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by themgt 6y ago
I have a garden in a front-yard with rock-hard clay. I'm no ideologue and still use synthetic fertilizer, but composting has been fantastic as well. First of all, after recycling and composting, I have very little trash waste - maybe a
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by themgt 6y ago
Testicular cancer is a bad example, but it looks like from some quick googling in USA ~42k women die each year from breast cancer while ~33k men die from prostate cancer. Overall "cancer mortality is higher among men than women (196.8
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by themgt 6y ago
They say here[0]: We are currently paying near the 10,000€ mark per month and our revenue streams are at 1,500€. The infrastructure and micro-services of soup became more and more complex over the years and the amount of data is huge, real
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by themgt 6y ago
> At no point was there ever a threat of force from Beto, especially not with armed police. "In that case, I think that there would be a visit by law enforcement to recover that firearm and to make sure that it is purchased, bought
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by themgt 6y ago
Research has focused on long-term (months to years/permanent) benefits from just one or a small handful of psychedelic experiences. It would even be difficult to find marginally responsible "psychonauts" who would recommend a
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by themgt 6y ago
What's wrong is psychedelics already work as-is, but due to stigma around "fun" alterations of consciousness possibly being beneficial (along with desire for a patentable compound that can get through FDA regs), most of the f
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by themgt 6y ago
The EO says "The Attorney General shall establish a working group" to look at potential "unfair and deceptive acts and practices" by online platforms, and lists as an example of such an act "monitoring or creating w
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by themgt 7y ago
If the VM is in Rust could it be compiled to WASM?
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by themgt 7y ago
It's actually important to point out, the CDC is very explicit that they are estimating flu illnesses , in their own words "an estimated 34 million people had symptomatic influenza illness" Many people are attempting to extr
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by themgt 7y ago
There are often "symbolic votes" on issues, especially taken by the opposition party in a situation they know the bill could never become law. To take just one example, many Republicans ran for years on opposition to Obamacare and
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by themgt 7y ago
Yeah it's hard to understand the point - like, other parents were upset because their children were exposed to mold and asbestos, but I , being enlightened, deconstructed their worries through innumerable "mental models" to
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Shopify cancels Unite 2020 conference due to Covid-19(shopify.com)
1 points by themgt 7y ago|0 comments
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CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic(cnbc.com)
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by themgt 7y ago
This seems a little hypocritical given that the US still doesn't have an adequate SARS-2 testing regime in place, and will almost certainly see the first real rise in cases once a cluster of locally transmitted infections start becomin
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by themgt 7y ago
Not to be a jerk, but IMO this is a good example of why not to build your own greenfield e-commerce solution for your B2C idea. They were a "a New York based fashion retail startup that served consumers in South Asian countries to shop
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by themgt 7y ago
I started following this outbreak about two weeks ago, when confirmed number of cases was still below 300 and 17 people had died. The confirmed cases were almost wholly contained in China, primarily just Wuhan province. At the time there wa
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US State Department Travel Advisory: Do Not Travel to China Due to Coronavirus(travel.state.gov)
7 points by themgt 7y ago|1 comments
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by themgt 7y ago
Two points against this general "but the flu" argument: An October 2019 novel Coronavirus simulation by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [1][2], projected 65 m
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Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code(wired.com)
3 points by themgt 7y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 7y ago
Boeing's explanation is that the flight automation software runs on some sort of "timer" and the timing apparently wasn't configured correctly, so Starliner thought it was at a different part of the mission and did the w
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by themgt 7y ago
I find this Quora answer convincingly reflects my thinking as to why Superdeterminism can't possibly be correct given Bell’s theorem[1] Skimming the actual paper[2] I'm not really seeing a convincing explanation, this in particula
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by themgt 7y ago
This is way overcomplicated. All you actually have to do to grab your latest scheduled Postgres DB dump is run: curl -o latest.dump `heroku pg:backups public-url -a [app]` (and then pg_restore)
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by themgt 7y ago
Here's a thread on Apple support[1], with many reporting similar experience and an anecdote going the opposite way: I’ve been having the same issue since Monday 10/14. I paid my balance in full, money was taken from my Chase acco
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by themgt 7y ago
I would take DHH's interpretation of this with a large grain of salt. He seems to assume that living in a "community property state" will be taken into account (presumably then considering his wife to have parity with his inc
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by themgt 7y ago
Not only is CO2 continuing to rise, but it's rate of growth appears to be accelerating, from ~1.5ppm/year in the 80s/90s to 2ppm/year earlier this decade and now as much as 2.5-3ppm/year average now. If this continu
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by themgt 7y ago
I decided to do some long-distance (all-day/multi-day) cycling in Europe as a complete amateur, and quickly became aware of the feeling of running out of glycogen, so I just loaded up on simple carbs like breads and sweets, and could i
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by themgt 7y ago
Would you be willing to tell me what you recommend a person say in that situation instead? To me it does sound more passive-aggressive to circumlocute vs just directly ask. I guess specifically because it implies a "no" would be
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Africa May Have 90% of the World's Poor by 2030(bloomberg.com)
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by themgt 7y ago
The reality is, our political and corporate elites made a deal with the devil two decades ago, because the $ to be made off-shoring manufacturing and gaining access to Chinese markets was too good to pass up. They lied to the public that Ch
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by themgt 7y ago
It's possible the best performing knee surgeon will be the one that doesn't perform knee surgery, collects a fee, and returns your knee in the same condition it was in. Nonetheless, that would be fraud.

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