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by grkvlt 10y ago
Wow, I hadn't heard of hypothes.is before, that proxy implementation is awesome. I like the highlighting/commenting feature on Medium, for example, and this adds it to any document transparently, it looks like. Good stuff.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Not this again, I expect better from HN readers. Please do not treat the claims in this poorly researched article as correct information. NO , Tor and Linux users are NOT classified as extremists by the Intelligence Community. Yes, there
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Sure, but the reagent tests are really just qualitative, there's no good way of telling that the heroin I just bought from the nice man on the street corner is twice as pure as last weeks. I suppose there may be some tests that can tel
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by grkvlt 10y ago
After the downvotes, I decided to check out the numbers, and looks like I'd lose the bet. According to the CDC [0] the ratio is almost 2:1 for Opioid analgesics versus Heroin. What's interesting is that this is very different to t
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of that headline OD number are heroin plus alcohol or benzos deaths. It's actually pretty hard to overdose on just Oxy pills...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
yep. and of course, all the time saddam was playing a dangerous game of brinksmanship, pretending he had WMD in order to maintain iraq's position locally and globally, by refusing to allow inspections by the UN, and delaying and obfu
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by grkvlt 10y ago
politics, business and law are pretty much all about truth and honesty, as well as persuasion.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
do you people genuinely believe that 'all politicians are liars' or some variant thereof? that's pretty sad, and suggests falling victim to certain cognitive biases, particularly confirmation bias and some kind of negative re
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by grkvlt 10y ago
wow, that's pretty fucked up. i could understand having a negative reaction to someone lying or being disingenuous, but to react that way to people that are charismatic and assertive suggests more that there is a problem with you, not
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by grkvlt 10y ago
http://pix-media.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/1190/image02.png This graph really doesn't seem to support their hypothesis AT ALL - the correlation looks really weak, and they give no strength statistics for it at
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> nonviolent change of power from royalty to the people So regicide doesn't count as violence? Also, as mentioned down-thread, we had a pretty bloody civil war here, which replaced the monarchy with a 'Lord Protector' whic
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Here's something that's always bothered me. In the HPC and scientific computing world, it seems that the word 'program' is never used to refer to what is being run on the computers, rather it is always 'codes'
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Obviously Google has implemented their search back-end using INTERCAL (Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym [0]) which requires 'PLEASE' modifiers to be inserted, lest the compiler returns an error due to insufficient p
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Absolutely! The saved search history is incredibly useful for shaping and filtering search results to make them more targeted and helpful. I also see more relevant adverts, and less generic ones, which makes them much less annoying. People
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Would you not immediately start trying to commercialise the invention with the military? There are plenty of defence contractors with security clearances that you could show the secret patent to, and offer to secretly license it to them so
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by grkvlt 10y ago
That URL is the most amazing thing I have ever seen! Unfortunately, it does not convince me of the power of speech operated interfaces. My history tends to consist of a series of multi-part voice commands with the first or second phrase bei
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Has anyone ever designed a visual editor or IDE where the syntactic and semantic elements were differentiated using font SIZE as well as the usual colouring and face variation (bold, italic, underline) we normally get? I could imagine hav
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> except they had another word for the "F" I believe you're allowed to say "Fuck" and it's various declensions on HN now! I'm always particularly intrigued by people who write things like "Sh#t&quo
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by grkvlt 10y ago
A mushroom cloud just connotes a large explosion near the ground. Atomic structure may be the best to go with, since pictorial descriptions of alpha, beta and gamma radiation are found in every high-school science textbook. One issue with a
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by grkvlt 10y ago
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Not sure about point 3. Normally mortgage costs do increase - in line with interest rates. Even with a fixed-rate mortgage, there is usually a term for that rate, which is generally substantially less than the lifetime of the mortgage, of
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by grkvlt 10y ago
London is interesting, in that the square mile (financial district) while being very busy (even at night) during the week, due to workers drinking and socialising after office hours, is absolutely empty at weekends. On Sundays the streets a
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Of course, for IBM PowerPC there was the (real!) assembly instruction EIEIO which meant: Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforce_In-order_Execution_of_...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The previous submission had exactly the same URL and title, so why did the duplicate detection system allow me to submit this? Still, there's some interesting discussion there, thanks for pointing it out.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes. I wonder why they didn't just roll back the attacker's moves? It seems like the problem is one of those NP-hard type situations, where the solution is very complex (hence crowdsourcing as a brute-force solution, rather than a
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How Crowdsourcing Turned on Me (2014)(nautil.us)
100 points by grkvlt 10y ago|29 comments
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Ah, I had always assumed Waldo was an acronym or initialism of some kind; checking wikipedia shows they are named after the Heinlein story you mention!
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by grkvlt 10y ago
From the paper: "[UHECR air shower] can be detected via [...] radio and acoustic signatures" Does this mean that the particles have so much energy you could HEAR the effects of them hitting the atmosphere?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
What about when you enter a shop, and they ask you to look at some harmless pictures and read some bits of text, in order to give you the goods cheaper, or for free?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> It would be pretty awful to lie [...] to your kid about the existence of imaginary holiday characters True. But people do it, regularly and consistently, and in fact protect their children from finding out about said lies, with ever mo

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