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by friedegg 5y ago
"Asked how a teenage boy could've committed a crime more than two decades ago, a police spokesman explained 'He's very clever.'"
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by friedegg 5y ago
I had several eye surgeries related to my congenital cataracts as a kid, including one where I had to wear an eye patch bandage for a few weeks. I remember being given a Mickey Mouse doll with a circular band-aid over the same eye, similar
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by friedegg 5y ago
Because there's a push for insulin affordability, and they look really really really terrible when someone brings up a chart of the rise in the price of insulin over the past few decades. https://divabetic.org/2017&#x2F
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by friedegg 5y ago
But the patent on this, insulin aspart (humalog is insulin lispro, the competitor), is now expired, so the patent isn't a factor in the cost. The fact it costs 10x more than it did when it was introduced to the market in the mid-90&#x
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by friedegg 5y ago
I still remember one particular game in the mid-90s where there was basically a corporation of several "evil" players vs. me and another "good" player. We eventually played to a stalemate where neither side was going to
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by friedegg 5y ago
Most type 1 diabetics take 2 types of insulin (except for people on pumps). One is your bolus insulin, which is faster acting, usually used before meals or to bring down high blood sugar more quickly. The other is your basal insulin, whic
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by friedegg 5y ago
As a type 1 diabetic, I feel this. It sure seems like there's a lot more money to be made from me selling insulin, testing supplies, pumps, etc, that I'll need to use for life (29 years and counting) than in finding a cure, which
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by friedegg 5y ago
I ripped all of my CDs to FLAC, then I was able to convert those to Ogg Vorbis at the time for my portable player. Later I converted the FLACs to mp3s, and used Apple's iTunes Match, so I have access to them on various devices for $25
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by friedegg 6y ago
I took a look, and didn't see any huge price breaks.
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by friedegg 6y ago
What we need is an oil barrel subscription service. For just $20/mo, they'll deliver a barrel of oil to your house or business. For $25/mo, they'll throw in a bucket of coal. Makes a great holiday gift.
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by friedegg 6y ago
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf... Among the speculation is that a blood transfusion may be a viable treatment.
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by friedegg 7y ago
As a type 1 diabetic, I can confirm that vast quantities of aspartame do not cause my blood sugar to rise.
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by friedegg 7y ago
They used quotes to take the place of + which used to be a prefix you could add for words that were required. We lost + to Google+.
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by friedegg 7y ago
The first time I put them on, I was in a room with a fan, and I thought it'd lost power because I didn't hear it. Took me a second to realize, nope, it was the noise cancellation.
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by friedegg 7y ago
For the content creator, Google's Takeout service will give you an archive of your videos, so if you know you're shutting down, you can get them before then.
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by friedegg 7y ago
Tesla tried to warn them that exact science is not always an exact science.
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by friedegg 7y ago
It's just really really blurry. I can see colors fine, and if I zoom OSX all the way on my external screen, I can read text. If I only had that vision, I'd probably be able to move around in the world, ie walk to the store, but
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by friedegg 7y ago
I was born with cataracts in both eyes. One was removed when I was a toddler (including the lens), and the other (with better vision) was left alone until I was a teenager at which point I got an artificial lens implant. I can't see u
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by friedegg 7y ago
I had the same thought. This would be the sort of weird game mechanic the could introduce in a Portal 3.
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by friedegg 7y ago
I found out my mom died while I was at work, age 37, after a short illness (I was going to see her the next week), and although I generally kept it together that day, at one point, while talking to one of my staff on the phone, I just compl
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by friedegg 7y ago
It was the plot of one of the seasons of Orange is the New Black.
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by friedegg 7y ago
This reminds me of the age of Call Back Verifiers for BBS identity checking.
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by friedegg 7y ago
Some were gated over to Usenet, and you can see traces in Google Groups, but I'm not aware of any mass archive of them.
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by friedegg 7y ago
My dad has this happen shortly after Christmas the year my mom died. They'd been together nearly 50 years, and I don't think he ever really considered that she might die first. After Christmas, after we kids had all gone home, h
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by friedegg 7y ago
As a type 1 diabetic, I can tell you beef does not spike blood glucose and resulting insulin response just as much as rice as does. Protein usually takes about half the dosage for the same amount of grams (ie 10g of carbs / 5g of prot
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by friedegg 7y ago
We already have rewards for help solving some crimes, this just makes it more of a market. Participants could opt to have their rewards donated to charity. If I knew anything about DNA, I'd probably be very tempted to work on this.
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by friedegg 7y ago
I wonder how long until someone creates a DNA site where you can upload your DNA, and then get a "reward" if yours is used to locate a suspect, with closeness of relation being worth more. The rewards could be paid for by the mone
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by friedegg 7y ago
Type 1 diabetes is a good example of this, where the body detects its own insulin producing cells as threats and eliminates them. Lots of the research in type 1 treatments isn't just about producing insulin, but figuring out how to pre
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by friedegg 7y ago
Yeah, I work at an EMS using university. We started using it about a decade ago because the alternative was Ellucian's R25, which didn't really compete well on features, and my previous boss had use EMS at Harvard. Overall, I th
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by friedegg 7y ago
If you haven't looked at it, another big player in campus scheduling/optimization is EMS. They operate from the event/room reservation side of things, with academic optimization as an add-on.

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