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> The recommendation against the use of NSS applies to all people except individuals with pre-existing diabetes



I mean, I’ve found it very interesting to see different pros of ending a file in a new line I would have never even considered.


Agreed, I hate the attitude of shutting down discussion.

Everything is worth discussing, just not ad nauseam. I've never really question newline at the end of a file so this is interesting to me too.


Pro: ???

Con: Your file is 1 byte larger.


The flu vaccine?


Do widgets not provide any utility to consumers?


Compared to 1940census, this is a much more useful tool, with the ability to search by name. I wish the same feature set were applied to prior censuses!


FamilySearch is a free site that allows for searching. I think it requires sign-up, though.

I should also mention, for people who are interested in genealogy and family history, that your local library may have subscriptions to resources like Ancestry (there is a tier called Ancestry Library Edition). I have never paid for Ancestry since it has been available at local and university libraries.


Because the 1950 census has just been released, those records are still being indexed and are not searchable yet [0]. I’m not sure if they release records as they are indexed, so it’s possible that it is partially searchable now.

But yes, the service is completely free provided you register an account. After that all the previous census records (and many many more) are searchable. Anyone is welcome to help index!

[0]: https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/


Are they being indexed manually? Seems like you could invest in OCR + ML to automate most of it


I think Ancestry does. I believe there is a lot of innovation happening there, but that is just a feeling.

However, it can be a tough problem. Census takers' handwriting can be pretty bad.

(I often say doing genealogy will cure people's love of cursive. Terrible, quickly-written printing is usually still fairly legible, while cursive can be a series of hopeless squiggles)


But they're calling it a third sex because it's due to "normal expression of the species' genes", not because of hermaphroditism.


It is a third (or fourth) phenotype, not a third sex. The abstract of the source article is careful to spell this out; the clickbait site introduced the error.

"Three sex phenotypes in a haploid algal species give insights into the evolutionary transition to a self‐compatible mating system." -- i.e. how might self-pollinating plants have developed?


My thoughts are it could create clothes or furniture that will last longer fashion-wise.

Any of your clothes or furniture look out of style? Just download a new style online!


I would think that actually thinking about and defining everything that a Trello clone to do would take more than 10 minutes... Are you imagining a "software requirements" -> "product" compiler type of deal? Or what do you envision the workflow would look like?


It probably wouldn’t be a perfect trello clone. And of course it’s just a demo of capabilities with a plan to develop highly scripted.


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