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by sndean 8y ago
There's a mom and pop hardware store around here (Washington DC) that has random washers, nuts, etc. that only cost a nickel each. Not that I've ever gone in and tried to only buy a single washer. I'm guessing the old guy mig
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by sndean 8y ago
Agreed. I did the Crescent route ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_(train) ) once and never will again if not in a sleeper car. Looking back, I wouldn't go as far as saying it was torture (being unable to sle
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One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla(atlasobscura.com)
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Future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism(architectural-review.com)
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Wowcup – Worldcup 2018 CLI(github.com)
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How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Analysis(journals.sagepub.com)
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JetBlue Founder Raising Funds for New U.S. Airline, Report Says(bloomberg.com)
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Use of cryptographic signatures to prevent illegitimate use of genealogy data(biorxiv.org)
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Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (2002)(bellard.org)
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U-Chicago drops SAT/ACT testing requirement(washingtonpost.com)
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by sndean 8y ago
> Someone is always unhappy deep down My experience is the same. For married couples that became polyamorous after getting married, in every case I know of (3), the person initiating the polyamorous relationship was able to find outside
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How Suicide Quietly Morphed into a Public Health Crisis(nytimes.com)
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IQ scores have been in decline for cohorts born since 1975(thetimes.co.uk)
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The Little-Known Nonprofit Behind the CRISPR Boom(theatlantic.com)
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How Hideo Kojima Became a Legendary Video-Game Designer (2012)(theatlantic.com)
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Predictions(lemire.me)
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How the Gig Economy Is Reshaping Work: Not So Much(nytimes.com)
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Magnet or Sticky? An OSS Project-By-Project Typology [pdf](posl.ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
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The Asus Project Precog is a pioneering dual-display laptop, due in 2019(pcworld.com)
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by sndean 8y ago
Possibly a counter example: Public schools can expel students. But, I’m not sure: can other schools (other school districts?) generally find out whether you’ve been previously expelled?
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by sndean 8y ago
> NSA, SAIC, Ft Meade, NASA Goddard Being in Washington DC and knowing I can drive to half of those places in 30 mins, I wonder which metropolitan area definition the numbers in the article are using. Does (NSA, SAIC, Ft Meade, NASA Godd
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State Websites Are Hackable and That Could Compromise Election Security(fivethirtyeight.com)
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The data behind FiveThirtyEight pollster ratings is now available on GitHub(twitter.com)
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Generative adversarial network in 70 lines of Julia(github.com)
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Is it Sorted?(dyalog.com)
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by sndean 8y ago
This also reminded me of some summer classes. Maybe one month, 5 days/week? Some of the things that best remember from undergrad were learned over the summer. I still don't know whether it was the short/intensive set up of th
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by sndean 8y ago
Most won't like this answer. I think people dislike the idea of a nobody impacting world history. But, if I take "today" to mean literally one day, sadly I think assassinating a world leader is one of the few ways to signific
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Julia suite for high-performance solvers of differential equations(github.com)
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The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue(nature.com)
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Ebola outbreak: Experimental vaccinations begin in DR Congo(bbc.com)
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