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by viggity 7y ago
The independent jewelers get them dramatically cheaper than they sell them for already.
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by viggity 7y ago
want an uncomfortable thought experiment? what if time travel does exist, and allowing Hitler to live was the least bad option for the world? i.e. if Hitler was killed early in the war, he wouldn't have been able to override his genera
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by viggity 7y ago
Why should we hold Facebook to a different standard than the postal service? No, you put mail in, they deliver it. What about broadcast TV? You buy the time, they air it. ninja edit: AOC's big "gotcha" was "can I use fac
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by viggity 7y ago
and Granular is owned by Corteva (previously DuPont Pioneer) which is was just spun out from the Dow-DuPont merger
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by viggity 7y ago
i'm not saying the guy has never done some shady shit (hello, wire tapping a senator?). But what was wrong with the ACORN videos. That seemed pretty cut and dry.
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by viggity 8y ago
why work on minimizing the fusion reactor, when fusion reactors don't even work to begin with ("work" meaning "produce more energy than they consume for an indefinite amount of time"). Just nail fusion reactors and
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by viggity 8y ago
Who is going to solve this problem first, Nepal or San Francisco?
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by viggity 8y ago
ignoring the glass - in the winter much of the US is at too high a lattitude to get any UVB, as it bounces off the atmosphere because the angle of attack is too shallow. The sun needs to be at least 50degrees above the horizon for UVB to pe
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by viggity 8y ago
or, perhaps, don't get the thing that causes the inflammation near your head?
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by viggity 8y ago
markets are not infallible. They're not perfect either. But in the long run, they produce much better results than command and control
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by viggity 8y ago
"splice, destructure, and recompose" - this gives the impression that they're making complicated on purpose. In this regard you're giving them way, way too much credit. I can practically guarantee they're just dump
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by viggity 8y ago
I know this is a bit tangential, but my 2nd grader has had a string of "public speaking" assignments and it struck me as being odd (ie 7yo is kinda young for something like that). But apparently it is a bit of a trend in schools a
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by viggity 8y ago
Isn't the notification exactly what makes it not break EU Law? Also, "screw us over"?!? Erma gerd, the're gonna show us relevant ads. The end is neigh. The end is neigh. You must be a blast at parties.
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by viggity 8y ago
God damn it, I want to know these numbers for people that have a legitimate prescription vs a "fentanyl" death from someone who bought an illicit drug that was laced with fentanyl. there are a lot of people legitimately in chronic
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by viggity 8y ago
there are lots of FBA apps that will let you scan a bar code and tell you how much it is selling for on Amazon, and will factor in Amazon's commission, shipping costs, etc and will tell you the absolute max you can pay for an item and
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by viggity 8y ago
We're on Azure and they definitely don't charge for a BAA. And it doesn't appear that AWS does either.
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by viggity 8y ago
We currently pay $250/month through some small vendor for hipaa compliant sftp hosting (that we transfer a whopping 50kb on a weekly basis). I always felt like it was a rip off, but azure/aws didn't have their own version. An
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by viggity 8y ago
After hearing various people point out that the democrats got ~8M more votes than republicans in 2018 I wanted to see the data myself. Inexplicably, it doesn't exist in an easily consumable format on the internet. So I grabbed the json
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Spreadsheet of 2018 House Election Results(docs.google.com)
1 points by viggity 8y ago|1 comments
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by viggity 8y ago
I think one reason why most people have a hard time reading regex is because they don't use any indentation or linebreaks. Honestly, if a buddy came to you and asked you to help him debug a javascript method and all 15 statements were
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by viggity 8y ago
magnesium sulfate? citrate? dose?
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by viggity 8y ago
wife is a social worker - she has told me that most common reason for overdoses is the first use after being sober for an extended period of time. Someone will get clean, abstain for weeks/months/years, have a personal tragedy, an
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by viggity 8y ago
the abstract reads like it is from the grievance studies department (albeit a mild one).
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by viggity 8y ago
I kinda want to re-up my comment from when this story was originally released a week or two ago. The mass of the world's oceans is 1.4 × 10^21 kg. The mass of the world's atmosphere is 5.1480 × 10^18 kg. So the oceans have a mass
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Scientists acknowledge key errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by viggity 8y ago|1 comments
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by viggity 8y ago
A robot with computer vision could easily tell apart maize from soy from squash (different colors, react under polarized light differently, leaf size, plant structure, etc). The real problem is that 1. squash has limited commercial value.
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by viggity 8y ago
Target has 3lb bags of honeycrips at consistently low prices $2ish/lb. It is because they're smaller apples than what you get in the "pile-o-apples". But this works great for us because we have small kids and they can&#x
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by viggity 8y ago
IIRC, when parts of Hawaii offered online voting - participation plummeted. People want to be seen voting as they view it as virtue signaling, and nobody sees you vote online. However, this could be contraindicated by Oregon+Washington Stat
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by viggity 8y ago
this is a small study - but yes, it appears that way https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25632091
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by viggity 8y ago
FWIW, our new lion den has both boys and girls.

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