Friday, October 12, 2018

[Friday, 12. October]

World News

Turkey has audio and video evidence showing that Saudi agents tortured & killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Turkey

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Richard Branson halts $1B project with Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi disappearance

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In major shift, the U.S. says it won’t ban Canadian pot workers

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All news, US and international.

Uber CEO pulls out of Saudi conference after journalist's disappearance

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A bitcoin miner has been sent to prison for stealing electricity from trains

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Facebook has lost 30% of its value since July

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Science

Cancer is so expensive to treat that 42% of patients deplete their entire life's assets to afford treatment within the first 2 years, according to a new study. Patients faced higher likelihood of asset depletion with worsening cancer, continuing treatment, and increasing age.

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A new study finds that bacteria develop antibiotic resistance up to 100,000 times faster when exposed to the world's most widely used herbicides, Roundup (glyphosate) and Kamba (dicamba) and antibiotics compared to without the herbicide.

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In a study of identical twins, the child who experienced harsher behavior and less parental warmth was more aggressive, and exhibited more callous-unemotional traits.

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Technology

Former Reddit product head Dan McComas: 'I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place'

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45 Out of 50 Electronics Companies Illegally Void Warranties After Independent Repair, Sting Operation Finds - New research showed that 90 percent of contacted companies told customers that repairing their own device would void the warranty; that's illegal under federal law.

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Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Sadly, this is not the Onion.

North Jersey Man Has Eaten Pizza Every Day For 40 Years

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The Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie is so grim, extras were reportedly forced to pee on subway tracks

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Woman Nabs Coveted Job Of Russian Town’s Cat Chief

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Ask Reddit...

What is a great YouTube channel to binge watch?

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Deaf people of Reddit. What are some things you thought were silent, but later found out they weren’t?

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Couples of reddit, what sex toy/equipment drastically improved your sex life and was worth the buy?

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Sysadmin

The more you get paid, the less likely turning something off and on again will resolve the issue.

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Boss wants us to do maintenance to our workstations afterhours

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So, I guess I'm a sysadmin now?

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Microsoft SQL Server

SQL beginner help

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Is it okay to Defrag a Primary Key index?

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SSMS 17.9 just going so slow -- suggestions?

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PowerShell

What kind of free online tool would be helpful to you?

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Send-Balloon: A function to send a balloon notification to another computer

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Verb for function containing a Pester test

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Functional 3D Printing

Made a bigger dimmer slider for my light switch and printed a missing screw

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Designed and printed a ventilation system for my enclosure.

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3D printed Angles for a shelf

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Data Is Beautiful

Animating the Mercator projection to the true size of each country in relation to all the others. [OC]

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[OC] US Electric Vehicle Market Share Crosses 3% For The First Time

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2 Years since we started talking [OC]

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Today I Learned (TIL)

TIL Only 10 Scouts earned the Invention merit badge, which required obtaining a patent for an invention. It was discontinued in 1915, and is the most rare badge.

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TIL Ludger Sylbaris, a man thrown into solitary confinement after a bar brawl, survived one of the biggest volcanic eruption of the 20th century because his cell was bombproof and poorly ventilated. He became one of only three known survivors of the event, and his prison cell still stands today.

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TIL that there is a very rare and special type of gemstone that can only be found and formed in fossils of extinct species of cephalopods over the process of hundreds of millions of years. The most expensive opal in the world is one of these being an opalized fossil valued at over $1,000,000.

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So many books, so little time

Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read. We should all be outraged.

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Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was hugely inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby

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For those of you looking to become more well-rounded readers, edX is currently offering a free course on Masterpieces of World Literature

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OldSchoolCool: History's cool kids, looking fantastic

My grandfather at an army base (early 1950s) in his own triple exposure self-portrait

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David Bowie on The Tonight Show, 1993

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Jane Goodall c. 1960s

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aviation

Here's an A319 next to a B777

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Feeding the Bear

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Never before used center pedestal of an A321NEO

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Reddit Pics

Proud moment for me: My movie comes out in theaters today. I spent every day since I was 12 waiting for today. Thank you Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas for taking a chance on me.

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Best picture I've ever taken of my doggo

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Australian Mum uses body to shield Baby during hailstorm

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.gifs - funny, animated gifs for your viewing pleasure

Boston Dynamics robot doing parkour

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Barbeque down by the river

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Concealed carry.

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A subreddit for cute and cuddly pictures

I don't think I'll need a paternity test

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Meet Bridget, she is 13 and adorable.

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Here he comes

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