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Space Sex Can Cause Cancer and Alzheimer’s(ibtimes.co.uk)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
Renting does not have to involve a lease, as in being time-limited. Renting can be open-ended. The key differentiating characteristic of renting vs buying is that in renting ownership of the expected good has not changed or has not fully tr
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by drucken 14y ago
Not sure where you live, but legally in the EU it is even worse, though thankfully orders of magnitude smaller scale than the US at this time. The EU directive "on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions" (Directive 98/44/EC), i
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by drucken 14y ago
While I agree with you, note there is already flagrant "abuse" of this on HN by the posting of newspaper links with paywalls, in particular the New York Times.
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Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water (Perforene)(uk.reuters.com)
23 points by drucken 14y ago|5 comments
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What Japanese history lessons leave out(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
Nothing directly, Bottom of page: University of Reddit is not in any way affiliated with Reddit or Conde Nast. FAQ: Are you affiliated with reddit? The short answer is "not yet". However, we are working on it.
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by drucken 14y ago
It is meant to be a scientific study. What's the use of an unsubstantiated claim? In fact, its been proven to be highly counterproductive (at least in other fields) as others go on to build works and further claims around it, only to later
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Neanderthal large eyes 'caused their demise'(bbc.co.uk)
21 points by drucken 14y ago|25 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
"Deceased respondents no longer pose a risk," the letter said. - classic! Yes, science stops when the scientist is dead, says the US government ...
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by drucken 14y ago
Use a password manager. You never have to think about what a password looks like again. Keepass and KeepassX are a very popular ones. There is also PasswordSafe by Schneier. Unlike LastPass and many other password managers, they are fully o
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by drucken 14y ago
1. For broad consumer uptake, authentication methods better than a password, or indeed classical 2-factor authentication, needs to be "fire-and-forget". That is, users set it up at most once and then it works almost transparently in most si
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by drucken 14y ago
Interestingly, on Yubikey NEO's web page: Currently sold out. We expect new orders to ship in 7 weeks.
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by drucken 14y ago
I'm not sure what this has to do with HN, though, so I flagged it. Sorry, Bill! :| HN Guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag
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by drucken 14y ago
we're making a harmless part of videogame history a political and social justice issue Who's "we"? Also, I know how the three year old feels, i.e. how sad I am when I have to play role playing games or multiplayer games as male!
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by drucken 14y ago
Yes, a HUGE assumption for access to the chess forums of a chess server... Indeed, nowhere does it say it is a general CAPTHCA solution.
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by drucken 14y ago
It is not HTML5 - I am using a browser that does not support HTML5.
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by drucken 14y ago
Did you get a screenshot of it?
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by drucken 14y ago
Given how little is known of Musk and Tesla in general, this continual public airing must be one of his cheapest sources of marketing...
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by drucken 14y ago
Nothing else offered Codd's relational model of: 0. simple user commands 1. data independence (from hardware and software implementation) 2. automatic navigation (instead of single record access). The rest was competitive history with the g
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by drucken 14y ago
How does agreeing with a random third-party about how you can use your own product, and worse, paying them for the mere unproven possibility that they own parts of your product, count as "won"? In any other situation, history would classi
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by drucken 14y ago
The preoccupation with ownership is a bit awkward for me as European. Oddly enough, as a European (EU), you enjoy far more protections for ownership of products, including digital and reselling DRM-limited products, than any North America
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by drucken 14y ago
Canada has some interesting towns. I wonder if a Comic Sans rebranding would do anything for "Swastika, Ontario" - the sort of naming equivalent for radioactivity - for example! :)
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by drucken 14y ago
"Fashions" like these are disasterous. Many of those students do not realise that a straight mathematics degree has been proven for many decades to be far more valuable, flexible in a larger variety of careers, and even significantly more e
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by drucken 14y ago
It would have been an issue for the acquirer before or during acquisition, if it were present at the time, of course. Some, perhaps many, investors into startups also insist on liability insurance. But the founders of Heroku have no more li
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by drucken 14y ago
More information about why this is not likely, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5342294 Specifically, The European Parliament (unlike most national parliaments within Europe) can't actually draft legislation by itself. That's reserve
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America's Power Grid is Like an Old Car - Less Reliable, More Expensive(pddnet.com)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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Here's why porn could be banned in the EU, but probably won't be(wired.co.uk)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
Vmware Workstation was first released in 1999. It never used to require hardware virtualization support until recently. Also, 4GB is plenty for Windows XP. Perhaps you have not used it for so long now that you've forgotten, but it only ev
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by drucken 14y ago
Your second sentence is a bit strange in my experience, unless you're referring to yourself now living in the US. I have never seen a white egg in a UK supermarket, stall market or cornershop. They are always brown/pink.

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