project information over. You would have
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by pgrote 5y ago
I think that is a legitimate question. The issue becomes there is no standard or method to ensure acceptable ads. A static ad without javascript is acceptable to me. Maybe not to someone else. But ... the ad industry would never accept a st
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1960s Auto Worker Hated Job, Felt Like a Robot. Doesn't See Automation Coming(youtube.com)
1 points by pgrote 5y ago|0 comments
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by pgrote 5y ago
>A month-old ransomware attack is still causing administrative chaos for millions of people, including 20,000 public transit workers in the New York City metro area, public service workers in Cleveland, employees of FedEx and Whole Foods
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Analysis reveals high prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus associated with MS(science.org)
43 points by pgrote 5y ago|1 comments
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Bring a Trailer sold $829M in cars in 2021, walloping auction houses(bloomberg.com)
2 points by pgrote 5y ago|1 comments

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