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by adevine 10y ago
Non-ionizing radiation does not cause cancer
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by adevine 10y ago
The author understands that. "That demand" is referring to the tourists, residents, young people, etc.
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by adevine 10y ago
My understanding, though, is that all of these wireless charging solutions are significantly less efficient that wired power. Even if it's, say, 10% less efficient, that's a huge, huge waste of energy on a large scale if this tech
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by adevine 10y ago
Exactly - reading this I was thinking "You are surprised that what are now basically small hills are not tourist Meccas?" And while I don't know the exact numbers, places that are at least superficially interesting, like th
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by adevine 10y ago
Reminds me of the Euro. Was blessed as such a grand simplifying project by academics and technocrats in the late 90s, and critics were often dismissed conspiracy theorists.
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by adevine 10y ago
I guess if an Epi Pen was some sort of Rube Goldberg device for making an injection more complicated. The whole point of an Epi Pen is that it can be easily carried (in a purse for example) and used by people with very little training to
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by adevine 10y ago
I highly doubt that this is true for gonorrhea.
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by adevine 10y ago
The article doesn't really make clear that this is really shared carpooling (which has existed for decades), NOT driving for hire a la Uber and Lyft. The reason for the 54c/mile limit is that is the IRS standard mileage rate, so a
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by adevine 10y ago
They are circumventing the legal issues by limiting to 54 cents per mile, which is the IRS standard mileage rate: https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/2016-standard-mileage-rates... . That is, at this rate it's ju
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by adevine 10y ago
But this scenario doesn't apply to the vast, vast majority of folks in the med school situation. These newly minted doctors will make low wages in residency, but they are still great credit risks because they can be expected to make mu
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by adevine 10y ago
My question, though, is whether Jet is "losing money on every sale but making it up in volume." That is, your articles mention how jet aims to be about 5% cheaper than Amazon, but they say nothing about the long term cost structur
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by adevine 10y ago
Am I right in understanding that the passwords were hashed with MD5? WTF?
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by adevine 10y ago
Ugh, seriously? I think the vast majority of people wouldn't use a password manager if it were that difficult to use, especially on mobile where typing a truly secure password with different casing and special chars is a PITA. Gettin
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by adevine 10y ago
True, but most of the value in Yahoo is being left in the old company the owns the interests in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
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by adevine 10y ago
This isn't how I remember the culture years ago. I looked at reddit every now and then, but I really came over six years ago during the big Digg v4 revolt when Digg fucked up their site. At the time, I remember being really impressed h
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by adevine 10y ago
> In real dollars, the cost of Macs are extremely low. $1 in 2000 is about $1.40 now. So the cost of a $1000 13" Mac Air which is a very respectable laptop is about $700 in 2000 dollars. This comparison makes no sense to me. It&#x27
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by adevine 10y ago
What is the takeaway, though, from looking at drought in this "% in drought over 5 years" manner? For example, central Texas had horrible drought for much of this time, only to end in severe flooding. Seems like a better metric wo
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by adevine 10y ago
I really apologize if this comes off as critical, because I honestly don't mean it to be. But by your description, you sound like the worst kind of customer for a car rental agency, because: 1. You have specific, high-performance desir
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by adevine 10y ago
Why I agree with you, and would argue for putting the vote arrows somewhere else, is that voting should only happen after someone has fully read a comment and at least given it a second to think about it. It makes more sense for the collaps
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by adevine 10y ago
Average data for Austin, though, misses some important points. Anything near central is quickly becoming unaffordable to anyone without a high paying professional job. Outer lying areas are still affordable, but the transportation situation
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by adevine 10y ago
That was my perception as well: the rat immediately tried to mount the rat that had been trapped. My issue is not with the results of the study, but with interpretation. I think it's possible to explain the desire to free the other rat
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by adevine 10y ago
If you go around trying to find 10 people to commit mass murder, there is a high likelihood that one of them will turn you in, or that one of them is already under law enforcement scrutiny that will lead to discovery of your plans.
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by adevine 10y ago
> but there are huge sums of money being poured into a media structure designed to keep us afraid and tuned in. Perhaps true, but I see this argument a lot by engineering folks, and I think it misses a major point of human nature. Large,
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by adevine 10y ago
Putting 10 bombs on 10 buses requires a lot more planning and terrorists, which greatly enhances the chance of getting caught. Especially in the US, where much of the risk is currently centered around "lone wolf"-type attacks, any
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Practice Doesn't Make Perfect(sciencealert.com)
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by adevine 10y ago
I don't understand at all why this is unenforceable. If the person is publicly listing their apartment on AirBnB, it's pretty easy to find listings in your apartment building. I recall an article a year or so back about people ide
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by adevine 10y ago
pg has been consistent with this viewpoint, expressing the same sentiment when Austin voters rejected a proposition that would have done away with driver fingerprinting requirements for Uber and Lyft: https://twitter.com/pau
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by adevine 10y ago
Thanks for posting this, I thought it was fascinating research. This sentence in particular was a surprise to me: It’s estimated that we’re born with around 20,000 blood stem cells, and at any one time, around 1000 are simultaneously active
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by adevine 10y ago
Wat? > To "reinvent" the "web" (or what I call the Intercloud), business models must be removed from the equation. This goes into my "and everyone gets a pony" set of solutions.
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by adevine 10y ago
We do not live in some Vulcan dystopia. The idea of essentially telling people, who are currently alive, "Yes, we can keep you alive, but by letting you die, there is some probability (which we don't really know and are just guess

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