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by RK 17y ago
The only people I have seen in the US who still use pagers are hospital employees and that seems to be based on dubious reasoning at best (besides it possibly cheaper for the hospital). What is the advantage of the chip+pin system versus ma
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by RK 17y ago
Never underestimate the power of cultural inertia. This affects Europe too with payments. I was just in Germany again recently. I was staying in a short-term apartment and instead of being able to pay at the reception by credit card, I ha
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by RK 17y ago
I wonder who took the photo her stipple portrait is a copy of?
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Skype In Negotiations To Acquire Gizmo5(techcrunch.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
This guy appears to have made announcements every few months with a Tc improvements of between about 8 - 20 K with various materials. Whatever he's doing, he's getting consistently "good results".
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by RK 17y ago
Indochino is supposed to be good for buying online tailored suits and shirts with "easy returns", etc. http://www.indochino.com I always thought it sounded interesting, though I don't wear suits often enough to have bought one since I fi
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by RK 17y ago
I'm pretty sure the y is a subscript meaning a variable (or unknown) number of oxygen atoms.
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by RK 17y ago
My limited experience with people like this is that they actually believe what they are doing. My question is, where does he get these plots, etc. Is he just wildly misinterpreting it or is he in fact just making it up?
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by RK 17y ago
Thank you. The white text on a red background was killing me.
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by RK 17y ago
Obviously they get a lot of love here, but I'll list them again: Dropbox I find I am majorly neglecting by USB thumb drive. And sharing files with random people is much easier now.
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by RK 17y ago
http://www.eigenlabs.com/
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Google Voice in Trouble Over Blocked Rural Calls(pcworld.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
I was just in Europe for the past few weeks and many people asked me about Obama. It seems that in Europe they are still in the honeymoon phase, whereas in the US it's moved on to the fighting through policy phase. None of the Obama support
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by RK 17y ago
This is the same reason I boycott humans in general, at least ones that are the offspring of other humans.
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by RK 17y ago
If anything, the money needs to go to advertising Android Market, which can attract both users and developers. Wireless company money will of course try to get people to buy the specific phones, which makes sense.
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by RK 17y ago
Tons of radioactive waste is put in landfills all of the time. Usually, it just has to decay down to background radiation levels before it is allowed to be dumped there. Most US landfills have radiation detectors where the trucks enter. If
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Tony Hawk Carves a New Niche(entrepreneur.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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The radiation dose to Formula One team members(mccabism.blogspot.com)
4 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
That kind of scheme unfortunately takes most of the ease of painless syncing away...
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Intel Hints at Its Own Smartphone Operating System(wired.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
Lynx? Is this aimed at OS X? I for one hope so.
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by RK 17y ago
There are a number of programs out there to look at images from MRI's, CT, etc, but if you are interested in hacking something together, the pydicom library is worth checking out. http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/
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by RK 17y ago
I would say that's pretty accurate. The spectrum of acceptable black "social personalities" seems to be smaller than for whites, at least in the high school years. It is in part do to the fact that whites comprise a much larger portion of t
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by RK 17y ago
Does this mean my dog is stupid (or reverting back to the wild) because he can't follow a pointed finger? He just does the stare-at-your-finger thing.
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by RK 17y ago
Radiation hormesis (i.e. low level radiation being beneficial) is considered very controversial, but the data about how low levels of radiation affects humans is very bad. Most data that people work with is from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki b
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by RK 17y ago
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by RK 17y ago
Back in 2000/2001 I was reading Greenspun's book and was strongly considering applying for ArsDigita University's second year, but then it was shut down (because of company problems). It was a very cool idea and I was planning to take a yea
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by RK 17y ago
Finally a market for "(hardware) honeypot" laptops.
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by RK 17y ago
I don't think jrockway is referring to the software on the laptop, but rather software that the US government is buying. If the source code is available (especially as open source), malicious code should theoretically be less likely to make
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by RK 17y ago
In college I used to have $1 prizes sometimes for people who could write the entire alphabet in cursive within a minute (lower and uppercase). The success rate was probably about 10%. It's always things like uppercase z's and q's that kill

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