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by chockablock 11y ago
Isn't the relevant question whether there are still pot-related SWAT raids in WA, CO, etc?
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by chockablock 11y ago
It could be argued that not building cars that look "aggressive" is a reflection of their culture of safety. In my view, driving on public roadways should be maximally safe (and thus deeply boring); if you want to treat driving as
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by chockablock 11y ago
The article details examples of 'information asymmetry' between employees and execs, at the same point in time. According to the article: -June 30: outside firm values common stock at $0.88 -'Late July': Board knows they
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by chockablock 11y ago
(OT) if you still have your archives you can get Gmail to ingest it (over POP), for retroactive 'cloudiness'. My Gmail archive goes back many years before there was a Gmail.
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by chockablock 11y ago
What about smoked fish?
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by chockablock 11y ago
I'm not choosing between a Rolex and a smartwatch; I'm choosing between a smartwatch and nothing.
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by chockablock 11y ago
'populace' not 'populous'
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by chockablock 11y ago
Much of the article (and Hosh's comments) resonated strongly with me. I fall into the category that had quite a bit of therapy before making real progress on my procrastination. In my case, the key to the puzzle has been cultivating co
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by chockablock 11y ago
Here's a nice, approachable treatment of some of the ways psych studies can go wrong; it also offers concrete suggestions for fixes: Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn "False-Positive Psychology: Undisclose
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by chockablock 11y ago
The previous HN discussion has some nice links to published articles on the tech, and good discussion about the advantages of their approach over traditional layer-based stereolithography (including e.g. Form Labs). https://news.
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by chockablock 11y ago
Here is the free full-text (provided by Nature as an in-browser read-only version): http://rdcu.be/dCSH
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by chockablock 11y ago
Saying the images are 'saved' is not the same thing as saying that they were not improperly accessed. That's what I'm wondering about (I phrased my initial comment poorly).
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by chockablock 11y ago
This article should replace the current article link (to cvsphoto.com)
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by chockablock 11y ago
Was access to stored photos also compromised? The linked message from CVS doesn't say one way or the other.
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by chockablock 11y ago
>This is Ebola we're talking about. It wasn't "if" it was "when" Before 2014, there had been no outbreaks that had infected more than a few hundred people. ( www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks&
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by chockablock 11y ago
How many other small bets did NewLink place on promising technologies coming out of academic labs, and how many of them panned out? Put another way, was 200k a fair market rate for the license at the time they paid it, or do you have reason
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by chockablock 11y ago
I don't read teddyh as saying that BI would lead to a boon in engineering research in particular. Rather, the example of the OP suggests that monetary incentives and short-term performance monitoring are not the only way (or even a goo
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by chockablock 11y ago
One 'side' is a non-anonymous first-person account from one of the major parties in the described event. The other 'side' is a post from Redditor 'dickbutt_md', who claims to have called up "a friend"
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by chockablock 11y ago
Sorry that can't be true. Even my lowly MileagePlus Explorer card allows me to book an award seat on any flight with availability.
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by chockablock 11y ago
UberPool in SF is currently $7 each way within city limits and my wife takes it to/from work frequently. Compared to us buying a second car, this is incredibly cost-effective, and would be worth it at 3x the price. (Monthly cost of own
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by chockablock 11y ago
This article in Haaretz has a lot more information, including pricing and details about how rides are set up in advance, typically the night before. "Google's Waze to launch worldwide carpooling pilot in Israel" http:/&
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by chockablock 11y ago
Yep--it seems more like a smartphone-enabled extension of the 'casual carpool' concept ( http://sfcasualcarpool.com/ ) [Edit: except you can set up rides the night before; see Haaretz link in my other comment.]
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by chockablock 11y ago
Interestingly, the 'stable spoon' developed by Lift Labs (now part of Google X) for folks with Parkinson's and essential tremor was inspired by work on this same problem. Source: http://engineering.berkeley.edu&#x2
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by chockablock 11y ago
Great quote from a resident (in a press release linked from the OP): “Our family has lived in Goshen for almost 30 years. Over that time during town meeting, we’ve debated the costs of a fire truck, an ambulance, several highway trucks and
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by chockablock 11y ago
Even 1mb symmetric would still be considered good in many rural areas. As the article notes, many of these folks are still on dialup.
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by chockablock 11y ago
Yes, 'used' is a euphemism for purpose-bred and then experimented on and then killed. I am not trying to sugar-coat this by mentioning the efforts made to minimize the suffering of the animals done as part of this process. It&#x27
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by chockablock 11y ago
Note that Demis Hassabis of DeepMind/Google is a coauthor on the linked study, they are actively working on integrating insights from neuroscience into their AI systems.
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by chockablock 11y ago
For context, this particular study used a total of 4 rats. The rats used in an experiment like the linked one (done in the UK) would have undergone a surgery with full anesthesia and sterile technique, with prescription pain meds provided
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by chockablock 11y ago
I agree that the (now-flagged) post calling me out on my snark was fair, I would not have used that tone in real life.
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by chockablock 11y ago
> Why not allow 12 year olds to marry as a consititutional right? Children are not considered capable of consent. > Why not allow brothers and sisters to marry? Claimed societal interest in preventing harm to offspring born from inbre

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