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by a_c 9y ago
I wonder if there is open-source equivalent in pharmacology
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by a_c 9y ago
"We want a [insert big name here] clone, how long does it take." is, in my experience, a good indicator to move on.
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by a_c 9y ago
What is IC?
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by a_c 9y ago
Similar is happening to many chinese cities. 20 years ago cantonese were wildly spoken in shenzhen. Now, with so many mandarin speakers rushing into the rapidly developing city, cantonese seems a minority. I doubt if shanghai, or maybe sich
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by a_c 9y ago
I'm on an early 2015 MBP. Probably my last MBP. What recommendations have we?
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by a_c 9y ago
> iCloud accounts registered outside of China are not affected. What exactly does this mean? What makes an online account registered in a geographic location? Is it determined by where the iphone is bought, the IP addresses when the regi
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by a_c 9y ago
> It occurred to me that, really, I had more or less picked up all of it by word of mouth and experience, and there just aren't any good reference sources on the topic. So… here's my word of mouth. Can someone provide some refe
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by a_c 9y ago
Can you or someone recommend tutorial programming esp8266 "natively"? Most of the tutorial I cam across uses a mix of arduino IDE, nodemcu or micropython. I want to interact with esp8266 and the on-board mcu directly using C. I fe
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by a_c 9y ago
> Never get in bed and try to sleep because “it’s bedtime”. Only get in bed when you are dying to go to bed This is in contrary to my belief. I have insomnia for many years and I thought one of the reason was because I never had a regula
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by a_c 9y ago
Thanks for the link! Yes, would love to have one for every website. And visitor can input a website for "stupidness"
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by a_c 9y ago
There need to be a public directory for these websites. Something similar to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ . Something like is-this-site-stupid.com. Ridiculous password policy, http home page, virtual keyboard for password, lo
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by a_c 9y ago
I subscribed right away. But maybe we should still be friends?
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by a_c 9y ago
Off topic: today I learned that Hong Kong Airlines is owned by HNA Group [1], a china company. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Airlines
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by a_c 9y ago
Thanks for pointing out. You are right! It looks silly to have mistaken such a simple concept but let's leave it here in case someone has same thought as me
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by a_c 9y ago
> These are solids where all the sides are equal and all the faces are the same regular polygon. There is, for instance, rhombic triacontahedron[1] which fulfil the above definition while not being a platonic solid. By wiki[2] , > It
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by a_c 9y ago
twitter henceforth
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by a_c 9y ago
I wonder what makes HN so addictive. I have no facebook, no twitter no reddit. And no youtube during work. But damn, I can't miss all those goodies on HN!
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by a_c 9y ago
Mind to share the stack behind? And is it indexing all popular tools into one place and providing a search box?
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by a_c 9y ago
I believe the 60 millions of so cantonese speakers includes the chinese over the world where many of them are from Canton
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by a_c 9y ago
"But the Kanazawa Ice retained its original shape even after five minutes. It also tasted cool." video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-lc6ZnWLo
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by a_c 9y ago
The post seems to be from 2016 https://github.com/arielelkin/arielelkin.github.io/commits/m...
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by a_c 9y ago
We have seen much discussion about rent-seeking behaviour. Be it patent troll, lobbying, the actual renting in housing market or whatever. But what are the potential remedies? The article "tragedy of the commons" in wiki mentioned
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by a_c 9y ago
Perhaps "Blue car syndrome" https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/153166/what-is-t...
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by a_c 9y ago
A tangential thought, would the ultrasound bring discomfort to pets?
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by a_c 9y ago
This is definitely one way of prevention. I know several people in their 50s suffer from hearing loss, for no obvious cause. They didn't play band, didn't go concert or club, nothing suspicious. And doctors have yet to find the ca
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by a_c 9y ago
Mid-life hearing loss is very high on the list. But how does one prevent it?
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by a_c 9y ago
About the video making part, can someone provide some resources on making videos (company, websites, software etc)? Looking at kickstarter, I find many of their video share a common "theme". I wonder if there are company/onli
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by a_c 9y ago
It does seem natural that it is a recording with silence detection. What about the process of choosing these specific set of dialogue? It is definitely not chosen arbitrarily as lenny's response blend pretty well with marketer's q
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by a_c 9y ago
How does this work? There is definitely huge demand based in other languages!
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by a_c 9y ago
What the article says is true - banking, patents, regulations, corporate subsidies all contribute to rent-seeking behaviour. But one cannot strike a balance between rent-seeking and value-producing behaviour without investigating the motiva

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