Anechoic

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by Anechoic 13y ago
If there are more men then women in prison, it can only be because men commit more crime, right?
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by Anechoic 13y ago
You mean Direct Democracy? I suspect folks here would be even more unhappy with policies under that regime.
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Study: Women Who Can Do Math Still Don’t Get Hired(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
39 points by Anechoic 13y ago|48 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Apologies for those that may not have time to listen to the podcast, transcripts will be available tomorrow. But if you can make the time, the whole show is worth a listen.
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Secrecy at the Border(onthemedia.org)
2 points by Anechoic 13y ago|1 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
I hope Apple makes it a point to advertise everywhere that they're doing this In which case they are going to be accused of doing a "bullshit PR dance." Damned if you do...
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Google donates $6.8M to SF public transit amid bus controversy(bizjournals.com)
2 points by Anechoic 13y ago|2 comments
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NYC's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing(gizmodo.com)
4 points by Anechoic 13y ago|3 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Scroll down to "Lists of Killings" and follow the links to see individual incidents by date.
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Cops usually have a very specific set of people they are targeting (I.E. carrying guns and shooting at other people/gangs). Or any variation of "fits the description." 3. How many of those people killed by cops, were tryin
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by Anechoic 13y ago
The merchant presents the bill to your phone. You approve the charge by entering a code on your phone. This requires a) having a mobile phone, and b) having a properly-working mobile phone (battery charged, able to receive a signal, etc).
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by Anechoic 13y ago
New health care regulations significantly complicate the lives of those trying to start or grow a business (at least businesses smaller than big corporations). I must be missing something because as someone who is growing a small business
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Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower(nytimes.com)
804 points by Anechoic 13y ago|157 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Some more up-to-date links: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/mar/23/advocates-say... http://aamn.org http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/enha
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Why is there not a male nurse initiative? Or male elementary teacher initiative[1]? There are! It's just not discussed on HN because this isn't a site focused on nursing and teaching, but copying from a prior post of mine, 45 se
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Secrets of the Caltech Cannon Heist Revealed(alum.mit.edu)
9 points by Anechoic 13y ago|11 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
FYI, the author of that post address self-driving cars in his next post: http://progressivetransit.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/self-driv...
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by Anechoic 13y ago
This will be a huge issue, even if Amazon gets this through the FAA, there are going to be all kinds of local interests expressing their concerns. What happens when one of these gets tied up in an overhead power lines? Did folks living near
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by Anechoic 13y ago
but it is the most meritocratic of any other place in the world Really? I think most pro sports leagues would give SV a run for it's money in terms of meritocracy.
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by Anechoic 13y ago
of the point this guy's trying to make i think this guy I think this post makes the article's point nicely. (take another look at the article byline, and lookup the author on Google)
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by Anechoic 13y ago
The sad thing was that iDisk was cross-platform (with native Mac & Windows clients, and since it was WebDAV, you could get Linux and *BSD to work with it), but it died along with the rest of the iTools/.Mac/MobileMe suite of s
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Where in CT? I spend a fair amount of time in the Hartford area and have never seen one.
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GE Meets Glass(youtube.com)
1 points by Anechoic 13y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Things it got wrong: my parent status It got my parental status wrong as well (at least I'm not aware of any kids!). However several of my twitter friends are parents and we've discussed their kids on severe occasions, I wonder
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Thus, near as I can tell, the gag order is categorically illegal - a law which abridges your freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not absolute, as demonstrated by any number of SCOTUS rulings, with defamation, obscenity and incitement
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Previous discussion about acoustic gun detection systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034528
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by Anechoic 13y ago
Hm seems still quite a bit noisier than airbus 350 (why isn't it mentioned even once in the article?) Be careful about trying to judge the relative loudness of the two planes based on YouTube videos since the sound levels in the vide
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by Anechoic 13y ago
A train from 2 hours outside LA to 2 hours outside SF is not doing any CA taxpayers any favours Good think no one (who isn't named "Elon Musk" that is) is talking about building a high-speed transportation system that doesn
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by Anechoic 13y ago
By comparison, it took about 7 years in the mid 19th century to build the nearly-2000-mile First Transcontinental Railroad It's amazing what you can do when a) the government grants you the land [1]), b) you can exploit a class of wo
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by Anechoic 13y ago
If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc Google hasn't done that (yet). http://googleblog.blogspot.hu/2012/08/the-self-driving-car-l...

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