AkThhhpppt

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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Oh yes there bloody is: an opinion held in spite of overwhelming evidence.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
The worst inconvenience I've had with mine is handling small change; 1, 2, and 5 Euro-cent coins stick to it. ",) And I've done a little rock-climbing since I got mine. Not enough to be entirely sure with it, but some.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
I meant to compare with the sensation from my implant. (",) It's also been tried with sticking tiny magnets to the fingernails, then varnishing on top: http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/fingernails-implanted-with-magne...
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Yes, but how many large magnetic fields does one gets stuck into while unconscious that _aren't_ MRIs? Besides, I've been exposed to serious magnets; the inverse cube law is my friend. Plus, even when I did come close to a strong magnet, al
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
We all went there pretty much immediately, didn't we? I know Charlie reads HN occasionally; I assume if he hasn't already seen this, he soon will...
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Nate ( http://feelingwaves.blogspot.com/ ) recommends supergluing a small neodymium to your fingertip as the best model of how the implant actually feels; I haven't tried it, myself.
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
There's a reason I have a Rod of Asclepius and "DO NOT MRI" tattooed on my wrist. Apparently it's quite possible to go through an MRI with implant intact, so long as the techs know about it. The inventor of these implants' advice about MRIs
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
This is a Young Foundation initiative, who started the Open University, Which? Magazine, the National Consumer Council... They're dipping their toe into the IT space for the first time, but they've been doing social innovation acceleration
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Facebook is subject to EU data protection laws for all EU users. If they did this over here they would be - well, the technical term is "reamed." Especially if the proposed new penalties come in: the relevant quote is "[Data protection aut
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Sounds familiar: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
It's a ratchet effect. Population are not particularly interested either way; government tells US government they're not going to put US interests ahead of their own people's, gets overthrown and replaced with a brutal dictatorship, populat
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Linked to above, and sounds perfect for you: the CRAPL licence. ",) http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
I would kill for ubiquitous LaTeX file availability - my e-reader does not reflow PDF well, especially multi-columned. Being able to generate an ePub instead would be worth paying for. To be vaguely on-topic, producing better open-source so
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Subtract artificial light, and how long would you be "plunged" into darkness every night this time of year at your latitude? Enforcing prehistoric lighting conditions at night and observing the resulting sleep pattern seems like a decent of
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
If you're operating in the EU, you should have all of F. apart from the P3P anyway, or else you're in breach of whatever the local version of the Data Protection Act is. As those acts require you to also have a "data controller" to ensure c
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
The convention I've seen is "SIM-free."
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
More information can be found here, http://hplusmagazine.com/2010/02/11/scrapheap-transhumanism/ , or here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Dv6dDtdcs The illness is pre-existing, and the hard drive death unconnected; the size of magnet
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Um.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX2HTML
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by AkThhhpppt 15y ago
Food-safe? Not hardly: "no infection or irritation so far; in fact the site's doing pretty well, although i had to put superglue out of the toolbox in it yesterday. if all is still calm by next week, i will take it that Sugru doesn't cause