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Organ transplant comp. pressured staff to harvest organs from still-alive person(wsj.com)
11 points by smcin 2y ago|1 comments
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by smcin 2y ago
Recent congressional testimony on KODA (Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates) by whistleblower. WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/whistleblower-fired-after-making... NPR: ‘Horrifying’ mistake to take organs from a living per
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by smcin 2y ago
Because then transit, services, restaurants, stores, dry-cleaners, gyms fail, and the taxbase collapses (every city has a different mix of commercial vs residential property tax vs sales-tax). DowntownRecovery.com project mapped this (using
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by smcin 2y ago
When and in which city/county did that happen? I've never heard of BAR sending out unsolicited mail offers before. You always had to go to them.
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by smcin 2y ago
To the downvoters: I said I don't find merit in the suggestion that using 'fu' (or 'foo' as a function name) would be considered to constitute profanity. When learning programming, I simply learned 'foo, '
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by smcin 2y ago
That's a non-sequitur. There are plenty of other words that start with 'fu-'. It's also a loanword from Chinese. And even if not, I haven't heard anyone describe the coinage 'fupa' as offensive.
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by smcin 2y ago
Which four languages are you proficient in?
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by smcin 2y ago
Also: https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shites-Leaves-English-Shite/dp/1...
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by smcin 2y ago
> how we ended up with this situation, where pant(s) is a noun and a verb and really odd. I'm going to blame Britain, US and Italy (via Latin) and not necessarily in that order. Because (in English) adding -s(/-es) makes plur
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by smcin 2y ago
US Federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (2008) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim... ) Also, since 1991, many US states had already passed laws that prohibit insurers' use of
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by smcin 2y ago
A Matt Levine article. But in practice the board-CEO standoff won't go on forever since the NASDAQ delisting deadline is Nov 4 (unless it raises its shares above $1, which is not gonna happen, and a 20:1 reverse stock split wouldn&#x27
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by smcin 2y ago
When you say "the US govt", do you mean whether DHS(/FBI/etc.) freely access the genetic data of ~15m users without warrant (or disclosure), or that various LE agencies have for a decade been requesting specific users to
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by smcin 2y ago
When you say your wife "used 23andMe", do you mean she merely signed up for ancestry features (e.g. 23andMe Family Tree) without submitting her own genetic data (i.e. to see what happened when a relative submitted theirs), or that
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by smcin 2y ago
"GTA 6 Hacker Arion Kurtaj Became a Legend Attacking Companies. Then His Rivals Attacked Him." - WSJ (Newer headline, and useful for indexing the names)
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by smcin 2y ago
Reconciling opposing effects of emotion on relational memory: Behavioral, eye-tracking, and brain imaging investigations. Bogdan, P. C., Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., O'Brien, M., Iordan, A. D., Iwinski, S., Buetti, S., Lleras, A., Bost,
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by smcin 2y ago
Two distinct aspects; the article tells you how (in paragraphs 7 + 12-14): - Mr & Mrs McGinty were Uber passengers seriously injured in a crash in March 2022 - Uber asserted that Georgia McGinty had previously agreed to their updated To
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by smcin 2y ago
OP can you post a followup? (I don't have any personal connection to FB or Groups. Hoping you got this looked into. I didn't see any other groups reporting this happening.)
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by smcin 2y ago
Also Valve has always been a private company tightly controlled by insiders, whereas Sierra had already been a public company since 1989, subsequently acquired by CUC in 1996 for $1.5bn, and embarked on a non-stop acquisition spree in pursu
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by smcin 2y ago
I see plenty other non-bot weirdness with ProductHunt's site: - if you search for "iPhone", click the 2nd tab "Launches" then click to sort by Launch date, the only launches listed since 2019 are: "iPhone 15 Pr
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by smcin 2y ago
Re the OP's methodology for detecting bots, down in the 7th paragraph they say it's a conservative lower-bound: - they label everything that failed the anti-GPT test 'bot' and everything else unambiguously 'human&#x
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by smcin 2y ago
> The undeniable way to stop spam texts is to litigate People here are saying that doesn't work on political orgs, does it?
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by smcin 2y ago
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 meeting at GRAIL in Menlo Park
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by smcin 2y ago
> Once the groups are removed you can't access them but the owners/admins can. I can see my group and even now the stats in the group say it is healthy and fine - yet it was removed. Can you post a screenshot to corroborate?
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by smcin 2y ago
And if they use Twine (or other) to create text adventure stories, then they should also look at the annual IFComp (The Interactive Fiction Competition) https://ifcomp.org/ Several winning entries have been written by chil
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by smcin 2y ago
I don't understand you, the term "Consumer Reports Best Buy" has been in use since at least 2004, which implies CR permitted the term to be used. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo
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by smcin 2y ago
No it isn't, not in the moderated sections with lots of viewers: https://www.wikihow.com/Category:Computers-and-Electronics
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by smcin 2y ago
Sure, people can submit low-grade garbage or vandalize pages, but that doesn't mean the site doesn't also have useful content, like: https://www.wikihow.com/Category:Computers-and-Electronics
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by smcin 2y ago
9/20/2024: the stock is currently worth £51.65, market cap is £617m. That's 80% down from the IPO. Downward trend for last 3 years. https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/DOCS/dr-martens-pl... h
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by smcin 2y ago
Consumer reports that you pay for, or at least websites that have a policy of avoiding or declaring conflicts-of-interest, seem to be the reasonable middle-ground.
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by smcin 2y ago
Sure but that seems to have been predictable from: - 2003: DM came close to bankruptcy, moved all production from UK to China and Thailand, laid off UK workers - 10/2013: private equity company Permira acquired R. Griggs Group Limited

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