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by edj 14y ago
An occasional, recreational shooter aught to be able to recognize 9mm cartridges fairly easily. Here are a couple of lineups comparing 9mm with other pistol cartridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CartridgeComparison.jpg https://e
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by edj 14y ago
Good point. I didn't see that. When you throw in Canada's tar sands, it's a lot less surprising that North America could be a net exporter in <20 years.
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by edj 14y ago
As other commenters have pointed out, the US only overtakes SA for a few years before falling behind again: "By around 2020, the United States is projected to become the largest global oil producer (overtaking Saudi Arabia until the mid-202
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Supreme Court of Canada Voids Viagra Patent for Insufficient Disclosure(michaelgeist.ca)
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by edj 14y ago
The only website he lists that seems irreplaceable to me is Wikipedia. Everything from source discovery, to unearthing basic facts, to hypertextual excursions through human knowledge is so much easier and more fruitful now, it's hard to ima
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by edj 14y ago
So true. The dilemma is similar in the iBookstore, but over there iBooks Author is at least partly to blame. What appears to be a book cover (called a "title page" in iBA) actually appears full-size on an iPad only for a few seconds when a
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by edj 14y ago
This sounds great! It's exactly how I'd like to enter this sort of data – once a day, using a template, with automatic tracking. I've signed up and I'm beginning to build my template. One question, though: will I be able to export my data?
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by edj 14y ago
Has anyone here bought a twitter username? I imagine it wouldn't be so different from buying a domain name. Probably an escrow service would be a good idea. Other than that it seems like it would just be a matter of reaching a meeting of th
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by edj 14y ago
consumers are entitled to form views of the company based on their actions. And arguably not just entitled to form views, but morally obligated to do so. In a mostly unregulated industry (like classified ads), the court of public opinion
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by edj 14y ago
A corporation is a legal device, but is, of course, made up of individuals. To judge a company is to judge individuals working in concert. From the OED: "company ... 2 A number of individuals assembled or associated together; a body of peop
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by edj 14y ago
> Guys, we're all programmers, or designers, or both. I'm quite certain HN participant aren't all programmers or designers. They're not all guys, either.
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by edj 14y ago
>The internet is for marketing yourself, not expressing yourself. I'm just old enough to remember when the exact opposite was trued. Terribly saddening to see how that's changed.
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How Big Music Threatened Startups and Killed Innovation (torrentfreak.com)
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by edj 14y ago
In what way do multiple labels make IMAP move weird? Do labels get transformed into folders? And then you end with duplicate emails in multiple folders? Or something else?
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by edj 14y ago
Good point. I've been on Gmail so long I forget that spam isn't a solved problem everywhere.
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Ask HN: Gmail migration?
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Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World(wired.com)
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by edj 14y ago
They're going to shut it down towards the end of the year, refurbish it, and boost the energy level significantly. http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR...
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by edj 14y ago
A peacock's plumage is rather arbitrary and weird, as well. But for whatever reason, vibrant plumage worked to attract the attention of peahens, so it was selected for. I've heard it argued that the existence of decorative traits indicates
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by edj 14y ago
There's another school of thought that attributes the variety of hair, skin, and eye color in Europe to sexual selection rather than the brightness of the sun. In brief, Europe during the last glacial period offered very little food for wom
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Announcing “How to Make a Book with iBooks Author”(inkslingerindustries.com)
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Show HN: my iBooks Author design and publishing guide
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by edj 14y ago
Don't know about tarnishing, but for cleaning they most likely use water. From an article on solar thermal plants in the Middle East [1]: But harsh desert conditions in parts of the MENA region generate large amounts of airborne dust which
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by edj 14y ago
> You don't understand the IPO process. > Normally, it is a company with more opportunity than capital. Although this was of course the original rational for IPOs, this looks more and more like a historical footnote these days. No
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by edj 14y ago
I don't think this is illegal, but many (most?) public school districts forbid their teachers from doing this. In private schools, on the other hand, the practice is common. My 9th grade math teacher taught an after school SAT prep class, f
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A Quick Primer on the Digital Book Price-fixing Debacle of 2012 (inkslingerindustries.com)
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by edj 14y ago
As a little bit of an aside, does anyone else find it infuriating when articles like this are thick with links that don't lead to the destinations you'd expect? For example, about halfway through this article there's mention of a prize-winn
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by edj 15y ago
I don't dispute your experience; I can only speak from mine. I had T-Mobile from around 2003 or 2004 to August 2010. Every time I got a new phone (always subsidized with a new contract) I called immediately to ask them to unlock it so I cou
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by edj 15y ago
It's strict in comparison to other carriers. T-Mobile, for example, has long had a policy of unlocking phones after the first 90 days of the two year contract. It's not exactly common sense either. If you unlock your phone, you could theore
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by edj 15y ago
I think the parent was talking about the US, where liability depends on how fast you report the theft of your card or notice fraudulent transactions in your statement. If you don't catch these quick enough then your liability is unlimited.

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