steveylang

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by steveylang 5y ago
I don’t disagree with your comment, but it’s somewhat unusual and extraordinary how Betty White became this cultural icon (in the USA) in her later years- enough of one that I’m not surprised to see this head line here.
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by steveylang 5y ago
Believe it or not, Amazon Prime Video has a pretty large selection of documentaries. They are just hidden behind all the banners they throw at you for the mainstream content.
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by steveylang 5y ago
I'm hoping the rest of the story was you putting some of your magic tree earnings into a few hundred Bitcoins when they cost pennies, and you are now a Runescape multi-millionaire.
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by steveylang 5y ago
I just feel bad for the one ‘good actor’ who is never going get a coffee at the Christmas market.
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by steveylang 5y ago
The other idea that comes to mind is something in between push messaging and email. Something more designed for thoughtful discussions than quick SMS ‘on the way!’ type bits. Email can obviously cover that but is very multi-purpose and not
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by steveylang 5y ago
Right, to say they have no purpose at all is rather disingenuous, or belies a rather extreme view towards COVID. And as far as the virtue-signaling goes, there is plenty of that from all sides. The one good point I thought he made was the c
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by steveylang 5y ago
Congrats on getting this ‘joke’ off the ground! I think the greatest potential of this app thus far is that your development and especially overhead costs have been very low. You may be able to add some functionality that does differentiate
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by steveylang 5y ago
For today's elderly or otherwise at risk, that may very well be the case. It's going to be the younger people today who are either vaccinated or survive infection, that become the much more resistant adult and elderly population y
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by steveylang 5y ago
Here is an pretty good NPR article that discusses the same concept: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/29/1050465... Also the article in Science by the computational biologist intervi
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by steveylang 5y ago
“Auto” here being short for automatic, so “automatic pilot.” I understand your explanation of the term with regards to airplanes, but not everybody understands that. Even if the term ‘autopilot’ is technically correct, it might be better to