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by tacon 6y ago
"And, by the way, there is plenty of toilet paper." I bet that would have stopped the panic buying, too.
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by tacon 6y ago
Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering[0] [0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2007800
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A Gentleman's Primer on Shorting Insolvent ShitCos(twitter.com)
4 points by tacon 6y ago|1 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
People with brilliant/crazy ideas need to sit down and google them. Drive-in church is really popular right now, all across the country, and is a throwback to drive-in churches from the 1950's.[0] [0] https://www.washi
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by tacon 6y ago
Would it be too much for Google to program the bot to get the final price, and then delete all the items from the cart? Seems rather rude, even for Google.
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Hydroxyapatite(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering(nejm.org)
1 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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Proving Life Exists on Earth(johndcook.com)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
A female Spanish friend and I spent 11 days in Cuba in 2004. The overwhelming presence of security forces (secret police) made me feel the safest I have ever felt while traveling, even while being slightly drunk walking down a back alley a
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by tacon 6y ago
The learning curve for Hercules can be pretty steep, as it drops you in to a working version of MVS 3.8j. If you are familiar with all that means, you are golden. The rest of us need some guides. Moshix has a great YouTube channel with l
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by tacon 6y ago
I am showing my age when I remember PBS having an entire show where two sides discussed an important issue of domestic or international concern. It was called "The Advocates"[0]. It ran for five years, and included a moderator
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by tacon 6y ago
>we would say SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are both strains of SARSr-CoV Thank you for making my point, again.
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by tacon 6y ago
>SARS-CoV-2: strain of SARS-CoV Excuse the incivility, but no. SARS-CoV-2 is not a strain or type of SARS-CoV. The viruses share ancestors, but SARS-CoV-2 did not come directly from SARS-CoV. SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 are in the categor
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Extracting independent random bits from dependent sources(johndcook.com)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
>A Tesla factory is a much safer place to be than a Home Depot or a Costco, and many other businesses open in California today. No, Tesla has a history of higher injury rates than similar factories, and of trying to hide their high injur
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by tacon 6y ago
I guess Hacker News loses its memory after a few years, but six years ago this item[0] hit the front page about using machine learning to train a filter for Hacker News. It is still running to this day[1]. I asked him if he could share hi
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Software Architecture Monday with Mark Richards(developertoarchitect.com)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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Stephen Wolfram Invites You to Solve Physics(wired.com)
1 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
My second favorite article in Physics Today, at the same time hilarious and chilling, was the transcription of a talk by Irving Langmuir of GE Labs in 1953. In it he gives a first person account of just how badly an esteemed scientist can
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by tacon 6y ago
My favorite article ever in Physics Today: "The Urinary Drop Spectrometer"[0], and a followup note ("Urinary Drops Again") suggesting an audio version[1]. "Information from the external urine stream permits early, p
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A.I. Steered Doctors Toward a Possible Coronavirus Treatment(nytimes.com)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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DevOps with Docker(devopswithdocker.com)
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Fourteen Wild Ideas, Five of Which Are True(mason.gmu.edu)
1 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 6y ago
A recent MedCram video on COVID-19 and lung function[0] mentioned the technique, and how he hopes it is used to figure out the lung failure modes for this disease. The lungs are very complex systems and the video goes through three possibl
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Beware the Covid-Tech Cowboys(thehealthcareblog.com)
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Achievement Is Not Normal(johndcook.com)
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Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Science and Countermeasures(jstor.org)
2 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Insights for the 21st Century(jstor.org)
1 points by tacon 6y ago|0 comments
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Semantic Satiation(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Multiple Inert Gas Elimination Technique 50 Years Later: Lessons Learned(semanticscholar.org)
10 points by tacon 6y ago|2 comments

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