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I'm not sure that applies in the free market. It seems less scofflaw companies aren't offered the chance to serve the same markets because criminal companies are let off too lightl…

I discovered Udemy's 1.25x and 1.5x speed last week. It certainly helped.

The content is very well paced and engaging. The use of Jupyter Notebook really is a great way to demo code. I took Part 1 online (free) and then Part 2 in person ($2000) and feel …

I went looking because I believe it does, and found a Consumerist article, "People Love Their Cars Because They're Lonely", discussing a journal article, "Truly, Madly, Deeply: Con…

Nuclear waste is dumped in the Irish sea, at "regulated" amounts. > In the United Kingdom, spent fuel is reprocessed at the Sellafield facility in Cumbria on the North West coast o…

Yeah, that wasn’t very clear. He hardly lost his job because of the politician action outside work, is that legal? Maybe it caused him to miss too many days of work and that was us…

Some people seem to go vegan because they're emotionally off-kilter. I'm in a few vegan Facebook groups and I've seen posts where people are way over-reacting to food cooked on the…

There is a class of drugs called SARMs which are effectively used in bodybuilding but are not FDA approved. Consider too the numerous psychoactive drugs that have been subjectively…

> The hassle of dealing with traffic has always prevented me from cycling Reminds me of: > Cars are the perfect late capitalist consumer product: an expensive, often de facto manda…

Google are beginning to use it for Tensorflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s65BigoMV_I There's a course currently running in University of San Francisco run by Fast.ai which is…

This article says _was_ almost always: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bc7d54e7-88f6-4026-...

Codeine gave me sleep paralysis a few times.

Wow, I'd never heard of Transnistria. Fascinating. Transnistria: A land in limbo: CNN: 3m 22s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAReDKkT9TA Transnistrian Independence Day 2017: A tr…

US pedestrian deaths are at a 25 year high. Be ashamed. Or don't take the car for short journeys. Be part of a positive change. Or don't take a job that requires long commutes. Peo…

My bad. I read it as "since cars pay... transit should pay too".

> Cars pay for roads, maintenance, highway patrol, etc. That's not accurate. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/05/debunking-the...

> but let's not make cars villians. "Over half of all vehicle trips are between 1 and 10 miles." [1] ~35,000 people die on American roads each year. [2] Let's call a spade a spade.…

> their dataset will have EXIF timestamps It used to be the case (still is?) that the dates on uploaded photos weren't applied to the photo album. I remember having to go through h…

> They're not competitive with animal B12 sources, Interestingly, the B12 people get from animals is probably from supplements they were given. https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comme…

My mother had the Freestyle Libre and liked it. Now using a Dexcom which works with her Apple Watch. I just bought her a Dario finger-stick glucose meter for her birthday which plu…

Don't eat meat.

Ferdinand Porsche designed the Volkswagen Beetle! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche#Volkswagen_B...

The Facebook post referred to in the article: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015581190459122... Its replies are widely supportive of the action.

I just signed up for the IRS website and their password requirements are: > Password Rules: > 1) At least 8 characters long. > 2) Must contain at least one numeric and one special …