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by hvs 11y ago
They are reporting things that federal inspectors found. How is that "having it in for Theranos"?
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by hvs 11y ago
FFL dealers could be grandfathered in after the clinton changes as long as they are willing to pay the fees (I think it's $1000/year?).
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by hvs 11y ago
"the author shows that the outcome here is positive for people." Tricking people into signing up for an app and then tricking them into contacting others? You sir, need to study ethics more seriously.
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by hvs 11y ago
A "focus" application (there are many for macs/pcs) that block certain websites, applications is also helpful. You can set it for an hour at a time, or whatever. It breaks that knee-jerk habit of wasting minutes on twitter&#x
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by hvs 11y ago
Except that she's probably going to be fired anyway.
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by hvs 11y ago
If you drink too much at night, you'll get a hangover in the morning. The same is true of spending and debt.
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by hvs 11y ago
For those of you too young to remember, there were numerous articles written about the bubble bursting before it finally did in 2000-01. It wasn't a surprise that it did, just that no one knew precisely when it would. My point is tha
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by hvs 11y ago
Salt in who's wound, though? The bookstores that were charging us more for books? Not sure how cheaper books is bad for the consumer.
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by hvs 11y ago
Wikipedia is what convinced everyone that you could "crowd-source" everything. That inevitably spawned all sorts of doomed experiments. But the only ones who considered Wikipedia a "doomed experiment" were those who ha
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by hvs 11y ago
It's a communist gov't. The people "letting the gov't decide" has little do with it.
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by hvs 11y ago
That's pretty much the reason why licenses were created.
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by hvs 11y ago
It's called Angie's List.
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by hvs 11y ago
It could certainly be used for unethical purposes, but it isn't de facto unethical.
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by hvs 11y ago
I appreciate these war stories more than the "look at this great new thing that will take over the world" posts (those have a place as well). We need more war stories in this industry because everything has pros and cons, and our
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The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy(theatlantic.com)
174 points by hvs 11y ago|81 comments
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by hvs 11y ago
My guess is that it was one of courses taught by S.N. Goenka. https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index Please note that there are strong feelings about the way that his courses are taught (both positive and negative). I enco
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by hvs 11y ago
I think the reason for the downvotes is that there are positive/neutral things that grow without the negative connotations of "cancer."
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by hvs 11y ago
I think us programmers have a tendency to see things as all or nothing, even while we work daily with a number of technologies and languages that do things differently. There is no reason that everything has to be declarative while benefiti
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by hvs 11y ago
Really? Delphi was generally a pleasure to use for the couple of years that I did.
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by hvs 11y ago
Streaming music is a different beast. People tend to listen to the same music multiple times. The same is not true of movies.
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by hvs 11y ago
Is it a question for philosophers, though? Or is it just a current limitation of our model that we don't understand? They are obviously "communicating" somehow. The mechanism is simply unknown.
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by hvs 11y ago
I'm not closely involved with it, but my understanding is that there is a big push to train software engineers in India on z/OS to make up for aging out of talent (i.e. retiring).
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by hvs 11y ago
Hercules can also emulate S/360s and run OS/360. IBM has always been a strong believer in backwards compatibility. http://www.conmicro.com/hercos360/
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by hvs 11y ago
Here are the California Safe Harbor levels for [1]: Lead: 15 micrograms/day Cadmium: 4.1 micrograms/day The EPA's safe water regulations for lead are [2]: If more than 10% of tap water samples exceed the lead
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by hvs 11y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10031953
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by hvs 11y ago
I think, if you think bringing gender issues into it, means that you have to be a part of that backlash, you need to reassess why you feel that way.
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by hvs 11y ago
We aren't discussing religion, we are discussing software development. There is no need to eschew extensions if that's the only database your company uses.
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by hvs 11y ago
you can download CSVs from the draft finder on pro-football-reference.com. that includes career AV. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/draft-finde...
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by hvs 11y ago
we are in the process of doing a slight graphical upgrade to the sites in the near future to clean them up and make them more mobile friendly. stay tuned!
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by hvs 11y ago
We include shot charts on Basketball-Reference.com and allow for side-by-side comparisons as well. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hardeja01/shoo... http://www.basketball-reference.co

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