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Spot-welding graphene nanoribbons atom by atom(phys.org)
1 points by JDGM 13y ago|0 comments
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Ireland orders firms to ban access to The Pirate Bay(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by JDGM 13y ago|0 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
I enjoyed this but on the surface reading didn't like his "it makes me think an octave higher" line, and on reading the context from Sivers (an excellent article that, btw) I even more didn't like it. The analogy just di
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by JDGM 13y ago
Did most other folks here know what "Muse" is? I confess, I clicked hoping it would be something to do with the band (er, rock band not headband) and then read bits of the article without really being pulled in, and closed the tab
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Creativity and the Adjacent Possible (2012)(chrismonaghan.org)
2 points by JDGM 13y ago|0 comments
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Android app functions as digital trashcan, can even retrieve discarded videos(salon.com)
1 points by JDGM 13y ago|0 comments
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Deadline Looms for Suspect to Decrypt Laptop, or Go Directly to Jail(wired.com)
1 points by JDGM 13y ago|0 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
There is a reason people sell their time: they need money to live. Advising new graduates (most of whom will have student debt) to eschew a "job" and go it alone "making something" is dubious advice. A professional-level graduate career giv
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by JDGM 13y ago
I don't know anything about the law, I just assumed that this kind of thing isn't something big companies really want being spread around and I've gotten used to living in a world where legal action or at least the threat of it is a default
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by JDGM 13y ago
If I understand the page correctly this is a description of a talk that will be presented in just under 2 months. What happens in this situation? Would Apple try to get them not to give the talk? Will Apple patch the problem in the meantime
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by JDGM 13y ago
Thanks. I've just done a google and the only person I can find describing Soylent as 'delicious' in the first few hits is Rob himself, who even says "I'm not trying to make something delicious; there are already a lot of delicious things" -
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by JDGM 13y ago
It is not clear to me from the article their relationship with YC. It begins "YC accepted our original idea, to build affordable wireless networks for developing countries, for the summer 2012 batch", before explaining how that didn't work
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by JDGM 13y ago
At many of the crossings in Ise, Japan there is a button to call for assistance crossing the road. Or give more time to cross for old people. Or something like that, which I didn't quite understand. I remember going there with a friend who
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Composite GIF of batter Miguel Cabrera's plate coverage(fangraphs.com)
3 points by JDGM 13y ago|0 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
Superb. Thanks!
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by JDGM 13y ago
Has anyone found this? It sounds great, but I couldn't get a URL from googling the obvious stuff. Please post if you know it!
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by JDGM 13y ago
It's not really what you described, but this is quite jolly: https://howsecureismypassword.net .
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by JDGM 13y ago
The exchange in the comments between Bill Gasarch and the author is excellent: BG: "When I hear idiocy like this I wonder--- does Coburn KNOW he's wrong and says it as a thing one says as a politician (like when I say 'I know you can all pr
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Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn Commits the Gambler's Fallacy(harry-lewis.blogspot.jp)
1 points by JDGM 13y ago|1 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
I was going to ask the exact same thing as shriphani. Thanks for such a detailed reply. Fascinating. I especially enjoyed: "Apparently Israeli fighters were told "it's up to you if you want to scratch off the swastika marks on the old proof
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by JDGM 13y ago
This would be easy if I were still living with the folks as my old bedroom is virtually a vintage computing museum . Since moving out - and abroad no less - I have to think a little. Probably a 2GB USB memory stick I brought with me. I shu
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Your oldest, most outdated device(news.yahoo.com)
20 points by JDGM 13y ago|51 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
This was submitted nearly two weeks back, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5682367 but it must have slid off the front page and into obscurity so I am glad it has come up again and received the attention it deserves. However, I
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by JDGM 13y ago
I believe the corresponding joke goes something like this: "To get your pornstar name, take your mother's maiden name and first pet's na--" "Let me stop you there. You realise those are both common security questions for authentication if y
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by JDGM 13y ago
I think that by writing the article this way around (crossing the road -> refraction of light in glass) the author has rather unfortunately invited the kind of criticisms in this thread, that his "model is flawed" etc. As a contrived sc
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by JDGM 13y ago
I never use my laptop on my legs while plugged in. That's what the battery is for, and if it runs out of juice then I know I've been sat in the same position for way too long.
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by JDGM 13y ago
I remember we were talking about this last week, and I've submitted this particular link for the usual reason I submit a link: that I'm interested in the HN comment thread it may spawn. In this case I find it rather bizarre that the Wired a
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Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers(wired.com)
4 points by JDGM 13y ago|1 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
I feel I'm beyond the age where I can get away with saying/writing things like "Almost every line is something I want to print out, frame and then take a shit on" but by golly if it isn't entertaining to read someone else do it.
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by JDGM 13y ago
"Here's a really, really basic business concept, presented in about ten times the number of words it needs. PLEASE SIGN UP FOR OUR PRODUCT." Good observation, and humour points for the light-hearted snark. I don't quite disapprove of these

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