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The Toxins That Affected Your Great-Grandparents Could Be In Your Genes(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by raleec 13y ago|0 comments
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by raleec 13y ago
Where is FM mentioned?
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by raleec 13y ago
I don't understand why the IRS model isn't used more widely. Imagine if the Feds just maintained a backend server, with a published API, and paid $X/completed application. I'm not sure what hoops the tax processing sites
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by raleec 13y ago
apparently, they tried.. : "I became doubly worried when they failed to send me the miles on time ... saying they had no record of my order! This seems pretty incredible given that I mailed the package registered and someone on their e
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by raleec 13y ago
This occurred in 1999, but it is still impressive!
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The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million Air Miles(todayifoundout.com)
287 points by raleec 13y ago|156 comments
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by raleec 13y ago
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball#Fortune_cookie_payout
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by raleec 13y ago
My apologies, I didn't realize that a disclaimer meant that everything preceding it could be ignored. If you truly believe that the proportionality is not debatable, then feel free to cease debating it. I'm sorry to inform you, bu
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by raleec 13y ago
If the crux of your argument is the number of employees and funding are disproportionate to the number of deaths, you have to extract the number of employees and monies dedicated to terrorism specifically (If any). Most of the DHS employees
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The Start Up Universe visualized(visual.ly)
1 points by raleec 13y ago|0 comments
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Mindscapes: First man to hear people before they speak(newscientist.com)
2 points by raleec 13y ago|0 comments
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Bluetooth tracking stickers on the market(sticknfind.com)
2 points by raleec 13y ago|0 comments
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by raleec 13y ago
Would the LLC structure also protect him in case they decided to fine him $100 million? It'd probably protect him in case a wild animal bit one of his guests. It's relatively cheap protection when so many things can go wrong.
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Child-Porn Suspect Ordered to Decrypt His Own Data(wired.com)
1 points by raleec 13y ago|1 comments
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by raleec 13y ago
I greatly prefer Waze. The biggest annoyance for me was that Android doesn't have a way to default to "avoid tolls", so every time I started up, I had to dig into the settings or risk a momentary distraction putting me on a toll road. Waze
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by raleec 13y ago
Think infrastructure: putting in quality wiring/plumbing/hvac is much cheaper on new construction.
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Can Brain Activity Predict Criminal Reoffending?(neurocritic.blogspot.com)
2 points by raleec 14y ago|0 comments
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Tiny DNA Switches Aim To Revolutionize 'Cellular' Computing(npr.org)
1 points by raleec 14y ago|0 comments
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by raleec 14y ago
This is all a YMMV situation... I find that if I google something associated with a physical address on my desktop machine, logged into google, my phone will have a card with directions to that location. That can be useful, but it's usually
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by raleec 14y ago
I'm not sure what the process was for renouncing one's citizenship during that time, but the vast majority of the Confederate soldiers were born in the Union, making them citizens. The political designation of where they were fighting is
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by raleec 14y ago
Small nitpick: Buddha(563 BCE-483 BCE (aged 80) or 411 and 400 BCE) predates Heraclitus(535 BC-475 BC), but your point definitely stands, as I'm sure that realization predates recorded history.
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by raleec 14y ago
If you want to add a "PC" note, it should include an acknowledgement that the term "Retard" is highly offensive to many even tangentially associated with the mentally challenged community.
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by raleec 14y ago
Also: >Be comforted, that in the face of all irridity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big future in computer maintenance.
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Learning Creative Learning Online(MIT Media Lab)(learn.media.mit.edu)
1 points by raleec 14y ago|0 comments
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Money Changes Everything(nytimes.com)
2 points by raleec 14y ago|0 comments
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Meet Amancio Ortega: The third-richest man in the world(management.fortune.cnn.com)
4 points by raleec 14y ago|0 comments
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The Science of Procrastination and How to Manage It, Animated(brainpickings.org)
1 points by raleec 14y ago|0 comments
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by raleec 14y ago
Lists don't harm people. People harm people.
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by raleec 14y ago
Ok.... So are you saying that the current methods of education can't be improved? I'm not referring to an intervention, which, like dieting, will not be useful in the long term. I'm giving you credit for hitting upon the idea that education
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by raleec 14y ago
You and I are agreeing while we explain this state of affairs to nfg, which is why I've been upvoting you. It's far from an academic distinction to me, and that fight could have just as easily occurred if an African American had been called

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