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by biot 12y ago
Try any of the *BSD OSes.
902.
by biot 12y ago
I'm guessing this is the first DEA failure: "in 1985 ... the Drug Enforcement Administration declared MDMA a Schedule I drug — a drug with a high potential for abuse and no medical use. A Schedule I designation made MDMA
903.
by biot 12y ago
Summary: someone who is working on a product to search by speech and images issues a press release predicting that people will soon have half their searches being speech and images.
904.
by biot 12y ago
Without any jail time, what's the disincentive? A smart scheme would have a bunch of funds paid out to numerous early, repeat investors, where each one is secretly the ponzi creator but is made to look like a normal investor. Meanwhile
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by biot 12y ago
The mentions of obesity and diabetes are written as direct causal relationships. To rearrange their quote without changing the meaning: "because low-calorie sweeteners do not have an effect on appetite, blood glucose levels or w
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by biot 12y ago
I like how all the people who benefit from artificial sweeteners are refuting something which the study doesn't claim. For example: "The International Sweeteners Association (ISA) says it strongly refutes the claims made in
907.
by biot 12y ago
If I'm understanding the intent correctly, it sounds like the home page could use something like this: "Does your company release open source projects? Would you like to improve how you interact with the open source communi
908.
by biot 12y ago
As Theo de Raadt so eloquently said: "x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running yo
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MIT researchers develop a technique to cure a broad range of viruses (2011)(ll.mit.edu)
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910.
by biot 12y ago
Growth is number of people per unit time. Rate of growth is number of people per unit time squared. Just as with speed vs. acceleration, there certainly is a distinction.
911.
by biot 12y ago
Actual non-Libya URL: http://business.financialpost.com/2014/09/07/canadian-startu...
912.
by biot 12y ago
If you take this analysis one step further, one could argue that a company which fails to sell profitably before its death is not a company at all; it's a hobby or charity, redirecting invested time and money to its customers.
913.
by biot 12y ago
Businesses simply build fees into their product/service cost. That it's 3% or 1.9% or whatever rate they can negotiate is largely irrelevant except for those businesses which focus entirely on price for commodities which are fungi
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by biot 12y ago
Another thing that's bitten me from time to time is what might be called FocusNabbing: where you're entering a password into one site and something else steals the focus, so now you're potentially typing part of your credenti
915.
by biot 12y ago
They're going to pivot and introduce a suite of new services which use the same underlying engine to share pictures across a variety of social media sites: Googpic: share on Google+ Facepic: share on Facebook Instapic: share on
916.
by biot 12y ago
To paraphrase: Why can't we just let surgeons state the degree of medical training they have and explain how often they get training and who does the training etc? Then let people decide who they want to have surgery from. No gambling
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by biot 12y ago
> A great designer can change the UI elements on a Photoshop > document in about an hour. If you had an artist paint the UI mockup on canvas, it would take longer and cost even more! My point is why is Photoshop still used a
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by biot 12y ago
> That's not quite what a 4th dimension is like. Of course not. You'll notice that I questioned how truly 4D the game was and said the game appears to have fixed sets of 4D positions (ie: not a continuous range). I also
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by biot 12y ago
This is a very interesting way of explaining the 4th dimension by relating it to the difference between the 2nd and 3rd dimensions. However, I think what would really solidify my understanding is to see the 4D level editor. I'm not sur
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by biot 12y ago
How do you judge whether or not what's holding you back is your inability to move on to a different, less fantastically tedious, idea?
921.
by biot 12y ago
It's not your use of the word "ambivalent"; it's your phrase: > but it comes at a cost of stomping on Native American rights If the Kennewick man is not an ancestor of the Native American people, then the Nativ
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by biot 12y ago
I've wanted a replacement for CoreForce for quite some time: http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=Wiki&actio... It was a piece of security software modeled after OpenBSD's pf firewall which let yo
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by biot 12y ago
The level of snark and juvenile responses in this thread is amazing. Technically, all Ballmer had to write was "I resign my board position effective immediately" and Nadella could have responded with "Acknowledged". But
924.
by biot 12y ago
Amazon doesn't get their books by having employees drive to Barnes & Noble stores to purchase books at retail prices. Amazon buys from the same distributors/publishers that B&N uses. If B&N goes out of business because
925.
by biot 12y ago
There are some great comments from the last time this was submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938348
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by biot 12y ago
This isn't a particularly new twist. The idea of our universe coming from a black hole has been around for quite some time, as this 1998 article discusses: http://martinelli.org/rexpansion/bhole.htm "if w
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by biot 12y ago
If you want information density, check out Bunnie's blog: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?tag=novena
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by biot 12y ago
> How much has doing the startup cost you. If you're > bootstrapped you've probably both put personal funds in as > well as a salary opportunity costs. Thats your base. This is irrelevant. If you've blown
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by biot 12y ago
Since we're going with car analogies, it's more like a company leases a fleet of vehicles where each vehicle can be driven up to 20,000 km/year for the price negotiated. However, the cars don't have odometers to keep tra
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by biot 12y ago
Perhaps business-hostile isn't the best phrase, but their terms let Gandi stick their nose in areas which normally would be civil matters between a domain holder and a third party. For example, Gandi reserves the right to terminate you

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