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   by semidetached 3y ago

   At my annual mandatory physical yesterday my doctor told me that there's a new shingles vaccine that's around 90% effective as opposed to the 60-70% effectiveness of the previous vaccine. It's a two-shot vaccine as opposed t
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   by semidetached 4y ago

   The basic problem is that if you're bored you're boring. If you want to be interesting try to be interested.
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   by semidetached 4y ago

   If you liked Dobson's book then I heartily recommend Zelazny's "Doorways in the Sand", which I've read half a dozen times over the years with equal pleasure.
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   An expert or a so-called expert?
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   by semidetached 4y ago

   I stopped watching 24-hour news channels in 1991 when I saw how the Gulf War coverage was turning so many into zombies. By 2010 I had stopped regularly reading a list of news web sites I'd constructed. HN is about the only thing I re
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   9. "there is no known way to create any permissionless blockchain that is impervious to malicious nodes without having a trusted-third party"
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   by semidetached 4y ago

   I had a major crash and burn a year or so into my 40s. According to my post-collapse thereapist this was a really predictable thing among single, male academics, and not all that uncommon amongst other academics entering their 40s as well
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   by semidetached 4y ago

   A not unrelated barrel of fun is Holbrook Jackson's "Anatomy of Bibliomania".