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by gingerbread-man 9y ago
Apparently the press already takes ~2.5min to make a glass of juice. A smaller motor would probably take even longer
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by gingerbread-man 9y ago
I'm usually in favor of replacing "flashy" titles, but this is a good one. The analogy fits.
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by gingerbread-man 9y ago
That explains this line: "MySpace also has a lot of good data, but not all of it. Likewise LiveJournal, Digg, Twitter, Zooomr, Pownce, Friendster, Plaxo, the list goes on."
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Subpoenas are only available for investigations pertaining to an open court case.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
19 USC 1509 has a catchall that extends the SHS's authority to compel documents to "insuring compliance with the laws of the United States administered by the United States Customs Service." [1] It's definitely a stretch
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I would imagine the government's case will center around a small number of tweets which they will claim "leaked" confidential information. If they can show probable cause that the owner of the account broke federal law, they
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
At least with free software, when a project falls apart, the source code is out there, so someone else can pick it up and resurrect the project.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
The full archive of Libreboot blog posts can be found via https://web.archive.org/web/*/libreboot.org
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Leah, the woman that statement references, posted her own personal message and apology below, so I think it's fair to assume she was consulted. Though the whole situation has been an unfortunate mess, it takes real bravery to publicall
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Geography and type of employment also play huge roles. A clinical professor at UCLA earns far less than a private practice doctor in Ft. Worth.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
On a similar note, a 2016 study in JAMA[1] found gender disparities in faculty pay at US medical schools, which persisted even when correcting for age, experience, specialty, faculty rank, and measures of research productivity and clinical
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
"We found that African American, Latino, and Pacific Islanders were more likely to work in medically underserved areas than were white physicians (adjusted odds ratio, 1.22-2.25; p < .05)." [1] Though I'm sure bias has a p
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Link to the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
> I don't want to create gmail, just a front. Excellent point. If you did decide you wanted everything to go through your servers down the road, you could perhaps set up a private `replyto:` address for each recipient, which would a
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Do you plan to create a charge-on-reply option, or to stick with charge-on-delivery? I'm curious as to the rationale behind that choice.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
ChromeOS has a dev-mode setting to convert the installation to ChromiumOS.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
It would be nice if there were a 100% free-software version of Android available, or a way to remove all of the proprietary blobs from an Android phone.
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Xv6 is a pedagogical implementation of UNIX v6 that MIT created for an operating systems course. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I'd be curious to hear from someone who has worked at a local public broadcasting affiliate about what their budgets look like. I enjoy state-level public radio, but I don't watch a lot of state or local public television programm
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
From a practical perspective I completely agree, but my nightmare scenario for PBS isn't seeing it defunded, but seeing it lose some or all editorial control. That scenario seems very unlikely at present, but not impossible. I just wan
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
The USFG is "an execution company," not an "innovation company." If we had diverted 50% of CPB's budget a decade ago to funding "new technologies for public interest educational programming," it's ver
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
From an ideological perspective, the idea of any state-run media is pretty dissonant with my views. Being opposed to the very idea of PBS or anything like it is a totally understandable position. The case for PBS is a pragmatic one: it serv
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Outline of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's FY2014 budget: http://www.cpb.org/files/aboutcpb/financials/budget/FY2014-O... Out of a total budget of $445m: ~66% (292m) is distributed via dir
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
> They don't get proper investment for a reason. That's not always true. Ergodox-ez.com has an awesome product (a keyboard) they funded through indiegogo. Not to mention basically every 3d printer company, even the VC funde
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
I've never understood how that could be possible. What makes COBOL programming so different from work in any other language as to make it impossible to pick up, say, C? I've heard numerous similar anecdotes, but never from progra
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Google has actually blocked similar "noise generation" apps from the Chrome Store in the past. As I recall, there were a few extensions out there that would 'click' on every ad displayed. Obviously that would have create
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Gun manufacturers are explicitly immune from liability for the actions of their consumers, under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_in_Arms_Act
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
At the federal level: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/congress-rules-saving-em... A local example from San Jose: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-public-officials...
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
There actually is a totally separate debate to be had on the topic of public records and communications by elected officials. Under federal law, all communications to which a federal employee is a party constitute public records. Obviously,
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by gingerbread-man 10y ago
"Cards Against Humanity" is known for their crazy publicity stunts. They raised $100k this winter to dig an enormous "holiday hole" for self-described pointless reasons. ( http://www.npr.org/sections/

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