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Human Genome Project vs F35 Project (image)(fuckinglovescience.tumblr.com)
2 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
Mass surveillance of individuals by governments in many developed countries is already done via the mobile phone system, and increasingly even by private companies via smartphones. That cat has been out of the bag for a long time. Drones
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by drucken 14y ago
Most people just miss the common C++ idioms that solve many of the exception issues in very elegant ways (and give a lot of benefits at the same time). ... and the remaining people realise that use of exceptions in C++, 1. almost always c
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by drucken 14y ago
being a foreigner within it despite holding citizenship Wait... are you one of those exceeedingly rare Japanese citizens who have no Japanese blood ancestry or are you just foreign-born Japanese? And I do agree with you. Japan is a leadin
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by drucken 14y ago
Did they plug the ears/control for hearing of the test subjects too? By hearing alone I can sense almost any human or sufficiently strong electrical presence, especially indoors.
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by drucken 14y ago
Makes a good, if expensive, toilet and commute reader.
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by drucken 14y ago
No other developed nation has a firearms death rate (let alone crime rate) in the top 10 of all countries where reliable data is available! [1] Even Switzerland, who have half the guns per capita of the US (the highest in the world), have l
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by drucken 14y ago
It sounds more like time-overlap than "time-compression". So, your future self is your current self. Anything you do right now is your future.
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by drucken 14y ago
It is quite obvious when someone is trying to record you with a mobile phone or normal camera as well as it just being plain inconvenient. Something like Google Glass's eye-level form factor is made to be as convenient, discrete and availab
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by drucken 14y ago
Surely the effect of importing technology into all workplaces and globalization will result in the remaining jobs being precisely the ones that are the most difficult to measure in-progress and for whom just the measurement itself risks int
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by drucken 14y ago
Overreacting, shallow, misleading and bait-link article. Overreacting: - the most up-to-date technologies for anti-credit card fraud, namely variants of smart card/EMV, are already available and widely used by all the large credit card prov
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The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures(bbc.co.uk)
282 points by drucken 14y ago|185 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
The basis of this article is a May 2012 IMF Working Paper called "Quantifying Structural Subsidy Values for Systematically Important Financial Institutions" ( http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12128.pdf ). The subsidy discusse
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by drucken 14y ago
... Because it is in the best (short and mid-term) interests of a debt-laden and debt-fuelled state to support those entities which can maximize further debt creation. Banks do not exist in isolation. You could go as far as to say the probl
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by drucken 14y ago
Borderline. It is derived from data, the data is suggestive, and given the number of comments from HN regulars, interesting enough. It could even lead to some "hacking"! Anyway, its a Friday in most of the world by now... :)
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by drucken 14y ago
Awesome! But did you ever found out why and what came of his "bouquet of flowers" in the original meeting? :)
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by drucken 14y ago
Thanks for the info! And ouch, regarding USB 3.0 SDHC card readers... Separately, did you consider trying other stitching software, like PTGui Pro - or have done for smaller shoots? It seems, at least in the past, that PTGui used to be an o
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by drucken 14y ago
According to a tower clock I found, this picture was taken at 1:40. A tower clock I found shows approx. 09h10. http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=161.5165&#3...
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by drucken 14y ago
Very interesting! Sounds like a monumental effort! Though if it was only the stitching that took the vast majority of time and effort, no doubt you or others should be able to break this record yet again in time as software progresses? How
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by drucken 14y ago
There's a surprising lack of people and candid shots compared to the last 10,000-shot panaroma by 360 Cities several years ago! I assume that has to do with the timing of the shots. These seem to have been taken very early in the morning an
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Could a new phonetic alphabet promote world peace?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|1 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
Why is something as basic as the description and distribution of public law not treated the same across all US states? Surely, this is one area where Federal statute must apply... I mean I've heard of "jurisdictional arbitrage" but even for
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by drucken 14y ago
The article's basis of the comparison for building an entire business seems to be very shallow. Surely other considerations are more important, such as, - encapsulation/domain partitioning - messaging - libraries and library maturity - nati
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by drucken 14y ago
Seven years earlier, Steve Jobs, JavaOne Keynote 2000: "We want to bring Java back to the desktop in a really big way. I am here today to personally tell you we are working hard to make Mac the best Java delivery vehicle on the planet. The
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City in Virginia Becomes First to Pass Anti-Drone Legislation (usnews.com)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
Easy way to remember, something bodybuilders know intimately: for 1g, Carbs = 4 calories Protein = 4 calories Fat = 9 calories Alcohol = 7 calories.
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Google files first patent infringement suit in company history(fosspatents.com)
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Google 'in talks to cut funding to illegal piracy sites'(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
Finland, same country where the police raided a 9-year old's home at 8am to confiscate her Winnie the Pooh laptop. One wonders if Finland even has anything like a prosecution service authority that decides whether the cost and public intere
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by drucken 14y ago
Section 2.B.1: SELF-PROTECTED ENTITIES- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a self-protected entity may, for cybersecurity purposes-- (i) use cybersecurity systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information to protect the righ

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