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by brfox 16y ago
http://www.scribd.com/documents/8545174/Whys-Poignant-Guide-...
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by brfox 16y ago
Here it is for Office 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4d9...
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by brfox 16y ago
The download is really slow right now, does anyone have an alternate download location?
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by brfox 17y ago
This dust removal GIMP tool seems nice, too: http://registry.gimp.org/node/13289 Does anyone have experience with it or something better to suggest?
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by brfox 17y ago
Lens flare is kind of nice sometimes. I like how CG movies add it in to make it look more realistic.
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by brfox 17y ago
Notice how the labels never overlap? This includes the highway labels. I bet they just randomly start placing labels and once you have a few of them on the map, then there is no way to have the same labels all the time... especially if th
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by brfox 17y ago
Yes, the weather is terrible, stay away. (that's the story we like to tell people in order to keep it from growing too much).
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Lawsuit against "Discovery Math" in Seattle Schools(cliffmass.blogspot.com)
30 points by brfox 17y ago|54 comments
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by brfox 17y ago
Not really for a procedure, but for more complicated, long-term disease: multiple sclerosis, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, etc. Knowing your genome will likely allow you to predict how you might respond to certain therapies.
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by brfox 17y ago
It already only costs $4000 for a full genome. (Complete Genomics)
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by brfox 17y ago
No biomedical predictions yet... 1. Everyone will have their full genome sequenced if they need some sort of medical treatment. 2. Healthcare will start to become cheaper due to personalized medicine and more data based decision-making. 3.
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by brfox 17y ago
The private insurance industry, as currently constituted, would collapse if the government allowed real competition. The companies offer no real value and so instead must create a regulatory system that virtually mandates their existence a
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by brfox 17y ago
I agree that dupes can be annoying, but even after being on HN for a fairly long time (almost 2 years) and visiting a little too often, this is the first time I have seen this piece of writing and I found it very worthwhile. For some odd r
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by brfox 17y ago
Paying someone a minimal amount to write about something for which they have no in-depth knowledge (i.e. they only scraped it from other online sources) is probably not much different from just having an algorithm write an article. In fact
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by brfox 17y ago
Agreed! Most of my real ah-ha insights came after struggling for many hours of doing physics problem sets with a small group of classmates. I think that this is one of the most difficult-to-recreate parts of college.
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by brfox 17y ago
Tumors that you can find don't kill people with cancer, its the millions of metastases all over the body (or a specific organ) which actually cause cancer to be deadly. There are a fair number of drugs which "treat tumors" (i.e. shrink tumo
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by brfox 17y ago
Also, many of those people were not inventors. Creative pioneers maybe, but not really inventors.
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by brfox 17y ago
Clearly labeled sponsored links (text ads) at the bottom of a few heavily used pages.
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by brfox 17y ago
People reuse usernames and passwords, so even though it is painless, now they will have a database of usernames and passwords which can probably be used in a lot of places. Thus, I only sign up for new things rarely and only for things in
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by brfox 17y ago
Now we just need a way to map the connections of an existing brain.
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by brfox 17y ago
Apple also decided to make a linux distro which happens to be very good. If it wasn't for OSX, then Ubuntu would be far more popular than it is today. The author is thinking that perhaps Chrome OS will do more of the same thing (take away
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by brfox 17y ago
The linux distro that came with my Asus EEE PC was very bad and was worse than Win XP in many ways - especially for a general user. I think that might have something to do with why linux is not seen on many netbooks. (I switched to ubuntu
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by brfox 17y ago
Maybe something like this could be used as an anonymizing web browsing service as well. Just load web pages from what other uses have already loaded instead of leaving tracks on the original server.
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by brfox 17y ago
Does this mean Windows is the only approved OS?
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by brfox 17y ago
wow, I didn't know about the huge solar storm of 1859: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-sto...
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by brfox 17y ago
Furthermore, I think the kindle resolution is like 2x more dpi than a traditional lcd screen (and also this new screen) which is one of the reasons it is so pleasing to read. It sounds like this screen just turns off the backlight and swit
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by brfox 17y ago
It looks exactly like an Asus eee PC. Is this some sort of retrofit or something?
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by brfox 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia
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by brfox 17y ago
Just because they wrote a patent application to scan books this way does not mean they actually do it this way.
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by brfox 17y ago
In my head, a survey has more than one question, while a single question is a poll. So, the name of the site made it seem like you'd be competing with surveymonkey, which would be a good thing.

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