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by ern 13y ago
>Meh, it's hard to undo heavy metal poisoning. You can lift the embargo against the rice with no permanent harm done. I think I made the logical choice at the time, based on the info available, by stopping rice. For my wife, the i
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by ern 13y ago
The original story previously made the front page of HN at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5529202 I put a (stupidly unnecessary it seems) moratorium on my children eating rice because of this scare story, others may
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Study of lead levels in rice under scrutiny(m.bbc.co.uk)
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by ern 13y ago
Since I don't know enough about Russia, I can't dismiss this report as sensationalist, but something tells me it is. Perhaps someone with more knowledge can tell us if Russian law requires intent to prove "high treason"?
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The tangled web of self-tying knots (2007)(pnas.org)
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Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string(pnas.org)
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by ern 13y ago
Somebody please pack this all together and sell it for $50. This is how Apple do business. Sell hardware and software together. It's a very cool project for the technically savvy, but if you sell it to consumers, you'd have to provide sup
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Has there been an influx of Indian users on Quora?(quora.com)
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Facebook to take action against rape jokes, gender hate speech(wired.co.uk)
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Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication: 5 Reasons To Avoid(informationweek.com)
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SQL Server: Inner Join vs. Cross Apply(explainextended.com)
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by ern 13y ago
Right now, the forest officials are struggling to preserve the remains because tourist often like to take the skeletons back with them as souvenirs. I that's happening, it is surprising that tourists can pass through customs with human re
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by ern 13y ago
Very interesting that you should bring flat UIs up. I monitor my father's inbox[1]. I noticed earlier today he got an email to confirm the creation of a Microsoft account he needed. Instead of clicking on the flat blue "Verify xxxx@gmail.co
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Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press(wired.com)
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by ern 13y ago
People don't die or get harmed when some social-messaging application spams someone. I disagree. This case reminds me of Geni. You would put a relative's email address in to invite them, and they'd then receive a torrent of spammy "update
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by ern 14y ago
If the lead exposure is a threshold effect, most of the population might have already banked the benefits of going below it. Experts claim there is "no threshold"[1]. [1] http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/pdf/lead/leadexp.pdf
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by ern 14y ago
Although I acknowledge that lead is nasty stuff, something about this issue bothers me. According to some studies, increasing exposure to lead at low levels (1-10 micrograms/dl) shaves 4-7 points off IQ scores[1]. Yet, as population blood
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by ern 14y ago
Did the person doing this get his permission? Seems unclear from the readme. The readable source code of the JS PC emulator itself is not yet available. At this point, any mirroring or redistribution of the code needs my explicit permissio
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How to Stop the [online] Bullies(theatlantic.com)
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by ern 14y ago
To add to OP's usability gripes, as a new Xbox owner (bought it over Christmas) with a grand total of 4 bundled games and a Kinect: Kinect menu interaction needs to be improved. Kinect Adventures has it right for its age group, showing a fu
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by ern 14y ago
A 53 year old who has been programming for 30+ years is likely to be a good programmer because they managed to keep programming for all those years. How many of the less-talented people you started out with are still programming? But I do a
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by ern 14y ago
I thought the Singapore process for getting a Certificate of Clearance was the craziest part of his post. Getting fingerprints done should be easier, I suppose, but that isn't an indictment of Australia's Visa system, in itself.
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Why Your Prius Will Bankrupt Our Highways (2012)(theatlantic.com)
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20 Year Usenet Timeline (2001)(google.com)
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by ern 14y ago
If you are looking for a list of significant USENET posts, including this one by Bezos, go to: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html The list was created in 2001, when Google Groups reconstructed a huge archive of US
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by ern 14y ago
I used to do this quite often when reading on a laptop with an external mouse, as an alternative to scrolling, so I could see where I was, especially on single page/printer friendly views. Having an iPad and doing a lot of reading on Flipbo
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by ern 14y ago
Flying around in empty airspace or towing banners doesn't give you the training you need to fly a complex airplane. I am no pilot, but two recent high profile crashes, the Colgan Air crash at Buffalo and Air France 447 were caused by pilo
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by ern 14y ago
What would happen if a law was passed banning smoking in a particular area? Would ordinary Chinese be able to object to it, would they be able to petition the legislature that passed the law without fear of reprisal? What if your kid's sc
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)(plosmedicine.org)
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by ern 14y ago
I may be missing something obvious, but why does OP say China is a "neigbouring country" to Finland, when it is 3900 miles/6300 km between their capitals? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+from+helsinki+...

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