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9 votes
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New analysis suggests that assumptions about the source of early cases in Washington state might have been wrong, but the resulting reaction may have prevented a more severe outbreak
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One of the first California counties to reopen is closing again - Lassen County, pop. 30,000, had no cases of COVID and reopened in early May. It now has four cases
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Factorio - The 1.0 Plan - Release date is now August 14 (Five weeks earlier than originally announced)
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“Core Web Vitals” replaces AMP as requirement for Top Stories module
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$100B plan submitted for massive remake and expansion of National Science Foundation
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How SpaceX and NASA keeps astronauts safe during launch
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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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SpaceX overcame never-before-seen parachute deploy and thruster problems during Crew Dragon development
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Protestors criticized for looting businesses without forming private equity firm first
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The design of the “Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for Memorial Day, 2020
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US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
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After one week with no new cases, New Zealand down to 1 active COVID-19 case, as mass gathering limit increases to 100 people
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Philip Manshaus's trial raises important questions about the role of freedom of speech in enabling far-right extremism
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Obsidian is now in public beta - A knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
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European Union proposes $825 billion coronavirus rescue plan, giving Brussels power to raise money for first time
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To deliver ‘The Simpsons’ in 4:3 aspect ratio, Disney+ had to rearchitect its content-delivery system
12 votes -
New data indicates the Mississippi Delta is on borrowed time
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Sweden football coach Janne Andersson has signed a contract extension through to UEFA Euro 2024
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Overclocking and water cooling a TI-84 graphing calculator (to play DOOM on it)
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Rocket Lab to resume launches in June
6 votes -
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changing (1964)
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Coronavirus patients flood hospitals in Indonesia's second-largest city
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SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell on prospects for Starship launcher
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The Karen in Chief
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Alt-right homophobes are using 4chan to plan a terrifying cyber attack on the LGBT+ community during Pride month
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Now is a great time to start reading Gunnerkrigg Court
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The decline and fall of the spectacle-commodity economy
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Recommend me a movie that _________
It's like this thread, but with movies instead of books. Thread reading tip: use the "collapse replies" button to see only top-level requests.
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African authorities conduct manhunts after hundreds flee quarantine centres in Zimbabwe and Malawi
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macOS 10.15.5 has a trivial bug or a ‘reprehensible’ security decision
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The success of nonviolent civil resistance | Erica Chenoweth
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Results from the 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
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Virgin Orbit recap: first launch attempt fails
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Australia's High Court decides 'Palace letters' written during the Whitlam dismissal can be accessed by historian Jenny Hocking
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Regrinding coffee - A surprising result
9 votes -
Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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"Superspreaders": A small percentage of people may be responsible for a large number of COVID-19 infections
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Weather scrubs SpaceX commercial crew launch, Demo-2
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GOG's summer sale has started and runs through June 15
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Analyzing the simplest C++ program
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If Trump kicks out Twitter, there's always Germany
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Zuckerberg dismisses fact-checking after bragging about fact-checking
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Boston Marathon canceled for the first time in its 124-year history
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Steam Spring Cleaning event - Challenges to help dust off and dig into your Steam Library collection of games, runs until May 28
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Watch the SpaceX Demo-2 crewed launch livestream at 4:33pm ET, May 27th
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New topics request
I’m sorry if this isn’t the correct avenue or if I have missed a previous post about this but I was wondering how new topics could be requested. I think a DIY topic would be great, as a woodworker...
I’m sorry if this isn’t the correct avenue or if I have missed a previous post about this but I was wondering how new topics could be requested. I think a DIY topic would be great, as a woodworker I think something more specific to woodworking would be great but with the current size of the user base a more broad topic might be better suited.
4 votes