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I think this may be it (or something similar).

https://web.archive.org/web/20041030060909/http://www.inform...

lionsdanon Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

Here's another similar Staub affiliate site with the legendary Jane Doe, Professional Chef offering their approval. At least this one is up front that they're just in the affiliate advertising program.

https://www.usastaub.com/staub-cast-iron/

lionsdanon Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court

1 cm = 0.3937 in

5 cm = 5*(0.3937) = 1.9685 ≈ 2 in

lionsdanon Disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits

There are two forms of Social Security disability benefits, one paid from payroll taxes (SSDI) and one from general tax revenues (SSI, this one). I for one was not really aware of the distinction.

https://www.usa.gov/social-security-disability

https://blog.ssa.gov/understanding-social-security-disabilit...

lionsdanon Shinzo Abe's Assassination

The same thing happened to me on a different article yesterday using Firefox. It worked using Edge.

lionsdanon A fourth of U.S. health visits now delivered by non-physicians

"In 1997, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act, a bipartisan effort to cut back on spending. The act put a cap on the number of annual residencies CMS would support, and froze the funding at 1996 levels. . . . Since 2007, a bill to increase the number of residencies has been introduced in every Congress . . . but never passed."

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/04/13/were-short-on-healt...

lionsdanon A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work

Maybe "The Mortality Effects of Retirement" ? https://www.nber.org/bah/2018no1/mortality-effects-retiremen...

There are a couple other versions of this full paper

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24127/w241...

https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/wp_2016-7.pdf

lionsdanon A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp

(Link didn't work for me)

https://github.com/quil-lang/magicl/blob/master/src/high-lev...

lionsdanon The Open Buddhist University

I think this is less true than it used to be. At my university, most material is locked up behind a Learning Management System (LMS) like Canvas.

lionsdanon Banning words won’t make the world more just

Bats are vertebrates, aren't they?

lionsdanon Old man yells at cloud

Same for me, as of this evening, the 'Latest' tab is now gone (it was there this afternoon). This largely eliminates my preferred way to use Twitter. I suppose I was of little value to them as a not-logged-in user, so they have eliminated any value for me.

lionsdanon Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE

I have one of these plugging up a hole inside my heart.

https://www.goremedical.com/products/cardioform/septal-occlu...

lionsdanon Clojure from a Schemer's perspective (2021)

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26356367

lionsdanon Workarounds to computer access in healthcare organizations (2015) [pdf]

Serious question, would clipboards meet current compliance requirements? There's no authentication, no audit trail, etc.

lionsdanon My Elm Experience

> small, gui, command line, networked projects ... switched to chicken scheme for that purpose

What's your preferred gui library for Chicken for this sort of thing?

lionsdanon The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’

Maybe this? "Melatonin synthesis in rice seedlings in vivo is enhanced at high temperatures and under dark conditions due to increased serotonin N-acetyltransferase and N-acetylserotonin methyltransferase activities"

https://doi.org/10.1111/jpi.12111

lionsdanon China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization

Here's an article that includes it.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unof...

lionsdanon Typos, tricks and misprints

I've known multiple people with the last name spelled Koch. One pronounced it "Coke", one "Cook", one "Cock", and one "Cahch".

lionsdanon An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s

"Data in Newton is stored in object-oriented databases known as soups."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Data_storage

lionsdanon Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

Depends where you live

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(parliamentary_procedure...