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by jamestnz 10y ago
Not certain about Australia, but here in NZ we call it "NZ Super" (or just "the pension") instead of "social security". It is a universal superannuation which kicks in at age 65, is not means-tested, and is pai
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by jamestnz 10y ago
>How else would one view the Social Security program that you are paying into? I'm certainly no expert, but that sounds more like a description of an IRA or 401K, I think. As far as I know, the social security program in the US isn&
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Yes, but there's a difference. Abortion is in many ways an issue of personal conscience, rather than a simple scientific determination. Climate change on the other hand, isn't controversial in reality. It's been made controve
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by jamestnz 10y ago
I think this comes back to the old expression that The dose makes the poison (or: "All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison"). So, the idea that vaporizing a small amount of nic
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Related: this post [1] from the other week on HN, describing a neat little project to build a low-power radio station which emulates the output of radio station WWVB (a fairly well-known station out of Colorado, which transmits the time sig
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by jamestnz 10y ago
> The hardest part for me, currently, is trying to learn music theory on my own As someone who is currently learning piano and music theory as an adult, I can recommend the youtube channel of Shawn Cheek. This guy has posted something li
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Not sure if suitable for your purposes, but GeoNet. They use a network of digital seismic stations. Whenever seismic waves propagate, doing a time-analysis of when they passed under each station can tell you where the quake occurred. This i
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Not the OP, but I remember these codes from my first phone, a Nokia 5110. In addition to the already mentioned code of [STAR]3001#12345# there is also [STAR]#06# which will show your IMEI. There were plenty of others (including spelling out
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Good point, thanks for the clarification.
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by jamestnz 10y ago
I agree, it's probably a terrible deal for almost every retailer, especially small businesses. As I recall, the standard deal with Groupon etc is 50% off retail price, then Groupon (or whoever) takes 50% of what's left. So conside
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by jamestnz 10y ago
You can even change this on a key-by-key basis using a neat tool called FunctionFlip. This enables you to have certain F Keys work natively, while other F Keys require you to hold down Fn... http://kevingessner.com/software&
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by jamestnz 10y ago
> Start asking why so many people want to alter their subjective realities Some years ago I read an interesting book on this, called The Pursuit of Oblivion[1]. In addition to providing a fascinating look at historical drug use across di
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Just a minor side-note: that quote is actually from a review by Matt Zoller Seitz. Roger Ebert has, sadly, been dead for years.
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Well, to be fair to the parent poster (and without going deeper into the merits of this side-argument), I'd note that the expression "pro bono" as generally used in English is actually short for "pro bono publico" w
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by jamestnz 10y ago
This post reminded of a similar effort from 25 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL This guy produced and personally tested over 150 different psychedelic compounds, and published his notes on synthesis, dos
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by jamestnz 10y ago
> Consumer marketing for drugs is forbidden in many parts of the world, the US is more an outlier Exactly right. Because consumer marketing of prescription drugs is an utterly crazy idea, both in general theory, and in its present unethi
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Indeed, perhaps a more apt analogy from acting would be the many famous actors who trained under Lee Strasberg (Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, James Dean, Jane Fonda, Paul Newman, Ellen Burstyn and others). Strasb
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by jamestnz 10y ago
No, but sales can often be based upon personal relationships, at least to an extent. So you see why a salesperson may be accustomed to treading lightly around contentious topics. If you stake out a strong position on a controversial topic,
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by jamestnz 10y ago
"Civil forfeiture" they call this, where the local Police Department essentially steals your stuff, and the burden is on you to prove why you should get it back. Of course you'd assume the local PD couldn't possibly be a
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Paw is a great tool, but I can also attest to the excellent support of the developer. I made a mistake when uninstalling it off my old Mac, and found myself unable to activate the serial on my new Mac. Micha replied personally, took me at m
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by jamestnz 10y ago
I'm not sure about the monopoly accusation, but Luxottica's influence extends far beyond the US, and is not just retail. The company owns over 7000 retail outlets across North and South America, Asia-Pacific, China, South Africa a
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by jamestnz 10y ago
"Flush" here is used when something is at exactly the same level as a flat surface. For example, if you take two tables of the same height, and push them together, their surfaces will be "flush". Or, if something is embe
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by jamestnz 10y ago
With DP you may daisy-chain additional displays off the first. http://www.displayport.org/cables/driving-multiple-displays-...
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by jamestnz 10y ago
>It's interesting that many who advocate a "free speech über alles" approach have a curious exemption for property rights You find this to be a curious exemption? I think the term "freedom of speech" generally me
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by jamestnz 10y ago
> thick rimmed glasses I don't know if you're familiar with Curb Your Enthusiasm, but Larry gives this exact theory to his friend Leon ("white people revere black people with glasses... no glasses, no job."). It'
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Last time I looked at after-market car alarms, even the most basic units ($100 NZD = ~70 USD) had at least one immobilizer, sometimes multiple. (An immobilizer being a relay which interrupts one or more parts of the startup/ignition&#x
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by jamestnz 10y ago
This sounds very familiar. In New Zealand we have a lot of trouble with "didymo"[1], an invasive algae which thrives in cold freshwater environments, clogging up rivers with lots of green slime. It is very easily spread by humans
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by jamestnz 11y ago
Wow, that does come across as slightly unusual! I googled some verbatim sentences from the review, and it seems like various aggregators/wires have picked it up, and at least several are bylining the review to Tom Engelhardt (the &quot
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by jamestnz 11y ago
Can confirm. Reason: The grinder will have a hopper on top. Typically you're going to open a sealed package of roasted beans, and empty them in there. It might then take you hours/days/weeks to go through the beans, depending
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by jamestnz 11y ago
One reason is that it's only App Store apps which are subject to individual approval by Apple. If you are an individual developer simply wanting to learn/dissect/play with the inherent flexibility of the obj-c runtime, restri

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