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   by api 13y ago

   What a moronic sensationalistic headline.
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   Ask HN: podcast recommendations about startups, tech, science, etc.

   1 points by api 13y ago|1 comments
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   by api 13y ago

   The ultimate source of luck as a factor seems to me to be your origin: - Were you randomly selected by the genetic lottery to be smart, attractive, healthy, etc.? Other traits might also matter, such as charisma and alpha personality charac
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   by api 13y ago

   Got nothing on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash#Bomb_...
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   by api 13y ago

   Lead is well understood to be a neurotoxin. There's a clear mechanism of action here.
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   by api 13y ago

   Are there places that still use it?
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   by api 13y ago

   I wonder how this interacts with IQ differences by ethnicity, given that historically some ethnic groups tended to live in inner cities where lead exposure would have been significantly greater.
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   SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage appears to have executed a successful water landing(twitter.com)

   7 points by api 13y ago|2 comments
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   by api 13y ago

   You could technically set up your own completely separate network -- everything you need is there. You'd just have to fork it. It'd be kind of like forking Bitcoin to make Dogecoin or JuggaloCoin or whatever. But in this case I wo
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    by api 13y ago

    Don't get me wrong. I'm happy for them. But I agree that these aren't really front page news items unless it's a huge acquisition or one that is immensely significant for the economic/political landscape of the in
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    by api 13y ago

    A great many of these are aqui-hires, basically high-level hiring decisions. So the real headline is "founders and top engineers of a marginally successful startup hired by big company."
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    by api 13y ago

    You would probably enjoy Dr. Chris Adami's Reddit AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/236ap1/science_ama_... There seems to be a growing understanding that our universe is actually made of
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    by api 13y ago

    I sort of agree, believe it or not. At the same time, I must confess to harboring a dislike for polite civilized discourse in at least a couple circumstances. The films in the Hunger Games series (especially the first) really nail something
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    by api 13y ago

    I don't support massive surveillance dragnets, but I also find it laughable to suppose that the USA is the only country that has them. At the same time, the author seems to be insinuating that Snowden was a Russian agent. If that'
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    by api 13y ago

    Normally I'd agree. I just think this issue is kind of way out in a class by itself, outside the bounds of ordinary disagreement. Sarah Palin is someone I pretty much disagree with on almost everything, but I would not use such languag
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    by api 13y ago

    Iraq is far worse than mass surveillance, though the latter is definitely a problem. At least in the case of surveillance the supporters have made something like a rational case for why they think it's needed, and the topic is being de
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    by api 13y ago

    So was a trillion dollars in fraud. "NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next fou
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    by api 13y ago

    Classier than starting a war for no discernible rational reason. Edit: just to make my position clear: this goes beyond Democrat/Republican ideologies or politics and into the realm of criminality. This is in a wholly different league
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    by api 13y ago

    So did they dump the Bushevik war-pushing bitch or not?
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    by api 13y ago

    Given that a 2br apartment is $8000/month in some places, yeah.
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    by api 13y ago

    Heh. Actually, thank you to the previous poster. I didn't mind the criticism. His point -- "your existing site doesn't look good enough to convince my boss" -- is very valid. The new site looks a lot better and it's
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    by api 13y ago

    It's all three of the things you mention: peer to peer, stateless, and on-demand. It also uses UDP, so it's not opening huge numbers of TCP connections. The only time it uses TCP is if you can't use UDP -- as a fallback mode.
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    by api 13y ago

    I completely agree on the design. I'm working on a big web design rev right now that looks much better. I'm not sure what you mean by diagrams though. This doesn't work that way. It creates virtual networks that look comple
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    by api 13y ago

    This is stateless, nearly zero-configuration, and P2P, among other things. It also uses the same cryptographic primitives and composition as NaCl (purely coincidentally). It supports Mac, Windows, and Linux, and has a GUI control panel for
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    by api 13y ago

    We learned that in 2008 when the politically well connected were insulated from the effects of bad investment decisions at great cost to everyone else.
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    Chris Adami /r/science AMA (black holes, information theory, evolutionary AI)(reddit.com)

    1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    I've scoffed at my share of really stupid ideas: Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest (I still kinda do), ...
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    by api 13y ago

    We won't ever run out of oil. What will happen is that oil EROEI will drop and cost will increase until other sources of energy are more cost-competitive and oil becomes obsolete. (... OR if other sources cannot replace oil, economic c
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    by api 13y ago

    Why the hell would Facebook be interested in a drone company? Google makes only slightly more sense.
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    by api 13y ago

    In the long run EVs have the potential to be radically cheaper than gasoline cars: fewer moving parts, etc.