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by bkmartin 12y ago
This is a really great study. I would be equally thrilled if someone did something similar in the United States to see how our poor and working poor make ends meet so that we can stop making crap up in our own prejudiced and biased minds.
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by bkmartin 12y ago
But to be fair... babies and their oil are naturally occurring organic substances.
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Hmmm, that's interesting. I got downvoted for saying that violent acts on abortion clinics are evil and go against a religious principal? Would the downvoter care to actually engage in a conversation about why they thought I an deeme
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Violent acts against those who disagree with you is not a Christian principal and goes directly against the teaching of our faith. Period. Anyone who supports or performs acts of violence as you are referencing are sinning and blaspheming
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by bkmartin 12y ago
But people do stupid things every day. Smoking is stupid, binge drinking is stupid, not wearing your seat belt is stupid... all have consequences. The point still remains, it is a choice people make to not follow the rules that causes mos
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Me too. I was like, who the heck is that? And then I searched and found them... and I'm like... I don't think I've ever even heard of any of their properties before. Would love some insight into who is visiting their stuff
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FIDO 1.0 Specification Complete – Strong Authentication(fidoalliance.org)
2 points by bkmartin 12y ago|0 comments
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Is there a system that favors the people?
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by bkmartin 12y ago
I thought about the LittleBits last year, but they weren't available at the time (sold out I think). So then I thought about them again this year but he is talking about a Robot that can do stuff, even though LittleBits would be a goo
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Ask HN: Robotics for a 5+ year old?
8 points by bkmartin 12y ago|7 comments
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by bkmartin 12y ago
I noticed this as well, glad you pointed it out. *as soon as I posted the the refreshed page had all the downvotes back to normal.
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Lets think about this.... if they can spend maybe $10 million to be able to say to their customers... "We had a breach but your personal data was encrypted with the latest technology and is safe" vs "We had a data breach and
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by bkmartin 12y ago
I find it hard to believe that a company line JP Morgan, the largest bank in the US can't afford to put enough computing power to reduce this overhead..... at $6 billion in profit in just the 2nd quarter alone I think they could afford
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by bkmartin 12y ago
How soon until ALL database fields that contain personal information are encrypted so that if a hacker gains access to the data it is useless without the programs to actually access it? Why aren't we encrypting addresses, and SSN, and
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by bkmartin 12y ago
This is a problem of zero rain, not water consumption. These people are living out in an area where there is no municipal water hookup. If you have never lived in a rural area with no municipal water, or never lived on a farm, or never be
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by bkmartin 12y ago
We are already using Trello to track our projects, but this process is going to make things even easier. This will work great for my small team of just a handful of developers, plus my own solo side projects. If you use something like this
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Who said technological improvements to bats are out of bounds? Baseball bats have been going through all kinds of improvements for decades, especially in the aluminum market. Amatuer sports leagues typically force a certain length to weig
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by bkmartin 12y ago
This will help in soooo many ways. This will reduce the following dangers: 1)broken and splintered bat shards 2)bats flying out of a hitter's hand and endangering fans, player, and coaches 3)potential to reduce hammett bone injuries.
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Wait wait... how old are you? This is a port of the ground breaking game Sim City. Look it up, you'll be pleasantly surprised :D
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by bkmartin 12y ago
I have always wondered this myself. I find it more difficult to stay focused on a project that is not well defined, but for ones that are well defined and give a clear picture of the expected end result I can get into the flow for hours as
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by bkmartin 12y ago
I see you've been downvoted.. thankfully. If you would watch that video, which I reluctantly did... because I want to make sure that I'm speaking from the right position, then you would see that in the beginning of that there wer
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Is it? Which part of Palestine? Gaza or the West Bank? I guess that maybe it is true, since Bin Laden is dead and Netanyahu is alive...you got me there... Ukrainian kids terrorized by US/EU? Really? What are you talking about? Ev
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Where can you find .25 acre of land in a development for $5000? Locally for me, in a more rural part of Pennsylvania it's like $20,000 to $40,000 for a .25 acre parcel.
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Isn't the "lack of culture" actually the "culture" of rural living? What does that even mean, lack of culture? There's lots of culture in rural living, its just not the same as city or urban or whatever you w
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by bkmartin 12y ago
There are A LOT of assumptions in this argument. One assumption is that spending 1 trillion dollars over the last 13 years on heart attack prevention and treatment would have made a significant difference in the number of lives saved. How
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by bkmartin 12y ago
They didn't keep you from installing another browser. An ultimately the only thing that came of that was that they had to let you uninstall the browser. It still comes on all new PCs in the US.
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by bkmartin 12y ago
So how exactly is this illegal? It's Google's search, they can put up any results they want. If people aren't getting the results they want then they can use Bing or Yahoo and get what they want. Since when is promoting yo
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by bkmartin 12y ago
You mention the Zipcar garage. Why doesn't the city build a couple of these garages? Why don't they offer an affordable solution in that respect? What if they got rid of on street parking all together and created more parking g
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Why "should" SF be auctioning off these spots? To maximize revenue? Is that why public services exist? Are they doing a larger disservice to the people of SF by NOT auctioning them off, thus raising the price to park, over havi
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by bkmartin 12y ago
Its about anecdotal vs empirical evidence. And lets face it, all these miracle foods are being promoted (in the general health food market) as some saving grace to health. And they are doing it claiming to be, basically, a magic pill. Ju

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