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541.
by tacon 8y ago
Whois is going dark shortly for at least six months, and maybe forever, due to GDPR. So much for the public Whois.
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Cloaking devices – it's not just 'Star Trek' anymore(eurekalert.org)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
>[Sam Harris] has defended the work of the social scientist Charles Murray, who argues that genetic differences may explain differences in average IQ across racial groups — while insisting that this does not make one group inferior to an
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by tacon 8y ago
There is something delicious about such a comment on Hacker News. There is a direct link between The Well and Hacker News, and you would probably feel quite at home back on The Well in its heyday. What is the old saw, that fish can't
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by tacon 8y ago
He was slumming. No Dairy Queen available...
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New Alarm System May Stop Poachers in Their Tracks(news.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by tacon 8y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 8y ago
After referring to the "verbal" contract for most of the article, it finally gets to the "oral" contract. All contracts are verbal; some are oral. Only a few contracts must be written, such as those under the "sta
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by tacon 8y ago
Retail is under terrible pressure, and one reason among many is in your pocket[0]: "Consumer income has not changed much since 2006, thus over the last 10 years $190 billion in consumer spending was diverted toward mobile phones. [...]
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by tacon 8y ago
Sometime in early 2000, I decided I was watching too much television, so I just stopped, completely. I was actively avoiding watching any television. I was a few months into that when I got my one and only invitation to be a Nielsen perso
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by tacon 9y ago
That room sounds like every room at Netflix, except it works just fine.
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I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week(munchies.vice.com)
2 points by tacon 9y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 9y ago
There is some help in weight control from lean muscle mass. Fat needs about 2 kcals/day/pound to stay alive. Muscle needs something in the 20 kcals/day/pound range to stay alive. Also, having a good amount of lean mus
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by tacon 9y ago
Those companies are a nicely disguised cover to maintain one's status quo. An online marketer once pointed out a Jenny Craig(?) advertisement: "Eat all the food you want!" Busted.
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by tacon 9y ago
Paleo Diet & Strength Training Biochemistry | Doug McGuff M.D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7GB3h82tcQ
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by tacon 9y ago
While calories in vs calories out always holds, that doesn't explain the entire system. It is like saying Bill Gates is rich because he makes a lot of money. Well, duh. A theory of weight balance in humans needs to account for the s
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by tacon 9y ago
This post[0] compares pictures of a champion marathoner vs a champion sprinter, and asks which one you would prefer to be. Research shows that steady state activity like running leads to some loss of muscle mass. Why would the body keep an
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Planets evenly spaced on log scale(johndcook.com)
205 points by tacon 9y ago|66 comments
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36% of college students don't have enough to eat(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by tacon 9y ago|0 comments
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Scrum for One: How to Apply the Scrum Framework to Personal Projects(zapier.com)
41 points by tacon 9y ago|5 comments
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How an Entrepreneur Says He Is Fighting for the Soul of Blockchain(inc.com)
1 points by tacon 9y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 9y ago
I don't recall ever reading a rejecting peer reviewer for one journal calling out the same work accepted in another ("peer reviewed") journal. Before the web, I guess there wasn't much for a reviewer to do other than co
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by tacon 9y ago
There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding about funding models and how CERN and, at least, the US differ. In the early 90s I was briefly on a small team to sell IBM Federal products to the nascent US supercollider project. (With a bac
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Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a family of 4 for a year(businessinsider.com)
38 points by tacon 9y ago|27 comments
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The Final Conf-Down(subfurther.com)
1 points by tacon 9y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 9y ago
Huh? The judicial branch is just judges, not prosecutors.
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by tacon 9y ago
I really like to learn more about this scenario. Is it covered anywhere in more detail? Maybe some examples?
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by tacon 9y ago
The study was about chronic pain. The vast majority of low back pain, for example, resolves itself over a few weeks. Often the last "treatment" is awarded the "cure".
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Opioids are no better than Tylenol for treating some chronic pain(vox.com)
5 points by tacon 9y ago|2 comments
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by tacon 9y ago
I never play the games, either. Once I took the "learn craps" class where the casino gives everyone (fake) chips to learn with. That was relaxing and fun, and they were all gone in ten minutes.
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Selling young-blood transfusions to baby boomers desperate to cheat death(statnews.com)
6 points by tacon 9y ago|0 comments

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