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by samsa 3y ago
Bleeding edge tech is often used to satisfy our prurient desires. I am quite certain this is one of the directions AI is headed.
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by samsa 4y ago
What makes you so confident that is the case? I listen to lots of classical music and certainly hear musicians breathing, even on older recordings. I would imagine fingernails on a keyboard are of a similar decibel level.
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by samsa 4y ago
Michigan is an exception. No AFCI required.
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by samsa 4y ago
I saw a Dr the other week (to rule out Covid and strep) and despite testing negative for both and telling me I just had a cold she offered me antibiotics. I declined, not wanting to be part of this problem, but was taken aback that she woul
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by samsa 4y ago
I used to work as a librarian and ran into the issues the author writes about. Less than she did - but it being a community that skewed older I have plenty of experience shepparding older and/or low income individuals through basic onl
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by samsa 4y ago
"So pretty much, my entire career is built on one amazing stroke of luck." This, to me, is the buried lede. Much of success is due to luck. Not all; some people on balance are more talented and persistent and hard working than luc
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by samsa 4y ago
I suppose "scare" was perhaps too strong a word. "Steer" would have been more appropriate. Search Apple's website for "repair" to get a sense of how important they think letting consumers know about this p
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by samsa 4y ago
Apple would like you to have them / their contractors repair your device, or better yet buy a new one. Everything about this program signals that Apple is grudgingly doing this. It's designed to scare people away from doing the re
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by samsa 4y ago
So are vegan diets. (By which I mean: whole food, plant based.) But you don't need to pick a team with all the tribalism that's involved. It really is as simple as eating less, like the article lays out. And eating less is much ea
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by samsa 4y ago
Have you experimented with blades? This was my takeaway after using Merkur blades and I abandoned safety razors for a while. I tried again using Feather blades and the experience was much better: far superior to cartridge shaving. With more
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by samsa 5y ago
According to the CDC the majority of sexually active adults in the US will get HPV at some point in their lives.
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by samsa 5y ago
Why do people care what anyone thinks about politics? Being a famous rock and roller does not exempt one from having a political opinion worthy of consideration or debate. It shouldn't give more credence to one's opinion, but it s
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by samsa 5y ago
There is a push to get rid of new natural gas hookups and force new construction to use all electric appliances. Some localities have legislated this.
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by samsa 5y ago
This particular CDC page reports it was last updated in August.
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by samsa 5y ago
The NY Post article you link to is about getting both Covid and influenza at the same time. That may be rare. Getting covid a second time after having previously had it (which is what McCullough erroneously claimed was near impossible) is i
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by samsa 5y ago
This is incorrect, or at least very misleading. Excess carbohydrate consumption exacerbates insulin resistance but the cause is an excess of intramyocellular lipids.
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by samsa 5y ago
Cloud providers are not required to scan for this content. They are, however, required to disclose it if they find it. That said, many cloud providers do in fact scan for this content. Apple was the odd one out.
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by samsa 5y ago
MacOS does this with “enable Siri” after every update and annoys me to no end.
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Hundred year old, 240lb sturgeon caught in Detroit River(abcnews.go.com)
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by samsa 6y ago
Marriage is one of a very few things in life humans undertake where they are asked to commit to do something “for life” that they have never done before. And their closest vantage point is likely their parents’ marriage. I think it’s not so
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by samsa 6y ago
I don’t like paywalls but I have learned to live with simply not reading certain articles. I have a subscription to the Washington Post, and can access content from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, the New Yorker, e
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by samsa 6y ago
I have found zero medical societies/health institutes that recommend someone begin drinking alcohol who currently abstains for any reason. If you already drink alcohol, consuming a single serving of red wine per day is probably not det
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by samsa 6y ago
I for one will continue my post-737 Max strategy of only flying Delta (Airbus). Not that I fly often.
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by samsa 6y ago
I'm in the US, and have had one colonoscopy at age 33 (to rule out cancer, I had rectal bleeding). It was hemorrhoids, but will have another any month now because of family history of polyps and colon cancer. And I'll have one eve
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by samsa 6y ago
Reading this story, my fear is that, if successful, Trump would not have been able to help himself from making statements that would embolden other such groups in other states.
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by samsa 6y ago
For a public library that traffics almost exclusively in popular materials (genre fiction and non-fiction written for a general audience) print books are bought with the understanding that they will be “weeded” after a couple of years anywa
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by samsa 6y ago
Many countries have Vitamin D deficient populations, including Italy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986426/ In Italy, it gets worse the older the population gets. It is also an issue in German
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by samsa 6y ago
For reference, see this article in the Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...
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by samsa 6y ago
It is worth noting that living in a sunny country does not guarantee the larger population receiving adequate Vitamin D through sun exposure, as many such populations somewhat paradoxically avoid sun exposure, as there are legitimate health
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by samsa 6y ago
My COVID coffee experience was the opposite- I have been drinking half a pot every morning since mid-March. Last night I had the thought that I should go cold turkey, and this blog post might be the last little push I needed to do it.

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