lionsdan

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by lionsdan 8mo ago
He did eventually win a baseball game. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/march-30-1993-after...
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by lionsdan 8mo ago
TikTok content is still up https://www.tiktok.com/@balsastyrofoam300
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by lionsdan 9mo ago
I think this may be it (or something similar). https://web.archive.org/web/20041030060909/http://www.inform...
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by lionsdan 2y ago
Here's another similar Staub affiliate site with the legendary Jane Doe, Professional Chef offering their approval. At least this one is up front that they're just in the affiliate advertising program. https://www.usast
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by lionsdan 2y ago
1 cm = 0.3937 in 5 cm = 5*(0.3937) = 1.9685 ≈ 2 in
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by lionsdan 2y ago
There are two forms of Social Security disability benefits, one paid from payroll taxes (SSDI) and one from general tax revenues (SSI, this one). I for one was not really aware of the distinction. https://www.usa.gov/social-
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by lionsdan 3y ago
The same thing happened to me on a different article yesterday using Firefox. It worked using Edge.
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by lionsdan 3y ago
"In 1997, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act, a bipartisan effort to cut back on spending. The act put a cap on the number of annual residencies CMS would support, and froze the funding at 1996 levels. . . . Since 2007, a bill to
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by lionsdan 3y ago
Maybe "The Mortality Effects of Retirement" ? https://www.nber.org/bah/2018no1/mortality-effects-retiremen... There are a couple other versions of this full paper https://www.nber.org/sys
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by lionsdan 3y ago
(Link didn't work for me) https://github.com/quil-lang/magicl/blob/master/src/high-lev...
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by lionsdan 3y ago
I think this is less true than it used to be. At my university, most material is locked up behind a Learning Management System (LMS) like Canvas.
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by lionsdan 4y ago
Bats are vertebrates, aren't they?
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by lionsdan 4y ago
Same for me, as of this evening, the 'Latest' tab is now gone (it was there this afternoon). This largely eliminates my preferred way to use Twitter. I suppose I was of little value to them as a not-logged-in user, so they have el
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by lionsdan 4y ago
I have one of these plugging up a hole inside my heart. https://www.goremedical.com/products/cardioform/septal-occlu...
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by lionsdan 4y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26356367
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by lionsdan 4y ago
Serious question, would clipboards meet current compliance requirements? There's no authentication, no audit trail, etc.
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by lionsdan 5y ago
> small, gui, command line, networked projects ... switched to chicken scheme for that purpose What's your preferred gui library for Chicken for this sort of thing?
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by lionsdan 5y ago
Maybe this? "Melatonin synthesis in rice seedlings in vivo is enhanced at high temperatures and under dark conditions due to increased serotonin N-acetyltransferase and N-acetylserotonin methyltransferase activities" https:/
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by lionsdan 5y ago
Here's an article that includes it. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unof...
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by lionsdan 5y ago
I've known multiple people with the last name spelled Koch. One pronounced it "Coke", one "Cook", one "Cock", and one "Cahch".
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by lionsdan 6y ago
"Data in Newton is stored in object-oriented databases known as soups." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Data_storage
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by lionsdan 6y ago
Depends where you live https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(parliamentary_procedure...
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by lionsdan 6y ago
"Plastics production accounts for about 4 percent of global oil production. That’s according to figures for 2012, so now it may well be higher." https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/How-Much-Crude-O
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by lionsdan 6y ago
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library ( https://ccel.org ) versions are pretty decent and in a variety of formats. Rule of St. Benedict is at https://ccel.org/ccel/benedict/rule/rule
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by lionsdan 6y ago
https://www.ece.ubc.ca/faculty/alexandra-sasha-fedorova
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by lionsdan 6y ago
Textured Vegetable Protein, a soy-based product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein
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by lionsdan 6y ago
I was curious myself. https://compliancy-group.com/hipaa-fines-directory-year/
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by lionsdan 6y ago
"Verbing weirds language" https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
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by lionsdan 6y ago
Indeed, if the short sellers are wrong, they should be able to take advantage like VW in 2008. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-idUSTRE49R3I92...
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by lionsdan 6y ago
There's also Bones, an R5RS Scheme that compiles to x86_64 assembly (from the Chicken Scheme creator). http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/ https://bitbucket.org/bunny351/bones

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