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by zimbu668 7y ago
Gold has a couple other things going for it. It's difficult to counterfeit, anything denser than it is more expensive(and usually radioactive). Tungsten is close enough to be a viable alternative, but is very difficult to work with, so
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by zimbu668 7y ago
You entirely missed the point of my comment when I said > I have never used FaceBook [sic] login for anything That was in response to someone saying you could avoid this by not using Facebook login. Maybe before calling out others'
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by zimbu668 7y ago
That is not true, I have never used FaceBook login for anything, and certainly not for the 12 services listed in my "Off-Facebook Activity" tab.
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by zimbu668 7y ago
I'm guessing makes a directory, with paths, then cds into it.
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by zimbu668 7y ago
Only 426 people tested in the entire US, so I think "hardly any testing" in SF is a fair statement. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html
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by zimbu668 7y ago
Fixed point arithmetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic
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by zimbu668 7y ago
This explains why an innocent person should take the fifth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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by zimbu668 7y ago
I got in to one of those trials when someone posted the sign up link on HackerNews and I applied. If you're near Baltimore you could see if you are a match for any of their current studies: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org&#x2
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Update: An Agreement with Monica Cellio(meta.stackexchange.com)
37 points by zimbu668 7y ago|10 comments
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The Mysterious Case of Babies Buried with Helmets of Other Children’s Skulls(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by zimbu668 7y ago|0 comments
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by zimbu668 7y ago
Thank you. That's not nearly as exciting as all of it being stolen by Chinese spies, but "we looked in the wrong boxes at first" is a much more believable answer.
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by zimbu668 7y ago
And it's impossible to make replacement parts for the F-22 now. The US military paid Lockheed Martin to store all the custom tooling and manuals in case the production line needed to be restarted. A few years later that was attempted a
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by zimbu668 7y ago
You should check out GNU Solfege. https://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/solfege.html
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The Existential Torture of a Race with No End(outsideonline.com)
3 points by zimbu668 8y ago|0 comments
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‘Heroin for middle-class nerds’: how Warhammer conquered gaming(theguardian.com)
1 points by zimbu668 8y ago|0 comments
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Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone(getpocket.com)
2 points by zimbu668 8y ago|1 comments
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How Restaurants Got So Loud(theatlantic.com)
213 points by zimbu668 8y ago|306 comments
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The Huxley Trap: How technology and masturbation tamed the sexual revolution(nytimes.com)
3 points by zimbu668 8y ago|0 comments
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The Coming Crime Wars(foreignpolicy.com)
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by zimbu668 8y ago
> I believe student loans can be written off after 25 years. The forgiveness of student loans is considered taxable income. The WSJ ran an article a couple weeks ago, a dentist had over $1M in student loans and projected to have $2M when
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by zimbu668 9y ago
> How did Pivotal get involved? Were they hired by VMWare, and then they took it over? Pivotal Labs got bought by EMC in 2012, who also owned VMWare. A year or so later EMC spun out Pivotal Labs combined with VMWare and some other compan
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by zimbu668 9y ago
Doesn't look like they've said much of anything at this point: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/19/ataribox-renamed-vcs/
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by zimbu668 9y ago
I know this is still early in the investigation, but could anyone with relevant experience comment on whether this is normal? Running a 'stress test' on a new bridge without blocking traffic beneath it?
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Miami bridge collapsed as cables were being tightened following 'stress test'(usatoday.com)
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by zimbu668 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansa_Carrier
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by zimbu668 9y ago
Don't forget that the first electronic digital(though not programmable) computer was created at Iowa State University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_comput...
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by zimbu668 9y ago
Well there is a $450 annual fee, so you still need to manage your points to come out ahead.
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After marijuana, are magic mushrooms next to be decriminalised in California?(theguardian.com)
25 points by zimbu668 9y ago|8 comments
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by zimbu668 9y ago
From the abstract: "Most people believed that fat is converted to energy or heat, which violates the law of conservation of mass."
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The Las Vegas Shooter Reportedly Won $5M Gambling in 2015(slate.com)
1 points by zimbu668 9y ago|0 comments

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