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Lab mice fear men but not women and that's a big problem for science(theverge.com)
2 points by ama729 12y ago|1 comments
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by ama729 12y ago
> In the end, the conclusion is that there’s no real way to us fix this that would stop “attacks” against small consumer grade sites without also significantly degrading the overall functionality. Why not just limit the number of request
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by ama729 12y ago
> There is not a single car manufactorer, that makes profits here in Belgium without subsidisement. (a lot of them moved away from Belgium the last years) It's the same in Germany though: http://europe.autonews.com/a
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by ama729 12y ago
Indeed, that's what Chart 3 is implying, but housing in Switzerland is also a big problem IIRC.
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by ama729 12y ago
>(highest costs in the world for employment) I was curious about that, but apparently it's not, both Norway and Switzerland are more expensive than Belgium (at least in manufacturing): http://www.bls.gov/fls/ich
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by ama729 12y ago
Like most European countries, they probably require to have a day team and a night team. Google has datacenter in Belgium[1], so it would be surprising it was "impossible". [1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/ar
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by ama729 12y ago
Study cited (I think): http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/04/is...
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by ama729 12y ago
> but a study recently backed it up Except it ... doesn't? Not only it doesn't seem to be a well designed study (the 9 point scale doesn't make much sense, there is no graph with the numbers for each answers, etc), the con
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by ama729 12y ago
I wasn't saying anything negative about Asimov, I have a tremendous amount of respect for the man, it was more about the contrast between someone supposed to write fiction and the other supposed to predict the future and how one got th
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by ama729 12y ago
There is something a bit funny when a science-fiction writer like Asimov can get the future pretty right 50 years ago, when a futurist like Kurzweil can't predict it for ten: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictio
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by ama729 12y ago
If someone else is wondering who is "Charleston Road Registry" it's actually .. Google. http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/who-is-charleston-r... Also, it seem the sartup Donuts[0] is snatchin
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by ama729 12y ago
The point is that everyone say that about their own language, I've encountered French, Dutch and Hungarian proclaiming their language is the hardest.
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by ama729 12y ago
Have there been any confirmation this is actually a Github employee? Because as far as we know, this could just as well be a troll.
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by ama729 12y ago
I don't understand the outrage here, aren't gag orders pretty much standard police tool? I mean, if you are taping the new Al Capone/Ben Laden/Ted Bundy, then surely you don't want Twitter to reveal it no?
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by ama729 12y ago
Cryengine-as-a-service is still not released AFAIK.
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by ama729 12y ago
Is it me, or does the reference don't even match the article? Number 4* state: Longevity and health were optimized when protein was replaced with carbohydrate to limit compensatory feeding for protein and suppress protein intake
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by ama729 12y ago
Not disagreeing at all, I was just adding some more infos.
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by ama729 12y ago
Link to the study: http://jn.sfn.org/press/April-16-2014-Issue/zns01614005529.p... 20 people in each group (control and MJ), 9 male and 11 female.
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by ama729 12y ago
Except the important thing is "how much", nobody care if it's 1mm thicker or 20g heavier, especially for someone who would value modularity.
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by ama729 13y ago
It actually does, check the FAQ at the bottom, it was a mistake on their end.
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by ama729 13y ago
Gauss is an obvious counterpoint though, he made important discoveries well into his 70's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss#Later_years_and_death_.2... Relevant comic with a list of old scientists: http:/
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by ama729 13y ago
Interestingly, both Lynx and Wget don't throw any warning at all. It's really surprising for Lynx, you would think THE nerd browser would be a bit better security wise.
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by ama729 13y ago
Well there is a HN front page story just now about Puppet moving to Clojure ;). (And Chef is part Erlang...) That being said, my point wasn't that there are no software outside of Rails, that would have been quite a claim, but rather t
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by ama729 13y ago
> The Ruby community seems much less fragmented and wants to see the language move forward. It helps a lot that the 800 pound gorilla, Rails, keeps up with Ruby releases. You kind of answer your question you know, the reason why Python i
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by ama729 13y ago
Ubuntu (and I suppose Debian too), just released a fix in 13.10.
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by ama729 13y ago
Which empires failed exactly? The Roman empire was one of the most open empire I can think of[1] in its last year and it still failed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio_Antoniniana
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by ama729 13y ago
There is something funny when you have an entire post about supposed "parasites", that then try to sell you $800 dollars conference seats ("Transition Economics", "Book Now!").
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by ama729 13y ago
HN mod explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7516890
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by ama729 13y ago
But as OP point out, iOS and Android are not the only platforms, there is also S40, symbian and Blackberry, which is where whatsapp shine.
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The ultimate replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners and PIMs(strlen.com)
3 points by ama729 13y ago|0 comments

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