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Comment #42182926
There is another University of Michigan professor who created an Introduction to Computational Linear Algebra course: https://grizzle.robotics.umich.edu/education/rob101.html with …
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Facebook employees: help this business owner get acct back
This business owner has been locked out of their account with no way to get back, and instead has to post as a guest on their business page. Business: https://www.facebook.com/cami…
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Comment #22026098
Great point. The sharing economy destroyed an entire set of spaces like this... when hosting a couchsurfer, I was told that I could make a ton using Airbnb instead. That money wasn…
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Comment #21968695
Yeah, an herbicide like triclopyr breaks down quickly, but still can bioaccumulate in wildlife and humans need proper protection during application [1]. Also, glyphosate (RoundUp) …
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Comment #20547378
At least Norway does: "Norway makes annual payments to Brazil as part of a long-term billion-dollar program to curb the loss of Amazon rainforest to slow global warming." https://w…
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Comment #18803383
For more on this, check out the PBS Frontline on child slave labor in an Ohio egg farm: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trafficked-in-americ...
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Comment #16085071
For those without a technical background: https://news.engin.umich.edu/2017/12/new-quick-learning-neur...
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Comment #13358860
Nope - the last workplace-provided insurance I had was my parents.
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Comment #13357659
<30 midwest
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Comment #13356707
UnitedHealthcare -- though my plan may have been grandfathered in to be acceptable under ACA.
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Comment #13356647
For anecdotes: I've had a HDHP before ACA, started at about $45/mo now up to about $60/mo with an outrageously high $12.5k or so deductible. I've had two different DPC, one about $…
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Comment #11400642
That's exactly what it is, K-Cups of juice, and it's genius. People love throwing things away instead of cleaning. And like K-Cups, Juicero has already created a system to lock out…
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Comment #9677496
It's more than not talking, though. It's extreme meditation. If you didn't have to worry about anything in your life for ten days, where to sleep, what to eat next, the next projec…
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Comment #9181047
Since voices don't change until puberty -- any kid screaming sounds the same. And in the vein of special individuals, there are little girls who love and hate insects, and little b…