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"Asked how a teenage boy could've committed a crime more than two decades ago, a police spokesman explained 'He's very clever.'"

I had several eye surgeries related to my congenital cataracts as a kid, including one where I had to wear an eye patch bandage for a few weeks. I remember being given a Mickey Mou…

Because there's a push for insulin affordability, and they look really really really terrible when someone brings up a chart of the rise in the price of insulin over the past few d…

But the patent on this, insulin aspart (humalog is insulin lispro, the competitor), is now expired, so the patent isn't a factor in the cost. The fact it costs 10x more than it did…

I still remember one particular game in the mid-90s where there was basically a corporation of several "evil" players vs. me and another "good" player. We eventually played to a st…

Most type 1 diabetics take 2 types of insulin (except for people on pumps). One is your bolus insulin, which is faster acting, usually used before meals or to bring down high blood…

As a type 1 diabetic, I feel this. It sure seems like there's a lot more money to be made from me selling insulin, testing supplies, pumps, etc, that I'll need to use for life (29 …

I ripped all of my CDs to FLAC, then I was able to convert those to Ogg Vorbis at the time for my portable player. Later I converted the FLACs to mp3s, and used Apple's iTunes Matc…

I took a look, and didn't see any huge price breaks.

What we need is an oil barrel subscription service. For just $20/mo, they'll deliver a barrel of oil to your house or business. For $25/mo, they'll throw in a bucket of coal. Makes…

https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf... Among the speculation is that a blood transfusion may be a viable treatment.

As a type 1 diabetic, I can confirm that vast quantities of aspartame do not cause my blood sugar to rise.

They used quotes to take the place of + which used to be a prefix you could add for words that were required. We lost + to Google+.

The first time I put them on, I was in a room with a fan, and I thought it'd lost power because I didn't hear it. Took me a second to realize, nope, it was the noise cancellation.

For the content creator, Google's Takeout service will give you an archive of your videos, so if you know you're shutting down, you can get them before then.

Tesla tried to warn them that exact science is not always an exact science.

It's just really really blurry. I can see colors fine, and if I zoom OSX all the way on my external screen, I can read text. If I only had that vision, I'd probably be able to move…

I was born with cataracts in both eyes. One was removed when I was a toddler (including the lens), and the other (with better vision) was left alone until I was a teenager at which…

I had the same thought. This would be the sort of weird game mechanic the could introduce in a Portal 3.

I found out my mom died while I was at work, age 37, after a short illness (I was going to see her the next week), and although I generally kept it together that day, at one point,…

It was the plot of one of the seasons of Orange is the New Black.

This reminds me of the age of Call Back Verifiers for BBS identity checking.

Some were gated over to Usenet, and you can see traces in Google Groups, but I'm not aware of any mass archive of them.

My dad has this happen shortly after Christmas the year my mom died. They'd been together nearly 50 years, and I don't think he ever really considered that she might die first. Aft…

As a type 1 diabetic, I can tell you beef does not spike blood glucose and resulting insulin response just as much as rice as does. Protein usually takes about half the dosage for …