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by iaw 9y ago
I read a previous article years ago that argued certain traits (mental illness, risk-taking, etc.) could be the result of viruses that successfully joined the human genome via the reproductive organs. This area of study could end up pretty
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by iaw 9y ago
> I'm still a little confused by the OP's assumption that he's a "tech-illiterate old guy". I'm not confused by that, I just plain disagree.
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by iaw 9y ago
Kelly did the right thing here, as long as he truly hadn't been carrying/using the phone then the compromise is pretty limited. If he had been using or carrying the phone and it was a failure on the recent update that alerted him
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by iaw 9y ago
That's the only scenario I could come up with as well. The line about "stopped updating" may be a miscommunication of "he went to update it after not using it since January, found it not working, and brought it to the I
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by iaw 9y ago
While English is my first language clearly me at it no good. I've added an edit to provide the clarity that should've been there initially.
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by iaw 9y ago
> Officials told Politico that Kelly had not used the personal phone since joining the administration in January, and has reportedly been using a different phone since. He reportedly relies on his government phone while at the White Hous
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by iaw 9y ago
And here I thought I could avoid grabbing it from my shelf... "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'" by Sidney Dekker.
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by iaw 9y ago
Bought a book mentioned in another thread about understanding system failures. If the conclusion blames an individual then 100% of the time the real problem is with the system that gave them that much power.
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by iaw 9y ago
I heard that they actually changed the temperature of the lake that way.
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by iaw 9y ago
Can anyone dumb this down just a little?
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by iaw 9y ago
I can't believe I'm writing this, but given the current modes of political communication in the US longer tweets may prevent nuclear war...
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by iaw 9y ago
Hamas launches the equivalent of sugar rockets with an explosive attached and lacks any precision. North Korea is tinkering with a delivery system capable of placing nuclear weapons in the exact position necessary for optimal damage. These
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by iaw 9y ago
I was actually thinking it's a brilliant application but no where near durable enough to be practical.
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by iaw 9y ago
In undergraduate a classmate of mine spent 3 months doing electrical engineering research on the properties of various chemical doping regimes. At the end of the summer it came to light that the chemical supplies they received were not the
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by iaw 9y ago
Watchmaking likely predates the usage of 'feature' as a general term for the same concept.
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by iaw 9y ago
Watching television does not use up more energy than mining bitcoin, that's the point of the linked article.
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by iaw 9y ago
Setup your youtube account with liking/subscribing to the content you're interested in (even if it's from PBS) and you'll get some okay recommendations.
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by iaw 9y ago
The act of mining confirms transactions in bitcoin.
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by iaw 9y ago
Does that justify wasting enough electricity to power Dallas, Texas in the mean time?
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by iaw 9y ago
As the network hash power increases that value will only go up.
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by iaw 9y ago
Original title: Travel the path of the solar eclipse
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by iaw 9y ago
Wow, that is an extremely thoughtful judge.
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by iaw 9y ago
I get the feeling that you have not purchased a home either. Required banking contingencies usually fall around home inspection and other verification efforts that the bank undertakes to validate the value of the security being offered for
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by iaw 9y ago
More interestingly, running a marathon is equally fatal as scuba diving. Unfortunately I think the scuba-diving in this list includes every type of scuba and not the riskier types focused on in the articles linked in this thread.
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by iaw 9y ago
My understanding is that childcare costs run about $20-30K per year per child. Is this incorrect?
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by iaw 9y ago
Have you purchased housing in any of the more desirable areas of California recently? If you have, please tell me where this fantasy of your played out and I will buy there. What happens to someone with a $100K-200K down payment and a bank
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by iaw 9y ago
3. Correlation between liberal politics and those who smoke. (see Richard Nixon)
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by iaw 9y ago
Did you read it? This is a lawyers carefully worded article to avoid being sued... > "I accept the consensus view of the experts and, in consultation with editors, have arranged for the coverage to be amended and for a note to be a
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by iaw 9y ago
You can't retain the best workers with that attitude. Most workers don't see work as punishment but the time it takes is an impediment to other aspects of their lives that generate more personal value that their job. If you take
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by iaw 9y ago
> it paints Kalanick in a far more positive light than the headline suggests. Not to me, if I'm doing business with someone and they say "oh, I also stole this other stuff you might like" I'd take that as a red flag a

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