surlyadopter

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by surlyadopter 8mo ago
Disappointing. The shopping experience is mediocre and prices/quality are no better than other local supermarkets. However, I love my local Amazon Fresh store because it's a super convenient Amazon return location...
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by surlyadopter 5y ago
I have an ancient minecraft account (so old I paypal'ed 9 euro to Mojang) that doesn't have an email associated with it. Does anybody have experience with MS helping recover an older MC account?
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by surlyadopter 5y ago
Here is a much longer writeup of the situation. https://www.science.org/content/article/this-scientist-accus...
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by surlyadopter 5y ago
If anyone is interested in more in depth examinations of parts of the Odyssey I would recommend 'Watch What You Hear: Penelope's Dream Of Twenty Geese' by Edward Teach(The Last Psychiarist). https://www.amazon.com
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by surlyadopter 5y ago
Did a bird write this study?
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by surlyadopter 6y ago
“For aging research, the Bay Area is one of the best places in the world to be,” I've been laughing about this fact for years. Give a guy a billion dollars and all of a sudden he wants to live forever.
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by surlyadopter 6y ago
I read the same "fact"* in Graham Robb's 'The Discovery of France". *scare quotes because I've only seen one reference
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by surlyadopter 6y ago
This is an interesting hypothesis, even though on first blush it seems obviously wrong. I'm glad the article was more nuanced than the headline. This reminded me of an interesting tidbit from Graham Robb's book 'The Discovery
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by surlyadopter 6y ago
Yes it is, but launching it from the system tray icon forces you to use their interface and it is a pain. Like I said, this specific issue is not a deal breaker, but if their other features take a turn for the worse the way this has then it
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by surlyadopter 6y ago
I have been a long-time Dropbox+ (and now Dropbox Family) user. I don't mind so much that it is more expensive than the paid personal G/M offerings. It (usually) just works for me, however over the last year annoyances have crept
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by surlyadopter 6y ago
Out of the peels? Perhaps. It depends on the kinds of chemicals that are in there. The question is, why bother? This quora thread goes over some of the reasons why synthesizing THC is a fairly pointless exercise (barring cetain highly speci
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by surlyadopter 6y ago
Ah, yet another company that has a process to create CBD from the terpenes found in orange peels. This isn't the isolation of CBD, as you would from hemp, but the creation of CBD from precursors using chemistry. I don't know if th
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After ghoulish allegations, a brain-preservation company seeks redemption(statnews.com)
1 points by surlyadopter 8y ago|0 comments
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Five Corrections to The New York Times(reich.hms.harvard.edu)
2 points by surlyadopter 8y ago|1 comments
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Incidence of Dementia Over Three Decades in the Framingham Heart Study (2016)(nejm.org)
27 points by surlyadopter 8y ago|10 comments
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US Diplomat speaks out about unknown electromagnetic attack in China(nbcnews.com)
2 points by surlyadopter 8y ago|0 comments
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The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective(motherboard.vice.com)
218 points by surlyadopter 8y ago|137 comments
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Notes from an Academic Paper Mill(quillette.com)
1 points by surlyadopter 8y ago|0 comments
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Elizabeth Holmes' Superpower(forbes.com)
2 points by surlyadopter 8y ago|0 comments
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Critical appraisal of the evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance(wiringthebrain.com)
1 points by surlyadopter 8y ago|0 comments
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by surlyadopter 8y ago
This service was a big help to anyone who spent long portions of the day in reception-less areas.
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The House That Spied on Me(gizmodo.com)
154 points by surlyadopter 9y ago|72 comments
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by surlyadopter 9y ago
One of the interesting effects of Prop 65 is that it allows private citizens to bring suit alleging violations. This has wrought a similar effect to the ADA violations lawsuit racket. I don't think there is enough public pressure to ge
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In California, Where Cancer Warnings Abound, Coffee Is Next in Line(wsj.com)
1 points by surlyadopter 9y ago|1 comments
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Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)(jamanetwork.com)
119 points by surlyadopter 9y ago|164 comments
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by surlyadopter 9y ago
Lol at anybody who is surprised by this event.
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by surlyadopter 9y ago
Bitrot, Byzantine style.
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by surlyadopter 9y ago
If you are in QC and want to see a P-Horse, the Granby Zoo has a small herd. They are neat to see in person, your brain says "horse" and then "wait a minute, something is slightly off here".
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How TripAdvisor hunted a robocaller that made 100M calls to random people(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by surlyadopter 9y ago|0 comments
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by surlyadopter 10y ago
I'm cautiously optimistic about these findings. As long as she doesn't name them something like 'Penelope Deserves Tenure-01'* we should be good... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAJ-1

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