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by ackfoo 7y ago
IIRC, the guy who gave him a ride to the start of the trail tried to give him a map that would have showed the cable not far from where he tried to ford on his way back, but was prevented by high water. McCandless had some idiotic notion th
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by ackfoo 7y ago
If you look down the list of deliveries included in the article, you will see that at least one of the other doctors has an unusually low rate of weekend deliveries, but that they peak significantly on Thursday and Friday. This is likely be
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by ackfoo 7y ago
I applaud your motivation, and I agree with your suggestion, but that's not where most cancer comes from. Most cancer arises out of a random failure of the mechanisms underlying apoptosis. Random mutation rates are linked to rates of c
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by ackfoo 7y ago
The real issue here goes far beyond freedom of speech; the real issue is about the nature of knowledge. Human nutrition is not a science for the simple reason that it is not possible to subject it to the scientific method. It is unethical a
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by ackfoo 7y ago
People are, on average, incredibly stupid. Some of those who aren't will inevitably take advantage of this for money and power. When stupid people use http and see a warning, they don't think, "huh, I have no login here, prov
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by ackfoo 7y ago
No, it's not, which is largely the fault of moron doctors and the government who are idiotically conducting a campaign against vaporization. The primary health risk of cigarette smoking comes from the products of incomplete hydrocarbon
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by ackfoo 7y ago
The problem with Airbnb is that it transfers the cost of the increased traffic to the other residents. Some party asshat barfs in the lobby sofa and everyone in the building has to pay for that. I applaud their chutzpah, but if I find them
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by ackfoo 7y ago
Eyeballs! We want your eyebaaaals! Not a drug. Not a hormone. Ginned up controversy written by someone with only a rudimentary understanding of biology and a deadline. Headlines today: "Shapely Blonde With Piercing Blue Eyes May Have D
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by ackfoo 7y ago
I don't understand what is wrong with the folks over at Mozilla. Are they stupid, or are they taking bribes? How about an option for, "No, I don't want notifications from any website, ever!" How about an option for, &quo
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by ackfoo 7y ago
How about changing the bill so that men have to wear exactly the same thing that they force their women to wear? Or else no one gets to wear any religious symbols. Because I think, subconsciously, that what makes me bananas about religious
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by ackfoo 7y ago
> "harlet, wrench, slut" LOL. Also, keep your nuts covered or you're screwed.
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by ackfoo 7y ago
Hatchet. Job. An article written by a non-pilot about an article by a GA pilot with no experience as an ATP. The elephant in the room is not the type-rating issue so much as the speculative cause of the crashes: if your aircraft is out-of-t
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by ackfoo 7y ago
The killer app for The Boring Company is to extend existing underground pedestrian systems in cities with bad winters. Oh what I would not pay to have a network of pedestrian side-tunnels to get me the 0.5 miles to the subway on a -20 day w
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by ackfoo 7y ago
I had no idea they were into moving livestock.
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by ackfoo 7y ago
That's not really accurate. Boeing is under continuous attack by hatchet jobs like this that insinuate they cut corners and are solely responsible for these accidents. First, we don't have final reports from the investigators yet,
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Why does it only block videos with sound? I would like one prominent check box in the settings that says, "Never, ever auto-play videos. Ever." I cannot imagine thinking, "You know what this site needs? A video that starts pl
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by ackfoo 8y ago
There's an oversupply of stupid people. It is causing problems all over. I got my Galaxy S4 from the reuse/recycle program that I started in my building. Works great. Free.
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by ackfoo 8y ago
That link provides no actual information. It's like a superhero film: junk food for the mind. Here's the actual article at Check Point, not linked from the garbage article: https://research.checkpoint.com/simbad-a-
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by ackfoo 8y ago
>Ensure correct coin cell polarity before inserting it. Papyr does not have reverse polarity protection, and will get damaged if battery is inserted reversed. Seriously? They couldn't manage to add one diode?
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Agreed. I just got rid of my iPad Pro 12.9 because I could not do anything with it. No browser with WebDAV and decent content blocking. No development tools. No serious network tools (IOS won’t let you have access to a MAC address). For the
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by ackfoo 8y ago
You need to not work more. The bug numbers out of Luquillo are terrifying: 98% gone in the forest floor, 80% gone in the canopy. These are supported by numbers elsewhere. Productivity is a self-destructive idea. Forget climate change; if th
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by ackfoo 8y ago
I have signed up for this one. I do not believe it is frivolous as Macrumors asserts. This is a big problem for me as an Apple Developer. I enabled two-factor by accident during one of my frequent reinstalls and I did not get around to tryi
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by ackfoo 8y ago
If the article is correct, then humans suffer from a common profound, disabling and dangerous mental illness. The correct approach is not pandering to this illness but attempting to cure it. We shall destroy our planet in a very few years i
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Why do people listen to Bill Gates? He had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time and he cut a deal that has become the sine qua non of bad deals (for IBM). Then he went on to produce the worst OS in history, held toget
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by ackfoo 8y ago
What an idiotic discussion. Energy-efficient buildings can reduce our power demands by 85%. Then we can talk about which nuclear power plants to shut down, instead of arguing about whether we should build more. The free market prioritizes c
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by ackfoo 8y ago
A pile of crap written by a marketing goon. Here’s my list: 1. Get rid of the marketing goons. All they will tell you is how to follow the crowd. Making your own path will be harder and slower to success, but eventually more valuable and re
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by ackfoo 8y ago
I often hear people proudly say, “I’m not technical...” but this is an anachronism. We live in a technical world now. If you’re not technical, you’re a dinosaur and you might as well die off. There’s no point pandering to dinosaurs. The way
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Highly doubtful that I would ever buy any software sold on a monthly subscription basis. The best parts of my life have been a result of avoiding being tied to monthly fees. Without them, you are free to travel and move about at will. Month
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by ackfoo 8y ago
"Today engineers will succeed in restoring water and power to your area, leaving you with hours of hard sledgehammer work to get it back the way you like it." --The Onion
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by ackfoo 8y ago
The data underlying this study were taken most recently in January 2013. I wonder why it took almost six years to publish the results? Given the catastrophic nature of the findings, six years seems a long time to wait before publication. It

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