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by _rpd 10y ago
> Today's ALPHA result is the first observation of a spectral line in an antihydrogen atom, allowing the light spectrum of matter and antimatter to be compared for the first time. Within experimental limits, the result shows no diff
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by _rpd 10y ago
> I like the idea. A voluntary bot net is still a bot net. And I wonder how voluntary it really is? Can you easily decline further participation if you start to disagree with some of the "fake news" it is spamming?
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by _rpd 10y ago
> we have confused the two I don't see confusion so much as a desire for the two to be the same and a goal worth pursuing.
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by _rpd 10y ago
> "I believe that the profession can’t really move forward until we shed our fear of saying and thinking things that colleagues would call ‘humanist.’ " Why on Earth has humanism fallen into disrepute among literary studies maj
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by _rpd 10y ago
You're probably posing this question to HN as a whole, rather than me, however, my comment was focusing on the term 'exactly' in the comment to which I was replying. I personally think that there is legitimate censorship (chi
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by _rpd 10y ago
I think the concern is that if Facebook builds sophisticated censorship tools for China, the temptation for other nations to adopt them will become overwhelming. The Chinese level of censorship could become a defacto standard without a ro
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by _rpd 10y ago
Perhaps if the definition of 'misinformation' is expanded to include legitimate but politically inconvenient information.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Microsoft wants Azure to become people's first first choice. This could help that happen.
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by _rpd 10y ago
I had to open it in an incognito tab to read it. This seems to be the core message ... > entertainment advertising is less about your brand and more about a feeling. Don’t describe what your product does, show us how it makes you feel.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Yes, but direct-to-home doesn't need to pay urban rent or salaries for its distribution centers. There must be some other factor. Perhaps the costs of maintaining a reliable e-commerce site?
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by _rpd 10y ago
Their team appears to be all law students. No technical talent in sight.
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by _rpd 10y ago
> But more than 15 videos are “restricted” on YouTube, a development PragerU announced this month. This means the clips don’t show up for those who have turned on filtering—say, a parent shielding their children from explicit videos. The
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by _rpd 10y ago
Yes, how is Tesla not Silicon Valley? Bloomberg used to be a great news source, but it has deteriorated sharply.
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by _rpd 10y ago
> Steinberger’s book No Circus collects photographs of buildings tented for termite fumigation
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by _rpd 10y ago
Yes, this is just another example of the classic and ongoing disintermediation enabled by internet technologies. Once I had access to the raw news feeds available to journalists (Reuters, AP, AFP, etc), it became clear that the novel conten
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by _rpd 10y ago
Automation. It doesn't matter where you locate lights-out factories.
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by _rpd 10y ago
And your ad agency will be fired when that happens. It is therefore a must buy.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Zubrin and McKay seem to think so ... Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm
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by _rpd 10y ago
> where are the inventors that want a patent system of any sort? To me, this parallels the question: where are the artists that want a copyright system of any sort? The consensus seems to be that automation will abolish most drudgery ove
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by _rpd 10y ago
Having multiple independent biospheres reduces a lot of extinction level risks, not just catastrophic climate change risk.
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by _rpd 10y ago
What could a fair system for rewarding inventors and patent owners look like?
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by _rpd 10y ago
To put it mildly, the courts are still working it out. For example ... Federal Circuit: Software and Data Structures Are Not Inherently Abstract http://patentlyo.com/patent/2016/05/structures-inherently-ab...
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by _rpd 10y ago
This is a very important policy reform. Readers outside the US may not realize that the school funding system has this inbuilt feedback loop: good schools get more funding from property taxes and keep nearby property values high, bad schoo
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by _rpd 10y ago
Or rather, that "The universe is not spinning or stretched in any particular direction, according to the most stringent test yet."
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by _rpd 10y ago
> In late August, Hanjin Shipping, South Korea’s biggest container line and the world’s seventh-largest, filed for receivership. Some 66 of its ships, loaded with $14.5 billion of goods, including quantities of electronics heading for Am
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by _rpd 10y ago
Same here. I think the only time my son sees traditional advertising is at a movie theater. However, I have noticed more "native advertising" in his favorite youtube channels.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Thank you. I really hope that you set the trend.
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by _rpd 10y ago
This is just a case study of law firm rankings in general. Popular law firm ranking systems use criteria that may not be relevant to your business. When ranking law firms, you should use a custom ranking system.
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by _rpd 10y ago
> Finland is about to launch an experiment in which a randomly selected group of 2,000–3,000 citizens already on unemployment benefits will begin to receive a monthly basic income of 560 euros (approx. $600). That basic income will repla
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by _rpd 10y ago
On the other hand, it did motivate me to find a way to stream NBC Sports. Something I wouldn't have done otherwise.

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