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by elipsey 9y ago
anyone else here sell their gpu? i couldn't resist...
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by elipsey 9y ago
bug report: i broke it by making a folder on the desktop, opening the folder, and putting the folder in itself. now it's crashed and won't reload. is there a work around for my workflow?
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by elipsey 9y ago
They have.[1][2] This has substantially contributed to increased demand for imported heroin and synthetic opiods which are substitutable for perscription pain killers to prevent withdrawal.[3] [1] Former Health Minister of Guyana, Dr. Noel
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Net neutrality proceeding's integrity threatened by DDoS, senators say(arstechnica.com)
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by elipsey 9y ago
Verizon denied my activation of used phones a couple of times due to a blacklisted IMEI, so apparently they (at least used to) keep an internal blacklist also.
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by elipsey 9y ago
I think complaints about wealth distribition are substantially about enfranchisement and regulatory capture. Material well being is important, but so is autonomy. If being disenfranchised and not able to control our labor or our fate is an
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by elipsey 9y ago
Why not an HDMI monitor with speakers? Nice and dumb...
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Great review, thanks for posting this. To anyone considering reading the book I would recommend this article instead. I quit Black Swan part way through because, like the talk quoted above, it was long on invective, but seemed short on veri
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by elipsey 9y ago
>> just because you're taking a drug as directed doesn't mean you're not abusing it. Yes. I put "abuse" in scare quotes, because I think it's definition should be better aligned with buisiness incentives,
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by elipsey 9y ago
Article argues that patent evergreening necessitated dishonest marketing and resulted in a "created market" type of strategy. The patent for OxyContin was predicated on the claim that each dose lasted longer than older poducts. Wh
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by elipsey 9y ago
Published May 5, 2016. Article argues that OxyContin caused strong withdrawal symptoms when used as directed. Important, imo, because at a societal level we substantially blame addiction on "drug abuse" which is not always an adeq
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by elipsey 9y ago
>> a better way to explain it would be to specify nonorganic Exactly. Also, it turns out flammable and inflammable mean the same thing -- I sure learned that one the hard way!
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by elipsey 9y ago
My CS instructor once asked everyone in the class to "raise you hand if you still use an email client." My hand was the only one that went up, and a couple of people laughed and said "really?" I think that was almost 10
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by elipsey 9y ago
> If a defense attorney did something similar, Williams said, “I guarantee you this DA would try to prosecute that defense attorney.” Who watches the watchers? We know now that we need to look for something like a notary stamp and judge
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by elipsey 10y ago
Super, we can add "appropriate dress" to our "citizen scores." No more lime green spandex tube tops at the grocery store, or your credit rating will go down.
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by elipsey 10y ago
Is it acceptable to shoot your neighbor's property if you believe it is being used to create an illegal nuisance? Does this rule generalize well? For example: --my neighbor's motorcycle clearly has an illegal muffler, which annoys
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by elipsey 10y ago
Hi, would someone mind commenting which model of laptop is mentioned behind the paywall? thanks.
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by elipsey 10y ago
This looks really cool, can't wait to dig in. Is it legit to redistribute that victim VM Windows 7 image?
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by elipsey 10y ago
I think his point is that price economics would allow you to at least have _some_ water if you wanted it bad enough to pay more. EDIT: Perhaps more importantly, dynamic priceing could be more efficient than a regime in which you can use hug
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by elipsey 10y ago
An internet access device would require a "filter to block out obscene material, child pornography, images used for sexual cyber harassment, or sites used for human trafficking." These criteria are not decidable by humans.
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by elipsey 10y ago
You said "we have is a choice between fewer American manufacturing jobs (automation) or no American manufacturing jobs (outsourcing). People don't want to hear that, but those are the alternatives." Why is it impossible to pa
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by elipsey 10y ago
20 times as much as who? As far as I can figure out, there is a minimum wage in China, for example, which is between $2 and $3 per hour. So who works for 36 cents hour? EDIT: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-hourly-
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by elipsey 10y ago
Article include hilarious hydrology misquote of the day: "vapid transpiration".
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by elipsey 10y ago
I didn't mean to evaluate any particular claim, only to use my modest powers of reading comprehension to helpfully summarize the article :)
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Aetna hoped to forego smaller profits from these exchanges to access larger profits with the acquisition of Humana. By withdrawing from those markets where Humana was competing with Aetna, Aetna could then claim that the merger would not re
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by elipsey 10y ago
I haven't seen these issues on a W10 machine yet, but I haven't used it much or on many machines. Maybe I haven't tried the right version/patch level. FWIW I'm writing this on: W10 Pro x64 Version 10.0.14393. --No E
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by elipsey 10y ago
The vendor was notified three weeks before this public disclosure. Is this reasonable? How should a timeline for public disclosure be determined?
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by elipsey 10y ago
Zoom out one meta level: Show HN: Stop the Stop-the-Bullshit. A Fake Fake News Detector Detector. Wait, but then we would need Stop the Stop the Stop-the-Bullshit.... um... but what if?!!
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by elipsey 10y ago
I'm really grateful that octave exists and that folks let me use it for free. But the part about "Drop-in compatible with many Matlab scripts" has been kind of dicey for me. Whenever I try to run code developed with matlab us
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Great, now I can burn through my data cap in 8.42 seconds

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