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by whyenot 6y ago
These are cotton candy grapes. They are a horticultural variety that was produced through traditional breeding practices to increase the sugar content, reduce tartness, and add the hint of vanilla flavor. Those all come from traditional cro
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by whyenot 6y ago
California's CSU system has more than half a million undergraduate students. Tuition and fees are still not much more than $8,000 a year. You can still get a very good education for not a lot of money. Just a comparison: San Jose State
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by whyenot 6y ago
Really? Search online for "trust amazon poll" and look at the results. People appear to have an overwhelmingly favorable opinion of Amazon. For example, look at The Verge Tech Survey 2020. 91% of those surveyed had a favorable opi
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by whyenot 6y ago
I've had to come to work every day during the stay at home order. Everyone tells me how lucky I am that I can "escape" being at home, and in some ways, they are right. My commute and finding parking are a lot easier than they
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by whyenot 6y ago
Apparently they knew about the hum in advance. Under CEQA they should have had to do an Environmental Impact Report and hold public hearings. Someone is bound to sue. UPDATE: The sound is intentional. Or, at least, known about in advance.
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by whyenot 6y ago
The article on Wikipedia doesn't support your assertion that the scholars who coined the term "social science" did so "fairly recently," and that they were "sneaky academics" and "hacks." Well, u
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by whyenot 6y ago
> Social sciences are a humanities. The term social science was invented fairly recently by sneaky academics to leech off the credibility of actual science. > The name social science was invented by hacks just like creation science
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by whyenot 6y ago
I did the Whole Foods delivery through Amazon a couple of times, and it was fine. The only problem was that it became almost impossible to get a delivery window. Eventually, I just gave up on it. What I have been doing more recently is orde
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by whyenot 6y ago
1987: The #1 song in the US was Walk Like an Egyptian by the Bangles. 1987: West German Mathias Rust lands his small plane in Red Square 1987: Square releases the first Final Fantasy video game. I'm sure it was all due to vote by mail.
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by whyenot 6y ago
I'm a little curious where your data comes from, because: "The median family income for Harvard undergraduates is $168,800—more than three times the national median, according to a recent study." https://www.thec
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by whyenot 6y ago
He seems to be having a meltdown on Twitter today. It's more than just financial. I think there is something really wrong with him.
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Universities begin considering canceling in-person classes until 2021(cnn.com)
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by whyenot 7y ago
Aren't many grocery chains already unionized? I believe Safeway, Raleys / Nob Hill, and Albertsons are, at least.
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by whyenot 7y ago
This has been asserted by so many different people, but there doesn't seem to be much scientific evidence backing it up. Why are you so sure?
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by whyenot 7y ago
It should be noted that they have not moved lab classes online. For someone in the sciences, much of your classroom time is spent in lab classes. Unfortunately, there isn’t a good way to teach students how to run a gel, or do a titration, o
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by whyenot 7y ago
Sometimes women choose to postpone their academic careers until after they start a family. Some of my best friends have had success doing that. It's not necessarily a bad life choice. You know what can be a bad life choice? Trying to g
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by whyenot 7y ago
I don't know how I feel about this. I have been an Amazon customer since 1996, and the company almost certainly has data on me for a period spanning more than half of my life, including very private things like information on my medica
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by whyenot 7y ago
The varieties people plant in their gardens aren't bred specifically for a high alkaloid content, but the chemicals are still present.
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by whyenot 7y ago
a pipe dream Opium poppy (Papaver somniferous) is actually kind of an interesting case. At least in the US, it's OK to grow the plants, the flowers are showy and many seed catalogs sell the seeds. It's also OK to harvest the pod
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by whyenot 7y ago
When I was at UC Davis I took an Animal Science class called “Ruminant Digestion and Nutrition.” We learned you can feed cows grains, hay, even sawdust. They can live and thrive on all those things as long as they also get trace minerals. T
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by whyenot 7y ago
Yes, it is planted in several botanical gardens and other places, and work is being done on propagating it. What we avoided is having a situation like what happened with the golden fuchsia (Deppea splendens) in the 1980s, where it becomes e
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by whyenot 7y ago
It seems like having a bankruptcy on your credit report for the next seven years would be disincentive enough, especially now when everyone from the phone company, to your landlord, to your employer may look at your report.
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by whyenot 7y ago
Sewage water tends to be high in salt. Especially in a desert where there is high evaporation and low rainfall, irrigating with this type of water increases soil salinity, eventually to the point where it is toxic to native plants and most
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by whyenot 7y ago
I bought an AmazonBasics memory foam mattress about 15 months ago and have been happy with it. I think I paid about $240 for it.
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by whyenot 7y ago
MP/M didn't have virtual memory, but it had everything else on your list, was released in 1979, and had a minimum memory requirement of 32kb. In the mid 1980s, I ran a four line BBS on an Atlas ACS8000-14 running MP/M. I wrot
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by whyenot 7y ago
But we also didn't need as much memory. The memory resident portion of CP/M was only 2kb, and that is with some inefficiency because it was necessary to stick with the 8080 instruction set. Just recently there was an article on HN
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by whyenot 7y ago
No offense to this group, I'm sure they have the best intentions, but how many people would want to eat fruit from a street tree in a major city? For that matter, how much of that fruit will actually survive to the point where it is fu
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by whyenot 7y ago
Much of the mercury came from the New Almaden mine located in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains west of San Jose. The mining polluted the Guadalupe river with high levels of mercury. The river, which flows into San Francisco Bay, po
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by whyenot 7y ago
I'm not a fan of targeted assassinations, but if the US is going to do them, at least with a weapon like this they can largely avoid the injury and death of innocent bystanders.
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by whyenot 7y ago
You have to adapt and grow or else you’ll wither. Agreed, but we now know that as people age it becomes increasingly difficult for them to learn new things. This is a basic function of biology and how the brain ages. Due to automation, ch

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